Pavel Berengoltz

Pavel Berengoltz leads Lacoon’s research team of mobile researchers, malware analysts and security specialists. He brings extensive research and development experience and a deep understanding of the mobile threat-scape to the role. Pavel was the CTO of Safend Ltd., where he drove the research and infrastructure development of their flagship products; when Safend was acquired by Wave Systems, he took on the role of Safend VP of research and development (R&D), continuing to drive the QA, R&D and product management of the Safend solutions. Prior to Safend, Pavel worked in an elite IDF intelligence unit, where he managed a group of developers working on state of the art software infrastructure, cutting edge communication protocols and protocol security. He started his career as a software engineer at Intel, where he was responsible for an award-winning development project. Pavel holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.