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Mr. Amnon Yacoby is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and has served as a member of our board of directors since our merger with Floware in August 2001. Mr. Yacoby founded Floware and served as its Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its board of directors until its merger with us. Following our merger with Floware until the end of 2001, Mr. Yacoby served as our co-Chief Executive Officer. In 2004, Mr. Yacoby founded Aternity, Inc. and serves as its Chairman and CEO. In 1987, Mr. Yacoby founded RAD Network Devices Ltd., a developer of data networking devices, and served as its president and Chief Executive Officer until 1995. From 1972 to 1986, he served in the Israel Defense Forces’ Electronic Research Department in various positions, most recently as head of the department. He twice received the Israel Security Award. Mr. Yacoby holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Mr. Doron Inbar is a Venture Partner at Carmel Ventures, an Israeli-based venture capital fund. Prior to joining Carmel Ventures in 2006, Mr. Inbar served as President and Chief Executive Officer of ECI Telecom Ltd., having served as President from November 1999 and Chief Executive Officer from February 2000. Mr. Inbar joined ECI Telecom in 1983 and during his first eleven years with ECI, he served in various positions at its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, ECI Telecom, Inc., including Executive Vice President and General Manager. In July 1994, Mr. Inbar returned to Israel to become Vice President, Corporate Budget, Control and Subsidiaries. In June 1996, Mr. Inbar was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and he became Executive Vice President in January 1999. Mr. Inbar holds a bachelors degree in economics and business administration from Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Professor Raphael Amit has served as one of our external directors since September 2003. He serves on the audit and on the Compensation Nominating and Governance committees. Prior to joining our board of directors, Professor Amit served as Chairman of the board of directors of Creo Products Inc (NASDAQ: CREO until May 2005). Professor Amit has been the Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania since July 1999. Professor Amit also serves as the Academic Director of Wharton’s Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Programs. Prior thereto, Professor Amit was the Peter Wall Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia (UBC), where he was the founding director of the W. Maurice Young Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Center. From 1983 to 1990, Professor Amit served on the faculty of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where he received the J.L. Kellogg Research Professorship and the Richard M. Paget Research Chair in Business Policy. Professor Amit holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from the Hebrew University and a Ph.D. in Management from the Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Professor Amit serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal and The European Journal of Management. Professor Amit has served as a consultant to a broad range of organizations in North America and Europe on strategic, entrepreneurial management and new venture formation issues.
Ms. Robin Hacke was appointed as one of our external directors upon our merger with Floware in August 2001. Ms. Hacke served as a member of Floware’s board of directors from its initial public offering in August 2000 and was appointed as an external director of Floware in December 2000. In September 2007, Ms. Hacke became Director of Capital Formation at Living Cities, a funding collaborative of foundations and financial institutions. Since August 2003, Ms. Hacke has been the Managing Director of Pentaport Venture Advisors Inc., a company that advises investment companies, including Portview Communications Partners LP. From 1990 to 2002, Ms. Hacke served as the Chief Executive Officer of HK Catalyst Strategy and Finance Ltd., a company that Ms. Hacke founded that provided advisory services to investment companies and high-tech enterprises. From 1986 to 1990, Ms. Hacke held various management positions at Aitech Ltd., an Israeli start-up company. Prior to that, Ms. Hacke was an investment banker at Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York. Ms. Hacke is a member of the board of directors of Mintera Inc.,, a privately held company. Ms. Hacke holds an A.B. magna cum laude degree from Harvard-Radcliffe College and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.
Mr. Dan Yalon was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2012. For the past 4.5 years, he has served as the Chief Strategy Officer of NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE). As a member of NICE’s executive leadership team, Mr. Yalon was responsible for strategy formulation and execution, and for strategic alliances building growth strategies which were successfully executed organically and inorganically. Prior to joining NICE in 2007, Mr. Yalon was Head of Strategy and New Business Initiatives at Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), where he led all corporate strategy activities - defining and executing growth engines. His career also includes several years as a strategy consultant with US-based Monitor Group and with Israeli firm POC Hi-Tech. Mr. Yalon holds an LL.B. and a Bachelor degree in Management from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a graduate of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program (AMP).
Ms. Tali Aben was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2011. Since 2008, Ms. Tali Aben has been advising international investors about opportunities within the Israeli high-tech industry. Ms. Aben also serves as an external director of Attunity Ltd. and Vizrt Ltd. (two publicly traded companies), as well as several privately-held companies and non-profit organizations. Previously, Ms. Aben was a General Partner with Gemini Israel Funds, a venture capital firm, which she joined in 1994. At Gemini, she funded and supported many successful companies, including Verisity, Jacada, Abirnet, Business Layers, Servicesoft, nLayers and others. Her focus has been primarily on software companies, expanding in 2007 to include cleantech companies. Ms. Aben holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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