Asaf Kochan

Asaf Kochan was born in 1971 in Israel

Asaf Kochan was born in 1971 and grew up on Kibbutz Tzora. He holds a bachelor's degree in law from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. He is married and has 4 children.

He joined the IDF in November 1990 and volunteered for Sayeret Matkal, where he trained as a fighter and then went to officers' course. He became a team commander and later a commander of a fighter unit. He went on to command operational units in special operations and received a citation for one of the operations he led.

In 2011 he became deputy commander of Unit 8200, and in April 2017 he became its commander. Under his command the unit worked on cyber capabilities, placed teams inside IDF divisions and helped during the coronavirus pandemic. He finished the role and retired from the IDF in March 2021.

In August 2021 he and other entrepreneurs founded Sentra, a company that protects data in the public cloud, and he serves as its president. He is also a director at Leumi Partners and Harel Investments.