About Lynx
About Lynx
Management & Board
  • Daniel Tal, CEO, Founder and Chairman of the Board
    Daniel Tal leads Lynx with an exceptional blend of strategic business and technology management skills. From its founding in 1998, Tal has guided Lynx through three successful rounds of funding (over $60M to date). He has also been instrumental in product development while assembling a team of over 65 world-class employees. Prior to founding Lynx, Tal spent 20 years in high-level positions representing the State of Israel, including IDF service (an elite unit of the Prime Minister's Office) and culminating in managing the U.S. Operations of the Bi-National Research & Development Fund (BIRD). This $110 million endowment, provided equally by the U.S. and Israeli governments, has invested in over 550 U.S.-Israeli joint ventures. Tal played an instrumental role in the initiation of over 150 joint ventures between Israeli and American technology companies, producing sales of over $2 billion.
  • Beni Kopelovitz, President, CTO and Board Member
    Beni Kopelovitz provides Lynx with outstanding technical skills in driving the company Research and Development vision. Kopelovitz previously headed R&D at ECI Telecom Network System SBU where he marshaled growth from 10 to over 270 people. His technology accomplishments include a series of significant networking and optical industry firsts.
  • Abe Queller, VP of Customer Applications and Support
    Abe Queller is responsible for Lynx's world-class team of customer applications and support engineers. Queller's background includes a broad range of technical and management positions in data communications, operating systems, real-time systems and online transaction processing with companies including Fibermux (acquired by ADC). Prior to Lynx, Queller consulted with high profile technology companies where he applied a strong results-oriented approach to building customer and partner relationships. Queller is a Master's graduate from the University of Southern California.
  • Dror Zilka, CFO
    Dror Zilka has served as Lynx Chief Financial Officer since October 99 .Prior to joining Lynx, Dror worked as a partner in CPA firm and is a certified CPA. Dror holds a BA in Accounting and Business Administration from the Management College Tel Aviv.
  • Martin A. Stein, Board Member
    Martin Stein is President of Sonoma Mountain Ventures, a company that provides strategic and technology consulting, as well as holding board membership for technology and financial companies. Prior to this, Stein was Vice Chairman of Technology and Operations of BankAmerica Corporation. He was also a member of the Bank's Office of the Chairman and served as Vice Chairman of the Capital Budget Committee. Prior to that, Stein held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Paine Webber in New York. Stein served as a member of President Clinton's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), Governor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Society for Information Management (SIM).
  • Michael Leigh, Founder and Board Advisor
    Born and educated in London, Michael Leigh offers over 25 years of sales, marketing and management experience with leading edge communications technology leaders. His wide-ranging senior management responsibilities for Lynx leverage Leigh's outstanding strategic and tactical skills. Leigh spearheaded the successful launch and growth of organizations including Tekelec, Inc. where he served as Chief Operating Officer from start-up stage to public company. Leigh is also the Founder and Chairman of Technology MarketForce Inc. (TMF), formed in 1987 as an accelerator, incubator and facilitator of early-stage technology companies.