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Ronen Smooha – Developers & .NET Platform Adoption Division Manager Ronen is a member of Microsoft Israel management team and is responsible for .NET Platform adoption and development technologies adoption across the Israeli market. Ronen is also in charge on creating long term relations and business development opportunities with Israeli ISVs.

Barak Shein – Director, Business Development, Microsoft Israel R&D Barak leads business development activities with Israeli startups and VCs. He leads Microsoft Israel R&D’s Industry Outreach and is the Israeli member of Microsoft’s Strategic & Emerging Business Team. Before joining Microsoft, Barak held various product management roles at startup companies such as Quigo, Textology, and VocalTec. Barak holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Yoram Yaacovi - CTO and General Manager: Innovation Labs, new ILDC ventures and Academia and Industry outreach Yoram is the CTO of the Microsoft Israel Development Center (ILDC) and is the General Manager for technologies at ILDC. His responsibilities include the ILDC innovation labs – a greenhouse for breakthrough developments - new technologies and business groups, academia and industry outreach and programs and the technology connection with the Microsoft corporate headquarters. In 1993 Yoram joined Microsoft in Redmond where he spent 11 years in software development and development management roles building products and technologies such as Windows 95, NetMeeting, the Microsoft Reader, ClearType, MSN Communities, and the Microsoft Rights Management (DRM) Server. In his last job in Redmond, Yoram was Group Manager in the Information Worker division responsible for the incubation of the Office Information Bridge Framework. Between 2004 and 2008 Yoram was a Vice President at Amdocs (NYSE:DOX) – a leading telecom software provider, where he led the development of the Amdocs product portfolio as the head of the Amdocs Product Development Organization and later as the COO of the Amdocs Products Group. Yoram is the co-author of 23 patent applications (7 approved so far) and several IETF RFCs. He has a BSc in Computer Science from the Technion.

Ehud Levy, Managing Partner, Vertex Venture Capital Ehud Levy, Managing Partner at Vertex Venture Capital, has over 16 years’ experience in the high-tech industry with expertise in the areas of investment and finance, management, and business creation. Ehud is a Co-Founder and former Chairman & CEO of Ki-Bi Mobile Technologies, the mass-market device specialist for mobile content distribution. He had led the business from conception to its commercial success of about one million units sold, strong brand recognition, IPO in London, and its takeover. Prior to founding Ki-Bi, Ehud functioned as a director and partner at STI Ventures, a venture capital firm, where he had led investments and worked closely with founders on appreciating value of companies. Previously, Ehud served as COO and CFO of Telegate, a telecommunication company, where he played a major role in turning the company into a success story and was responsible for the implementation of an extensive restructuring plan which culminated in the acquisition of the company for over $400 million by Terayon (TERN). Prior to Telegate, Ehud served as a private equity investor and an investment banker in New York and Tel Aviv with Oscar Gruss & Son (now CIBC – Oppenheimer Israel). At Oscar Gruss, Ehud conducted investment activities focusing on Israeli hi-tech industry. In New York, he worked on public equity transactions and financial advisory assignments. Ehud has also served on the BOD of a number of high-tech companies. Ehud holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (with honors) from the Technion, and an MBA from Columbia University in New York.

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