Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) |
Position |
| Itzik Ben-Bassat |
Coo |
| Yuval Ruhama |
Cfo |
| Barry Volinskey |
Vice President, Marketing, Wireless Lan |
| David Pereg |
Vice President, Corp Development |
| Liat Hortig |
Vice President of Human Resources |
| Liron Frenkel |
Vice President, Engineering |
| Oz Micka |
Vice President, Engineering Wireless Prods |
| Ron Cates |
Vice President, Sales & Marketing, N America |
| Shmulik Shemesh |
Vice President, Operations |
| Eugene Mymrin |
Technical Director |
| Ranen Cohen-Orgad |
Director, Investor Relations |
| Mor Abraham |
Manager, Marketing Communications |
| Ophir Yakovian |
Controller |
| Alexander Vinogradov |
Senior Software Developer, Architect |
| Eugene Potapov |
Software Developer |
| Guy Shochet |
Engr |
| Stas Gorshkov |
Software Developer |
| Svetlana Avdey |
Web Developer |
| Zohar Gilon |
Director |
Board of Directors
Mr. Shukhman, Metalink's founder, has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors since Metalink's inception in 1992. From 1992 to 1999, he also served as Metalink’s President.
Prior to founding Metalink, Mr. Shukhman was an independent consultant for RAD Data Communications Ltd. and ECI Telecom Ltd. from March 1989 until March 1993. Mr. Shukhman served in the Israel Defense Forces, where he founded a group involved in digital signal processing applications. He holds a B.Sc and an M.Sc. from the Technion - Israel's Institute of Technology.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Coo |
Current |
| Scopus |
Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer |
Former |
Mr. Ruhama was appointed Metalink's Chief Financial Officer in January 2006 after previously serving as its Vice President of Finance from April 2005 to December 2005, and Legal Director and Company Secretary from June 2000 to March 2005.
Previously, Mr. Ruhama worked for one year at Weksler Bregman & Co. Advocates, an Israeli law firm, and for four years at Somekh Chaikin, the Israeli member firm of KPMG International.
Mr. Ruhama holds a law degree and BA degree, cum laude, in Accounting from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA, cum laude, from Bar-Ilan University.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Vice President, Marketing, Wireless Lan |
Current |
| Israeli Defense Forces |
Officer |
Former |
| Tel Aviv University |
Mba |
Former |
| Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
Bsc. In Electronic Engineering |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Vice President, Corp Development |
Current |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Tel Aviv University |
M.S.E.E |
Former |
Ms. Hortig joined Metalink in June 1999 and served as Recruitment Manager and Human Resources Manager for Israel, assuming her current position as Vice President of Human Resources in November 2005. Before joining Metalink, Ms. Hortig served as an Organizational Consultant for various companies. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Economics from Tel Aviv University and a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology from Bar Ilan University.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Vice President of Human Resources |
Current |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Manager |
Former |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Organizational Consultant |
Former |
| Bar-Ilan University |
Master's Degree In Organizational Psychology |
Former |
| Tel Aviv University |
Bachelor's Degree In Psychology and Economics |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Vice President, Engineering |
Current |
| Bar-Ilan University |
Master's degree in Organizational Psychology |
Former |
| Tel Aviv University |
Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Economics |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Vice President, Engineering Wireless Prods |
Current |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Vice President, Sales & Marketing, N America |
Current |
| Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. |
|
Current |
| Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. |
Vice President of World Wide Sales |
Former |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
B.S. and M.S. Degrees In Electrical Engineering |
Former |
| San Diego State University |
Mba |
Former |
Mr. Shemesh, in his current position since June 2002, has held several key positions at Metalink since joining the company in early 1998, including Director of Quality & Reliability and Director of Product & Test Engineering. Previously, from 1990 to 1997, Mr. Shemesh served as a project officer in the Israel Defense Forces where he specialized in Experiment Design & Analysis, while managing design verification, design to manufacturing and qualification programs for various projects. He holds an M.Sc. in Quality Assurance & Reliability and a B.S.E.E., both from the Technion - Israel's Institute of Technology.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Vice President, Operations |
Current |
| Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
B.S.E.E., Both |
Former |
Eugene represents the technical excellence of solutions we deliver. He was the first person Metalink actually hired (that was November 2002). Since then he lead the company's development and continues to do so. Eugene received MS with honors in Informational systems from Archangel State Technical University and worked as freelance programmer prior to joining Metalink. His skill set includes leadership, huge experience in windows development and architecture as well as team / project management. Eugene's professional interests include Windows Vista applications, distributed client-server systems and mobile applications. He is a great personality too and Metalink's fashion maker (he likes to invent new funny words and meanings as well as create new combinations from old computer parts spilled over the office). When not working on your next dream project he is working out, listens to the music or explores new cool gadgets.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Technical Director |
Current |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Manager, Marketing Communications |
Current |
Alexander is "can do" developer. He joined Metalink as Windows C++ developer in January 2003. His strongest virtue is the learning curve its absence to be precise. He gets familiar with new technologies, tools and programming languages almost instantly and can deliver working product as soon as humanly possible. Alexander holds BSc degree in information security from St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics. He has always been on the cutting edge of Metalink's projects and continues to play an important role in bringing innovations to our development process.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Senior Software Developer, Architect |
Current |
Eugene is "all-weather" developer who is flexible enough to make things done no matter what. He joined Metalink in February 2005 as Windows C++ developer but proved himself to be capable of Linux development too. Eugene's skills set includes Windows GUI applications programming, COM, Windows system services and MS SQL Server database programming. His favorite technology is "singleton pattern" (sounds cool, isn't it? relax; I don't know what is it either). Being very serious and details-oriented developer Eugene likes to make fun of people and situations which perfectly fits the atmosphere at Metalink. Eugene is postgraduate in St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Software Developer |
Current |
Stas is an "optimization freak", the person who disassembles all code he sees (including Windows) to see how good compiler did its job. He joined Metalink as junior C++ developer in October 2003 and has been working on some of the most sophisticated R & D projects of Metalink. If he could publish all his work he would probably become a PhD by now. Stas's favourite tool is Microsoft's Visual Studio and needless to say he prefers C++. Stas is a graduate student of St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University. When not in the office he is "Gaming. Eating. Reading. Programming. Sleeping. Then gaming again..." Not surprise that his dream project is computer game development.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Software Developer |
Current |
Svetlana joined Metalink as web developer in September 2005. Her expertise includes php / mysql development, xml/xslt, dhtml / css. She is hard-working and responsible person and quick-learner too. Svetlana holds BSc degree in software systems from St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics and continues to work on her masters there. Her out of work interests include flowers, modern and classical dance.
Efi Shenhar has served as a director since July 1995. Mr. Shenhar is the Corporate Chief Executive Officer & President of USR Group. Mr. Shenhar currently serves as a member of the board of directors of USR Electronic Systems (1987) Ltd. From March 1987 until February 2003, Mr. Shenhar has served as a Vice President of USR Electronics Systems (1987) Ltd., an electronic manufacturing services company. Mr. Shenhar has a B.A. in accounting and economics from Tel Aviv University and an M.B.A. from Herriot Watt University. Mr. Shenhar is a certified public accountant. Mr. Shenhar and Mr. Rozenberg are brothers.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
Joe Markee Is a Managing Director of Express Ventures. He brings to Express extensive experience in early stage company formation, capital raising, corporate management, and public and private corporate governance. Joea s startup experience encompasses Primary Access as a founder and senior manager, Copper Mountain Networks as founding CEO, CTO and Chairman, and Figure 8 Wireless as CEO. Joe serves on the boards of Dot Hill Systems (HILL) and Metalink, LTD (MTLK). A BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Davis as well as 15 years of product development experience provide Joe with the experience to quickly evaluate technology opportunities. As CEO, Joe took Figure 8 Wireless from its initial business plan and fund raising in January of 2004 to the sale of the company to Chipcon ASA of Norway in March or 2005. Chipcon was subsequently purchased by Texas Instruments in January of 2006 for $200M. Figure 8 developed ad hoc mesh networking software for wireless device networking using the Zigbee standard. Prior to Figure 8, Joe was co-founder and founding CEO of Copper Mountain Networks (founded 1995). Copper Mountain produced subscriber access (DSL) and broadband remote access server solutions for facilities-based carrier networks. As Chairman and CTO, Joe helped take the company public in May 1999. Annual revenues at the time were approximately $100M and the market capitalization of the company was in excess of $1B before the market correction in late 2000. From 1988 to 1995, Joe was co-founder at Primary Access, a remote access server company which was sold to 3Com Corporation in 1994 for $170M. In addition to initial product development, Joe held senior management positions as VP Operations and VP Quality and Support. Joe was also a founder and served as President of the San Diego Telecommunications Council (recently renamed Commnexus). He has been honored with awards for his contributions to San Diego's high-tech business community, including Master Entrepreneur.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Express Ventures |
Managing Director |
Current |
| Dot Hill Systems Corp. |
Independent Director |
Current |
| The Ardell Group |
|
Current |
| E-Band Communications Corporation |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Dot Hill Systems Corp. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Maintenancenet, Inc. |
Board Member |
Current |
| Figure 8 Wireless, Inc. |
chief executive officer |
Former |
| Copper Mountain Networks |
Chief Executive Officer |
Former |
| Primary Access |
Co-Founder |
Former |
| Copper Mountain Networks |
Co-Founder |
Former |
| Express Ventures |
Partner |
Former |
| Figure 8 Wireless, Inc. |
Officer |
Former |
| Copper Mountain |
|
Former |
| University of California, Davis |
B.S. |
Former |
Meir Bar-El has served as a director since November 2002. Mr. Bar-El currently serves as a director of Merhav Ltd. and as a director of Extra Plastic Ltd. Mr. Bar-El currently serves as the Deputy General Director, and Director of the General Division of the Manufacturers’ Association of Israel, a General Director of the Israeli Plastics & Rubber Industry, and a General Director of the Israeli Furniture Industries Association.
Mr. Bar-El also has served as a Director for the Wood Products & Furniture Export Economic Company. Mr. Bar-El has a B.A. in Economics from Jerusalem University.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
Uzi Rozenberg, a co-founder of our company, has served as a director from 1992 until 1997 and August 1999 to the present. Mr. Rozenberg is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of USR Electronics Systems (1987) Ltd. since February 1987. Mr. Rozenberg served as a director of Orbot Ltd. from 1992 to 1996 and as a director of Gibor Sport Ltd. from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Rozenberg and Mr. Shenhar are brothers.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Metalink Ltd. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
Zohar Gilon has been a Director of the Company since 1995. Mr. Gilon is the Chief Executive Officer of Tamar Technology Ventures, a venture capital partnership which invests primarily in Israeli companies. Previously, he served as Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd., a company which has served since April 1982 as a consultant to and representative of major U.S. electronics and aerospace companies. From October 1993 until August 1995, he served as President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd., which provides investment banking and underwriting services in Israel and invests in real estate and high-technology projects in Israel and abroad. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of the Company in Israel, and is a director of Silicom, RADCOM, RADGuard Ltd., RAD Ramot and Metalink Ltd. He has a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion and a M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University.