About proteanTecs

Shai Cohen is an entrepreneur and industry veteran, with vast experience in building technology companies from the ground up.  Prior to founding proteanTecs, Shai co-founded Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX), a global leader of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions for servers and storage. He served as Mellanox's Chief Operations Officer from 2011 and before that as VP of Operations and Engineering, from 1999. While at Mellanox, Shai oversaw all internal operations and production, and co-led the company’s research and development activities. He served as a member of the Mellanox Board of Directors from 2015 to 2018.  From 1989 to 1999, Shai worked at Intel Corporation, where he was a senior staff member in the Pentium processors department and a circuit design manager in the cache controllers group. Shai holds a B.Sc cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology, Technion.

Evelyn Landman is an industry veteran and entrepreneur with over 30 years of semiconductor experience, owning a deep expertise in chip design and product engineering. Prior to founding proteanTecs, Evelyn co-founded Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX),a global leader of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions for servers and storage, where she served as VP of Backend and Product Engineering. Throughout her 17 years at Mellanox, Evelyn was responsible for IC backend design and production, systems and cables product engineering and in addition, led the company’s research group on assembly and optical technologies. From 1988-1999, Evelyn worked at Intel Corporation, where she was a senior staff member in the Processors department. Evelyn holds a B.Sc. cum laude in Electrical Engineering from The Israel Institute of Technology, Technion.

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Prior to founding proteanTecs in the spring of 2017, Roni co-founded and served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX). Throughout his 16 years’ at Mellanox, Roni was responsible for Front-End chip development, Silicon Debug and Software Development of the InfiniBand and Ethernet Switches & Endpoints. Prior to that, Roni worked at Galileo Technology (acquired by Marvell) and in Intel Israel. Roni holds aB.Sc. in Computer and Electrical Engineering from The Israel Institute of Technology, Technion (Cum Laude).

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Keith Morton joined proteanTecs in July 2019, with over 25 years of sales and sales management experience in the semiconductor and electronics industries.  Keith was most recently Vice President, Semiconductor Sales at ANSYS, Inc. with responsibility for the worldwide semiconductor business, selling the entire multi-physics toolset for semiconductor reliability, quality, and safety.  Prior to joining ANSYS, Keith held senior sales positions at a number of EDA software companies, including Magma Design Automation, Synopsys, and EPIC Design. His experience includes successful startups and large public companies. Keith holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla.

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Uzi brings nearly twenty years of experience in managing R&D teams and high scale projects at leading, global hi-tech companies. He joined Optimal+ in 2016 as VP of R&D, and has been instrumental in driving the company’s big data offering, enabling customers to innovate manufacturing through a data-centric approach.

Beginning of 2019, Uzi assumed the lead of Optimal’s new growth business, and led the sales and delivery groups of Optimal+ Automotive and Electronics business unit until the acquisition of Optimal by National instruments.

Before joining Optimal, Uzi served as VP of R&D in the Enterprise Group at NICE. Uzi holds a BA in Computer Science and Business Administration from the Open University.

An Automotive and Product entrepreneur with a proven track record of over 15 years in rapidly honing emerging technologies, markets and opportunities, both on business and diverse R&D aspects. Before joining proteanTecs, Gal served as Chief Technology and Production Engineering of Samsung Smart Machines, building from the ground-up Samsung’s ADAS/AV technology, focusing on full-stack platforms for automated driving systems. Prior to that, he held key roles in some of the most innovative pillars of autonomous driving at Mobileye (acquired by Intel), a leading supplier of Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS). In 2016, Gal brought up Mobileye’s Road Experience Management (REM) technology for data harvesting and localization engine, enabling full autonomy. And in 2013, he brought to production its first Mono Vision Camera AEB (Autonomous Emergency Braking), reaching 5 Star Euro NCAP rating for the most advanced production programs OEMS (Audi, BMW, Nissan). Gal holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Eran brings vast executive experience, working with B2B SaaS companies during their growth phases. Prior to joining proteanTecs, Eran served as CFO at Atera and Localize and before that, practiced Corporate Valuation at PwC and was a lecturer at the Hebrew University (HUJI). He is the author of The Handbook of Corporate Valuation, delivering a practical approach to an essential aspect of how business is conducted today.

Eran holds a BA in Economics & Accounting, and an M.Sc in Finance, both from Tel Aviv University.

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With extensive experience as Senior Principal engineer in the field of Silicon technologies, Eyal is one of proteanTecs' founders. Before founding the company, Eyal had a 20 year career path at Intel, where he served as Sr. Principal Engineer in PLLs and clock generation. Eyal is the inventor of over 40 patents, and holds a B.Sc.in electrical engineering from the Tel Aviv University.

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Yuval is an experienced executive in both R&D and Sales & Marketing. Prior to joining the founding team of proteanTecs, Yuval held VP R&D and site manager positions at Broadsay, an end-to-end video broadcasting solution for content providers. Yuval was also VP R&D at Trackimo Inc, where he led development of an end to end IoT solution for tracking location of people, assets and fleets around the world. Yuval also held positions of VP Sales & Marketing at PicoParts LTD and Director of Sales & Marketing at Alpha CSP. Yuval holds a B.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from the The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo and an MBA degree from Haifa University.

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A leading expert in the fields of AI and Data Science, Yahel is one of proteanTecs founders. He has vast experience in the fields of Reinforcement Learning, Probability and Optimization, authoring a body of research on Sequential Decision-Making problems that involve uncertainty and partial feedback. Yahel held R&D positions at IBM and Yahoo and holds a PhD, MSc and BSc, summa cum laude, in Electrical Engineering from The Israel Institute of Technology – Technion.

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With over 20 years of experience in System/Hardware/Software product development and management, consumer electronics, Telecom, mobile, IoT systems and silicon, Noam joined proteanTecs in August 2017, soon after it was founded. Before joining proteanTecs, Noam held VP R&D position at Vi, and senior technical positions at Intel Wireless Innovation Solutions, Orckit and ECI Telecom. Noam holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University.

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With over 15 years of experience in HR Management in global hi-tech and med-tech companies, Zehavit joined proteanTecs in December 2018. Before joining the company, Zehavit worked as Regional Talent Management Manager at Marvell, and as HR Director at Syneron Medical. Zehavit holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Haifa university and a Master’s degree in Organizational Consulting from the College of Management. Zehavit is also certified in Group Leadership.

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With combined expertise in Production Testing and Data Analytics of ICs and system products, Alex joined proteanTecs in October, 2018. Before joining the company, Alex held a Senior Director of Interconnect and Silicon Photonics Product Engineering positions at Mellanox. Alex holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from The Israel Institute of Technology, Technion.

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With extensive experience in marketing and product management, Tamar joined proteanTecs in March 2019. Before joining the company, she was Senior Director of Marketing at ColorChip, and prior to that held several Marketing and Business Development positions in global Med-Tech companies, including Applied Spectral Imaging and Syneron Medical. Tamar holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics & Business Management, Magna cum Laude from the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo.

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Miki joined proteanTecs in July 2018 to lead the development of the company’s EDA solution, bringing deep expertise in CAD PnR tools and EDA flows. Prior to joining proteanTecs, he spent 13 years at Intel, where he worked as Full-Chip Design Automation and CAD Senior Technical Lead. During his tenure at Intel, Miki led the development and methodology of a clock distribution tool for companywide chip design. He holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering from The Israel Institute of Technology, Technion.

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With extensive experience in the fields of VLSI design, circuit and architecture, Inbar joined proteanTecs in August 2017.Before joining the company, she held Management and Technical Leadership positions at Intel processors’ group. Inbar is an inventor on 5 patents under the Intel corporation and 2 additional patents under proteanTecs. Inbar holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Tel-Aviv University.

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Boaz is an experienced Program Manager. Prior to joining proteanTecs in October 2019, Boaz managed a team of project managers in Western Digital’s Flash division, while holding a Chief of Staff position in the Embedded Solutions product line. Boaz is a certified PMP and holds an Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from UNSW, Australia.

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With deep knowledge in Logic Design, Logic Verification and I/O Post-Silicon testing, Alex joined proteanTecs in October 2018. Before joining proteanTecs, Alex worked as Post-Silicon Product Development Engineer (Analog) in high volume manufacturing, Design characterization and Electrical validation at Intel, and before that as Senior pre-silicon verification engineer and as pre-silicon logic design engineer at Qualcomm. Alex holds a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from The Israel Institute of Technology, Technion.

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