Yoav was born in Shoham, Israel, and moved to northern New Jersey when he was 10. He studied computer science, before joining Avanan, a cloud security startup that was acquired by CheckPoint, as the first employee. Yoav later moved to Goldman Sachs where he led the firm-wide cloud security engineering team, in charge of the cloud security standards, roadmap, and technologies for the entire organization. Yoav has a passion for technology innovations and customer satisfaction. In his free time, Yoav practices martial arts, flys planes, and paints