About - Tachyonix

Leadership Team

Nir Bar-Lev

Chairman

Nir Bar-Lev is an experienced entrepreneur, executive, and product leader. He serves as the Chairman of the Board at Tachyonix.

Before joining Tachyonix, Nir co-founded and led Clear.ML as its CEO, establishing it as the world’s leading open-source MLOps platform. He continues to serve as Chairman of Clear.ML today.

Prior to that, Nir spent a decade at Google, where he held senior leadership roles. He was one of the early members of the Google Mobile team and served as the founding product leader for Google’s speech recognition platform. Throughout his career at Google, he took on key responsibilities, including:

Executive Product Lead for all Google Search Advertising businesses in EMEA, managing a business generating over $14 billion in annual revenue.
General Manager of an independent mobile payments business unit.

Nir holds an MBA from Wharton Business School. He is an experienced engineer and an alumnus of the elite technology unit of the IDF, with 30 years of leadership experience.

Marcelo Korn

CEO

Marcelo Korn, born in Brazil, is a brilliant systems engineer and an even greater technology innovator.

For over a decade, Marcelo worked at Intel Israel, where he most recently served as a Security Technology Leader. Prior to this role, he held various positions, including Systems Engineer, Firmware Technology and Enablement Leader, Authentication Technologist, and Firmware & Software Engineer.

Throughout his career, Marcelo has gained extensive expertise across multiple technology ecosystems, working in network development, sensor API design, firmware security operations, high-level programming, and low-level hardware programming.

In 2019, he was admitted to a specialization course in ethical hacking at See Security College in Tel Aviv. Upon completion, he earned the titles of Hacking Defined Expert (HDE) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).

Marcelo holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science and is a Systems Engineering graduate from Hadassah Academic College.

Rogerio Balassiano

CTO

With 21 years of experience in SAP development, Rogério Balassiano has built his expertise through large-scale SAP customization projects. Specializing in backend development and integration, he is also an ABAP consultant proficient in every stage of the software development lifecycle, from requirement analysis to design, development, and production support.

One of Rogério’s most notable professional achievements was leading the solution architecture for Brazil’s largest SAP project, which focused on maximizing automation in the development process. Over the years, he has worked at top consulting firms and global corporations, including Petrobras, Vale, Embraer, and Suzano.

His work has delivered tangible results—one of his accelerators for Petrobras saved thousands of reais within its first 18 months of implementation.

Rogério holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and an MBA in Finance with a focus on stock markets from Ibmec, Rio de Janeiro.

Jose Ruy Antunes

Advisory Board Member

José Ruy Antunes is a senior executive with over 30 years of experience in commercial strategy, market positioning, and finance. He played a pivotal role in bringing SAP to Brazil, leading the company’s expansion as Commercial Director (3 years) and CEO (9 years). Under his leadership, SAP became the undisputed leader in enterprise software for the country’s largest corporations, ranking among the “500 Maiores e Melhores” across all industry sectors.

Before joining SAP, Antunes served as CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Software, further solidifying his expertise in bringing foreign technologies to the Brazilian market and developing strategic plans for brand management and positioning.

Currently, Antunes serves as a mentor and advisor to mid-sized and small technology companies, both independently and through Endeavor, where he has spent the past 15 years guiding entrepreneurs and businesses in sales, marketing, brand development, and market strategy.