Before joining SamsungNEXT, Eyal was the CTO at Sports Illustrated Play (acquired by NBC), a sports technology platform for youth and amateur sports. Eyal was also the Chief Product Officer focused on innovation at Deluxe, the largest provider of post-production technology for major movie studios and online services such as Netflix, Amazon and Apple.
Before Deluxe, Eyal played key engineering roles at companies such as Tagged, IdleGames and Macrovision where he managed worldwide engineering for an internationalized game syndication and commerce platform, servicing over 250 affiliates including major portals such as Yahoo! Games worldwide, AOL Games, Disney and Earthlink.
Eyal brings 20 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence, building products at scale, hiring top talent and growing teams in-house and distributed world-wide. He took part of multiple successful acquisitions on both sides of the transaction and has helped build over 30 of international systems and products serving at times over 300 million users.
Eyal holds a Ph.D. in computer science (Artificial Intelligence), a master’s in computer science (Artificial Intelligence) and bachelor’s in computer science and mathematics.