Itsik Kattan is CEO of Agent Video Intelligence and serves as a director of SonicLynx, a 21Ventures portfolio company. Before joining 21Ventures, Itsik worked for 6 years at O.D.F. Optronics Ltd. (www.odfopt.com), an Israeli hi-tech company, which develops, manufactures and markets advanced hi-tech gear for worldwide defense & security markets.

 

Previously Itsik worked for Rastech Wireless Systems, an Israeli hi-tech company where he served as a systems engineer for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. There he was involved in the company’s establishment and served as a liaison between the IMOD and the company. Itsik holds a BA in Computer Science, specializing in Image Processing and an MBA specializing in Management of Hi-Tech Companies.

Jessica Bloomgarden serves as Chief Marketing Officer at AeroFarms, a 21Ventures portfolio company.  Jessica joined 21Ventures as a Principal in 2008, where she focused on clean technology investments. Jessica previously worked at JPMorgan in the Technology Investment Banking Group where she helped to build the firm's clean technology practice in addition to covering companies in the Internet, payments, software and communications equipment sectors. Prior to JPMorgan, Jessica worked at SolarCity, a leading solar integrator, in their products and marketing group.  Jessica currently serves on the Social Investment Council of Echoing Green, a nonprofit organization dedicated to early-stage social sector investing.  Jessica is a graduate of Stanford University where she received her class's Award of Excellence.  At Stanford, Jessica was an active participant in the entrepreneurial community and participated in several business plan competitions, including MIT"s Ignite Clean Energy Competition where her team was a semi-finalist.

Professor David Cahen is the Rowland and Sylvia Schaefer Chair in Energy Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and serves on the scientific advisory board of 3GSolar, a 21Ventures portfolio company.

 

Born in the Netherlands, Professor Cahen earned a B.Sc. in chemistry and physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1969. He conducted his graduate studies at Northwestern University, earning a Ph.D. in chemistry and materials research in 1973. He pursued postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Weizmann Institute in biological photosynthesis. In 1976, he joined the Institute's Department of Structural Chemistry and was later appointed to the Department of Materials and Interfaces. He was promoted to associate professor in 1993 and full professor in 1998. His recent honors include the Edwards Prize for Research Excellence, awarded to him by the Israel Vacuum Society in 2003, and the 2008 Landau Prize for Chemistry.

 

Since 2007, Professor Cahen has served as head of the Weizmann Institute's Department of Materials and Interfaces, the Gerhardt M.J. Schmidt Minerva Center on Supramolecular Architecture and the Mary and Tom Beck Canadian Center for Alternative Energy Research. He is also the scientific director of Weizmann's campus-wide Alternative Sustainable Energy Research Initiative, chair of the users committee of the Nanosciences Lab and the incumbent of the Rowland and Sylvia Schaefer Professorial Chair in Energy Research.

Peter Gyenes has four decades of experience in global technical, sales, marketing, and general management positions within the software and computer systems industries. He is currently the non-executive chairman of Sophos plc, a global security software company. He is an active investor and board member focusing on technology market opportunities. Mr. Gyenes also serves on the board of Lawson Software (NASDAQ: LWSN), a global provider of enterprise software solutions, Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), a provider of data warehouse appliances, as well as a number of privately held technology companies, and is a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. He served on the boards of webMethods, Applix and BladeLogic, each public companies recently acquired by strategic buyers. 

 

Mr. Gyenes served as Chairman and CEO of Ascential Software (Nasdaq: ASCL), as well as of its predecessor companies VMark Software, Ardent Software and Informix, and led its growth into the data integration market leader, from 1996 until it was acquired by IBM in 2005. Previously, Mr. Gyenes served as President and CEO of Racal InterLan, Inc., and in executive positions at Data General Corporation, Encore Computer Corporation and Prime Computer, Inc. Earlier in his career, he held sales and technical positions at Xerox Data Systems and IBM. He is a graduate of Columbia University where he received both his B.A. in mathematics and his M.B.A. degree. Mr. Gyenes was awarded the 2005 New England Region Ernst & Young Entrepereneur of the Year award in Software.

Dr. Arieh Meitav is the CTO of ETV motors and an active member of the 21Ventures advisory team. Dr. Meitav holds a BSc in Chemistry, an MSc in Electroplating & Electro-Analytical Chemistry as well as a PhD in Electrochemistry & material engineering, all from Tel-Aviv University. Dr. Meitav has more than thirty years of industrial experience in managing interdisciplinary R&D projects. Much of his career experience has been focused on advanced electrochemical power sources and the production and material technologies related to: primary & secondary lithium batteries; fuel cells; lead acid and advanced capacitor systems.

 

Dr. Meitav has occupied several senior positions in Tadiran's Battery Division and was one of the founders of Electric Fuel Ltd. He is the architect of the AVX-ECR Electrochemical Super Capacitor.
 

Dr. Meitav has established and managed several start-up companies, which divested successfully from technology incubators. He is a consultant for several industrial and MOD organizations on battery and related technologies. He also assesses the viability of high-tech projects for various VC companies and organizations.
 

Dr. Meitav holds 9 patents and has published extensively in international scientific journals.

Dr. Gary Miles represents 21Ventures on the board of portfolio company Micrologic and has more than 25 years of senior management and management consulting experience. Since 1995, Dr. Miles has been an executive manager and investor in several new ventures and he founded a new department of business management at the Jerusalem College of Technology.

 

In the 1980s, Dr. Miles managed new business initiatives at SRI International (Stanford Research Institute), Fairchild Semiconductor and American Microsystems in Silicon Valley. At SRI, Dr. Miles was an executive management consultant and published a best-selling business report on new business development. Dr. Miles holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Neal Naimer serves on the board of directors of ETV Motors and is a member of the 21Ventures advisory team. Dr. Neal Naimer has been involved in the management and development of disruptive technologies for over 20 years.

 

From 2005 to 2007 Dr. Naimer was the President of the Power Sources Division at Arotech Corportation (Nasdaq:ARTX). He was their Chief Technology Officer from 2002, Vice President from 1997 and from 1990 he was their Director of Electrode Engineering. From 1987 to 1989, he was the Manager of Chemical Vapor Deposition (Thin Films) at Intel Electronics in Jerusalem, and was Project Manager of photovoltaic IR detector development at Tadiran Semiconductor Devices in Jerusalem from 1984 to 1987. Prior to that he was engaged in GaAs microwave device developement at GEC Hirst Research in the UK.

 

Dr. Naimer was educated at University College of London, England, where he received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering.

Arnold Roth is Chief Operating Officer of ETV Motors and has been managing and counseling technology businesses in his native Australia, in the United States and in Israel for more than twenty years.

 

Prior to joining 21Ventures he served as CEO of VirTouch, CEO of Clinical Discovery Inc., chief operating officer of the NASDAQ-listed Virtual Communities, chief executive officer of Clockwork Group, CEO of Pegasus Medical (prior to its acquisition by HBOC Inc. of Atlanta in 1995) and CEO of New Jersey-based Acumen Systems Inc. He was a founder and joint managing director of Software Corporation of Australia, an ASX-listed marketer of software solutions, and one of the pioneers of the Australian office automation industry. He holds degrees in economics and law from Australia's Monash University.

Professor Arie Zaban advises 21Ventures portfolio company 3Gsolar. Arie Zaban was born in Israel in 1961. He earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Electrochemistry (with highest distinction) at Bar-Ilan University (1987-1995). After a 2 year postdoctoral stint at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Denver, CO), he was appointed to the senior faculty at Bar-Ilan, where he is currently a Full Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Bar Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials. Presently, Zaban also serves as the Chairman of the Israel Vacuum Society.

 

Prof. Zaban has published over 90 papers in refereed journals and has 8 patents. He has been awarded several prizes and fellowships such as the Israel Chemical Society Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist, a Rothschild Fellowship, a Levi Eshkol Scholarship and the Michael Landau Research Prize in Renewable Energy.

 

His research interests are in the fields of photo-electrochemistry and materials science, with a focus on renewable energy resources. Current activities in the Zaban lab include: (i) development of dye sensitized solar cells, plastic solar cells and photocatalytic purification systems, (ii) new approaches to light harvesting and utilization in photovoltaic systems mainly aimed at efficient utilization of the solar spectrum, (iii) basic understanding of the photophysical processes involved in photo-electrochemical systems.