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2007 Innnovation Summit Committees (partial)
Innovation
Summit Board:
Chairman:
Doron Birger, President and CEO,
Elron Electronic Industries Ltd
Founder, Lead of Program Committees:
Dr. Joseph Gilor, Founder and CEO,
Olive Bay Ltd
Innovation
Summit Steering Advisory Board:
Aharon Aharon, CEO,
Camero (Chairman of Homeland Security programs)
Dr Nissim Darvish ,
MD PhD, Partner, Pitango Venture Capital
(Chairman of Life Sciences programs)
Prof Moshe Eizenberg, Vice
President for Research, Technion
- Israel Institute of Technology
Uzia Galil, Chairman,
Uzia Initiatives and Management, founder, Elron
Electronics Industries
Prof Peretz Lavie, Vice
President for Resource Development and External Relations, Head, Technion Sleep
Laboratory, former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Prof Shlomo Maital, Academic Director of
TIM - Technion Institute of Management, Tel Aviv,
Senior Research Fellow, the Samuel Neaman
Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology,
Technion
Shlomo Waxe, B. General (Resr.),
Director General, IAESI
- Association of Electronics and Software Industries
Dr. Uri Weiser,
CTO, Commex-Technologies

Innovation Summit Advisory Board:
Prof Yehuda Afek, Computer Sciences,
Tel Aviv University (Chairman
of Information Security programs)
Prof Rafael Beyar, Technion -
Israel Institute of Technology (Chairman of Cardiovascular
program)
Oded Chon, Managing Director, IBM Haifa
Research Lab
Yair Cohen, Vice
President, Elron Electronic Industries
(Chairman of water technologies program)
Ohad Finkelstein, Former Chairman and CEO, Interoute Telecom
Group, UK; venture partner, International investments,
Venrock Associates.
Adi Golbert , Director of Planning, Mobility Group,
Intel Corporation
Amir Elstein,
Group Vice President - Specialties Product Management ,
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Dr Shmuel Fuchs, Chairman, Golda
Campus, Rabin Medical Center
(Leader of Cardiovascular program)
Prof Hanoch Gutfreund, President
Emeritus, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem (Chairman
of Neurosciences' programs)
Prof Nir Tessler, Electrical Engineering Department,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Chairman of
Photonics programs)
Avi Kerbs, President and CEO,
Teuza Management and Development 1991 Ltd.
Prof Yoram Rieter , Dean, Biology
Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
(Chairman of Immunotherapy and Cancer
programs)
Prof Avraham Marmur, Head, Center for Security
Science and Technology, Technion - Israel
Institute of Technology (Homeland
Security program)
Prof Raphael Semiat, Director,
GWRI - the Stephen and Nancy Grand Water Research Institute, Head, GWRI Rabin
Desalination Laboratory, The Chemical Engineering Department,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Water
Technologies program)
Prof Uri Sivan, Director of the
Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute at Technion,
Physics, Technion
Dan Vilenski, Former Chairman,
Applied Materials Israel
Dr Uri Yaron, Sr. Director, WW
New Business Development, Biosense Webster, a
Johnson & Johnson Company
Prof Mousssa Youdim, Department of Pharmacology at
Technion-Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel
Institute of Technology (Chairman
and Host
Neurodegenerative
Diseases program)
Dr Eitan Yudilevich, Executive
Director, BIRD - Israel US Binational Industrial Research and
Development Foundation
Prof Arie Zaban, Exact Sciences,
Bar Ilan University (Chairman of Renewable
Energy program)

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