Leadership Team

Eric Klinker

Co-Founder & CEO

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Eric is co-founder and CEO of Resilio Inc. and brings over two decades of proven leadership experience in networking and technology companies. Prior to Resilio, he served as President and CEO of BitTorrent Inc. where he was responsible for an ecosystem of software, devices, and protocols that moved between 20% and 40% of the world's Internet traffic on a daily basis.

As CEO, he successfully led BitTorrent through the financial crisis of 2008, built a profitable business and grew the user base to more than 170 million monthly users worldwide. He was also responsible for an expanding product portfolio that today includes distributed messaging, file sync and share as well as various live streaming applications.

Ilan Shamir

Co-Founder & COO

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Ilan is co-founder and COO of Resilio Inc. Prior to Resilio, he was the GM of Platforms at BitTorrent, Inc. where he managed the company’s new product initiatives. Before taking the GM role he was the VP of Engineering at BitTorrent from 2008 to 2015.

Prior to joining BitTorrent, Ilan was the General Manager of Endpoint Products at Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP), responsible for leading a distributed organization of 120 employees and the direction of products for both the consumer and enterprise businesses. Before Check Point, Ilan has held key leadership positions at Decru (now NASDAQ:NTAP), ePit Systems, and Senterprise Inc. Most notably, Ilan was the CEO and Founder of SideTalk Inc. where he grew the company to 30 employees and later sold it to a public company. Ilan has also served as a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab focused on peer-to-peer software research.

Konstantin Lissounov

Co-Founder & CTO

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Konstantin serves as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Resilio Inc. and is the co-inventor of BitTorrent Sync, with over twenty years of software development experience. Konstantin is responsible for overseeing the software engineering and development of Resilio core products, and sets the technology direction and strategy. Prior to Resilio Inc. Konstantin held the position of General Manager at BitTorrent Inc for 5 years and ran several global engineering teams.

For the past 10 years, Konstantin led various development teams in companies such as Check Point (NASDAQ: CHKP) and Tyco Electronics Inc. and has a deep understanding of consumer and enterprise software development platforms for various markets.

David Greene

VP of Business Development

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David is the Vice President of Business Development, responsible for strategic, OEM and channel partnerships and business development activities. David holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon, and has over 15 years of experience running sales and growing long term partnerships in the software and storage industry. Prior to Resilio, Inc he lead sales and business development for 2 years before the Sync team's spin out from BitTorrent, inc. Previously, David held Senior level Business Development roles at Seagate, Inc. and EMC Corporation, where he oversaw multiple worldwide teams, spearheading new corporate initiatives in the SMB and Enterprise markets.

Claus Meisel

VP of Engineering Operations

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Claus has more than 12 years of experience leading software engineering teams for both consumer and enterprise customers. Prior to Resilio, he was at BitTorrent managing a team that focused on BitTorrent's proprietary instant messaging platform and implemented a company wide process to efficiently release products weekly. Before joining BitTorrent, Claus was at ZoneLabs which was eventually acquired by Check Point Software. There he began his tenure at ZoneLabs as a product manager responsible for the ZoneAlarm and Integrity products and launches and he eventually managed a team of 80 engineers focusing on both consumer and enterprise products as Head of Endpoint Products with Check Point Software. Claus brings a vast amount of experience from small to large corporations, domestically and internationally focusing on both consumer and enterprise customers.