Joav Bally

About Joav Bally

I build agentic, LLM-powered enterprise platforms and AI tooling that scale safely in production. With 20+ years of experience as a product and engineering executive, I focus on translating AI innovation into enterprise-grade platform solutions.At NetSuite, I lead a global product management and engineering organization responsible for platform, analytics, and AI-driven capabilities. My leadership approach emphasizes clear product vision, strong engineering fundamentals, empowered teams, and a deep, continuous focus on customer needs.My work centers on the strategy, design, and delivery of agentic, LLM-powered solutions, including developer assistants, analytics agents, enterprise AI connectors, and extensible AI tooling. These capabilities enable customers and partners to build, extend, and customize AI-powered functionality on top of core enterprise platforms.Alongside AI, I bring deep experience building and scaling enterprise platforms from concept to global adoption. I value collaboration, thoughtful decision-making, and developing leaders at every level, with a strong focus on customer impact, scalability, security, extensibility, and enterprise governance.

Experience

1. Angel Investor, Member

   Sand Hill Angels

   Aug 2022 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Invest in early-stage startups with a focus on AI-driven and enterprise technology businesses.Advise founders on AI product strategy, platform design, and the transition from prototype to production-ready systems.Provide mentorship on building scalable AI capabilities, including data strategy, model integration, and enterprise readiness.Support leadership teams in aligning AI innovation with real customer problems, sustainable business models, and long-term value creation.

Education

• Hildergard Wegscheider Oberschule

  Abitur, Math

  1988 — 1995

• Freie Universität Berlin

  Diploma, Computer Science

  1995 — 2001

Skills

• Project Management
• Sales Enablement
• Virtualization
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Html
• Business Alliances
• Sap Netweaver
• Business Intelligence
• Solution Architecture
• Java
• Integration
• Databases
• Soa
• Product Strategies
• Product Management
• Business Objects
• Cloud Computing
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Sap Gateway
• Saas
• Leadership
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Business Analysis
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Middleware
• Sap Business Software
• Strategy
• Analytics
• Api Management