Management (1)

Mr. Ziv Aviram
President and CEO

Prof. Amnon Shashua
Chairman of the Board and CTO

Mr. Norio Ichihashi
Senior VP, Pacific Region

Dr. Gideon Stein
Chief Research Scientist

Mr. Elchanan Rushinek
Senior VP, Engineering

Dr. Gaby Hayon
Senior VP, Research and Development

Dr. Itay Gat
VP of Production Programs

Dr. Yoram Gdalyahu
VP of Algorithms Development

Mr. Ofer Maharshak
Chief Financial Officer and VP Operations
Mr. Isaac Litman
CEO, Mobileye Products 

Mr. Skip Kinford
CEO, Mobileye Inc.

Mr. Shotaro Kawahara
CEO, Mobileye Japan Ltd.

Mr. Pini Segal
VP of Finance & Human Resources
 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Ziv Aviram

Mr. Ziv Aviram

President and CEO

Mr. Aviram, co-founder of Mobileye, earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Ben-Gurion University in 1984. Prior to Mobileye he was the CEO of three Israeli companies, all leaders in their fields, (Keter - Retail Chain, Gali - Retail Chain, Attrakzia). Mr. Aviram has, in all three cases, taken the companies from losses to profits by restructuring the organization appropriately.

Prof. Ammon Shashua

Prof. Amnon Shashua

Chairman of the Board and CTO

Prof. Shashua, co-founder of Mobileye, is a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was the chairman of the school of engineering and computer science during 2002-2005. His area of research includes the algebra of multiple view analysis for visual 3D reconstruction and pattern recognition. He is the recipient of the 2004 Kaye innovation award and the 2005 Landau award for exact sciences. Prof. Shashua is also the founder of CogniTens.

Further details can be found at the Hebrew University Website 

Mr. Norio Ichihashi

Mr. Norio Ichihashi

Senior VP, Pacific Region

Mr. Ichihashi graduated from Tokyo University where he obtained his M.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry in 1970. Mr. Ichihashi worked for 23 years at JSR where he was in charge of automobile materials and had key accounts with major car manufacturers in Japan. Mr. Ichihashi is the founder and CEO of GenTech Corp. whose main office is in Tokyo. Mr. Ichihashi is in charge of Mobileye's business in Japan.

Dr. Gideon Stein

Dr. Gideon Stein

Chief Research Scientist

Dr. Stein was a research scientist at the Artificial Intelligence laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) until March 1999. Dr. Stein received his Ph.D. from MIT in February 1998 and his M.Sc. from MIT in 1993 both in the field of computer vision. His expertise is in the areas of multiple-view geometry, visual motion estimation and photogrammetry.

Mr. Elchanan Rushinek

Mr. Elchanan Rushinek

Senior VP, Engineering

Mr. Rushinek has 20 years of experience in VLSI area. Mr. Rushinek started as VLSI designer in Intel Israel, involved in the design of the first 10Mbit Ethernet controller product. In 1983, Mr. Rushinek joined Motorola Semiconductor Israel, and led the VLSI design of Motorola's first Digital Signal Processor product - DSP5600. In 1987 he managed Motorola’s Semiconductor Israel VLSI DSP design group, which designed products based on 56000 DSP cores as well as the new DSP56300 DSP core and products. Mr. Rushinek has also managed Motorola Wireless Handset Baseband's System On Chip VLSI design group.

Dr. Gaby Hayon

Dr. Gaby Hayon

Senior VP, Research and Development

Dr. Hayon joined Mobileye after working at Applied Materials wafer inspection division in algorithms development for vision and image processing applications. Dr. Hayon received his Ph.D. from the Center of Neural Computation of the Hebrew University where his research concerned theoretical exploration of temporal correlation based approaches for neural networks. He holds a M.Sc. in Physics from the Weitzman Institute of Science where he did theoretical work in field theory, and a B.Sc. in Physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Itay Gat

Dr. Itay Gat

VP Production Programs

Dr. Gat is a graduate of the esteemed Israeli military Talpiyot program and later served in the IDF research and development. Dr. Gat received his Ph.D. from the Institute of computer Science of the Hebrew University, focusing on the analysis of cortical activity and utilized tools from the domain of machine learning. Prior to joining Mobileye, Dr. Gat worked at Comverse (NASDAQ:CMVT), as a researcher in the field of speech processing and at Compugen (NASDAQ:CGEN), where he led several basic research groups especially in the computational medicine area. Dr. Gat is married with three children, rides a bicycle to work every day, and is on Mobileye's basketball team.

Dr. Yoram Gdalyahu

Dr. Yoram Gdalyahu

VP Algorithms Development

Dr. Gdalyahu received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the Center of Neural Computation of the Hebrew University. His research combined computer vision and machine learning, with applications to image segmentation, image database retrieval and object recognition. Dr. Gdalyahu also holds a M.Sc degree in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a B.Sc in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University. Prior to joining Mobileye, he worked at Compugen (NASDAQ:CGEN) and at the Israeli branch of IBM research. He is a recipient of the Levi Eshkol fellowship, awarded by the Israeli Ministry of Science for outstanding Ph.D. students.

Mr. Ofer Maharshak

Mr. Ofer Maharshak

Chief Financial Officer and VP Operations

Prior to joining Mobileye, Mr. Maharshak served as Corporate Finance Manager (FP&A) at Lipman Electronics Engineering, Director of Finance at Atrica Inc., Corporate Controller for Printlife and was a manager in Ernst & Young Israel. Mr. Maharshak holds a Bachelor's degree in Business from the College of Management in Israel with a specialty in accounting, and is a licensed CPA in Israel.

Mr. Isaac Litman

Mr. Isaac Litman

CEO, Mobileye Products 

Mr. Litman joined Mobileye after serving as a CEO for Telepath, Motorola’s exclusive distributor in Israel and Turkey and CEO for ABSC, a company specializing in the fields of business intelligence and development. Mr. Litman was also a special projects manager for the Israeli Prime Minister’s office. Aside from his extensive business and marketing experience, Mr. Litman has graduated from the Tel-Aviv University Law school and is a registered attorney at the Israeli BAR. Mr. Litman holds a B.A in Economics from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA from Bar-Ilan University.

Mr. Skip Kinford

Mr. Skip Kinford

CEO, Mobileye Inc.

Mr. Kinford brings an extensive background of senior management experience to Mobileye. Prior to joining Mobileye, Mr. Kinford was President of 5square.com a venture capital backed technology provider to automotive dealerships. Before that Mr. Kinford was Executive Vice President at NMB Technologies Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Minebea Company Ltd., a publicly traded multi-billion dollar multi-national manufacturing company (with over 40,000 employees worldwide and U.S. revenue in excess of 300 million dollars). Among other accomplishments, Mr. Kinford established senior-level relationships with key customers, including Delphi, Valeo, Borg Warner, Visteon, Bosch and Siemens. Early in his career Kinford was a professional racecar driver.

Mr. Shotaro Kawahara

Mr. Shotaro Kawahara

CEO, Mobileye Japan Ltd.

Mr. Kawahara graduated from Keio University. After the experience in SI vendor, he joined a start-up company in New York whose business was in 3D reconstruction from still images. He was in charge of all the projects. Mr. Kawahara joined Mobileye as an employee of GenTech. As a result of his activities in Japan, he was assigned CEO of Mobileye Japan Ltd.

Mr. Pini Segal

Mr. Pini Segal

VP Finance & Human Resources

Mr. Segal joined Mobileye after a long career in the public and private sectors. He has served as the general manager of a number of organizations dealing with the manufacturing of optics and electronics. Mr. Segal received his MBA from the Hebrew University, with a specialization in finance and information systems.

   
   
   
   
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