Chairman's Network Lunch - 18 May 2010

Date: 18 May 2010

Time: 12.00 - 15.00

Venue: St. James & Kensington Rooms, 6th floor, Claridge's

Speaker: Dr. Yossi Vardi, Israeli high-tech Investor and Entrepreneur

Details of Yossi's speech to be confirmed

One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs, Yossi Vardi co-founded, led, and helped build over 70 high-tech companies over a period of 40 years including Tekem (1969) - one of Israel’s first software houses, Israel Chemicals (Chairman 1971-1974),  Alon Energy, Granite Hacarmel, International lasers Technologies, and others.
 
Yossi co-pioneered instant messaging, as Founding Investor and Chairman of Mirabilis Ltd, the creator of ICQ which was sold to AOL.  Numerous investments of his went public (answers.com, Scopus, Granite , International Technologies Lasers ) or  have been acquired  (Gteko by Microsoft ,Tivella by Cisco, Airlink by Sierra wireless, foxytunes by Yahoo, Starnet by IAC, and more). Yossi is a member of the Advisory board of Amdocs, and Blackberry Ventures.
 

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