Gal Helemski

Co-Founder and CTO/CPO of PlainID

Gal Helemski is the Co-Founder and CTO/CPO of PlainID and a highly recognized and acclaimed cybersecurity expert. She plays a key role at PlainID as a strategic leader, visionary, and evangelist while overseeing product development, including leading the product architecture, strategy, and engineering teams. During the last 20+ years, Gal has defined solutions for customers and created and defined project specs, technical documentation, presentations, and training focused on identity and access management. As an early member of the CyberArk team, Gal has been highly influential in the identity space for most of her career. She earned a bachelor of science degree in physics and computer science from Bar-Ilan University after serving six years in the Israeli Defense Force’s prestigious Mamram computing unit.