Management

Dr. Yoav Nissan-Cohen’s twenty-year career in the semiconductor industry has covered a wide range of activities in research, technology development and corporate management. Dr. Nissan-Cohen was previously CEO of Tower Semiconductor, leading the company to advanced specialized technologies and to the construction of a $1.5B facility. Dr. Nissan-Cohen also took a leading role in the formation of Saifun Semiconductor, which pioneered a novel flash technology. Prior to that, he was Engineering Manager at National Semiconductor Israel and a research scientist at General Electric research and development center in New York. Dr. Nissan-Cohen received his Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude in Applied Physics from the Hebrew University and served as a jetfighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force.

Meir Feder is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems, Tel-Aviv University. He is an internationally recognized authority on signal processing and information theory and has published well over 100 journal and conference papers, mostly on data compression and communications. During his academic career, Professor Feder consulted with numerous high-tech companies, including Intel, on designing efficient multimedia algorithms for the MMX architecture. In 1998 he co-founded Peach Networks, a provider of server-based interactive TV systems, which was later acquired by Microsoft, and in 2000 he co-founded Bandwiz, a producer of content delivery systems for enterprise networks. Prof. Feder began his professional career as an R&D engineer and manager in an elite R&D unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, where he received the "Creative Mind" award for his technical achievements. An IEEE Fellow with several academic awards to his credit, Prof. Feder holds an Sc.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..

Zvi Reznic co-founded AMIMON after completing his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University in the area of Information Theory. Until 2001, Dr. Reznic served as design manager at Texas Instruments, Cable Broadband Communications (TI-CBC), where he managed a team of 45 engineers with responsibility for algorithm development, RTL design and physical design of cable modem ICs. Dr. Reznic joined TI through the 1999 acquisition of Libit Signal Processing Ltd., a semiconductor startup developing cable modem chipsets. Dr. Reznic is the inventor and co-inventor of 20 registered and pending patents in the areas of digital communication and video compression. He also holds an M.Eng from Cornell University and a B.Sc from Tel-Aviv University, both in Electrical Engineering.

With more than 15 years of experience in Management and Business operations, Issana Raudnitz joined AMIMON as Vice President, Finance in September 2006. Raudnitz previously served as Director of Finance and Operations at Oplus Inc., a producer of video processor solutions which was later acquired by Intel. Prior to that, she held the position of CFO at Optun Ltd., a fabless optical communication start-up. Raudnitz spent 10 years at Elscint, a medical devices company that was acquired by Marconi Medical and later by Philips. In her final position at Marconi Medical, Issana managed the Medical Division site in Israel. She holds a B.Sc in Industrial Engineering from the Technion and an Executive M.B.A. from the Kellogg-Reccanati School of management at Tel Aviv University.

David Shefler joined the company in 2007.  He brings over 25 years of experience in Management, Sales, Global Business Development and Marketing in the Consumer Electronics, Wireless, Mobile and IT markets. Prior to joining AMIMON, David was the founder and CEO of KunaTech, a technology-enabled service company. Before that, he held several management and business positions, including Business Development Manager for Texas Instruments’ Short Distance Wireless Business Unit. David holds a BSc.EE. from the Technion in Haifa.

Moshe Meyassed joined Amimon on June 2011 as VP of R&D. Moshe brings vast R&D experience as the former VP and Co-Founder of ZikBit Ltd., former VP R&D at Oplus (acquired by Intel in 2005) and Development Center Manager of Intel Yokneam. Previously, Moshe held the position of VP Design & Development at Ingentix (Infineon Flash, an Infineon-Saifun joint venture) and several positions at National Semiconductor Israel, the latest as Chip Design Department Manager. 

Moshe holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, VA, USA and B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel..