Marius Nacht


Marius Nacht is an Israeli entrepreneur, social activist, and investor. In 1993, Nacht, together with Gil Shwed and Shlomo Kramer, co-founded cyber security company Check Point Software, famous for being one of the first to offer a commercial firewall product. Since then, he has broadened his professional interests to making improvements in the fields of healthcare, banking and several other areas of high-tech and cyber security. He has been a director of Check Point since its inception in 1993. He became vice chairman of Check Point in 2001. He was appointed non-executive chairman of the board in September 2015.

History

Marius Nacht was born in post-war Communist Romania. His family immigrated to the city of Ashkelon in Israel when he was three years old.
As a participant in the Israeli Defense Force's prestigious Talpiot program "that trains young soldiers for security, research and development positions", Nacht earned a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983, and an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Tel Aviv University in 1987.
Following military service, Nacht took the position of software development manager at Optrotech. In 1990 Gil Shwed also joined Optrotech, where he met Nacht. Together with Shlomo Kramer, Nacht and Shwed founded the information security company Check Point in 1993.

Personal life

Nacht and Anat Agmon have four children together. They divorced in 2011. Nacht is married to attorney Inbar Afek-Nacht and they reside in Tel Aviv.

Social activism

In 2012 Nacht founded the "Uru social movement together with other leaders to strengthen civil society.