Board of Directors

Itsik Danziger
Chairman of the Board and Investor

Mr. Danziger has more than 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry in senior executive positions. He served as active chairman of Starhome, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology focusing on enabling mobile services for the wireless telecom market. Mr. Danziger was president of the Comverse Technology Group and Comverse Network Systems, serving the company from 1985 in various executive positions. Mr. Danziger previously served for 10 years in various R&D and engineering positions in the Tadiran Telecommunication Group, Israel, later sold to ECI Telecom. Mr. Danziger is active as a volunteer in public and philanthropic activities, an active chairman of two strategic initiatives, an active board member of Israel Venture Network and was a member of the National Task Force for the Advancement of Education in Israel.

Mr. Danziger holds a B.S. cum laude and an MSc in Electronic Engineering M.S from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.


Jimmy Levy
Founder and Board Member

Mr. Levy managed Comverse's Mobile Content Division. Under Mr. Levy’s leadership, the Division became the leading provider of Mobile Content Delivery and Management Solutions with a customer base that includes Sprint, Cingular, Orange Global and T-Mobile. Mr. Levy later managed Arootz, a company developing technologies for scalable video distribution over the Internet, and has served as a director and advisory board member of several high tech and clean tech companies. Mr. Levy practiced law for more than 10 years, first with Osler, Hoskin and then as manager of the Legal Division at Comverse.

Mr. Levy holds a BA from McGill University, a PhD from Clark University, and a LLB from Osgoode Hall in Toronto.


Oren Zeev
Board Member and Investor

Mr. Zeev worked at Apax Partners, a leading global private equity firm, from 1995 to 2007, and served as a partner from 1999. In his most recent position at Apax Partners, Mr. Zeev headed the Tech and Telecom Group in the United States . Mr. Zeev has extensive experience investing in technology companies globally. Prior to joining Apax Partners, Mr. Zeev was a research staff member at the IBM Israel Science and Technology Center. Mr. Zeev also serves on the Board of Directors of Audible Inc, Mobixell Networks, Transera Communications, Inc., and Pictage Inc.

Mr. Zeev holds a B.Sc. Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA with distinction from the INSEAD Business School.


Inas Said
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member

Mr. Said was appointed Galil Software's Chief Executive Officer in December 2007. He previously held several managerial positions at Nokia from 1995 to 2001, first in Germany and then in the United States. He then joined Stratus Technologies in Boston as a senior R&D manager, before retuning to Israel and joining ECI Telecom's Broadband Access Division in 2006. Mr. Said brings a wealth of R&D experience in the area of networking, including SONET/SDH, ATM, and IP. In his last position at ECI, Mr. Said was responsible for sales activities in German-speaking countries.

Mr. Said holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from TU Branuschweig in Germany and is a graduate of the Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA Program a joint degree from the Faculty of Management of Tel-Aviv University and Northwestern University.


Zeev Bregman
Board Member and Investor

Mr. Bregman served as Chief Executive Officer of Comverse from January 2001 to March 2007, where he orchestrated the company’s turn-around subsequent to the Telecom Crisis of 2001-2002. Under his leadership Comverse grew from a single-product voicemail provider to a multi-product Telecom software company. Mr. Bregman joined Comverse in 1987 as a software programmer and served in various R&D, management and marketing positions within the company, including Vice President, EMEA Division, and Vice President Messaging Division. Prior to joining Comverse Mr. Bregman was employed by Clarity Ltd.

Mr. Bregman hold a B.Sc., magna cum laude, in Mathematics and Computer Science and a M.Sc., summa cum laude, in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University. He also earned a Kellogg-Recannatti International Executive MBA, a joint degree from the Faculty of Management of Tel-Aviv University and Northwestern University.


Ailon Michaely
Board Member and Investor

Ailon Michaely has held senior positions in the finance and management capacities in hi-tech and other companies as well as the Israeli investment arena. Amongst those are CFO of Comverse, a hi-tech company with sales at the time of $1.2 Bil; CFO of Housing and Construction Ltd, an Infrastructure and Real-estate holding company with sales at the time of $1 Bil; Chairman of Clal Insurance Investment Committee, with investments at the time of over NIS15 Bil (~ $3.5 Bil).

Ailon currently holds board positions in several Israeli companies and start-ups, invests and consults in the hi-tech field.

Ailon holds an Economics undergraduate degree and MBA, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


EYAL S. GOLDWERGER
Board Member and Investor

Mr. Goldwerger is a serial entrepreneur with a rich experience leading high-tech ventures in diverse industries. Most recently, he was Chief Executive Officer of XMPie Inc., a software company providing marketing applications to enterprises and commercial printers. Mr. Goldwerger led XMPie through rapid growth up to its successful acquisition by Xerox Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Goldwerger held various executive positions in start-ups, and served as EVP Consumer Products & Distribution at WhenU Inc., a contextual online advertising network, as well as Founder and CEO of GoCargo.com, an Internet-based global trading system for container shipping capacity. Previously, Mr. Goldwerger was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in New York.

Mr. Goldwerger holds an MBA from INSEAD, and a B.A. in Economics (Rector’s Honor) from Tel Aviv University.


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