Dr. Yoav Nissan-Cohen – Chairman & CEO
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 where he still holds a position as special advisor. 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.
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Prof. Meir Feder – Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Meir Feder is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems, Tel-Aviv University. He is an internationally recognized authority in 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.
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Noam Geri – Co-Founder, Vice President Marketing & Business Development
Noam Geri co-founded AMIMON following a 12-year career in communication technology holding various marketing, business development and technical positions. Until 2003 Geri served as strategic marketing and business development manager at Texas Instruments, Cable Broadband Communications business unit, with responsibility for marketing and business development of new technologies and standards in the broadband access and home networking space. Geri joined Texas Instruments through the 1999 acquisition of Libit Signal Processing Ltd., a semiconductor startup developing cable modem chipsets. Prior to Libit, Geri served five years in an elite R&D unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He holds an M.B.A from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, as well as an M.Sc and a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.
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Dr. Zvi Reznic – Co-Founder, Vice President R&D
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.
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Galia Ben-Dor - Vice President Human Resources & Information Systems
Galia Ben-Dor joined AMIMON as Vice President of Human Resources in April 2006. Prior to that, Ben-Dor served as Director of Corporate HR at Aladdin Knowledge Systems, a digital security company, where she was responsible for Human Resources worldwide. Ben-Dor previously spent six years at Check Point Software Technologies, a leader in Internet Security, where her final position entailed managing Check Point’s Human Resources group in Israel. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Haifa University and an M.B.A. in Management and Organizational Behavior from Tel Aviv University’s Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration.
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Aviram Matosevich - Vice President Engineering
Aviram Matosevich joined AMIMON as Vice President of Engineering in July 2006. He has over 18 years of experience in Management and Business Development of Test Engineering, Product Engineering, QA and Reliability, Customer Support and Supply chain management in high technology environments. Matosevich previously managed global customer service at Nova Instruments, and worked as a consultant with several leading fabless companies including M-Systems, and with major equipment suppliers. Until 2004, he served as VP Customer Engineering at Tower Semiconductors, where he managed four groups of 60 engineers with responsibility for interfacing with the customers and for building the required infrastructure to enable the company ramp up of the 0.18μm new fab. Prior to that, Matosevich was engineering manager at National Semiconductor Israel. He holds a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University.
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Issana Raudnitz - Vice President Finance
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.
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Shimon Greenberg – Vice President Sales & Business Development
Shimon Greenberg joined AMIMON as Vice President of Sales and Business Development in September 2006. Shimon brought with him 16 years of management experience with full scale R&D & Engineering programs (from feasibility to mass production), business development, marketing, sales, customers support and multi-national projects management.
Before joining Amimon, Shimon served as VP Marketing at O.D.F Optronics Ltd. an Israeli defense technology company which is engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing of a wide variety of innovative vision-based products.
From 1998 to 2004 Shimon held various managerial positions at Tower Semiconductors, in his final position Shimon managed the NVM (Non Volatile Memories) Business Line and R&D group.
Prior to that Shimon served in the Israeli Ministry of Defense R&D Directorate for 8 years in various technical and managerial positions.
He holds a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
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