YOS SHIRAN, CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Yos has extensive experience in the management of international public companies in different fields, with a track record of value creation through innovation, differentiation strategy and strong execution. For more than 20 years Yos served as the CEO of various public companies traded on the Nasdaq, NYSE, LSE and TASE. The last public company he managed until 2016 was Caesarstone, which he led to become a world leader in its industry. Yos has also been involved in different tech and medical startups as entrepreneur, co-founder, investor and director. Yos holds a BSc. in Industrial Engineering and Information Systems from Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from Bar Ilan University in Israel.
ILAN TSAFNAT, CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Ilan leads the company’s technology direction and vision. His deep knowledge and experience in cloud computing, software architecture and communications is instrumental to the company’s success.
Prior to joining SenseQ Ilan founded Team Technologies Inc., an IT consulting company in Toronto Canada. He served as the president and CEO for twenty years.
Ilan holds a BSc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Information Systems from Ben-Gurion University in Israel.
YAIR WEISSLER, VP PRODUCT AND OPERATION
Yair is an expert with over 20 years of business development and operational experience in the Hi-tech and semiconductor industries. Prior to SenseQ, Yair co-founded a startup revolutionizing the co-generation of cooling, heating and electricity. Before, he served at Intel, where he established and led the Framework for Collaboration with startups and Technology Innovation Accelerator. Yair held various positions in strategic program management, product line and led the MEMS business program development. Yair holds a B.Sc. in Industrial & Management Engineering and Information Systems, and MBA from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
PROFESSOR ZOHAR YAKHINI, CHIEF SCIENTIST
Zohar is the inventor of twelve issued US patents and has a publication h-index of 40. He has active industry consulting and Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) roles in biotechnology and data science. He holds a PhD degree in Mathematics from Stanford University. Professor Yakhini is an expert in the applications of statistics and data science in molecular biology and in other domains. His research group developed data analysis methods for generation microarray technology by Agilent Technologies, including supporting the company’s commercially successful array CGH technology. The group also developed advanced statistical methods to analyze ranked lists as employed for example in the popular analysis tool GOrilla.
PROFESSOR EREZ ETZION, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF ADVISORS
Erez is a fundamental experimental researcher in High Energy Physics. He holds a PhD in Particle Physics from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Erez is chairing the Tel Aviv University Particle Physics Department and is an Executive Board member of the ATLAS Large Hadron Collider Experiment (CERN, Geneva). His main research focus is understanding of the Higgs boson properties and searching for physics beyond the Standard Model (extra dimensions, mini black holes, dark matter) utilizing Artificial Neural Networks and Boosted Decision Tree tools. In addition, Erez works on the development of particle and radiation detectors in various technologies including the ATLAS muon trigger system, a novel plasma-panel-based technology sensors, underground dark matter search, large surface experiment searching for long lived particles, and nano satellite based study of space radiation.