The Journey of QualiTest by Ayal Zylberman
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QualiTest is a software testing company that has experienced significant growth since its founding in 1997. It has grown from 2 employees and $0 in revenue to over 1,000 employees worldwide and $160 million in annual revenue. The company's vision is to become the world's largest pure play software testing and business assurance partner. It has global management and leadership teams that oversee its operations in Israel, India, the United States, and United Kingdom.
The Journey of QualiTest by Ayal Zylberman
- 1. The Journey of QualiTest Sep 2017
- 2. 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Revenues M$ 2
- 5. KAPULSKY 5
- 6. KAPULSKY 6
- 7. Oren Glanz 7
- 10. Dror Nevo 10
- 11. Uri Landau 11
- 13. Tali Shem-Tov 13
- 14. Levy Halevy 14
- 15. Dov Shechter 15
- 17. Shirley Sofer 17
- 19. Ira Perkins 19
- 20. Yaron Kottler 20
- 21. Tali Shem-Tov 21
- 23. Eli Hermes 23
- 25. Uri Einan 25
- 29. Tom Bennet 29
- 32. Whats next? 32
- 33. Our Vision |Vision: Become the worlds largest pure play software testing and business assurance partner 33
- 34. 34 Yaron Kottler MD, US & UK Tali Shem Tov MD, Israel Manoj Chandrappa MD, India Aviram Shotten Chief K&I Officer Ami Sterling CMO Scott Abney CSO Einav Lavi VP People and Talent, US Jason Mcguiver SVP, UK Neri Lavi SVP, US John Sumner VP K&I, UK Sanjay Jawa CFO Global Management Team Suresh Basavaraju SVP India
- 35. 35 Itsik Asulin SVP, IL Avigdor Brachya SVP, IL Lihi Segev VP Sales, IL Benny Sand VP K&I, IL Ronen Sade VP Finance, IL Michel Charbit SVP BFSI Division, IL Alon Glazer VP People & Talent, IL Shai Liberman SVP Globalization Shlomi Shimony Automation Dept. Manager Shmulik Moskovich SpotLight Manager Israel Leadership
- 36. 36 Omri Nissim BM, IL Kobi Ben-Shoshan BM, IL Yoval Erez BM, IL Tzahi Falkovich BM, IL Orly Aharon, BM, IL Eli Dvash BM, IL Tiran Leibovich BM, IL Ohad Fodor BM, IL Igal Shifrin Supervisor,IL Miri Harosh Supervisor,IL Oded Oriel BM, IL Ram Amos Supervisor,IL Mano Brochim BM ,IL Yakov Shukron BM, IL Ofir Shoshan Delivery Manager, IL Israel Management
Editor's Notes
- #4: Amir was a shared contact for Eli and Ayal and made the introduction. He was suppose to be a founder, but eventually decided to accept a QA Manager role
- #5: Eli is a co-founder of QualiTest
- #6: Kapulsky coffee shop, next to Elis house, was the first office of QualiTest
- #7: This is the Kapulsky coffee shop today. It seems they did not overcome QualiTest moving to a proper offices
- #8: Oren is the founder of Teleknowledge, QualiTest first customer
- #9: Navit and Michel are the first employees of QualiTest
- #10: In 2001, ALD acquired 51% of the shares of QualiTest. Ran and Zigmund were the first to believe in the company.
- #11: Dror is one of the first employees of QualiTest and the first the become a VP Dror currently run a cycling club in the north of Israel
- #12: Uri Landau was the head of Mamdas, the Israeli Air Forces technology unit. This was the first significant contract we secured
- #13: Danny Kornfeld was the first sales person we hired. Danny worked with QualiTest for 4 years. After leaving QualiTest, Danny converted and is now called Netali.
- #14: Tali was the first HR person hired
- #15: Levy was a deputy CEO at Malam when they acquired 51% of the company.
- #16: The largest contract ever won was with Elbit. Although back than we were the smallest vendor participating in the tender, Dov (Dubi) believed in us and gave us the contract. Elbit is still one of QualiTest largest customers
- #17: Shiri joined QualiTest to build the hardware verification practice. She led the efforts of getting Intel as customers. Intel is now QualiTest largest client. Shiri later married Ayal and together they brought 2 children, Dylan and Jonny.
- #18: Shirley Sofer was head of Intel PS unit. She was the one picked QualiTest as its a great company to do business with
- #19: QualiTest first branch outside of Israel was in Turkey. Selim was a partner and had 50% of the shares. QualiTest Turkey closed later due to the difficulties of managing business properly in Turkey
- #20: Ira was the founder of Electronic Nation, a US company acquired by QualiTest. That acquisition is still the basis of our US operation
- #21: Upon Electronic Nation acquisition, Yaron who had been with QualiTest for 5 years was relocated to the US to become the CEO of QualiTest US. Yaron still holds that position
- #22: In 2007, Tali was nominated as the CEO of QualiTest Israel. She still hold that position
- #23: Vincent is the first employee of QualiTest Netherlands, our first EU footprint
- #24: Bank Poalim have chosen QualiTest to be their exclusive partner. The first bank who made that decision. Eli was leading the efforts.
- #25: Shlomo became a major shareholder after his company, Team, bought Malam. Due to a huge dispute around the global strategy of the company (Shlomo didnt think we can make it overseas) the sides decided to break up. It took us few years to realize the dispute led to a significant milestone in the history of QualiTest
- #26: Uri was one of the managing partners of KCPS, a large Israeli based private equity fund. Uri supported Ayal and Eli and led a 50% acquisition of QualiTest, who helped the company the get out of Malam-Team
- #27: David joined the team as head of Chairman of QualiTest Europe. David brough huge knowledge and experience and was the CEO of SQS. He led our UK acquisitions and the setup of our European operation
- #28: Stew was the founder of TCL, a UK company we acquired
- #29: Manoj came in with the TCL acquisition. Manoj still runs QualiTest India.
- #30: EE is the largest mobile operator in the UK. They assigned QualiTest to take full responsibility for their entire network testing. Tom is the CIO of EE (now part of British Telecom). EE Network contract is still the largest contract we have outside of Israel.
- #31: Jan is a Director at Marlin partners and has led the acquisition.
- #32: Martin joined Marlin to support QualiTest is its growth initiative and professionalism of the business. Martin was a general manager at IBM and brings huge knowledge and experience on managing large enterprises.
- #35: People brought us so far. Those are the people to continue the success
- #36: People brought us so far. Those are the people to continue the success
- #37: People brought us so far. Those are the people to continue the success