Advisory Board

Matthias Bittner is an experienced strategic consultant and financial advisor. He was instrumental to gestation and implementation of several fundamental strategic moves, IPOs as well as financing and M&A transactions with leading automotive, chemical and industrial companies like e. g. VW, Daimler Trucks, Wacker, Continental as well as the 2009 Opel discussion in Germany. He has been a senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley, a Partner at McKinsey & Comp. and a vice – President at Bain & Comp. He is currently Chairman/member of the board of several Automotive suppliers. Matthias Bittner holds an Economics degree (Diplom – Volkswirt) of the Mainz University and a French Baccalaureat Mathematiques.

Mr. Shamir has extensive experience in the security, technology and aerospace market and he is currently, among other positions, the chairman of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and a director in DSP Group Corporation (NASDAQ: DSPG), Orckit Communications (NASDAQ: ORCT), Commtouch Software(CTCH) and Cyalume Technologies Holdings (CYLU.OB). Mr. Shamir served in leading positions in many Israeli companies such as El Al (led the privatization process of the firm), Elite Food Industries and Scitex (ISRAEL) Corporation. Mr. Shamir holds a B.Sc. Electronics Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology where he also serves as a director of the Board.