About
PANAYA

Panaya’s Change Intelligence solutions reduce the time, cost, and risk involved in change to business applications like SAP®, Oracle® EBS, and Salesforce.com

Change With Confidence

Be it an SAP S/4HANA migration, Oracle EBS upgrades, or just new functionality to your Salesforce Org. Panaya’s Change Intelligence solutions show you the full impact of any change. With Panaya, your organization has the peace of mind needed to rapidly evolve.

The Management

David Binny

Chief Executive Officer

David brings to Panaya over 18 years of senior management experience in product management, technology, pre-sales and business strategy. David was holding the role of Panaya Chief Product Officer prior to his nomination as Panaya CEO.   As Chief Product Officer he was responsible for all product management activities including: product strategy and direction, roadmaps, go to market strategy, pricing, and leading the global product house teams.

Before joining Panaya, David held various senior positions at NICE including Head of Product Management for their Multi-Channel Recording and Voice Biometrics solutions. He previously served as Director of Product Management for NICE’s Big Data Customer Experience Analytics solutions, where he led innovation and go to market teams. Prior to that, he also held various pre-sales, engineering and technology leadership positions at NICE and RAD DataCommunications.

David holds an MBA from the Tel-Aviv University and BSc in Computer Science from Open University in Tel-Aviv.

Oded Kovar

Chief Customer Officer & VP of Global Sales

Oded brings to Panaya over 16 years of multi-cultural senior management experience in both the software and the hardware industries. Holding vast experience in establishing and managing pre-sales, professional-services and customer support organizations across multiple geographies.

As Chief Customer Officer, he is responsible for ensuring that Panaya delivers an excellent ROI for all clients. His team is responsible for managing implementations, helping customers ensure adoption across their organizations, and assuring Panaya’s service availability and security.

Before joining Panaya Oded held senior positions at NICE Systems (US & APAC), Orbotech and Radware. He holds a B.S.c. Degree in Management & Accounting.

Amir Kviatkovsky

Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer at Panaya, Amir Kviatkovsky is responsible for leading the company’s finance organization & operations and is a member of the company’s executive leadership team.

Amir has more than 18 years of experience with leading finance organizations at global high-tech, medical devices and digital health companies including Given Imaging Ltd, Medtronic, Covidien, Tyco International and KPMG.
Prior to joining Panaya, Amir served as the CFO of Given Imaging Ltd, a leading high-tech company which develops, manufactures and markets disruptive medical technologies.

As an established finance leader, Amir has extensive and rich global experience engaging managers and employees to conquer organizational and financial goals in multi-cultural environments.

Amir holds MBA from Tel Aviv University, Israel and is Certified Public Accountant.

Stav Grinshpon

Chief Product Officer

Stav brings more than 16 years of proven senior management experience, leading technological innovations in both product and R&D teams.

As Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Panaya, he oversees product strategy, roadmaps, and go-to-market endeavors, while leading the global product teams.

Before joining Panaya, Stav held senior positions at companies such as retrain.ai, Pipl, Endor Software, AT&T, and SAP Labs. In these roles, he led the development of customer-focused and AI-driven products.

Stav’s academic background includes a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv, and executive education in AI from MIT Sloan.

Dana Averbouch

Chief Marketing Officer

Dana Averbouch is seasoned marketing veteran with nearly 20 years of extensive experience in B2B Marketing. She is passionate about turning technology into a story through data analysis, extreme creativity and profound customer understanding.

As a CMO, she is leading all aspects of Panaya’s global marketing strategy and execution, including brand and performance marketing, community engagement, product marketing, advertising and customer lifecycle management.

Prior to joining Panaya, Dana held several senior position at NICE LTD, the most recently as Head of EMEA Marketing where she was applying storytelling and disruptive activities to introduce complex products to diverse audiences.

 

Dana holds an MBA and BA in Economics and Philosophy  both from University in Tel-Aviv.

Tal Arnon

EVP R&D

Tal brings to Panaya more than 20 years of technological experience and proven leadership skills, building and leading teams in the software development domain, both in startup and corporate environments

As EVP R&D, Tal is responsible for all aspects of the company’s R&D teams including leading and managing the R&D organization, aligning development plans with product requirements, implementing strategies, defining goals and objectives for the different teams, as well as managing their day-to-day activities. Tal oversees all the product development life cycle in order to provide maximum value to the company and its customers

Before joining Panaya Tal led the R&D in a Software company that develops AI-based vehicle health monitoring products for leading automotive manufacturers

Tal has a B.sc in software engineering and an MBA from the Reichman university, with a specialty in data science and AI.

Idan Golan

EVP HR

Idan is a Human Resources Leader with vast HR experience within global organizations of different scales and industries.
With over 14 years of experience, she brings a successful track record in supporting robust company growth, implementing significant changes through strong business-related strategy execution, and building management teams.

Idan started at Panaya as the HR Business Partner of the R&D, Product, and CS departments and was promoted to VP HR on June 2021. Prior to Panaya, Idan functioned as HR Manager at Moon Active, a developer of social games. Idan Joined Moon Active at a crucial stage, right before facing hyper-growth challenges, setting its organizational foundations, and built the HR department from scratch.
Before Moon Active, Idan worked as HR at 888holdings for six years.

Idan holds both a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Ben Gurion University and a Master’s degree in Organizational Consulting and Development from Bar-Ilan University.

David Binny

Chief Executive Officer

David brings to Panaya over 18 years of senior management experience in product management, technology, pre-sales and business strategy. David was holding the role of Panaya Chief Product Officer prior to his nomination as Panaya CEO.   As Chief Product Officer he was responsible for all product management activities including: product strategy and direction, roadmaps, go to market strategy, pricing, and leading the global product house teams.

Before joining Panaya, David held various senior positions at NICE including Head of Product Management for their Multi-Channel Recording and Voice Biometrics solutions. He previously served as Director of Product Management for NICE’s Big Data Customer Experience Analytics solutions, where he led innovation and go to market teams. Prior to that, he also held various pre-sales, engineering and technology leadership positions at NICE and RAD DataCommunications.

David holds an MBA from the Tel-Aviv University and BSc in Computer Science from Open University in Tel-Aviv.

Oded Kovar

Chief Customer Officer & VP of Global Sales

Oded brings to Panaya over 16 years of multi-cultural senior management experience in both the software and the hardware industries. Holding vast experience in establishing and managing pre-sales, professional-services and customer support organizations across multiple geographies.

As Chief Customer Officer, he is responsible for ensuring that Panaya delivers an excellent ROI for all clients. His team is responsible for managing implementations, helping customers ensure adoption across their organizations, and assuring Panaya’s service availability and security.

Before joining Panaya Oded held senior positions at NICE Systems (US & APAC), Orbotech and Radware. He holds a B.S.c. Degree in Management & Accounting.

Amir Kviatkovsky

Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer at Panaya, Amir Kviatkovsky is responsible for leading the company’s finance organization & operations and is a member of the company’s executive leadership team.

Amir has more than 18 years of experience with leading finance organizations at global high-tech, medical devices and digital health companies including Given Imaging Ltd, Medtronic, Covidien, Tyco International and KPMG.
Prior to joining Panaya, Amir served as the CFO of Given Imaging Ltd, a leading high-tech company which develops, manufactures and markets disruptive medical technologies.

As an established finance leader, Amir has extensive and rich global experience engaging managers and employees to conquer organizational and financial goals in multi-cultural environments.

Amir holds MBA from Tel Aviv University, Israel and is Certified Public Accountant.

Stav Grinshpon

Chief Product Officer

Stav brings more than 16 years of proven senior management experience, leading technological innovations in both product and R&D teams.

As Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Panaya, he oversees product strategy, roadmaps, and go-to-market endeavors, while leading the global product teams.

Before joining Panaya, Stav held senior positions at companies such as retrain.ai, Pipl, Endor Software, AT&T, and SAP Labs. In these roles, he led the development of customer-focused and AI-driven products.

Stav’s academic background includes a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv, and executive education in AI from MIT Sloan.

Dana Averbouch

Chief Marketing Officer

Dana Averbouch is seasoned marketing veteran with nearly 20 years of extensive experience in B2B Marketing. She is passionate about turning technology into a story through data analysis, extreme creativity and profound customer understanding.

As a CMO, she is leading all aspects of Panaya’s global marketing strategy and execution, including brand and performance marketing, community engagement, product marketing, advertising and customer lifecycle management.

Prior to joining Panaya, Dana held several senior position at NICE LTD, the most recently as Head of EMEA Marketing where she was applying storytelling and disruptive activities to introduce complex products to diverse audiences.

 

Dana holds an MBA and BA in Economics and Philosophy  both from University in Tel-Aviv.

Tal Arnon

EVP R&D

Tal brings to Panaya more than 20 years of technological experience and proven leadership skills, building and leading teams in the software development domain, both in startup and corporate environments

As EVP R&D, Tal is responsible for all aspects of the company’s R&D teams including leading and managing the R&D organization, aligning development plans with product requirements, implementing strategies, defining goals and objectives for the different teams, as well as managing their day-to-day activities. Tal oversees all the product development life cycle in order to provide maximum value to the company and its customers

Before joining Panaya Tal led the R&D in a Software company that develops AI-based vehicle health monitoring products for leading automotive manufacturers

Tal has a B.sc in software engineering and an MBA from the Reichman university, with a specialty in data science and AI.

Idan Golan

EVP HR

Idan is a Human Resources Leader with vast HR experience within global organizations of different scales and industries.
With over 14 years of experience, she brings a successful track record in supporting robust company growth, implementing significant changes through strong business-related strategy execution, and building management teams.

Idan started at Panaya as the HR Business Partner of the R&D, Product, and CS departments and was promoted to VP HR on June 2021. Prior to Panaya, Idan functioned as HR Manager at Moon Active, a developer of social games. Idan Joined Moon Active at a crucial stage, right before facing hyper-growth challenges, setting its organizational foundations, and built the HR department from scratch.
Before Moon Active, Idan worked as HR at 888holdings for six years.

Idan holds both a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Ben Gurion University and a Master’s degree in Organizational Consulting and Development from Bar-Ilan University.

Sales Leadership

Matthew Verespie

Regional VP Sales AMR

Matt has 15 years of experience in software sales and client management. Before joining Panaya, Matt served as Vice President of Sales at Alogent, leading the sales and account management team in the US. Matt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics from Oakland University in Michigan.

Eugene Oleynik

Regional VP Sales EMEA

Eugene has a wealth of sales leadership experience, having worked as a Senior Sales Director at Expedia Group and leading multi-cultural sales teams across various EMEA regions at Micro Focus and HP Software. Prior to exploring the sales world, Eugene has played various roles at the Marketing organizations of Intel and Microsoft.

Hideaki Yamaoka

Regional VP Sales Japan

Hideaki Yamaoka joined Panaya in 2015. Yamaoka has 25 years of experience in the enterprise software industry.

Prior to joining Panaya, Yamaoka held sales leadership positions at Micro Focus, Hewlett Packard, and Oracle.

Matthew Verespie

Regional VP Sales AMR

Matt has 15 years of experience in software sales and client management. Before joining Panaya, Matt served as Vice President of Sales at Alogent, leading the sales and account management team in the US. Matt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics from Oakland University in Michigan.

Eugene Oleynik

Regional VP Sales EMEA

Eugene has a wealth of sales leadership experience, having worked as a Senior Sales Director at Expedia Group and leading multi-cultural sales teams across various EMEA regions at Micro Focus and HP Software. Prior to exploring the sales world, Eugene has played various roles at the Marketing organizations of Intel and Microsoft.

Hideaki Yamaoka

Regional VP Sales Japan

Hideaki Yamaoka joined Panaya in 2015. Yamaoka has 25 years of experience in the enterprise software industry.

Prior to joining Panaya, Yamaoka held sales leadership positions at Micro Focus, Hewlett Packard, and Oracle.

Awards

Panaya Is a European Software Testing Awards Finalist

SAP Quality Awards – Hillarys Blinds, using Panaya, Achieves Recognition

Panaya Named Leading Testing Provider by TEST Magazine

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