Board
Yuval Cohen
Partner at StageOne VC, focus on seed and early stage investment opportunities, Yuval was formerly a General Partner in Israel Infinity Fund, a $95 million Information Technology fund, where he was in charge of the Communications Sector. Yuval brings more than 13 years of experience in the venture capital market.
Since 1995, Yuval has been involved, as an early stage investor and a director, in many young startups, some of which have already gone public or have been acquired by leading multinational companies. Yuval has played an important role in helping management teams recruit, develop strategies, and establish partnership agreements in many of his investees' companies.
Prior to this, Yuval served as Vice-President for ISAL, an investment company traded on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
Yuval earned his LLB and MBA degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. |
Nimrod Schwartz
Nimrod Schwartz is Partner at StageOne VC, focus on seed and early stage investment opportunities, prior to StageOne VC nimrod serve for nine years as a Partner at Cedar Fund ($325M under management). Nimrod served as a boards member at Onaro (Sold to NetApp), Guardium (Sold to IBM), NewACT (Sold to Amdocs), Pegasus, Media Layers, PeerApp and Iamba (Sold to Marvell).
Prior to Cedar Fund Nimrod was one of the founders of NetVision, Israel’s leading ISP and serve as NetVision VP B&D and CTO. Prior to NetVision Nimrod spent twelve years at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) involved in technology and engineering both in Israel and in the company European headquarters in France. |
Benny Schnaider
Benny Schnaider was Qumranet's CEO and a Co-Founder. The company was acquired by Redhat in 2008.
Benny was CEO and Co-Founder of PentaCom Ltd. a provider of networking products which was acquired by Cisco in 2000.
Benny also co-founded and served on the Board of Directors for P-Cube, a developer of IP service control platforms, which was acquired by Cisco in 2004. Over the past 30 years, Benny has held senior management, engineering and strategic roles at many Silicon-Valley based companies including Cisco Systems, Amdahl/Fujitsu, Hitachi, IDT, Sun Microsystems and 3Com.
Benny holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, and a B.Sc in Computer Engineering from the Technion (Israel Institute of technology). |
Ido Sharon
Mr. Sharon served as the CTO and head of R&D of Bezeq - the Israeli Telecom Corporation. Mr. Sharon has been with Bezeq for 20 years, serving at various management and R&D positions. He earned his M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Technion (Haifa) and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. |
Arik Tshernichovski
Arik Tshernichovski represents Shaked Ventures |
Ben Volkow
Mr. Volkow Co-Founder of Traffix Systems brings more than a decade of experience in R&D, business development and management roles in the telecom industry; previously Mr. Volkow filled management roles in Sendo (UK), a leading Smartphone manufacturer. Before that Mr. Volkow served in a variety of roles in Panasonic Mobile Communications (UK), responsible for delivering the company's first European market products. Throughout his career Mr. Volkow worked closely with leading Tier-1 Operators and Vendors. | |
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