• A veteran senior executive in the Israeli high-tech industry with over 18 years of management leadership
• A recognized thought leader in the communications and semiconductors space
• Joined Carmel Ventures in October 2004
• Served as an active Board Member of DesignArt, which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2012 for $144M
• Served as an active Board Member of CopperGate from 2005 and until it was acquired by Sigma Designs in October 2009 for $180 million
• VP & General Manager of the LAN Systems Group at Lucent, playing a key role in the significant growth of Lucent’s LAN Switches business, and later (2000) when the Enterprise Switching division was spun off as Avaya; there he was responsible for generating several hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues for LAN and WAN switches for the wireline/wireless enterprise market
• Joined Lannet Data Communication and served in various R&D management positions (1992) and held the company’s post of CTO when Lannet was purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1998
• Served in various technical and management positions in the Israeli Aircraft Industries (1986-1992)
• B.Sc., Mathematics & Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
• Major and Fighter Pilot in the Israeli Air Force for 19 years

Boards:

• Imagine Communications, LiveU, Multiphy, Cellera, Reduxio, DesignArt (acquired by Qualcomm),  bTendo (acquired by STMicro),  CopperGate (acquired by Sigma Designs), Axerra Networks (acquired by DragonWave)