Erez Kahani, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Kahani was nominated CEO of PowerID Ltd. after serving as Executive Vice President of Power Paper's PowerID Division from early 2006. Prior to that, he was Chief Financial Officer of Power Paper for four and a half years, during which he led two major fund raising rounds. Before joining Power Paper in 2001, Mr. Kahani held management positions for 10 years as at Gilat Satellite Networks (Nasdaq: GILT), a world leader in satellite communications. In his capacity as director of business development, he worked with strategic partners in the USA and Europe, established and managed several joint ventures in China, and was involved in securing financing from several international partners. As controller, he was very involved in Gilat's initial public offering on Nasdaq and several follow-on public offerings. Mr. Kahani holds a B.A. in economics and business administration from Tel Aviv University, where he also completed three years of MBA studies.
Zvi Nitzan, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Nitzan is the inventor of PowerID's thin and flexible batteries. He co-founded Power Paper -- the company from which PowerID was spun off -- and served as its CTO since its inception. Mr. Nitzan was instrumental in developing Power Paper's manufacturing technologies and in integrating the battery into various devices, including cosmetics patches and RFID labels. He holds ten patents and co-patents in various fields, three of which are related to the Power Paper battery and its uses. Mr. Nitzan is an electronics engineer with 30 years experience in research and development of electronic products and systems. He began his career in the defense industry, where he was active for some 10 years (up to the level of Division Manager at Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd.), acquiring extensive expertise in sophisticated electronic systems, through the development of special advanced electronic warfare techniques and technologies. In 1980, he established Atir Ltd. and served as its VP and R&D Manager until 1997, where he developed and produced a tracking radar system intended for upper air meteorological and pollution monitoring.
Lior Rapaport, Vice President of Sales
Mr. Rapaport brings to PowerID more than 12 years of experience in managing worldwide sales organizations. He was previously co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of a wireless automation startup company developing long range active RFID tags and also served as VP Sales and VP Business Development for various telecommunication startup companies. Prior to that, he was Managing Director of Gilat Satellite Networks Europe (NASDAQ: GILT), where he headed sales and marketing activities in the EMEA region.
Rafi Boneh, Vice President of Research & Development
Mr. Boneh has over twenty years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including 12 years at Gilat Satellite Networks (NASDAQ: GILT) where he held a variety of R&D managerial positions and accumulated vast experience in satellite communications, large systems, project management, and hardware design. His last position at Gilat was Director of Hardware and Infrastructure, where he was responsible for the hardware platforms of the company. Before joining Gilat, Mr. Boneh served as a hardware engineer for five years at RUN - a communications startup company and member of the RAD Group - and as a design verification engineer for telecommunications systems with the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Mr. Boneh holds a B.Sc. with honors in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
Fred de Haas, Director of Sales, Europe
Mr. de Haas has over 25 years of experience in sales of radio frequency technologies. Prior to joining PowerID, he was at Checkpoint Systems, where he served as Managing Director, Benelux and before that as Business Development Director, Apparel in Europe. Under the leadership of Mr. de Haas, Checkpoint Systems carried out the first RFID trial at Gerry Weber in Germany, and Checkpoint Systems Benelux achieved the status of best performing country in Europe. Before Checkpoint Systems, Mr. de Haas was at Sensormatic (acquired by ADT) where he served as Managing Director, the Netherlands. He has extensive sales experience in Europe, having lived in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Mr. de Haas has served as the Treasurer for the Dutch Packaging Institute; was a Member of Standardization Committee for RFID for the Apparel Industry; and served as a Member of the Belgium/Netherlands Chamber of Commerce. He holds a BA in Commercial Economics from the Hogeschool in Hoorn.
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