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Nachum (Homi) Shamir
President and Chief Executive Officer
Nachum (Homi) Shamir has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and a director since April 9, 2006. Prior to joining us, Mr. Shamir served as Corporate Vice President of Eastman Kodak Company and as the President of Eastman Kodak´s Transaction and Industrial Solutions Group, which includes several business units, including Kodak Versamark, Inc. (whose operations were previously those of Scitex Digital Printing Inc.) of which Mr. Shamir was President and Chief Executive Officer. From June 2003 to January 2004, Mr. Shamir served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Scitex Corporation. From January 2001 to January 2004, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Scitex Digital Printing, having previously served as its Chief Operating Officer since July 2000. Prior thereto, Mr. Shamir was Managing Director and General Manager of Scitex Digital Printing (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd., from the incorporation of this Singapore-based company in 1994. From 1993 until 1994 he was with the Hong Kong based Scitex Asia Pacific (H.K.) Ltd. Before joining Scitex, Mr. Shamir held senior management positions at various international companies mainly in the Asia Pacific regions. Mr. Shamir holds a B.Sc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.P.A. from Harvard University.
Kevin Rubey
Chief Operations Officer
Kevin Rubey has served as our Chief Operations Officer since June 2001. Prior to joining us, from 1998 to May 2001, Mr. Rubey worked at Eastman Kodak Company, a consumer and professional photographic and information imaging company where he led global manufacturing and operations for the Health Imaging Business Unit. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Rubey was Manufacturing Director of the Medical Imaging Business Unit of Imation Corporation, a U.S. information technology company specializing in data storage and color image management. Prior to that, from 1977 to 1996, Mr. Rubey worked at the 3M Corporation in a variety of positions in the health, consumer and information technology businesses. Mr. Rubey holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota.
Yuval Yanai
Chief Financial Officer
Yuval Yanai has served as our Chief Financial Officer since September 1, 2005. From October 2000 through August 2005, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Koor Industries Ltd., one of Israel’s largest holding corporations. Prior to that, from April 1998 to September 2000 he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NICE Systems Ltd., an Israeli global provider of Insight from Interactions, and from 1991 to April 1998, he was the Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Elscint Ltd., a former Israeli company engaged in the manufacturing of medical imaging devices that was acquired by larger companies in this field. He joined Elscint in 1985 and served as Corporate Controller and Corporate Treasurer through 1991. Mr. Yanai has served as a director of Makteshim-Agan Industries Ltd., Equity One, Inc., BVR Systems Ltd., Tadiran Communication Ltd., The Elisra Group and Telrad Networks Ltd. Mr. Yanai holds a B.Sc. in Accounting and Economics from the Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Israel Raz
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Israel Raz has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer since April 2008. He brings over twenty years of experience in leading global marketing, strategy, new market growth, and product development of innovative medical devices for diverse market segments: Molecular Imaging, Cardiovascular Ultrasound, Cardiac and Neurological Surgical Monitoring, Neurophysiology, Digital EEG, Epilepsy Monitoring, Sleep Medicine, and Hearing Assessment.
Prior to joining Given Imaging, Mr. Raz worked at GE Healthcare since 2001, where he served as a Global Product Manager for the Cardiovascular Ultrasound business, and then as the GM of Global Marketing for the Molecular Imaging business portfolio. Between 1986-2000, Mr. Raz worked at Bio-logic Systems Corp, a small Medical Device company, in several marketing positions leaving as the Director of Marketing. His industry tenure was preceded by academic teaching and post-doctoral research at Northwestern University. Mr. Raz holds a BA and MA in Audiology from Tel-Aviv University School of Medicine, a Ph.D. in Speech & Hearing Sciences from the University of Kansas, and an Executive MBA from The Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
Ido Warshavski
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Ido Warshavski has served as our General Counsel & Corporate Secretary since September 2004. Prior to joining us, from September 1999 to August 2004, Mr. Warshavski was a corporate attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York, where he practiced general corporate and securities law, representing clients in public and private offerings, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. Prior to that, from June 1997 to July 1998, Mr. Warshavski practiced commercial litigation at the firm of Weksler, Bregman & Co. in Tel Aviv, handling a variety of commercial disputes, and served as a junior lecturer in Civil Procedure at the College of Management Law School. Prior to that, from March 1996 until March 1997, as an intern at the firm of S. Horowitz & Co, he specialized in the areas of employment law and medical malpractice. Mr. Warshavski holds an LL.B., cum laude, from the College of Management Law School in Israel, and an LL.M. from Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina.
Ori Braun
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Ori Braun has served as Senior Vice President – Business Development since October 2006. Prior to joining us, Mr. Braun served as President of Valor Inc., a leader in productivity increasing engineering software solutions to the PCB design, fabrication and assembly industry. From 2004 to 2005, he served as President of LifeWatch Inc., a leading cardiac monitoring services company. From 1985 to 2004 he founded and held various CEO and executive positions at Bventure Inc., a company providing services to medical startup companies, at 3DV Systems Inc., a company developing and selling 3D camera technology, at Helios Software Engineering Ltd., a company in the business of simulation technology that was acquired by Cadence Design Systems Inc., and at Lansoft Computing Ltd. During this period, Mr. Braun also co-founded Atria Inc., a company providing solutions for CHF patients. Between 1994 and 1996, Mr. Braun held the position of Vice President Business Development at Rafael Development Corporation, or RDC, a large shareholder of Given Imaging, which is a holding company controlled by Discount Investment Corporation Ltd., or DIC, another significant shareholder of Given Imaging. Mr. Braun holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel.
Keith A. Chrzanowski
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Keith A. Chrzanowski has served as our Senior Vice President of Human Resources since January 1, 2008. Prior to that, from January 2005, until December 2007, he was Director of Human Resources of our Americas region. Prior to joining us, from July 2002 until January 2005, Mr. Chrzanowski was Senior Director/Vice President of Human Resources for McKesson Provider Technologies, a division of McKesson specializing in delivering software to include automation and robotics, business process re-engineering, analytics, and other services that connect healthcare providers, physicians, payors and patients across all care settings. From July 2000 until July 2002, Mr. Chrzanowski was Vice President of Human Resources for Spherion’s Outsourcing Group which provided services to Fortune 500 customers. From 1991 to 2000, Mr. Chrzanowski worked as a Human Resource Manager and Director of Human Resources for diagnostic and medical supply divisions which initially were a part of Baxter Healthcare and eventually acquired by Cardinal Health in 1999. Prior to joining Baxter, Mr. Chrzanowski worked for Schlumberger Industries in the United States and Canada as a Human Resources Manager from 1987 until 1991. From 1983 until 1987 Mr. Chrzanowski held a variety of Human Resources positions in support of Beecham’s Consumer Products businesses. Mr. Chrzanowski has a B.A. in Communications from Western Illinois University and an M.A. in Organizational Theory from Norwich University.
Daphna Levy
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Daphna Levy has served as our Senior Vice President and General Manager, Israel, since January 2008. Prior to that, from January 2002 until December 2007, Ms. Levy served as our Vice President-Research and Development and from November 2000 until December 2001 as manager of our algorithm group. Prior to joining us, from January 1999 until November 2000, Ms. Levy was a project leader at Interspark Ltd., a subsidiary of Philips DAP. From 1996 to 1999, Ms. Levy served as manager of an image processing group at Rafael – Armament Development Authority. Ms. Levy holds an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University, California, a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University, Rekanati School of Business.
Chris Rowland
President, Given Imaging Inc.
Christopher Rowland has served as President of Given Imaging, Inc., our U.S. subsidiary, since May 2006. He joined us in February 2006 as our Senior Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Strategy. Prior to that, Mr. Rowland worked for 17 years at Boston Scientific Corporation, a medical device company, in various sales, marketing and general management positions across all Boston Scientific divisions and in several countries. Most recently he was Vice President of Marketing for the Endovations division of Boston Scientific, where he had responsibility for all marketing, product development and launch activities of products in the gastrointestinal field. Prior to that, from 1985 until 1989 Mr. Rowland worked for Xerox Corporation in various sales positions. Mr. Rowland has a B. Sc. in Marketing from Southern Illinois University.
Dr. Manfred Gehrtz
President, Given Imaging, EMEA
Manfred Gehrtz has served as President, International since January 1, 2006. Prior to that, from January 2004 until December 31, 2005, Mr. Gehrtz served as our Corporate Vice President, General Manager for Europe. Prior to joining us, from 1995 to 2003, Mr. Gehrtz was Managing Director, the head of the Endoscope Division and Vice President of Medical Systems Europe at Olympus Optical Co. (Europa) GmbH, a developer of products in the fields of photography, endoscopy, microscopy, communication and diagnostics. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Gehrtz was Managing Director and CEO of Aesculap Meditec GmbH, a German company that develops and manufactures medical laser systems. Prior to that, from 1986 to 1990, Mr. Gehrtz was a Specialist, Lab Manager and Production Facility Manager at IBM Deutschland GmbH. Mr. Gehrtz holds a Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry and an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Munich, Germany. From 1983 to 1985 Mr. Gehrtz was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, California.
Dr. Kazem Samandari
Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific/Japan Region
Kazem Samandari has served as our Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific/Japan Region since July 2007. Mr. Samandari has a long and successful track record of identifying technology- driven product concepts and taking them through successful commercialization. Mr. Samandari enjoys a versatile experience in both entrepreneurial and well established high-tech companies.
Prior to joining us Mr. Samandari held a variety of executive positions. From 2004 to 2007 Mr. Samandari was Executive Vice President Global Sales & Marketing at Eastman Kodak, Inkjet Printing Solutions, a company which advances the knowledge of visual capture organization & output in the digital world, spanning many scientific disciplines from optics and color science to advanced computer sciences and manufacture of sophisticated equipment. Mr. Samandari was responsible for worldwide sales & sales support, marketing & business development of a significant Kodak division. From 1994 to 2004 Mr. Samandari served as the Vice President of Scitex Digital Printing operations in Asia Pacific & Japan and was responsible for the commercial, technical & legal aspects of the activities in the region. From 1986 to 1994 Mr. Samandari served as Managing Director of GMC Digital Systems, a high-tech start-up company founded in 1984, pioneer in the field of high speed, high performance, digital printing equipment. Mr. Samandari holds a PhD in technical sciences and industrial economy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree in electrical & electronics engineering.
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