Board of Directors
Dr. Shlomo Kalish
Shlomo is one of Israel's leading technology investors. In 1994, Shlomo founded The Jerusalem Global Group and in 1999 he founded Jerusalem Global Ventures. Shlomo frequently appears in the media and has been featured on the cover of Upside Magazine. He has also been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Business Week and other business publications. From 1997 to 1999, Shlomo served as a General Partner of Concord (K.T.) Ventures I, LP, a leading Israeli venture capital fund, where he was responsible for the investments in Saifun Semiconductors, Exent, Oridion Medical, Oren Semiconductors, and Optical Solutions.
Shlomo holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, a M.Sc. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University. Shlomo served in the Israeli Air Force as a fighter pilot.
Shlomo is active on the boards of many non-profit organizations and academic institutions, including Shalom Beineinu, a charitable organization of which he is Chairman; the Board of Governors of Bar Ilan University; the Board of Governors of the Technion - Israel's equivalent of MIT; The Jerusalem College of Technology, and High Tech Management School, a joint venture between Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University.
Shlomo is currently Chairman of the Board of Chiasma serves on the Boards of Directors of LocatioNet Systems, Nano-Or Technologies, Saifun Semiconductors, and Valor and is an observer on the Boards of Mellanox Technologies and Notal Vision.
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Eyal Kaplan
Eyal joined Walden Israel in 1995, shortly after the firm was founded. Walden Israel is an independent early stage venture capital firm with institutional investors from the US, Europe and Israel. Eyal focuses on early stage investments in information technology and wireless communications companies. He currently serves on the Boards of several Walden portfolio companies. Prior to joining Walden Israel, Eyal was one of the early senior executives at Geotek Communications, a U.S. pioneering company specializing in wireless and mobile data technology. At Geotek, Eyal held senior roles in business and strategic development and in marketing. He helped grow the company from three initial employees to over 400 and to bring the company to a market cap of close to $1 billion. Eyal led the business development efforts, as well as Geotek’s activities in Wireless Data, an area in which Geotek was considered a pioneer. Eyal was a regular speaker at industry and Wall Street conferences on wireless communications and mobile data.
Eyal holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Technion in Israel, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and an MA in international studies from the School of Arts and Sciences at The Lauder Institute, the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Chairman of the Wharton-Israel Alumni Club and a Board member of the Technion Alumni Association, and is active in a couple of leading not-for-profit organizations in Israel.
In his free time, Eyal has traveled the Arctic (and Antarctica) several times by foot, kayak, and canoe.
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Pini Lozowick
Pini has over 20 years experience in building and managing global networking and communications companies in Israel and the US. Prior to joining Alta Berkeley as partner in 2003, Pini held the position of Active Chairman of Provigent, a Broadband Wireless start-up.
Prior to Provigent, Pini was on the founding team of Chiaro Networks, and spent close to four years with the company as VP of Marketing and Business Development.
Prior to Chiaro, Pini was one of the early employees and the first Director of Marketing at Broadcom Corporation in Irvine, California. In this role he was initially responsible for the networking business, and later was responsible for initiating the Broadcom involvement in DSL. Having gone public in 1998, Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) remains one of the most successful technology companies of the last decade.
Pini spent the first 10 years of his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, designing and later marketing the Digital networking and storage chips. In this capacity he successfully lead the transition of the communications group from a captive supplier to a merchant semiconductor vendor.
Pini received his BS Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1985.
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Aharon Aharon, CEO
Aharon was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) with Jerusalem Global Ventures from 2003 until he left in order to co-found Camero in early 2004.
Aharon joined Jerusalem Global Ventures from Seabridge, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens, where, as CEO, he presided over a successful turnaround of the company. He joined Seabridge from Zoran (NASDAQ: ZRAN) where initially he was the VP R&D managing the Israel design center. After 2 years Aharon moved to the US to take up the role of COO where for 3 years the entire company aside from the CFO and BD reported to him.
Prior to working at Zoran, Aharon began his professional career at IBM’s Research Division in Haifa, Israel where he spent 14 years and held a number of senior management positions including Deputy Manager of IBM Research's Haifa operation where he was responsible for two of its six departments (VLSI and Design Automation Tools).
Aharon completed his army service serving in an elite intelligence unit and has a BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering respectively from the Technion,where he has been a lecturer for the last 20 years.
Aharon also serves as the chairman of the BoD for Discretix, a startup company providing solutions in security for data applications in mobile phones.
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Amir Beeri, CTO
Most recently Amir worked at Jerusalem Global Ventures as an Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) during which period he founded Camero together with Aharon Aharon.
Amir joined the EIR program from Infineon Savan (a fully owned subsidiary of Infineon which specialized in VDSL) where he served as General Manager from 2001 and was responsible for the entire operation in Israel including R&D, Finance and Marketing. In 2002, he initiated and led a new activity at Infineon developing an innovative chipset based on UWB for home networking.
Prior to this, Amir was the VP R&D of ADC Israel where he was responsible for 180 staff developing broadband DLC systems.
Amir served more than 14 years in the Israeli intelligence community where in his last position he headed the development department and retired in rank equivalent to a colonel. His experience includes technical areas such as digital communication, signal processing, RF and antennas.
Amir has received both a BSc & MSc in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.
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Erez Ofer
Erez joined Greylock in 2005.
Erez has been the visionary behind some of the most strategic moves of EMC Corporation - one of today's most admired technology firms, including EMC's transition from a mainframe focus to open systems, and, the entry of EMC into the software business.
Ofer formerly served as executive vice president in charge of technology strategy for EMC Corporation, reporting to president and CEO Joe Tucci. In this role Ofer defined EMC's future technology directions, advised the CEO and played a major role in the technical direction of the company's strategic partnerships and merger & acquisition activities.
Erez currently serves on the Board of Camero, eSnips and Illuminator.
Previously, Ofer served as EMC's executive vice president of open software, a business that grew from one product line to a multi-hundred million dollar level. During his eleven-year tenure at EMC Ofer also held various R&D roles, he oversaw development efforts with strategic partners, and established EMC's first R&D presence in California and India. A holder of more than 30 storage-related patents, Ofer also served in various development and project management roles at Silver Arrow in Israel and the U.S., as well as with the Israeli Air Force.
He holds engineering undergraduate and Masters degrees from The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts
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