Doron Kempel

Doron Kempel was born in 1963 in Israel

Doron Kempel was born on 29 July 1963 in Jerusalem and grew up in Rishon LeZion. As a youth he played on Israel's national youth handball team.

He joined the IDF in 1981 and volunteered for Sayeret Matkal, where he fought in the First Lebanon War and later became deputy commander of the unit. In 1992 he commanded the force preparing for Operation Bramble Bush, which was cancelled after a training accident at Tze'elim killed 5 soldiers. He and his deputy were convicted of negligent homicide and given suspended sentences, and he then chose to leave the army.

Kempel earned a BA in philosophy and an LLM in law from Tel Aviv University. After leaving the army he moved to the United States and completed an MBA at Harvard Business School.

He was a sales and marketing vice president at Imedia and from 1998 led the Media Solutions Group at EMC. In 2003 he cofounded Diligent Technologies with Moshe Yanai, which IBM bought in 2008. In 2009 he founded SimpliVity, sold to HPE in 2017, and in 2017 he founded the personal security company Bond in New York City.