The Executive Leadership
Meet our team of seasoned telecom professionals, visionaries, and futurists who lead us to introduce disruptive technologies and innovative programmable solutions in the market that is evolving and undergoing significant changes
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Yosi Albagli
Non-executive Chairman

Yosi comes from an engineering background, with a strong orientation toward strategy, business, technology, and management. He is currently serving as the Co-Founder and Chairman of Over-Sat. Before founding Over-Sat, Yosi served as President of Satellite Communications at Orbit Technologies (TLV: ORBI). Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of Tdsoft, and after Tdsoft’s acquisition of VocalTec (NASDAQ: VOCL) served as President, CEO, and Director of VocalTec, a leading provider of Voice-over-IP technology.

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David Levi
CEO

Over 25 years in the telecom industry, with vast technical and business experience in different networking technologies and protocols, Ethernet and PON. Prior to Ethernity, David was the founder of Broadlight, a company that developed BPON and GPON components and was acquired by Broadcom (BRCM) for $230M. David made several GPON protocol related inventions and holds two US patents registered in his name. Prior to that, David worked at ECI Telecom, RAD, Tadiran Communications, and Dynamode.

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Shavit Baruch
VP R&D

Over 25 years in telecom and datacom, with vast technical experience in different networking technologies and protocols, both at components and system level. Prior to Ethernity, Shavit served as Chief Architect at Native Networks (Metro Ethernet solutions). In 2001, Shavit has founded Crescendo Networks, a start-up company enhancing data center applications performance. Prior to that, Shavit served as R&D Director for broadband transmission cards at ECI Telecom, and at Lannet, acquired by AVAYA, designing Ethernet switches on silicon.

Richard Bennett
Richard Bennett
Independent Non-Executive Director

Richard started his career with General Electric (GE) in Australia and Asia Pacific. He has subsequently gained more than 20 years’ entrepreneurial experience in the technology and renewable energy sectors developing high growth companies. He is currently chairman of Sunbird Bioenergy, a producer of low-carbon fuels in Africa. He holds several Chairman and Non-Executive directorships including Getech Plc and Hong Kong listed China New Energy. Previously he was a director of MTI Wireless Edge, Coms plc, Virtual Internet plc, and NASDAQ-listed J2 Global Inc.

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Chen Saft-Feiglin
External Director

Chen Saft-Feiglin is a lawyer and notary admitted in Israel with more than 20 years of experience in commercial law, insolvency and recovery procedures, as well as 15 years of experience as a business and family mediator and family business consultant. Chen is the founder and owner of Chen Saft People, Processes and Enterprises. Previously, Chen was a partner at Saft Walsh Law Offices. Chen holds an LLB from Bar Ilan University and an MBA majoring in business and managerial psychology.

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Zohar Yinon
External Director

Zohar is currently the CEO of Bar Ilan University in Israel. Prior to that Zohar held the position of CEO of Hagihon Company Ltd, a position he held from September 2011 to January 2018. Previously, Zohar was the Chief Financial Officer of Israel Military Industries, Ltd. and VP Business Development in Granite Hacarmel Ltd. Zohar has held other roles in Israel’s private and public sectors, including with companies traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Zohar holds a B.A. in Economics and an MBA in Business Administration, both from Bar-Ilan University (Israel) and he has graduated in managerial programs of M&A and Corporate Governance from the Interdisciplinary Centre (“IDC”) in Herzliya. He was a member of the CTG global panel of experts evaluating new start-ups in the field of Clean-tech and has served as a board member in a wide range of companies including governmental, private, publicly listed and start-up companies. Zohar served as a Major in the Israel Defence Forces.

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David Levi
CEO

Over 25 years in the telecom industry, with vast technical and business experience in different networking technologies and protocols, Ethernet and PON. Prior to Ethernity, David was the founder of Broadlight, a company that developed BPON and GPON components and was acquired by Broadcom (BRCM) for $230M. David made several GPON protocol related inventions and holds two US patents registered in his name. Prior to that, David worked at ECI Telecom, RAD, Tadiran Communications, and Dynamode.

Shavit-Baruch
Shavit Baruch
VP R&D

Over 25 years in telecom and datacom, with vast technical experience in different networking technologies and protocols, both at components and system level. Prior to Ethernity, Shavit served as Chief Architect at Native Networks (Metro Ethernet solutions). In 2001, Shavit has founded Crescendo Networks, a start-up company enhancing data center applications performance. Prior to that, Shavit served as R&D Director for broadband transmission cards at ECI Telecom, and at Lannet, acquired by AVAYA, designing Ethernet switches on silicon.

Ayala Deutsch
Ayala Deutsch
VP Finance

Ayala joined Ethernity in January 2019 and has more than 15 years of financial experience in international high-tech companies. Served previously as Corporate Controller at Glide, and prior to that, as auditor at KPMG. Ayala’s duties as VP Finance include financial management, risk management, maintenance of internal controls, governance, special projects, and corporate transactions. Ayala is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel and has completed her studies toward her MBA, majoring in Financial Management at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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Brian Klaff
VP Marketing

With over 20 years of high-tech marketing experience, Brian has concentrated on B2B product marketing for the networking hardware industry since 2013, with special emphasis on the telecommunications sector. Prior to Ethernity, he served as Senior Marketing Communications Expert at Mellanox, Director of Technical & Marketing Communications at ExperTeam, Senior Technical Communications Expert responsible for the Sprint Wireless account with Amdocs, and Product Marketing Manager at Versaware Technologies.  Brian is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University.

Israel Ferber
Israel Ferber
Sr. Director of OEM Sales

Israel offers more than 25 years of strategic sales, account management, and sales channel build-up, driving sales of multiple technologies to customers spread over a variety of geographies. Israel was part of Broadcom’s Network and Infrastructure European sales organization and prior to that was a Regional VP of Sales at BroadLight, which Broadcom acquired. He also held several sales positions at ECI Telecom in Israel and the United Kingdom. Israel has an MBA degree from Middlesex University in London.