Team

Izhar brings 25 years of enterprise data storage experience from companies such as Infinidat, IBM, and Dell EMC. With solutions engineering expertise as deep as his leadership, Izhar is first and foremost an innovator with a history in bringing high-quality, customer-centric products to market. Appointed as CEO in December 2022, he shares and will continue to advance OpenDrives’ ethos of collective success of our customers, partners, and team.

Izhar previously served as President of Infinidat, where he was responsible for scaling its Americas operations and oversaw strategic customer accounts for some the largest telecom and financial services .Prior to Infinidat, Izhar was instrumental in building the solutions team and technologies as Director of Global Technical Sales for XIV, a pioneer in grid-scale storage systems, which was acquired by IBM. His early career was at Dell EMC, where he was VP of Technologies and CTO of Global Services following a role as Development Director for Dell EMC’s breakthrough Symmetrix product line.