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I2I's
team is comprised of several seasoned business
executives (full bio info below):
Eran Goren - Chairman - Co-Founded and CEO of the Zannex Group.
David Keynan - CEO - Formerly Intel capital Israel
and India, 3Com Israel.
Amos Galon - Co-founder - Ex Amdocs VP and
general manager of Amdocs India for three years.
P.
Sriganesh - Mumbai Partner - Founding director,
I-Flex; founding member - NASSCOM.
Sarit Shani - Vice President, Business development
- Project Manager Teledata, 3Com.
Advisory Board
Nachman Shelef - Founding Partner, Benchmark Capital Israel, VP and GM, 3Com.
Prof. Gadi Ariav - Tel-Aviv University School of Business.
Eran
Goren - Chairman
Eran Goren
Eran Goren is I2I's chairman, taking a crucial and active role in defining and implementing I2I's strategy and business.
Eran has started his career in the investment banking space as the Co-Founded and CEO of the Zannex Group, later to form the Nessauh Zannex group, an Investments Advisory and Investment Banking boutique with a clear vision in mind: to capture a yet un-discovered Foreign Financial investors' market in Israel.
With virtually no seed funding, led the company to being one of the top players in providing quality services to a host of Global Financial investors, while building its brand as the top Israeli Investment banker. Nessuah Zannex created a Global affiliation program, which resulted in a number of key alliances with USBancorp Piper Jaffray, Invesco, and CommerzBank Securities.
After selling Nessuah Zannex, Eran has created a structured finance products house, an operation he continues to co-manage. In his spare time Eran enjoys a wide variety of activities ranging from Chef training to enhancing his Italian language skills.
David (Dudu) Keynan - CEO
David Keynan
David is heading I2I Ventures. David was a member of the Intel Capital India team since early 2003, managing Intel's comm. strategic investments. In this role David was responsible for locating, investing and managing Intel's investments in hardware and telecom companies. David has initiated and led Intel Capital's early stage investment program.
David has relocated to India after spending three years in Intel Capital Israel, leading Intel investments in the telecom space.
Previously David spent several years (product management) in 3Com (ATM division). Prior to that David worked for LANNET (world pioneer in LAN technologies).
David was Vice-Chairman of the Israel-India chamber of commerce, focuses on IT sector. He has recently joined TiE as a chartered member in the Bangalore chapter. He is practicing Yoga and Vipassana meditation. David earned his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Philosophy from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, concentrating on Set theory, Buddhism and Bioethics.
Amos Galon
- Co-Founder
Amos Galon
Co founder of I2I Ventures, is a former India Country Director of Amdocs. (NYSE: DOX). Amos established Amdocs' first entity in India (1500 seats software development centre). In doing so he acquired an in depth familiarity with the Indian software - telecom industries, and excellent relationship with their leaders.
Prior to relocating to India Amos served for six years as VP of Amdocs' USA subsidiary. Most of Amos's former career was also in the software - telecom arena.
Since 2003 Amos has served as an independent consultant to numerous Israeli and Multi National companies on doing business in India. His vast Indian experience proved to be of great value to his customers.
Amos has a B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in economics, and is a retired Major (Infantry) from the Israel Defense Force.
Amos holds a Private Pilot Certificate of the FAA. He enjoys classical music, opera and a good game of Bridge.
P. Sriganesh
- Mumbai Partner
P. Sriganesh
A Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
Sriganesh has over 30 years of experience in the IT and ITES industry and NBFC sector having set up several Companies in India. Between 1986 and 2000 he worked in senior financial positions in Citigroup India. He was a Promoter-Director of Citicorp Information Technology (now known as I-Flex) and co-founder and Hony.
Treasurer of NASSCOM. As Hony. Treasurer of NASSCOM in the initial years was involved with the Government to set up regulations for the then nascent industry.
Sarit Shani
- Vice President Business Development
Sarit Shani
Sarit has 20 years of experience in high-tech engineering, marketing and business development, in the fields of data communications and telecom.
Prior of joining I2I-ventures, Sarit was director and software manager in Teledata-Networks, KnowNet and 3COM. In all companies Sarit led and defined systems with high end technologies.
Sarit holds a B.Sc.and M.Sc in computer science (Tel-Aviv University)
Advisory Board
Nachman Shelef - Advisor
Nachman Shelef
Nachman was a General Partner at Benchmark Capital (www.benchmark.com).
Nachman established, together with two additional partners, the Benchmark Israel funds to fund early stage technology companies in Israel. Prior to Benchmark Nachman was Vice President of Business Development at 3Com Corporation, after serving as Vice President and General Manager of several 3Com organizations based in Santa Clara, Boston, and Israel.
Nachman joined 3Com when the company acquired NiceCom, Ltd. in October 1994. Prior to the acquisition, he founded and was President of NiceCom.
Education: B.Sc. Summa cum Laude in computer engineering from the Technion and a Practical Engineer of Physics degree with Honors from the University of Tel Aviv.
Professor Gadi Ariav - Advisor
Associate Professor of Technology and Information Systems Management,
Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University.
38 years of professional experience in the use of information technologies (IT) and the development of information systems (IS) in organizations, and 24 years of international academic career, culminating in the founding of the Georges Leven High-Tech Management School (HTMS) at Tel Aviv University, focusing on the managerial needs of High-Tech companies, especially innovative, entrepreneurial start-ups.
Current academic focuson the Global Management of Innovation, especially within the framework of a meta-national collaboration, and the consumption of video contents in future TV environments.
Holds a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, a B.A. degree in Statistics and Economics as well as an M.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Management Sciences
- Information Systems, both from Tel Aviv University. |
