Adi Menashe

About Adi Menashe

I lead GTM at Ryft, where we\'re building the *first* Intelligent Iceberg Management Platform - automating table maintenance, optimization, and compliance for data teams running Apache Iceberg at scale. Backed by Index Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, with customers in finance, gaming, adtech, and cybersecurity managing petabytes of data. I almost died three times in 24 hours, that was two years ago. Those moments stripped away all excuses, and taught me how short life really is. Since then, I’ve refused to build anything that doesn’t matter.That mindset shaped me as an entrepreneur. I started young, building ventures around one simple idea: if you’re going to do something, make it count.Today, that drive brought me to Ryft with a vision, helping enterprises take full ownership of their data infrastructure with Apache Iceberg.Because too many companies are stuck in vendor lock-in, drowning in operational complexity, unable to build the foundation they need for what\'s next. We\'re changing that, giving them intelligent automation, zero dependencies, and the control to move fast.

Experience

1. Head of Gtm

   Ryft Acquired By Cyera

   Jan 2026 — Present

   Enterprises should own their data infrastructure with Iceberg. Intelligent automation, zero vendor dependency, no operational chaos.Building Ryft\'s presence in the US market, shaping how we tell our story, working closely with product and engineering, and bringing the platform to teams modernizing their data foundation.