Ofer Brandes

Ofer is SVP Strategic Effectiveness at Payoneer, a global leader in cross-border B2b payments.

With over 35 years of experience in the software industry, Ofer has a strong background in technology, and from 2003-2019 he also served as CTO at Viola Ventures, working with its founding Partners in various capacities. As a part-time technology consultant for the Fund, Ofer was involved in the technological evaluation aspects of the due diligence process, and worked with the CTOs and R&D managers of portfolio companies post-investment.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Prior to joining Viola, Ofer was the CTO at SunGard Business Integration (“SBI”, formerly MINT).
• Prior to SBI, Ofer was the Chief Designer and Programmer at Tovna, an Israeli company which developed software for automatic translation between English, French and Russian.
• From 1993 through 1996, Ofer was Senior Advisor to Israel’s Minister of Education.
• He served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ prestigious Intelligence Corps and holds a B.Sc. (with distinction) in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT OFER

• His professional areas of interest are mostly around “applicative innovation: The translation of technological innovations to actual products and solutions that can change our world for better.”
• He’s inspired by “people who have made a significant change, or at least have tried to, in spite of objections, narrow mindedness and persecutions”
• He has been deeply interested in astronomy since childhood, and built his own telescope with his father as a young teenager. “I travelled 11,000 km from Israel to Wyoming to watch the Total Solar Eclipse of August 2017.”