OwnBackup Appoints Liat Ashkenazi as Senior VP of Engineering

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Ashkenazi previously led data security at cybersecurity company Imperva and also served as an R&D director at Harman

Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel – January 14, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — OwnBackup, the leading SaaS data protection platform, today announced the appointment of Liat Askenazi as Senior VP of Engineering.

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Ashkenazi will be responsible for leading engineering at the SaaS data protection platform. Ashkenazi has over 20 years of experience in building enterprise software and managing high-scale global R&D organizations.

Prior to OwnBackup, she led data security at cybersecurity company Imperva. Previously, she served as an R&D director at Harman, an automotive and audio company, where she led the development group of a new IoT platform. Liat was also the R&D director at CWT, a business and travel company. She is a graduate of Tel Aviv University with a BA in Computer Science and Economics, MSc in Computer Science, and MBA.

“We’re excited to welcome Liat, our new Senior Vice President of Engineering! Liat joins us with over 20 years of experience building enterprise software and managing high-scale R&D organizations across the world”, said Sam Gutmann, OwnBackup CEO.

OwnBackup specializes in protecting data stored in the cloud and managing huge amounts of business information in Salesforce, AWS and Azure environments. The solution protects against data loss caused by human error, malicious damage, integration errors or faulty applications. Last year, the company became a unicorn valued at $3.35 billion after five significant rounds of funding totaling over half a billion dollars.

OwnBackup was established in 2015 and is led by Sam Gutmann (CEO), Ariel Berkman (Co-Founder and Chief Product Security Officer) and Ori Yankelev (CRO). The company currently serves over 4,000 customers worldwide and employs over 600 people, of whom 130 work in the development center in Israel, with the rest in the United States, London, France, India and Australia.

About OwnBackup
OwnBackup, the leading SaaS data protection platform, provides secure, automated, daily backups and rapid data restore tools of SaaS and PaaS data. Empowering over 4,000 businesses worldwide to safeguard critical cloud data, OwnBackup covers data loss and corruption caused by human error, malicious intent, integration errors, and rogue applications.

Co-founded by seasoned data-recovery, data-protection, and information-security experts, OwnBackup is a backup and restore independent software vendor (ISV) on the Salesforce AppExchange and Microsoft Marketplace. Headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with research and development (R&D), support, and other functions in Israel, EMEA and APAC, OwnBackup is the partner of choice for some of the world’s largest users of SaaS applications.

Media Contact:
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