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Jonathan Srugo

Founder of Nebotain

Portugal

Overview 

Jonathan Srugo is a Cyber Security and Tech Executive with a background as Chief Information Security Officer at Better Place and Orange. He currently serves on advisory boards and has a strong track record in leadership, cyber defense, risk management, and regulatory compliance within the cybersecurity sector. Highlights of his career include founding Nebotain and holding leadership roles at AsianLogic, as well as his extensive experience in IT security management and cyber defense at reputable organizations such as Better Place and Orange.

Work Experience 

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2025 - Current

    My focus is on strategically expanding our product development , enhancing our platform and support structure to meet the demands of the B2B market. My goal is to ensure our solutions not only meet but exceed the scalability and performance expectations of our clients, paving the way for significant growth and industry leadership. Key Responsibilities: • Leadership and Vision: Steer the company through its next phase of growth by aligning our business strategy with innovative technological advancements. • Team Expansion: Actively expand and nurture our software development team, bringing in top-tier talent to foster a culture of excellence and innovation. • Platform Reengineering: Oversee the architectural redesign of our platform to ensure it is robust, scalable, and capable of supporting the growing needs of the B2B market. • Market Expansion: Drive the strategic entry and expansion of TMO Platforms into new B2B markets, ensuring our products are tailored to meet the diverse needs of our clients. • Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders, from investors to clients, ensuring their needs and expectations are met and exceeded. Looking Forward: Our aim is to redefine what businesses can expect from financial technology platforms, making our solutions pivotal in their operational success.

  • Limited Partner

    2022

    Limited Partner and Advisor.

GTM Capital is a venture capital investment firm

  • Member and Investor

    2022

    A community comprised of cybersecurity leaders and experts, with exposure to early-stage (Seed/ Series A) start-ups and innovation, access to private investment opportunities, leveraging domain expertise and connections to assess and contribute to the success of early stage cybersecurity ventures.

  • Chief Information Technology Officer

    2023 - 2025

    My primary mission was to lead a transformative overhaul of the technology team and the software architecture of our platform. My efforts have been focused on injecting innovation and strategic foresight into every facet of our technology operations and business, steering the company towards significant advancements in the fintech sector. Key Achievements: • Revamping the Technology Team: spearheaded a comprehensive restructuring of the technology team, recruiting key positions including two chief architects, product owner, site reliability director and new software development team. This new leadership has been crucial in driving our technological vision and execution. • Redesigning Software Architecture: led the complete redesign of our software architecture, enhancing scalability, performance, and security to better serve current and future business needs. • Transforming Product Management: redefined our product management processes to increase agility and alignment with market demands, ensuring that our development efforts are both innovative and strategically focused. • Establishing Quality Assurance and Site Reliability: established a robust site reliability and quality assurance team from scratch, which has been instrumental in maintaining high operational standards and ensuring platform stability. • Launching Successfully in the UK Market: My strategic direction was pivotal in the successful launch of our reengineered platform in the UK market, where we achieved rapid adoption and received highly positive feedback from users. Through these initiatives, I have not only revitalized our team’s dynamics but also repositioned MyAssets as a forward-thinking leader in the fintech industry, ready to tackle future challenges and seize new opportunities.

  • Founder

    2022 - 2023

  • Technology Director of New Ventures

    2022 - 2023

    Creating and delivering opportunities at the frontier of the company’s business development. Lead commercial expansion in new ventures , Regional licensing requirements and regulatory compliance.

  • Director of Technology and Cyber Security

    2019 - 2022

    Asia's leading portfolio of gaming brands offering customers: sports betting, casino, poker and Asian games. Accountable to the Senior Business Executives for the oversight of delivery, integration and operation of all technologies: - Definition and execution of Technology strategies - Selection and implementation of Technologies - Design and customization of systems and platform architecture - Oversight of global data centers and multi-cloud environments - Management of the technology budget - Management of technology vendors relations - Delivery of service level objectives - Staff mentoring , recruitment, appraisal and training

  • Head of IT Operations, Infrastructure and Cyber Security

    2016 - 2019

    - Lead a large team of senior managers, technical leads, engineers and developers - Responsible for assuring 24*7*365 up-time, performance and resilience of online products servicing customers in multiple geographies - Responsible for Program management and Infrastructure Delivery - Responsible for the IT budget management and IT Vendor relations - Responsible for the Cyber Defense program - Responsible for IT Compliance

  • Head of Cyber Security

    2013 - 2016

    - Formed the Cyber Defense program with a focus on product resilience and availability - Formed the Insider Threat Management Program program - Briefed Senior Management and Board Members on Cyber and Insider threats based on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection, Cyber threat hunting and Red Team programs - Developed Threat Mitigation and Brand Protection strategies with a focus on the Chinese Cyber threat Landscape and the Internet Censorship program - Designed and implemented a multi-layered attack mitigation system to combat DDOS and application layer attack

  • Chief Information Security Officer

    2011 - 2013

    Better Place was a venture-backed international company that developed and sold battery-charging and battery-switching services for electric cars. - Responsible for Information Security Governance and Strategy - Responsible for Cyber Risk, Threat and Vulnerability Management including Intelligence Collection - Responsible for the Cyber Defense Budget and Vendor Relations - Responsible for Security Architecture Design - Responsible for Corporate Security Policies and Procedures - Responsible for Cyber Security Incident Response and Operations Center - Responsible for IT Compliance (SOX, EU Privacy Act)

Better Place develops and sells battery-charging and battery-switching services for electric cars.

Raised $925,000,000.00 from Israel Corp.

  • Chief Information Security Officer

    2009 - 2011

    Partner Communications Company Ltd., formerly known as Orange Israel, is a mobile network operator, internet Wi-Fi, fixed telephony service and OTT/IPTV provider in Israel. It was formerly operating under the Orange brand name. - Responsible for Information Security Governance and Strategy - Responsible for Risk, Threat and Vulnerability Management including Intelligence Collection - Responsible for Corporate Security Policies and Procedures - Responsible for Insider Threat Response and Operations Center (Data Loss Prevention and Investigations) - Responsible for subscriber Data Privacy - Responsible for IT Compliance (SOX, PCI-DSS, Israeli Privacy Act)

  • IT Security Manager

    2007 - 2008

    CAl Ltd. issues and clears credit cards from leading global brands: Visa, MasterCard and Diners Club and provides non-bank credit to its customers. Cal provides financial solutions to about 3 million cardholders and tens of thousands of businesses. - Responsible for Information Security Governance and Strategy - Responsible for Risk, Threat and Vulnerability Management - Responsible for Corporate Security Policies and Procedures - Responsible for the Information Security budget management and IT Vendor relations - Responsible for Security Architecture Design - Responsible for customer Data Privacy - Responsible for IT Compliance (Bank of Israel, PCI-DSS, Israeli Privacy Act)

  • Senior Information Security Consultant

    2005 - 2007

    ITCon was an Israeli information security consulting firm that operated internationally. ITCon has spun-off to become White Cyber Knight (WCK), a global provider of a risk management solution for cyber security, IT and Critical Infrastructure. - Program Management in Information Security (Banking, Insurance, Pharmaceutical Industries) - Consulting on : DLP, Identity and Access Management , Encryption, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management, Vulnerability Management - Execution of Risk and Vulnerability assessments and Penetration tests

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