viisights is a leading provider of behavioral understanding systems for real-time video intelligence that leverage unique artificial intelligence technology. The company provides behavioral understanding systems for safe and smart cities, smart enterprises, critical infrastructures, transportation hubs and shared mobility initiatives.
viisights was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs with proven track records in building and developing businesses that rely on innovative, state-of-the-art technologies. The company’s founders recognized the growing global need for intelligence promoting safer physical and virtual public areas – and realized that smart video understanding technology can become a true game changer.
viisights is committed to developing artificial intelligence technologies that facilitate human-like video understanding, which in turn serves as basis for fully autonomous video intelligence systems powered by pattern prediction technology. To achieve success, the company relies on a seasoned management, a knowledgeable tech team, cutting-edge technological expertise and a far-reaching vision.
Introduction to viisights
Asaf Birenzvieg
CEO
Asaf is highly experienced
professional with strong mix
of managerial and technical
skills. Asaf has more than 20
years of software engineering
experience in strategic
planning, product development,
building organizations and
operations. Former CEO &
Founder of Zaponet – data
science solution, sold to Ness
Technologies.
Former Director of Engineering
at Jumptap , sold to Millennial
Media. Prior to Jumptap
Asaf was an R&D manager
at Amdocs content division
leading the first development
and implementation of Amdocs
digital commerce platform.
Asaf has a Bsc. in information
system from the Technion and
MBA in business management
from Bar-Ilan university.
Menashe Rothschild
CPO
Menashe has a record of
leading strategy planning,
product development and
technology in a variety of
companies and domains. His
areas of expertise include
internet, advertising, media,
telecom, mobile and e-health.
Adept at driving strategy at
start-up and large established
global technology companies
in innovative environments.
He served as CTO at
Comverse, one of the world’s
leading telecom providers,
as well as holding various
executive and board positions
in several companies.
Simon Polak
Chief Scientist & Research
Simon Polak is the Chief
Scientist of viisights. He has
BA (summa cum laude) and
MSc in Computer Sciences
from Technion and spent 5
years in Computer Sciences
PhD program in Hebrew
University.
He has 18 years of experience
in research and development
in the field of Machine
Learning with applications to
Computer Vision and Natural
Language Processing both in
the academia and the industry
(Intel, JustVisual).
Amjad Akkawi
CTO
Amjad experience spans
all aspects of architecting,
designing and building,
implementing and deploying a
complex, distributed, scalable
and highly-perform real-time
information, big data and
mission-critical systems in a
global internet environment.
He is former co-founder
of Zaponet – data science
solutions, sold to Ness
Technologies. Amjad served
as CTO in Zaponet and later
in NESS Technologies. Prior
to Zaponet, he fills various
development leading positions
in JumpTap, Galil Software and
Neustar. He Holds a MA in
Computer Science from the
Braunschweig University of
Technology in Germany.
