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| Ectel Announces New Board of Directors Nominations ECtel announces that its Board has nominated Yair Cohen, Jonathan Kolber and Sami Totah for election as new Directors of the Company. Elections will take place at the Annual Shareholders Meeting, which is scheduled for September 2006. ECtel's Board nominated Yair Cohen as Chairman of the Board, subject to his election as director at the Annual Shareholders Meeting. Mr. Cohen will be replacing Harel Beit-On who served as the Company's Director and Chairman since June 2004 and who will leave the Board of Directors to focus his time on his Venture Capital activities. Yair Cohen has served as Vice President of Elron Electronic Industries since July 2005. In this capacity, Mr. Cohen is responsible for managing Elron's diverse portfolio of technology-based investments. Prior to joining Elron, from 2000, Mr. Cohen served as Brigadier General of Unit 8200, the central military intelligence unit of the Israeli Defence Forces. In this capacity, he was engaged in the development of state-of-the-art military technology. Mr. Cohen currently serves on the Boards of Directors of RDC-Rafael Development Corporation, Galil Medical and a number of other Elron group companies. Mr. Cohen holds a BA degree in History and Arabic (Summa cum laude) from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and a MA degree in Management of National Resources (Summa cum laude) from Industrial College (NDU), Washington D.C., U.S. Jonathan Kolber served as the Chief Executive Officer of Koor Industries from 1998 until the recent sale of Koor to the IDB Group. He has recently been nominated to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Koor. From 1985 until 1998, Mr. Kolber worked for the Claridge Group, serving as president and Chief Executive Officer of Claridge Israel from 1988 until 1998. From 1983 to 1985, Mr. Kolber worked as financial analyst in the Canadian finance group at Salomon Brothers. Mr. Kolber is a member of the Board of Directors of a number of Israeli companies including ECI Telecom., Makhteshim-Agan Industries, Sheraton-Moriah Israel and Elbit Systems. Mr. Kolber holds a bachelor degree in Near eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. Sami Totah has served in various positions at Amdocs including the position of Senior Vice President & Chief Operations Officer. In this position he was responsible for overseeing the entire Amdocs global operation. Mr. Totah has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of several Israeli start-up companies since 2003. These include Pilat Media, a provider of software management system to the broadcasting industry; Sheer networks, a provider of network management solution for large telecom providers worldwide; Red Bend, a provider of unique solution for Firmware over the air update for wireless devices; and Flash Networks, a provider of optimization solution for wireless operators world wide. Prior, Mr. Totah was a software engineer. From 1984 until 2002 Mr. Totah is a practical software engineer and participated in professional courses over the years, including courses of the Executive MBA program of the Hebrew University Business School. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |