Mr. Avihai Degani Co-founder, President & CEO
Avihai is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of highly successful business
management and engineering experience in managing software development and
system integration of complex telecommunications systems with exceptional vast
expertise in software architecture and hardware design. Avihai established
IPgallery with the vision to deliver IP-based software-based switching and
communication technology along with advanced multimedia applications to the
emerging quadruple-players’ marketplace. Previously he successfully facilitated
key engineering management positions at Alcatel Public Switching (merged with
Lucent) in Belgium, at leading Israeli telecommunications companies, and at
the Israeli Ministry Of Defense.
Avihai holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Ms.
Michelle Specktor Co-founder, Executive Vice President, Business Development
Michelle has over 20 years of business management and hands-on engineering
experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to the establishment
of IPgallery Michelle facilitated key managerial, and marketing roles
at an alternative VoIP service provider (NASDAQ: ARBX) based in New
York, USA, and Better Online Solutions (NASDAQ:BOSC; TASE: BOSC), and
fulfilled project leadership, system design and engineering positions
at the Israeli Ministry Of Defense mission based in New York City,
NY, and six years at the IDF’s elite computing
unit.
Michelle obtained her B.SC. in Computer Science with honors from University
of New York, and M.S. in Telecommunications with honors from Pace University
NY, NY, USA.
Mr. Sagiv Goren CTO
Sagiv has over 15 years of experience in algorithm design, engineering
and R&D team leadership roles in communications, telephony over
CATV systems and telecommunications specializing in high-performance,
multi-threading, multi-processing and distributed architecture computing.
Prior to joining IPgallery Sagiv was an advisor engineer at VocalTec
and held key R&D positions at NelySoft Cabletel Ltd and GTS.
Sagiv earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from the
Ben-Gurion University of Beer Sheva, Israel.
Mr. David Rawet Vice President, Engineering
David has over 30 years of engineering and management experience in
the telecommunications industry specializing in public switching and
enterprise systems. Previously he successfully fulfilled head of public
switching engineering department and head of marketing roles during
his 14 years with Telrad, Nortel Systems’ Israeli associate.
David also successfully led GlobCall a telecom solution vendor for
two years.
David holds B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Techniyon University
of Haifa, Israel.
Mr. Amos Halfon Associate Vice President, Sales
Amos brings to IPgallery over 13 years of experience in sales to large
Telco’s and GSM operators as well as extensive background within
the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining IPgallery, Amos was
AVP Sales EMEA in Personeta responsible for building the company’s
EMEA market. Prior to that Amos facilitated key managerial sales roles
in Comverse (NASDAQ:CMVT), Alvarion (NASDQ: ALVR) and other telecom
vendors selling infrastructure networking and solutions for content,
wireless and WiMAX .
Amos holds BA in Industrial Engineering & Management and MBA degrees
from Derby University, UK.
Ms. Hila Dahan Associate Vice President, Marketing
Hila obtains 10 years of sales, business development and marketing
experience in the telecommunications domain. Prior to joining IPgallery,
Hila established the marketing activity of Adamind (LSE: ADA) as Director
of Marketing and held key positions at Philips (Digital Networks Division)
managing the business development activity in Israel. Earlier Hila
fulfilled a business development analyst role at Golden Lines Ltd.
Hila completed her BA in Economics and Business Administration and
MBA with honors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
