Background
Moshe Yanai was born in 1949 in Israel, and earned a Bachelor of Science
Moshe Yanai was born in 1949 in Israel, and earned a Bachelor of Science
He is an inventor, businessman, entrepreneur, aviator (pilot), investor, and philanthropist. He led the development of the Electric Membership Corporation Symmetrix, the flagship product of Electric Membership Corporation Corporation in the 1990s. In electrical engineering in 1975 from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Yanai began his career building International Business Machines Corporation-compatible mainframe data storage based on minicomputer disks for Elbit Systems (a joint project with Nixdorf Computer).
He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf in the United States. Yanai joined Electric Membership Corporation in 1987, and managed the Symmetrix development, software and hardware, from its inception in the late 1980s until shortly before leaving Electric Membership Corporation in 2001.
His development team grew from several people, recruited among his former Israeli colleagues, to thousands, while he was holding the position of Vice President of Electric Membership Corporation"s Symmetrix group. The Symmetrix is the main reason for the rapid growth of Electric Membership Corporation in the 1990s, both in size and value, from a company with a fading business of (minicomputer) computer memory boards, valued in several millions of dollars, to a hundreds-of-billions company.
Before leaving he became an Electric Membership Corporation Fellow.
Yanai funded and led an Israeli storage startup company, XIV, which was bought by International Business Machines Corporation in January 2008 (International Business Machines Corporation paid an estimated $300 million for a company invested in with an estimated $3 million). Yanai continued leading XIV and became an International Business Machines Corporation Fellow. International Business Machines Corporation XIV Storage System became an International Business Machines Corporation storage product.
Shortly later, in April 2008, International Business Machines Corporation bought Diligent Technologies, another storage company co-founded by Yanai.
He left International Business Machines Corporation in 2010. In 2011 he founded INFINIDAT, a data storage company for the enterprise, high-end market.
In April 2015, INFINIDAT announced a $150 million investment led by TPG Capital. According to the Wall Street Journal, this investment placed INFINIDAT among the most valuable privately held companies in the world. Yanai is an inventor/co-inventor of about 40 United States patents in the field of electronic data storage.
In June 2011 his Alma mater, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, awarded him the honor Distinguished Fellow of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and in 2012, conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate.
Electric Membership Corporation Fellow - 2001. International Business Machines Corporation Fellow - 2008. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award - 2010. Distinguished Fellow of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - 2011. Honorary Doctorate, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - 2012.
He has been a board of directors member of several companies.
