Ofer Elyakim Chief Executive Officer |
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Ofer brings to DSP Group over 15 years of managerial experience. Prior to being appointed to his current position in 2009, Ofer served as DSP Group's Senior Vice President and SEA President. Before that, Ofer served as Vice President of Business Development and Director of Investor Relations and Business Development. Prior to joining DSP Group in 2006, Ofer was a research analyst covering media and broadcasting companies at CIBC World Markets in New York. Previously, he held managerial positions at Radvision, Tundo Communications and Kost Forer Gabbay & Kasierer, a member of Ernst & Young Global. A certified public accountant, Ofer holds an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School and a BA in Computer Science and Accounting from Tel Aviv University. |
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Dror Levy Corporate Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer |
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Dror brings to DSP Group over 13 years of financial experience. Prior to being appointed to his current positions in 2006, Dror served VP finance and as Corporate Controller. Before joining DSP Group, Dror was an account manager in the high-tech practice at Kost Forer Gabbay & Kasierer, a member of Ernst & Young Global. A certified public accountant, Dror holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Business and Accounting from the Israeli College of Management. |
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David Dahan Corporate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer |
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David brings to DSP Group over 15 year of operations and development management experience. Having previously served as the company's Director of VLSI 2000 – 2002, David was Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Primesense and Vice President of Operations at CEVA prior to rejoining DSP Group in 2012. David holds an MBA from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzeliya, and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. |
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Lior Blanka Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer |
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Lior brings to DSP Group more than 25 years of technological experience. Prior to being appointed to his current position in 2010, Lior served as DSP Group's Platform Division Manager. Before joining DSP Group, Lior served as 3.5G Cellular Phone Cross-Sites Manager at Intel, and CDMA Phone Reference Design Manager at DSP Communications. Previously, he served as R&D Department Manager for Military Systems at Reshef Technologies, and Project Manager for Security Systems at the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Lior holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. |
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Alex Sin Corporate Vice President of Sales |
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Alex brings to DSP Group over 20 years of experience in semiconductor, mobile and wireless product marketing, sales and business development. Responsible for DSP Group's sales and business development, Alex served as the company's SEA President starting in 2010 and China Country Manager starting in 2008. Prior to joining DSP Group, Alex was Sales Director for digital audio and mobile digital TV silicon and solutions at Frontier Silicon. Before that, he was Business Operations Manager at Freescale/Motorola, where he was responsible for cellular chipset and solution marketing, business development and technical support. Prior to that, Alex was at Epson Hong Kong, where he served as an application engineer, as well as Chief Engineer responsible for ASIC design, MCU and ASSP application support. Alex holds an MSc in Business from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a BSc in Physics from London Metropolitan University. |
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Dr. Arie Heiman Corporate Vice President and HDMobile Division Manager |
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Arie brings to DSP Group over 30 years of entrepreneurial and managerial experience following the firm's acquisition of BoneTone Communications, a company that Arie founded, and for which he served as Chairman and CEO. Prior to founding BoneTone Communications Ltd., Arie founded M-Stream Inc., for which he served as Chairman and CEO before its acquisition by Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) in 2004. Before that, Arie co-founded Nogatech Inc. in 1993. Serving as Nogatech's President and CEO starting in 1995, Arie led in 2000 the successful IPO (NASDAQ: NGTC) of the company, which was acquired by Zoran Corporation (NASDAQ: ZRAN) later that year. Arie holds over 30 patents and patent-pending applications, and received the W.R. Bennett Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 1990. Arie holds a Ph.D in Electronic Engineering from Tel Aviv University. |
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Tali Chen Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development (HR & Legal, Marcom) |
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Tali brings to DSP Group more than 15 years of human resource experience. Responsible for managing all human resources and facility matters, Tali has served in her current position since 2008. Before joining DSP Group, Tali was Director of Commercial Legal Affairs and Human Resources at RADA Electronic Industries. Previously, she served in the Israeli Defense Forces where she reached the rank of major and was founding manager of the Atidim for Industry program. Prior to that, she managed the office of the head of the Israeli National Security Council, and completed her legal internship at the IDF Ombudsman office. Tali holds a LLB in Law and Government at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. |
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Doron Koren Corporate Vice President and Platform Division Manager |
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Doron brings to DSP Group more than 17 years of technological experience. Responsible for software, systems and customer support activities across the globe, Doron has served in several positions at DSP Group including Head of Multimedia Product Development, Program Management Office Manager, Cordless Applications Development & Support Manager, Algorithm Group Manager, Software Customer Support Manager, and Senior Firmware and Host Engineer. Before joining DSP Group in 1997, Doron was responsible for mathematical library development at Associative Computing, and served as a DSP Software System and Algorithm Engineer at Comverse. Doron has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. |
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Dima Friedman Corporate Vice President of Operations |
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Dima brings to DSP Group more than 16 years of semiconductor manufacturing operations. Responsible for managing business operations including supply chain and customer service activities, Dima has served in several positions at DSP Group including Quality, Product and Test Engineering Manager, Foundry Manager, and Vice President of Foundry Management. Prior to joining DSP Group in 1995 Dima served as Production Engineer at National Semiconductor. Dima has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University. |
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Yuval Bechori Corporate Vice President and IC Division Manager |
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Yuval brings to DSP Group more than 15 years of experience managing large-scale projects and large VLSI and R&D organizations. Responsible for leading major programs including silicon development, software integration and customer support, Yuval served as DSP Group Corporate Vice President, Deputy General Manager of IC Division, before being appointed to his current position in 2011. Prior to that, he served as DSP Group Vice President of VLSI & Chip Development and Group Manager of Chip Design Development. Before joining DSP Group in 1999, Yuval was Hardware Design Leader at LSI Logic and a system engineer and logic designer at ELOP. Yuval holds an MBA from Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and a BSc in Electronic Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. |
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Jan Abelev Corporate Vice President of Product Marketing |
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Jan brings to DSP Group nearly 30 years of semiconductor industry experience. Prior to being appointed to his current position in 2011, Jan served in several positions at DSP Group including VP Strategic Accounts, VP DECT Program Manager, VP Applications and Customer Support, Director of Technical Marketing, and Customer Support Manager. Before joining DSP Group in 1991, Jan worked in a number of development positions in the areas of DSP architecture and signal processing. Jan holds an MSc in Electronic Engineering from Moscow Aviation University. |
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