Leadership Team
Timur is the Founder and CEO of NEOX, bringing over 25 years of expertise in network visibility and security to the company. His extensive experience has given him a profound insight into the challenges faced by today’s CXOs and IT teams. Timur is driven by a passion for harnessing technology to address complex issues, with a particular focus on leveraging network visibility as a strategic advantage. Prior to founding NEOX, he held various roles in sales and business development at several tech companies.
Nadeem Zahid is driving operational excellence at NEOX as the COO and CMO, bringing 29 years of experience in leadership, growth strategy, and global operations. With a proven track record as a serial entrepreneur and executive, Nadeem’s passion lies in building scalable organizations and forging strong partnerships that deliver customer success. With a solid record of fueling profitable growth in the tech industry, Nadeem blends strategic thinking, thought leadership, and creativity with drive, passion, and an engaging style to deliver results in key areas that act as catalysts for transformational change. In his role at NEOX, he is committed to strengthening the company’s presence across the US market, optimizing cross-functional teams, and ensuring that innovative networking solutions translate into measurable business outcomes for clients and partners.
With an impressive tenure exceeding over 25 years in IT and security, and as Chief Security Advisor at NEOX, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is a distinguished figure in the global cybersecurity landscape. Equipped with a doctoral degree in IT and esteemed credentials such as CCISO and MCSE, Dr. Ozkaya is zealous about navigating cybersecurity quandaries and propelling digital innovation across the corporate realm and society at large. His extraordinary leadership and acumen have been recognized as a top 50 tech luminary by IDC and CIO Online, and earning the prestigious title of Global Cybersecurity Influencer of the Year from the InfoSec Awards.
Andrew Awad brings his expertise as Head of Innovation Engineering at NEOX and a passion for bridging technical innovation and real-world customer value. Andy excels at translating complex networking and visibility challenges into strategic outcomes for clients. His commitment to proactive problem-solving and his collaborative mindset help enable NEOX’s partners and customers to deploy, manage, and optimize their high-performance network visibility and security solutions with confidence. He holds a Master’s degree in Communications Engineering from Hochschule Darmstadt and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Future University.
Tobias Schaller leads NEOX regional sales efforts across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, bringing deep domain expertise in network visibility, monitoring, forensics and security. With extensive experience helping organizations strengthen their observability and threat-detection capabilities, he works closely with customers and partners to design high-performance solutions that deliver complete visibility across modern 10/25/40/100 Gbps environments. Tobias combines technical insight with a customer-first approach, ensuring that enterprises and service providers can fully leverage NEOX’s portfolio — from packet capture to NIDS, NSM and NDR technologies — to improve security outcomes and operational reliability throughout the DACH region.
Bill Cantrell serves as Head of Business Development – US at NEOX, bringing decades of strategic leadership in high-growth technology markets. He has a proven track record of driving revenue, building solution partner ecosystems, and delivering results across enterprise networking and services. Bill leverages his deep industry relationships and client-centric approach to help NEOX accelerate uptake of its high-performance network visibility solutions throughout North America.
Matthias Lichtenegger serves as Head of Channel & Alliances at NEOX, bringing extensive experience in international sales, channel leadership, and strategic alliances across the tech sector. Before joining NEOX, Matthias held leadership roles at companies such as IP Fabric and A10 Networks, and earlier as Country Manager DACH/CEE at LiveAction—where he built and scaled partner ecosystems and go-to-market programs in Europe. With Matthias at the helm, NEOX is poised to deepen its global partner network, accelerate solution-led growth, and deliver even more value to its customers via technology alliances.
Patrick Nixdorf is part of the NEOX team, driving success through his role as Head of Product Management, and before that, as Network Sales Engineer. Patrick brings hands-on engineering experience, a sharp technical mindset, and an ability to translate complex networking challenges into practical solutions. With a background grounded in network engineering and client-facing delivery, he plays a vital part in ensuring our customers and partners can capture, analyze, and act on packet data with confidence.