Mr. Gil Perez founded BackFlip Software in 2005 and serves as its Chairman and CEO. During his career Mr. Perez has founded and lead multiple successful high-tech companies and has been personally involved in creating over $1 billion in share holders’ value.
Mr. Perez co-founded TopTier Software, a leading enterprise portal company, which was acquired by a private equity investment firm in 1998 and subsequently acquired by SAP AG in 2001. In 2004, Mr. Perez led the transformation of A2i into a leading Master Data Management (MDM) solution in the market, which resulted in its acquisition by SAP AG.
In 2005, as CEO and Managing Partner of Gilo Ventures, he oversaw two transactions; the acquisition of Stentor by Philips and the acquisition of Sheer Networks by Cisco. In late 2005, Mr. Perez co-founded Arcadian Networks and was its CEO & Chairman till early 2008. Mr. Perez is currently serving as Chairman of OrNim Medical Inc and board member of Arcadian Networks.
Mr. Perez was a visiting scholar at Stanford University from 2003 to 2004
Amir Sadras joined BackFlip at its inception in May 2005. Amir brings with him more than 15 years of experience in business software development, product management and sales.
Prior to joining BackFlip, Amir served as enterprise portal product manager at SAP AG at its headquarters in Germany and offices in Israel. Previously, Amir held R&D positions at TopTier Software, which was acquired by SAP, and served as a technical account manager at Attunity where he lead the implementation of middleware products at fortune 500 companies.
Amir received a B.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering from the Technion, Israel, and MBA, major in Finance and Business Strategy, from ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.
Brent De Kay joined BackFlip in 2006 bringing more than 10 years of application software experience, particularly in the areas of enterprise resource planning, knowledge management, enterprise portals, and business intelligence.
Prior to joining BackFlip, Brent served in professional services at TopTier Software. Previously, Brent worked for over six years at SAP AG in various roles including Manager in the Strategic Solutions Group, Director of the Portal Practice for Fuijitsu Consulting and as a Platinum-Level Consultant with SAP Portals.
Brent received a B.Sc. from the University of California, Riverside.
Matt Sullivan joined BackFlip in 2006 bringing more than 10 years of experience in enterprise software sales and sales management.
Prior to joining Backflip, Matt served as Director of Sales at FuelQuest, a leading tax automation and supply chain software SaaS company. Previously, he was a Global Account Executive at SAP America where he managed Fortune 100 clients. Matt was a three-time recipient of SAP’s Leadership Club Award. Prior to joining SAP America, Matt served as Branch Sales Manager at Oracle Corporation.
Matt received two BA degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MBA from St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California.
Prior to joining BackFlip in 2009, Nir worked at SAP, most recently as Vice President of Information Worker solutions which includes Duet (Joint SAP/Microsoft solution), and Alloy (Joint SAP/IBM solution). Nir's initial patents are at the core of the program IP. Since its inception, this strategic program evolved significantly to have hundreds of customers and partners and generated significant revenues. Previously, Nir held a variety of positions in the U.S. and Israel which included leading roles in Consulting, Support, Product Management, Product Development and Quality Assurance at SAP, SAP Portals, TopTier Software and TesCom.
Nir is based out of Kfar Saba Israel. He has a Masters Degree in Business with majors in Information Systems and Finance, and over 15 years of experience in the software industry.