Mr. Zahov has started as a young penetration tester at the age of 16, after his military service, he positioned as a CISO in a stock market Israeli-based Company. In order to achieve his international experience, Mr. Zahov has been given IT-Security consultancy around Europe, Africa, Vietnam and Singapore while supporting the financial and Oil industry in planning, building and personnel training of Security Operations Centers (SOCs).

Before joining Checkmarx, Mr. Zahov was planning and leading the InCar Security Testing Lab In Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg, leading Embedded penetration testing projects of various ECUs and platforms as well as establishing the process of security testing from scratch.