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Our talented Board of Directors is comprised of global executives who have guided Commtouch to become a leading technology company.
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Yair Bar-Touv is formerly the CIO of a leading government enterprise specializing in analytic software solutions for knowledge discovery (text and data mining) of large volumes of data, with a focus on changing the ways enterprise organizations make decisions with regards to primary business processes. Mr. Bar-Touv is also the former CEO of Elron Telesoft and co-CEO of NCC, a leading Systems Integrator operating in Israel and the USA, which was acquired in 1997 by Elron Electronics. Mr. Bar-Touv holds an M.Sc in Computer Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology (1987) and a B.Sc in Electronic Engineering from Ben-Gurion University (1981).
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Hila Karah has been the CIO of Eurotrust Ltd. since 2006. Ms. Karah has been a private and public equity investor in several high-tech, bio-tech and Internet companies for the past 8 years. Prior to her joining Eurotrust, she served as a partner financial analyst at Perceptive Life Sciences Ltd., a New York-based hedge fund. Prior to her position at Perceptive, Ms. Karah was a research analyst at Oracle Partners Ltd., a health care-focused hedge fund based in Connecticut. Ms. Karah holds a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has studied at the UCB-UCSF JMP.
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Amir Lev co-founded Commtouch in February 1991 and serves as Chief Technology Officer and President, Commtouch Ltd. Mr. Lev has been a member of the board of directors since the company’s inception in 1991. He currently oversees all research & development activities. Before founding Commtouch, Mr. Lev managed development efforts for Daisy Systems, a leading developer and manufacturer of computer aided design products. Mr. Lev holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Economics from Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
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Gideon Mantel, Chairman of the Board co-founded Commtouch in February 1991 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Mantel has been a member of the board of directors since the company's inception in 1991. He has more than ten years of leadership experience in the messaging industry. As one of the pioneers in email development, Mr. Mantel has led Commtouch to its dominant position as the leading provider of outsource email and messaging services worldwide. Before founding Commtouch, Mr. Mantel was Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Financial Leverages Ltd., an Israeli investment fund, where he led the strategic direction of company and managed its Initial Public Offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Mr. Mantel also served as Chief Financial Officer of The Gali Group, one of Israel's largest consumer products companies. Mr. Mantel holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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Aviv Raiz has served as a Director since December 2005. He is the founder and President of Eurotrust Ltd. Mr. Raiz has been active in the foreign exchange markets for the past twenty years, and has been a private equity investor in several high-tech, bio-tech and Internet companies for the past ten years. He holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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Yair Shamir is the Chairman and Managing Partner of Catalyst Investments and the Chairman of IAI, Israeli Aerospace Industries. From 2004-2005, Mr. Shamir was Chairman of El Al, Israeli Airlines and lead the privatization process of the firm. He has also served as Chairman and CEO of VCON Telecommunications Ltd., executive vice president of the Challenge Fund-Etgar L.P., Chief Executive Officer of Elite Food Industries, Ltd., and Executive Vice President and General Manager of Scitex Corporation Ltd. Mr. Shamir served in the Israeli Air Force as a pilot and commander from 1963 to 1988. During his term in the Air Force, Mr. Shamir attained the rank of colonel and served as head of the electronics department, the highest professional electronics position within the Air Force. Mr. Shamir holds a B.Sc. Electronics Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
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Lloyd E. Shefsky has served as a Director of Commtouch since October 2003. He is a Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship and Co-Director of the Center for Family Enterprises at the Kellogg School of Management and has taught in several countries. In 1970, he founded the Chicago law firm, Shefsky & Froelich Ltd., where he is Of Counsel since 1996. Since 1981 he has represented the Government of Israel throughout the Midwestern U.S. For nearly forty years he has represented hundreds of entrepreneurs and their companies, and during the past twenty-five years, such representation has included numerous Israeli companies with U.S. operations. Mr. Shefsky authored Entrepreneurs Are Made Not Born, which was translated into five foreign languages. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, a B.S.C. from De Paul University (accounting), is a member of the Illinois and Florida Bars, and has a CPA certificate in Illinois.
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