Managing Director and, Until end of 2020, Israel Country Manager with Intel Capital, the venture arm of Intel
Over 20 years of experience as venture capitalist with Intel Capital and, previous to it, as General Partner with Genesis Partners, among Israel’s most accomplished and successful VC funds
Close network includes Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram (founders of Mobileye), Eyal Waldman and Shay Cohen (founders of Melanox), Shlomo Markel (most senior Israeli executive of Broadcom), Dov Moran (founder of msystems and presently managing partner of Grove Ventures), Shlomo Kramer (Checkpoint/Imperva/Kato Networks)
Selected by the Israeli entrepreneurial community and the Israeli High-Tech Association among the top five VCs in Israel for the years 2006 through 2009
Announced exited investments include Modem-Art (Agere), Msystems (Nasdaq IPO and then sale to Sandisk), Scopus Video Networks (Nasdaq IPO), Sansa Security (ARM), Habana Labs (Intel), Sedona (Cisco), Screenovate (Intel), Rocketick (Cadence)
Independent Director with M-Systems (Nasdaq) from 1995 until $1.55B sale to Sandisk
Entrepreneur and co-founder of VDOnet (sold to Citrix), Butterfly (sold to Texas Instruments) and RF Waves (sold to Vishay)
Corporate attorney in Chicago and Tel Aviv, and partner with Goldfarb Seligman
BA in Psychology and educational counseling from Haifa University and JD from Loyola University of Chicago