Rank 2350
Shay Banon
1.3B
search engine
Palo Alto, California
Israel
- Shay Banon is a cofounder and the former CEO of search engine company Elastic, which is based in Mountain View, California.
- In January 2022, Banon stepped down as CEO. He is now serving as Chief Technology Officer of Elastic.
- Banon helped to develop the search technology that Elastic uses and became CEO of the company in 2017.
- An Israeli citizen, Banon received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
- His fortune derives from his nearly 8% stake in the company, which went public in October 2018.