Board Members
OREN ELKAYAM
Chairman, Managing Director, Co-Founder
Oren Elkayam is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mobilicom having worked previously extensively within the wireless communications sector. Prior to starting Mobilicom, Oren was CEO of Sortech Ltd, a nano-powder materials technology company and VP of Business Development of Runcom Ltd, a fabless silicon company that develops and sold solutions for broadband mobile communications industry. During his tenure he initiated and negotiated contracts with top carrier companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, KDDI, Mitsubishi and Motorola and led investment rounds with international based venture capital funds. Additionally, he served as an Officer in the Israeli Air Force in an elite R&D unit, leading large cutting edge technology projects.
Oren holds B.Sc in Electrical Engineering and an MBA (magna cum laude) from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
YOSSI SEGAL
Executive Director, VP R&D,
Co-Founder
Yossi led the design & development of three mobile IC’s & eight wireless broadband systems. He held a leading role & voting member in international wireless standards: IEEE (USA), ETSI (Europe). Mr. Segal has invented & registered essential Patents for OFDM/A technology widely used in variety of wireless solutions worldwide.
CAMPBELL MCCOMB
Non-Executive Director
Mr McComb has over 20 years’ experience in funds management and investment banking and has overseen the development of numerous businesses. He has significant investment experience across equity securities, venture capital and private equity. Mr McComb is currently the Managing Director of Auctus (ASX: AVC), a listed Alternative Investment Management business
JON BRETT
Non-Executive Director
Jon Brett has extensive experience in the areas of management, operations , finance and corporate advisory. Jon was an executive director of Investec Wentworth Private Equity. Jon has served as the managing director of a number of publicly listed companies, including Techway Limited which pioneered internet banking in Australia. Jon is an experienced non-executive director and served as a non-executive director on Vocus Group Limited and was an integral part in helping Vocus grow from a small cap ASX company to an ASX 100 company. He served as the non-executive deputy president of the National Roads and Motoring Association and has been Chairman of the Audit & Risk Committees for a number of different ASX listed companies.
JUSTIN MOUCHACCA
Company Secretary
Mr Mouchacca is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia with over 15 years’ experience in public company responsibilities including statutory, corporate governance and financial reporting requirements. Mr Mouchacca has been appointed Company Secretary
and Financial Officer for a number of entities listed on the ASX and unlisted public companies.
OREN ELKAYAM
Chairman, Managing Director, Co-Founder
Oren Elkayam is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mobilicom having worked previously extensively within the wireless communications sector. Prior to starting Mobilicom, Oren was CEO of Sortech Ltd, a nano-powder materials technology company and VP of Business Development of Runcom Ltd, a fabless silicon company that develops and sold solutions for broadband mobile communications industry. During his tenure he initiated and negotiated contracts with top carrier companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, KDDI, Mitsubishi and Motorola and led investment rounds with international based venture capital funds. Additionally, he served as an Officer in the Israeli Air Force in an elite R&D unit, leading large cutting edge technology projects.
Oren holds B.Sc in Electrical Engineering and an MBA (magna cum laude) from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
YOSSI SEGAL
Executive Director, VP R&D,
Co-Founder
Yossi led the design & development of three mobile IC’s & eight wireless broadband systems. He held a leading role & voting member in international wireless standards: IEEE (USA), ETSI (Europe). Mr. Segal has invented & registered essential Patents for OFDM/A technology widely used in variety of wireless solutions worldwide.
TZVIKA FRIEDMAN
Non-Executive Director
Mr. Friedman has held executive positions at top communication companies. He co-founded the ECI Telecom Optical Division and was the CEO and President of NASDAQ-traded company, Alvarion. In both companies he served as a driving force behind their revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars and market share leadership. Mr. Friedman has broad experience in merger’s and acquisitions, joint ventures and working in developed and developing markets.
SHALOM ELKAYAM
Non-Executive Director
Mr. Elkayam comes from years of experience in executive management. He has held roles as CEO of publicly traded and private companies and served as a colonel in the Israel Air Force.
OREN ELKAYAM
Chairman, Managing Director, Co-Founder
Oren Elkayam is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mobilicom having worked previously extensively within the wireless communications sector. Prior to starting Mobilicom, Oren was CEO of Sortech Ltd, a nano-powder materials technology company and VP of Business Development of Runcom Ltd, a fabless silicon company that develops and sold solutions for broadband mobile communications industry. During his tenure he initiated and negotiated contracts with top carrier companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, KDDI, Mitsubishi and Motorola and led investment rounds with international based venture capital funds. Additionally, he served as an Officer in the Israeli Air Force in an elite R&D unit, leading large cutting edge technology projects.
Oren holds B.Sc in Electrical Engineering and an MBA (magna cum laude) from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
YOSSI SEGAL
Executive Director, VP R&D,
Co-Founder
Yossi led the design & development of three mobile IC’s & eight wireless broadband systems. He held a leading role & voting member in international wireless standards: IEEE (USA), ETSI (Europe). Mr. Segal has invented & registered essential Patents for OFDM/A technology widely used in variety of wireless solutions worldwide.
OFER LAUFER
Chief Operating Officer
Ofer brings 25 years of experience in rapidly growing hi-tech enterprises. He served as the General Manager of Friendly Robotics for 10 years. Under his leadership the company grew 7X both in sales and production units, developed many new robotic models, IOT infrastructure and an APP, as well as expanded R&D capacity 3X. Ofer also managed several OEM deals and oversaw a successful acquisition. Previous to that, Ofer led Operations in several companies, including Powerpaper, Alvarion and Avaya; in that capacity he established production sites in China, the Philippines and Ireland, transferred new technologies into mass production, improved quality, productivity and production excellence, as well as built highly effective teams. Ofer is an Electronic Engineer and has an MBA from the Hebrew University.
DAVID FAGELSTON
VP Sales
David has an engineering degree in Electro-Optics as well as a MBA from Boston University and a Master’s degree in Law from Bar Ilan University. For the past 8 years David has been VP of Sales and Marketing at AccuBeat, a subsidiary of Rafael. AccuBeat is a leading developer and manufacturer of accurate frequency and timing solutions used in Defense, Home Land Security, Aerospace, communications and several other industries. In the past few years AccuBeat has also developed a portfolio of solutions that provide a comprehensive response to cyber attacks focused on GPS/GNSS timing which is a necessary input to many platforms and critical infrastructures. While at AccuBeat David increased sales substantially and entered into several new markets with the products, both in military and in civilian applications.
Before joining AccuBeat, David held several senior sales and marketing positions in various Israeli Hi-Tech multi-national companies (ECI, Foxcom Wireless, Starhome, NDS and Gilat) specializing in the fields of equipment for Telecom and Mobile networks and applications.
PINHAS REICH
VP Business Development & Marketing
Pinhas brings senior global managerial experience in sales, marketing and business development in various industries such as Telecom, Smart homes, behavior prediction based on speech analytics for enterprise and in the consumer market.
Pinhas has rich experience working for small / large, private and public companies.
BOAZ PICK
VP Operations
Boaz brings with him over twenty years of executive experience in operation, supply chain and engineering in leading global companies. In his previous positions, Boaz served as Sr. Director of global manufacturing engineering at VeriFone Systems, Inc., VP Operations and Supply Chain at EPOS and VP Operations and Supply Chain at VCON Telecommunications Ltd. Boaz holds a B.Sc. degree in in Electronic Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
GUY BOROVSKY
VP Sales Customer Success Director
Guy brings with him more then 20 years of experience in Telecommunications, Home Land Security, Defense and Cybersecurity from various companies.
Hold a BSc. In Electronic Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
LIAD GELFER
Director of Finance
Liad brings vast experience and background in various emerging and publicly-traded companies. He has an extensive knowledge in financial reporting, financial modelling and forecasting, M&A and IPO procedures and internal controls. Most recently he served as acting-CFO for various Hi-tech startups, prior to that he served as Director of Finance of Supercom (NASADQ: SPCB) a hi-tech company. Prior to his tenure in Supercom, he served as Senior Corporate Controller of Compugen Ltd., a dual listed (TASE & NASDAQ: CGEN) biotech company.
Liad holds a BA in Business management and Accounting, and MBA in Accounting and Finance, both from the College of Management Academic Studies. Liad is a CPA since 2001.
STEFAN BOTTHOF
Director of Sales Europe
Stefan is a Sales & Business Development oriented manager with over 25 years of experience in telecommunications for direct and indirect sales. Before Mobilicom he built up the German market for SaaS services for the French diabolocom, before that he held various sales positions for the Swiss FROX in Germany in UC projects with products from Avaya, Microsoft and Cisco and in sales for DSL projects at ZyXEL, also for the Austrian market. Stefan also started business with the Chinese manufacturer ZTE with their first subsidiary in Germany for the incumbent carriers DTAG, Arcor, Vodafone. He worked for Imtech Telecom in the field of system integration for infrastructure and early in his career he managed infrastructure for transmission systems and gateways for Israeli companies eci telecom and TdSoft.
STEVEN SARFATI
Vice President of Sales, USA
Steven is a business development and sales leader with over 20 years experience in homeland security, public safety and video systems.
Prior to joining Mobilicom, Steven launched Arecont Vision as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, the leader in security surveillance systems. He also served as the Vice President of Sales for Neven Vision, a leader in Facial Recognition for the Biometrics Security industry. Google acquired Neven Vision after recognizing the value of their client base.
In 1994, Steven founded Continuum Engineering Inc., a leader in precision robotics that designed and delivered automation solutions for the semiconductor, fiber-optic and biomedical industries. As President, he created an effective global sales distribution network and maintained an installed base of customers that included Fortune 500 companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney, IBM, Intel and Applied Materials. Steven continued to work for the company after its acquisition by JMAR Technologies, a NASDAQ company, in 1998.
Prior to that Steven worked as Strategic Accounts Manager for Intel Corporation. Steven also held a faculty position at California State University, Northridge, where he taught microprocessor architecture and engineering.
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