Omri Kohl

Co-Founder & CEO Pyramid Analytics

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Omri Kohl is co-founder and chief executive of Pyramid Analytics, which builds a decision intelligence platform that combines data preparation, business analytics and data science in one governed environment. He co-founded the company in 2009 and spent the following years building it into a business that Gartner placed among the Visionaries for analytics and business intelligence platforms. In February 2026 ServiceNow agreed to buy it for what Calcalist reported as several hundred million dollars. Pyramid now says on its own site that it has been acquired by ServiceNow, and Kohl continues to write for the company as co-founder and CEO. He describes Pyramid as his fourth company.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Pyramid Analytics in 2009 with Avi Perez and Herbert Hochman, and serves as its CEO.
• ServiceNow announced on 12 February 2026 that it would acquire Pyramid. The company’s site now states that ServiceNow has acquired it.
• Pyramid was named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, which the company says makes four years running.
• Before Pyramid he founded three other companies, all in data-driven technology, by his own account.
• MBA in International Business Management from NYU Stern; earlier studies in economics, finance and business management at Bar-Ilan University.

Professional Journey

Kohl studied economics, finance and business management at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and went on to an MBA in International Business Management at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He describes himself as coming to technology from the business side rather than as an engineer, with a career spent on go-to-market, product and scaling organisations. In a 2026 interview he said Pyramid was his fourth company, and that all of the earlier ones were built on data-driven technology.

Pyramid Analytics was founded in 2009 by Kohl, Avi Perez, now its chief technology officer, and Herbert Hochman. In Kohl’s account it began as a bootstrapped venture growing out of the co-founders’ earlier work in hosted analytics. The gap they saw was that established analytics vendors were designing for business users and leaving out what enterprise IT needs, meaning infrastructure, governance and security. Pyramid set out to offer both self-service analysis and enterprise control on one platform. Its customers have included Deloitte, Volkswagen, Hallmark and the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and Calcalist put its total funding at about $250 million.

The company has since added generative AI and natural-language querying. Kohl has pushed the idea of “GenBI”, in which users ask questions of their data in conversation rather than build dashboards. That capability drew ServiceNow. On 12 February 2026 ServiceNow announced it would acquire Pyramid and fold its semantic modelling and analytics engine into its workflow platform. The Register reported that ServiceNow’s spokesperson called it a “tuck in” deal. Calcalist reported that Pyramid employed more than 200 people in Israel, with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and Germany.

Pyramid now describes itself as acquired by ServiceNow. Kohl still writes as its co-founder and CEO: in a July 2026 post he pointed to its placement as a Visionary in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant and said the combination with ServiceNow had strengthened what the company offers. His position within ServiceNow’s wider organisation has not been published.

Education

Bar-Ilan University

Studies in economics, finance and business management

New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

MBA, International Business Management