Guy Melamed

Guy Melamed was born in 1979 in Haifa

Guy Melamed was born on September 12, 1979, in Haifa. His grandfather, Dr. Herzl Sless, was the honorary doctor of the English club Brighton & Hove Albion for 42 years. Melamed came up through the Maccabi Haifa youth academy and played more than 50 games for Israel's youth national teams.

With the U-16 team he took third place at the 1996 European Championship in Austria. He made his first team debut for Maccabi Haifa in April 1997 and won the State Cup with the club in the 1997/98 season. In 2000/2001 he was loaned to Hapoel Tzafririm Holon.

In 2001 he moved to the United States to play soccer and study accounting at Boston College, where he was team captain for 3 seasons. He helped win the 2002 Big East Championship and was named Boston College's Eagle of the Year in 2005. He later earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in accounting there.

The Colorado Rapids picked him 43rd in the 2005 MLS SuperDraft, making him the first Israeli in the league. He asked for his release to play in Europe and trained with Dundee and several Championship clubs, then retired. He worked as an accountant at KPMG in the United States and at Ernst & Young in Israel.

He joined the cybersecurity company Varonis in 2011, and it went public in 2014. He became CFO in 2017 and also COO in 2018. He received the key to the city of Herzliya for the company's help to evacuees during the Swords of Iron war, and he lives there with his wife Keren and their 4 children.