Dr. Yoav Nissan-CohenChairman, Former CEO Amimon
Mr. Nissan-Cohen has nearly four decades of professional experience in scientific research, technology development and executive management. He started as a research scientist in General Electric’s Research and Development Center in New York from 1988 to 1991. In 1991, he joined National Semiconductor, and in 1993 he was one of the founders of Tower Semiconductor Ltd., where he served as chief executive officer, took the company public on Nasdaq, and built a $1.5 billion advanced semiconductor facility.
Mr. Nissan-Cohen was also formerly a venture partner at Pitango and later served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Amimon, Inc., a semiconductor company providing the only solution for a zero-latency wireless camera link for various medical and other video applications. Mr. Nissan-Cohen’s significant experience and knowledge in the areas of semiconductors, physics, international business and understanding of the industrial and military industries provide him with the qualifications and skills to serve as a director on our Board.
Mr. Nissan-Cohen is an executive board member at Weebit, a semiconductor company developing a new class of semiconductor memory chips, and the chairman of Visionlab, a company specializing in advanced vision-based solutions for industrial and military applications, and TeraCyte Analytics Ltd., a biotechnology company which developed a platform for high throughput temporal analysis of live single-cells, with breakthrough applications for research, discovery, and development of new drugs and therapies.