Gil Sasson Chief R&D Officer, Lightbits Labs

Lightbits Labs, Ltd. hired Gil Sasson as chief R&D officer.

A multiple patent holder, he has experience in R&D and cloud-native applications. He will be responsible for leading the product development engineering efforts and directing the design and deployment efforts for the company’s private and edge cloud solutions offerings.

Prior to joining, he served as VP of R&D at N2WS (a former Veeam company) and managed R&D and customer support teams in USA and Israel. In that role, he decreased N2WS’ release cycles from 6 months to 2.5 months while growing its R&D productivity by more than 25%.

Before that, as an expert in agile development, he served as CTO at Huawei where, among other activities, he established the company’s storage and data protection competence center at Israel and filed multiple patent applications on storage and de-dupe. He also has held R&D and software development leadership positions at IBM, FilesX Data Protection (acquired by IBM in early 2008), IR Solutions and TopIO.

“Gil’s mastery of R&D and expertise in cloud-native applications and container environments orchestrated with Kubernetes will further fuel our global growth,” said Eran Kirzner, CEO. “With Gil’s extensive insights into customer needs and his proven track record in managing R&D teams to meet those needs, we are confident he will be instrumental in helping us build upon our solutions showcasing the value, efficiency and scalability of software-defined, cloud-native storage.”