Doron Amir

Doron Amir was born in 1975

Doron Amir was born in 1975 and grew up in Holon. He lives in Ra'anana, is married and has two daughters.

In 1994 he joined the Air Force technological reserve track. After the training he asked to serve in combat, volunteered for the Paratroopers and served in the 35th Brigade's anti-tank unit.

After the army he taught software and information security at several firms and colleges, including the Technion, and worked as a programmer at Amdocs. Through his own company he advised industry and government bodies and wrote training programs for cyber investigators for the Israel Police. In 2008 he went to London to train international software teams in broadcast encryption.

In 2015 he co-founded the Chinese holding company TLV Ventures and served as its CTO. In 2017 he started the cyber venture Plexivo, which stopped in 2019. In 2021 he founded CyTaka, which holds cyber contests in Israel and abroad, and he serves as its CEO.

After October 7 he set up and led a center of hackers from around the world that acted against anti-Israel activity online. He has also worked on job training for the Haredi community and on women's employment in tech.