Not Your Typical Startup Story

Roy is a seasoned tech executive with over 15 years of experience at global companies, including Alvarion and BMC software. He spent four years in Tokyo where he served as Director of Operations for Identify Software, growing sales from 0 to $1M annually. At BMC, he served as Director of QA and then Director of R&D, leading a team of 40. Roy earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Philosophy from the Hebrew University. In his spare time, he is a dive master, tennis player and connoisseur of fine food.

Shahar leads R&D and the company's technical vision at Shoppimon. He is a self-taught programmer and web architect, who learned to code when most kids were just learning to read and write. He is a free and open-source software enthusiast and has contributed to multiple FOSS projects. Professionally, Shahar spent several years as a technical consultant and later served as Product Manger and Cloud Project Lead at Zend Technologies. There, he consulted on and built products for some of the world's leading web companies. Prior to Zend, he hacked low-level internet protocols for a High-End-ISP, and also spent several years as a freelance software developer and architect. In his free time, Shahar is a sea-kyaking instructor and a dedicated student of philosophy and linguistics.