Before founding OpTier, Mr. Alon was head of development for iRadius Ltd., a company dealing in high-impact web site deployment. Prior to that, Mr. Alon was Chief Architecture Analyst with Memco Software. Previously, Mr. Alon held management positions with Legent Corp. and Goal Systems, (later acquired by Computer Associates) and IBM Israel. Mr. Alon holds a BSc degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University. Mr. Alon began his career at one of the Israel Defense Forces Computer Centers where he served in several software engineering and management positions.