Yan Customers is a highly skilled Business Development Manager with a successful track record in the automotive market, semiconductors, cybersecurity, and quantum computing. With extensive experience working with major automotive OEMs, Tier’s 1, and innovative automotive startups specializing in autonomous vehicles and cybersecurity. Yan has a proven capability to develop business relationships and guide clients through all pre and post-sale activities including requirements analysis, definition, and evaluation.

Yan is a proficient communicator who fosters personal relationships with key decision-makers in engineering to executives (BDMs & CxOs). With keen market insight and a firm grasp of new technologies and products, Yan is adept at providing full solution services, enabling efficient execution of complicated sales-cycles. Known for his ability to manage, develop, and maintain lasting relationships with software and hardware partners, Yan is an invaluable asset.

Yan's specialties include demonstrated communication and presentation skills and the ability to utilize CRM software like Siebel and Salesforce. Yan is also fluent in three languages - Hebrew, Russian, and English. Yan holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University. He is currently serving as Chief Business Development Officer & Co-Founder at QuantumLeap, and formerly served as Advisory Board Member and Vice President of Business Development at CipherSiP. Prior to that, Yan was a Business Development Manager for Automotive & Application at NXP Semiconductors, and a Sales and Support Engineer at ITEC Ltd.