Ariel Parnes

Ariel Parnes is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Mitiga. 

Prior to co-founding Mitiga in 2020, he had a 20-plus-year career in the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Unit 8200. He rose to the rank of colonel and founded and headed the unit’s cyberwarfare department. He was awarded the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for technological breakthroughs in cybersecurity. 

Parnes holds a master’s degree in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.