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Board of Directors
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Aharon Aharon, Chairman of the Board
Aharon Aharon has more than 20 years experience in the High-Tech industry. Before joining Discretix Technologies he served as the CEO of Seabridge, a Siemens (NYSE: SI) company. Prior to that he was the COO of Zoran (NASDAQ: ZRAN). Aharon started his professional career at IBM Research Division where he managed the VLSI and CAD tools activities. Aharon holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Haifa Technion where he currently serves as a member of staff in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculties.
Kaj-Erik Relander, Accel Partners
Kaj-Erik Relander joined Accel in June 2001. Before joining Accel, Kaj-Erik
was President and CEO of Sonera Corporation, the progressive Finnish
telecommunications company. Prior to this assignment, Kaj-Erik held a number
of other senior management positions during his seven-year tenure with
Sonera. Prior to joining Sonera in 1994, Kaj-Erik served as Director of
Business Development at SITRA, a Finnish Technology investment company. At
SITRA, Kaj-Erik was responsible for structuring venture capital investments
in technology growth companies and for managing the endowment investments
portfolio.
Kaj-Erik has served on the Board of Directors at a variety of international
companies including TietoEnator, Ledstiernan, F-Secure, Kreatel and Axiomlab
as well as Sonera holdings such as Turkcell and VoiceStream Wireless.
Kaj-Erik earned his master's degree in Economics from the Helsinki School of
Economics and Business Administration with majors in Economics. He later
received an M.B.A. from the Helsinki School of Economics and the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Isaac Hillel, Managing Director, Pitango Venture Capital
Isaac Hillel joined the Pitango team in early 2000, after 14 years of executive management experience in the computing and Internet industry in Europe and in the United States.
Before coming to Pitango, Isaac was an Executive Vice President of NEC Computers International (formerly Packard-Bell NEC) in charge of all Computer Divisions in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During his tenure at NEC, Isaac built the operation in Europe from a group of 10 entrepreneurs to a company of 2000 people. Along the way, he managed mergers and joint ventures, and established Packard Bell as the leading brand in the home computer market with over $1.5 billion in sales. He also occupied a board seat on 9 NEC subsidiaries located throughout Europe, served on the company's Executive Committee, and was Chairman of its Worldwide Internet Strategy Committee. Prior to his years at NEC, Isaac held several marketing positions with consumer electronics manufacturer, Casio.
Isaac received an MBA degree from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
Gal Salomon, Discretix
Mr. Salomon has held numerous senior positions in the development and management of communication controllers and microprocessors, having gained extensive experience in the commercialization of technology for the wireless communication industry.
Prior to founding Discretix, Mr. Salomon served as Product Manager at Intel Corp's Cellular Communication Division (CCD). In this capacity he held full product responsibility for the CDMA, PDC, TDMA and W-CDMA R&D Groups. Mr. Salomon also served as Product Manager at DSP Communications. Mr. Salomon began his career in the Semiconductor industry at Intel Corporation. Mr. Salomon served as the Validation Manager of the first Pentium MMX chip developed at Intel Israel.
Mr. Salomon holds a B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the Recanati Graduate School of Business.
Randy L. Ditzler, Sequoia Capital Israel
Randy Ditzler is a Partner with Sequoia Capital Israel and focuses on systems and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2004, Randy served as the CEO of Actona Technologies (CSCO). Prior to joining Actona, Randy was the Founder & CEO of Telegis Networks. Earlier, Randy was the Founder & CEO of MarketOne Builders and before that the President & CEO of Freestone Investments. Randy has a BS in Industrial Technology from California State University in Fresno.
Gilles Delfassy
Mr. Delfassy served as Senior Vice President of Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated until his retirement in 2007. He was at the helm of the company?s successful wireless terminals unit since its inception in 1995, growing it into a multi-billion dollar operation. Under his leadership, TI became the world?s number-one supplier of semiconductors for the wireless industry, with more than half the cellular phones in the world built with TI?s chipsets. Among his accomplishments, Delfassy pioneered TI?s ?LoCosto? single-chip cell phone technology, an industry first, which brought affordable cell phones to places such as China, Africa, India and other developing areas. He and his team also developed TI?s OMAP? platform, bringing multimedia applications to cell phones and ushering in a new era in mobile communications and entertainment.
Having joined TI in 1978, Mr. Delfassy also served as TI?s European Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Department Manager and led TI?s European Automotive Electronics business.
Mr. Delfassy holds an Engineering Diploma (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering) from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et d? Automatique de Toulouse, as well as a degree in Business Administration from Institut d?Administration des Entreprises de Paris.
Mr. Delfassy currently serves as an advisor for companies in the high-tech industry and sits on several corporate boards.
Yair Shoham, Genesis Partners
Yair joined Genesis Partners in 1999, focusing on communications investments. Yair's in-depth understanding of the semiconductor and video systems and distribution markets was integral to the success of Genesis Partners' investments in Modem-Art, a semiconductor company which was recently sold to Agere Systems for $145 million, and Scopus Video Networks, an enabler of video distribution over IP networks, which recently went public on NASDAQ. Yair is currently on the board of Advasense, Arootz, Discretix, InFone, Oree, RADWIN, and Resolute Networks.
Prior to joining Genesis Partners, He helped establish Butterfly VLSI, a successful Genesis Partners portfolio company, and led its sale to Texas Instruments. Yair joined Butterfly from VDOnet, which he co-founded in 1996 and where he successfully co-led the sale of VDOnet's technology to Citrix Systems. He began his career practicing securities and corporate law, first in the US and then in Israel, where he was a partner at Goldfarb, Levy, Eran & Co. Yair holds a JD from Loyola University School of Law and a BA from Haifa University.
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