Management
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Haim Goldberger
President and CTO
Haim has nearly two decades of experience in the R&D, production and business development of innovative products in a wide range of technologies. At Vishay Intertechnology (NYSE: VSH), he held the roles of VP Integrated Product Division, and VP Corporate R&D. Prior to Vishay, he was the RF R&D Group Manager at AVX Jerusalem.
In addition to 51 patents and several patents pending, he was awarded several prizes for innovation, such as the Kaplan prize. Haim holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. -
Doron Gozaly
VP Operations
Doron has nearly 25 years of experience in the field of casting plastic materials. Prior to joining OriginGPS, he was a development engineer at Vishay Intertechnology (NYSE: VSH), where he developed innovative components using a wide variety of technologies. At Vishay, Doron was also directly responsible for building production lines for the components he co-developed.
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Brandon Oakes
VP Sales North America
Brandon brings a unique set of experiences to the OriginGPS team. He spent ten years in R&D split between Garmin (Nasdaq: GRMN) and Sprint (NYSE: S). He also served as the lead wireless consultant for a U.S. Department of Energy-funded Smart Grid pilot with Kansas City Power & Light (Nasdaq: GXP). Prior to joining OriginGPS he was instrumental in the launch, growth and overall leadership for Future Connectivity Solutions.
Brandon holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Finance from the University of Missouri. -
Amir Benyamini
VP R&D
Amir is a seasoned R&D manager, having held positions in a number of companies and startups, such as Winbond, Marvel and Orpak before joining OriginGPS. He single-handedly developed a quadcopter in his garage. He loves hamburgers and jogging and playing basketball. Amir holds a BA in communications and electronics engineering from HIT.
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Lisa Harel
Marketing Manager
Lisa has held a wide variety of marketing and presales positions in hi-tech companies, including marcom manager and program manager at Motorola Israel, marketing writer Siklu Communications, content strategist for technology start-ups and bid response manager at Starhome, (a Comverse daughter company), Amdocs, and Logic Industries. She loves running, movies and reading novels. Lisa holds a BA in Special Education for the Hearing Impaired from Tel Aviv University.
Board
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Shamai Wasserman
Chairman
Shamai Wasserman was until recently (June 2010) the VP of Motorola Israel – for Strategy & Business Development. As part of this position he was responsible for promoting of Motorola’s products and systems in the Military markets, worldwide, and for the Development & business responsibilities of leading products in the communication area. This position included responsibility for Motorola Ventures activity in Israel since 2004. In addition to that Mr. Wasserman was the director & operation manager of M2M- Complementary products sector for Motorola Inc. & Motorola Israel including Global Sales & Marketing. Mr. Wasserman served as Director of all the Subsidiary companies of ‘Motorola Israel’ as well. Including: Mirs, Teldor Communication, Biper & Efcon. In the last 2 years he served as director in the IVA, Israeli Venture Association and Director in the Israeli Electronic and Computing association.
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Haim Goldberger
President and CTO
Mr. Haim Goldberger has nearly two decades of experience in R&D, production and business development of innovative products in a wide range of technologies. Earlier, for six years, he was the VP of the Integrated Product Division and the VP of the Corporate R&D for Vishay Inter technology (NYSE: VSH). In this role he developed and marketed his own innovative ideas and products. Prior to Vishay, he acted as the RF R&D Group Manager at AVX Jerusalem, Israel. In addition to 51 patents and several patents pending, he was awarded several prizes for innovation, such as the Kaplan prize. Mr. Goldberger holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
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Boaz Laor
Docor CEO
Boaz Laor is the CEO of Docor International Management, a Venture Capital company subsidiary of The Van-Leer group Foundation. Boaz has over 30 years of experience in management positions in a broad range of global companies in diverse commercial fields such as Life Sciences, Pharma API industry, Biotech, Energy, High-tech and AgoTech. Boaz’s previous professional experience also includes managing a team at the budget department at The Ministry of Finance, holding COO and CFO positions in global high-tech companies, and acting as CEO of a leading company in the energy sector and as President of a global pharma company. In addition, Boaz serves as a member of several boards of directors, and is the Chairman of the Board of commercial manufacturing and high-tech companies. Boaz holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
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Tsachy Shasha
Docor Vice President
Mr. Shasha joined Docor International Management at the end of 2005. Prior to joining the team, Tsachy served as Vice President of Finance and Economics and Head of Local and International Business Development, at Bezeq International, an international telecommunication company operating in the fields of Voice, Data and Internet, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Bezeq L.T.D, the Israeli Telecom company. At Bezeq L.T.D, he served as Senior Business Development Manager and Senior Assistant to the President. Prior to this, he was Head of the Energy Sector in the Budgets Department of the Ministry of Finance. Tsachy attained vast experience in matters of management and international business development, and economy and finance, within the government and private sectors. Tsachy holds an MA degree in business, specializing in finance and business entrepreneurship (with distinction) and a BA in economics and business management, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalemm
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Shimon Elkabetz
Shimon brings 20 years of Information Technology & High Tech industry experience primarily in working with fortune 500 companies. Shimon is a co-founder of Magna Capital Partners a private equity firm that specialize in investment in the high-tech industry in Israel. He has board level experience in designing & executing IT strategy and corporate governance issues, wide international experience in business development, strong management & leadership capabilities. Prior to this he was a partner at Strauss Strategy, a consulting firm. He also served as senior Vice President at Ness technologies, and worked for Accenture. Shimon holds a practical engineering diploma from the Ben-Gurion University.
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Ronnie Gilboa
Ronnie Gilboa co-founded OTI in 1990 and serves as Vice President-Projects and as a director since that time. He serves on the board of directors of OTI America, Inc., OTI Africa Ltd., Easy Park Ltd., Easy Park Israel Ltd and ASEC S.A. Prior to this position, he served as Vice President – Research & Development from 1990 to 2002. Prior to founding OTI, Mr. Gilboa was the manager of research and development at Electo-Galil, an Israeli manufacturer of radio frequency-based identification cards, from 1984 to 1990. Mr. Gilboa holds a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from The Technion (Israeli Institute of Technology).