Lior Friedman, M.Sc., is Founder and CEO of OptimalNets. He has spent more than 25 years across networking and AI/ML — starting with core router devices at Dune Networks, acquired by Broadcom, and later architecting distributed network operating systems on high-end Broadcom and Cisco platforms. He also founded and led StreamItUp, an enterprise cloud platform built on AI and machine learning algorithms. At OptimalNets he leads ON.AI, an autonomous datapath control plane that brings job awareness to AI cluster networks — unlocking billions of dollars in capacity for AI datacenters and their customers from infrastructure already deployed.