Verint
US-listed customer-engagement firm formerly of Comverse; spun off Cognyte
| Verint
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| Logo |  Verint logo. Robertpaxton, CC BY-SA 4.0. |
| Type | Private company following acquisition completed November 2025 [1]; previously Nasdaq-listed (VRNT) |
| Headquarters | 225 Broadhollow Road, Suite 130, Melville, New York 11747, United States (address on December 2025 announcement) [1] |
| Services | Customer-experience automation; earlier cyber-intelligence business separated as Cognyte |
| Key people | Mike Lipps (interim CEO appointed December 2025); Dan Bodner (former chairman and CEO; adviser) [1] |
| Website | Official website |
| Remarks | Industry: Customer engagement software (formerly also cyber intelligence); Subsidiaries: Formerly Cognyte (spun off February 2021); Acquired by Thoma Bravo and combined with Calabrio in 2025 [1] |
Verint Systems (Nasdaq: VRNT) is a software company that, after February 2021, presents itself as a pure-play customer-engagement vendor. On 1 February 2021 Verint completed the spin-off of Cognyte Software Ltd., its former Cyber Intelligence Solutions business; Cognyte began regular-way Nasdaq trading on 2 February 2021 under CGNT, with Verint shareholders receiving one Cognyte share per Verint share.[2]
Globes notes that Verint itself had earlier been split from Comverse Technology, and that shareholder pressure drove the later security-business separation into Cognyte.[3]
Leadership
A SourceSecurity biography states that Dan Bodner, Verint's long-time chief executive, "From 1981 through 1985 ... served in the Israeli Defense Force in an engineering capacity."[4]
Earlier surveillance business and corporate separation
Antony Loewenstein reports that Verint sold interception technology to South Sudan between 2015 and 2017. He discusses the transactions in the context of the intelligence services' human-rights record. Those dates precede the 2021 separation of Cognyte; the later customer-engagement company should not be conflated with the ownership and operations of the separated security business.[5]
Acquisition by Thoma Bravo
Verint and Thoma Bravo announced that the acquisition of Verint completed on 26 November 2025 and that it had been combined with Calabrio. Their 9 December announcement said that Dan Bodner would move from chairman and chief executive to an advisory role. The description above of Verint as Nasdaq-listed describes its earlier public-company period.[1]
| Person | Role following announcement | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| Dan Bodner | Adviser | Previously Verint chairman and chief executive [1] |
| Mike Lipps | Chairman of the combined companies and Verint interim chief executive | Thoma Bravo operating partner [1] |
| Dave Rhodes | Calabrio chief executive | Continued in that role, reporting to Lipps [1] |
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Verint and Thoma Bravo, Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Verint, a Leader in AI-Driven Customer Experience Automation, Verint, 9 December 2025, accessed 8 November 2026.
- ↑ Verint, Verint Celebrates 'Day One' as a Company Focused on Enabling Brands to Achieve Boundless Customer Engagement Following Completion of Cognyte Software Spin-Off, 1 February 2021.
- ↑ Shiri Habib-Valdhorn, Ex Shin Bet chief aims to make Cognyte an 'Israeli Palantir', Globes, 14 January 2025.
- ↑ Dan Bodner, Verint Systems, SourceSecurity.com.
- ↑ Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, London: Verso, 2023, ebook ISBN 9781839762109, chapter 6, paragraph beginning “Away from the Gulf”.