Ofer Gottfried has more than 20 years of experience in defining and building market-leading products. He served as the Chief Technology Officer of Flash Networks prior to being appointed as its Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to Flash Networks, Ofer served as the General Manager and VP of Research and Development at NeuStar NGM, (formerly Followap), a provider of instant messaging and presence products. He also served as VP of R&D at the Internet security company V-Secure, and as CTO of Excel Switching, a supplier of development platforms for telecom applications and solutions, and General Manager and VP of R&D at Airslide prior to its merger with Excel Switching. Previously, Ofer also held several senior positions at ECI Telecom and related companies managing the development of voice compression and VoIP products for the telecom market.

Ofer holds a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from the Holon Academic Institute of Technology.