2024
THE MOST DENSE SRAM TECHNOLOGY. Board member representing J-Ventures - A Community empowered VC
2019
2019
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2019
2019
Member of GigCapita2 team and adviser - Private-to-Public Equity (PPE™) company, also known as a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, incorporated in Delaware and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, asset acquisition of a business combination. The company was formed in March 2019 by GigAcquisitions2, LLC, which is a part of the GigCapital Group.
2012 - 2018
2012 - 2018
AMIMON a leader in Wireless Video Sold to VItec Group PLC. Closed November 2018.
2011 - 2011
2011 - 2011
Zoran was acquired by CSR (deal closed Aug 2011): Pre-close - Work with the CSR management/groups on shaping the integration plan and strategy of Zoran Home Entertainment business into CSR. Aggressive synergy goals were set to optimize operation and R&D. As the acquisition closed, drove several business and organization restructuring as per the agreed plan achieving the synergy targets. Helped in business and customer transition to various stakeholders at CSR.
1999 - 2011
2004 - 2011
Directed a P&L of multiple product lines (~$200M business) – digital TV, Set-Top-Box, receivers and multimedia products, including Marketing R&D and Applications Developed road map and Annual Operating Plans, drove quarterly revenue with sales. Member of the corporate executive team. Key Accomplishments: • Brought the Zoran Digital TV product line to number 1 share US market by developing a comprehensive product portfolio and solutions. • Drove the acquisition of Oren Semiconductor and Let-it-Wave to augment the technology needed to bridge gaps in demodulator and frame rate conversion technology. • Shifted the Set-Top-Box product line focus to the operator pay-TV segment by aligning product portfolio, conditional access security partners. • Developed business with operators in India, China and South America markets. Won major programs with Cisco and Samsung. Restructured and localized legacy businesses in China.
2001 - 2005
Managed all Zoran product development, DVD-player & recorders, camera and Set-Top-Box SOC and platforms. Drove product development and research to maximize differentiation under consumer market cost constraints. Integrated R&D teams as after acquisitions including Pixelcam, Nogateck and OAK Technology TV group. Key Accomplishments: Doubled the size of R&D in 3 years, brought key new technologies to Zoran in the space of optical drive and servo control as well as key expertise in image processing for Zoran camera product line. Drove major shift in technology starting from 018u to 80nm including back-end infrastructure, tools and IPs. Delivered to production several major consumer products. Key milestones: • First single integrated DVD chip with optical drive control, brought in servo and read-channel expertise; • Multiple single chip SOC for still-image camera market including generation addressing video compression • First DVD Recording chip with advanced video compression and optical drive control
1999 - 2001
Head of Marketing and Application team responsible to develop and drive video platforms based on the company DVD SoC solution. Responsible to ensure application support to tier 1 customers WW, among them: Samsung, Toshiba, Sanyo, Sharp, LG and other ODMs especially in Taiwan and China
1995 - 1999
1995 - 1999
Manged chip design groups in the company R&D chenter in Haifa, Israel. Responsible for several generation of SoC for DVD and Digital Audio systems. Led chip design teams from design start to customer initial deployment including initial direct support to tier #1 customers.