Decision Intelligence

As CEO and co-founder, Omri Kohl leads Pyramid Analytics‘ strategy and operations, bringing his deep understanding of the BI market and valuable management experience to a company at the forefront of today’s fast-growing BI industry. Since its founding in 2008, Kohl has achieved significant market success and accelerated customer growth for the company, epitomizing the term disruptor through his introduction of the BI Office and Pyramid products, and their ground-breaking analytics OS technology.

Kohl is a highly experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record for developing and managing fast-growth companies. He studied economics, finance, and business management at Bar-Ilan University, has an MBA from Manchester University, and an MBA in International Business Management from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Read more at Omri’s blog, DataShark, and on the Forbes Technology Council

As CTO and co-founder, Avi Perez is the visionary responsible for creating, developing, and managing the Pyramid Analytics Decision Intelligence Platform. In addition to driving the company’s long-term technology roadmap, Perez oversees corporate strategy and all aspects of the company’s R&D efforts. Prior to this role, he was co-founder and development manager of Urix, a successful U.S.-based healthcare informatics company. There, he architected several proprietary Urix analytical systems and became an industry authority on the latest advances in online analytics.

Perez has a B-Com from UNSW Australia and an MBA from Yale.

As executive vice president of business development and co-founder, Herbert Ochtman drives Pyramid Analytics operations, overseeing its market strategy and accelerated growth. He has extensive experience advising and growing technology companies and bringing innovative technologies to market. Prior to Pyramid Analytics, Ochtman co-founded and served as vice president of business development and board director at Urix, a company known for its innovation in healthcare analytics and reporting.

He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Yale School of Management and received a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Queen Mary University of London. When not in the world of startups, you can find Ochtman on his mountain bike, on the river with his crew team, or brushing up his flying skills.

As the CFO of Pyramid Analytics Oz Tarazi is responsible for overseeing the company’s financial and legal aspects, as well as capital structure, debt and equity financing, cash management, investor relations, and strategic planning. Oz has over fifteen years of experience in senior financial management and led finance and operations in global tech companies through critical turn-around situations. Prior to Pyramid Analytics, Oz served as Head of Finance for Vizrt Inc., a real-time 3D graphics and a media asset management tool provider, Acquired by Nordic Capital for $360M. Prior to Vizrt, Oz served in several senior financial management positions at Deloitte in Tel-Aviv, Grant Thornton, and Take-Two Interactive SW. in NYC.

Oz is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.A degree in Business Management from Colman in Tel-Aviv.

Jakki Geiger is the Chief Marketing Officer at Pyramid Analytics, a customer-obsessed company that’s transforming how employees make data-driven decisions. The Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform is used by innovative companies who want trusted answers fast and are scaling self-service capabilities across their business without sacrificing data security and governance.

Jakki has more than 20 years of high-tech marketing and sales experience in the data management and analytics markets. Previously, she served as CMO at Reltio, where she built a strong GTM foundation that doubled ARR in 24 months with a path to $100M+. Prior to Reltio, Jakki was the Vice President of Global Enablement at Informatica, where she played a key role in the company’s transformation and new go-to-market strategy, resulting in double-digit growth. Previously, Jakki led marketing at several venture-funded B2B software companies that were successfully acquired by companies like Oracle, Thomson Corporation, and Informatica. She holds a Master’s degree in Integrated Marketing Communication from Emerson College in Boston and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from McGill University in Canada.

As Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Dave Henry is responsible for the business alliance and partner efforts to build and execute strategies that drive revenue growth.

Henry is a veteran technology executive with a proven track record for leading and motivating culturally diverse teams. Henry has been recognized for designing and implementing innovative solutions that overcome technological barriers and help companies streamline the integration of data solutions for improved ease of use and decision-making.

Before joining Pyramid Analytics, Henry was the Director of Global Health informatics at eHealth Africa where he focused on building eHealth knowledge and capacity, teaching data management skills to African software developers, network engineers, and other IT technicians. He’s also held leadership roles at Pentaho (Hitachi Data Systems), TEMTEC (IBM), Sagent Technology (Pitney-Bowes), PLATINUM technology (Computer Associates), and Boeing Computer Services. Henry holds an MSc in Information Science from the University of North Texas and a BA from the University of Texas at Dallas.

As SVP of Global Sales, NA, Brian brings 18 years in the enterprise software industry with 14 of those years in the analytics field.  Brian has held management positions previously while taking many early-stage companies to market with ThoughtSpot, Yottaa, and Perfecto, in both the SAAS and enterprise respectively.

Robert started his tech career 15 years ago and has held different sales and leadership roles with software companies including Oracle, OpenText, Information Builders, Collibra, and now Pyramid.   

Prior to starting his career, Robert graduated from the University of Kentucky, thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, and volunteered with the Peace Corps in Bolivia.

Robert currently lives in Parker, CO, with his wife and 3 kids (ages 10, 8, and 5).  Outside of work and being a dad, he loves skiing, mountain biking, hunting, fishing, and competitive tennis.

As a former professional rugby player, I am fiercely competitive and looking to drive a winning team here in the UK.

I have been in SaaS leadership roles for ServiceNow, BluePrism, Cloudera, and most recently Splunk. I utilise my strong work ethic, passion, discipline, and leadership skills taken from the playing field to coach and develop my teams to achieve their business and personal goals.

I am married to Becky and have two beautiful daughters Amélie and Evangeline. We live in the Cotswolds and are a very active and sporty family. If I’m not training hard in the gym, I can be found getting muddy off-road in my modified Jeep Wrangler or relaxing at home with the family grilling and enjoying a nice whiskey. 

Answer the following question: What’s one piece of advice given to you?
“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success”

Benjamin Doerwald is the VP DACH & Nordics at Pyramid Analytics. Over the last 20 years, Benjamin has seen many software technologies/trends come and go. The urgent question of why a company’s employees don’t constantly use data as the basis for their decisions has been driving him for many years. Along the way, Benjamin has found that it’s not about the next tool to create better user adoption, but a platform approach is needed to grow sustainable trust in data as a daily foundation for decision-making.

Richard is an experienced Analytics & Business Intelligence (ABI) professional with a unique blend of sales, marketing, and technical skills. Extensive working experience in the design and implementation of ABI solutions and software across a range of industries including Retail, Financial Services, and Manufacturing.

With more than twenty-five years of ABI strategy, software development, and delivery expertise, Richard has demonstrated his ability to quickly understand complex business and technical problems, distill relevant issues, design business-focused solutions, and communicate with all levels of an organisation from technical analysts through senior line of business executives. He has set up, developed, and lead teams focused on the implementation of ABI solutions for a range of organisations including Liberty, Ann Summers, TFG, Central Government, NATS, and Bank of England, successfully translating business requirements into solutions that delivered business benefits and supporting strategies for data-driven organisations.

Peter Vomocil is an authority in brand strategy, pricing, demand generation, and marketing technology. He joins Pyramid Analytics having over 15 years of experience driving growth for a variety of businesses, including executive leadership roles at multiple technology companies.

Before joining Pyramid Analytics, Vomocil was the chief marketing officer of MetaGeek, a global leader in Wi-Fi optimization software. Previously, he served as the vice president of marketing for Truckstop.com, a SaaS pioneer in freight transportation technology. He is also the co-author of Market-based Management, 6th Edition, and Value-Pricing and Growing Your Pricing ROI.

Vomocil has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oregon.