Lior Mozel Chief Engineering Officer, WekaIO

WekaIO, Inc. announced that Lior Mozel has been appointed first chief engineering officer.

Reporting to co-founder and CEO Liran Zvibel, he will lead the development of the WEKA Data Platform and the company’s global R&D organization and engineering teams, helping to enrich and advance its deep-rooted culture of customer-centric innovation as it continues on a trajectory of record growth and adoption.

“Generative AI and GPU technologies are now evolving faster than anyone could imagined, and with them, our customers’ requirements are evolving rapidly too,” said Zvibel. “WEKA is committed to helping global enterprises, governments, and research organizations overcome AI infrastructure and data management challenges with our deeply differentiated, highly performant, and sustainable data platform software. Lior’s deep IT infrastructure expertise and proven leadership and passion for building dynamic engineering teams will strengthen and invigorate our global R&D as we scale development of the WEKA Data Platform to meet these changing requirements and increasing customer demand.”

Mozel brings over 20 years of experience building R&D organizations at global software companies. He most recently served as chief engineering officer of Cybereason, a cybersecurity software company, where he scaled the company’s engineering team to support significant, sustained growth.

Before joining Cybereason, he led R&D at Playbuzz, a content platform provider. He also held several management roles at cybersecurity provider Imperva, most recently as head of development, leading R&D WW for multiple product lines.

“WEKA is helping to fuel the AI revolution,” he said. “I’m thrilled to join at this pivotal point in the company’s history and growth trajectory to help build its breakthrough data platform software and fuel the next wave of cloud and AI-powered innovation for WEKA’s customers.”