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MEET THE TEAM
As a global company with headquarters in the U.S. and multi-national manufacturing, sales and support operations abroad, our technical expertise is readily accessible to our customers around the world. Our extensive network of resources enables Aitech to provide a unique and innovative approach to design and customization, an important differentiator in the rugged embedded computing industry.
An important aspect of Aitech’s industry leadership position is that we invest more than 10% of sales back into our R&D efforts – well above the industry average. This fact is instrumental in helping us advance embedded computing technology with more cost-effective solutions and a faster time-to-market for customers needing to accommodate unique requirements. Our customers benefit from this forward-thinking approach, whether we are developing completely new designs or modifying existing base designs to meet your specific needs.
Yaron Mund
- Responsibility: CEO
- Joined Aitech: 2019
- Education: B.Sc. Industrial Engineering, majoring in Information Systems – Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Graduated with honors. M.E. Industrial Engineering, majoring in Operations Management. Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Director's and Officer's Course - Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Experience:
Over the past two decades, Yaron has managed a variety of business organizations. Most recently, he was COO of Caesarstone Ltd., a NASDAQ publicly traded entity, and CEO of Rotex, a TA publicly traded textile company.
Before that, Yaron was the Managing Director of Aviv AMCG, an international consultancy with more than 250 professionals. Aviv specializes in providing guidance and support to CEOs of multiple companies, including several Israeli market leaders in the fields of Electronics and Mil & Aero, throughout significant processes of restructuring, growth, efficiency, turnaround, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and implementation.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” -Henry Ford
Tal Opher
- Responsibility: CFO
- Joined Aitech: 2020
- Education: CPA (Israel), MBA, specializing in Finance and Strategy from the 'Recanati School of Business' and a BA in Accounting and Economics, both from 'Tel Aviv University'
Experience:
Over the last decade, Tal worked in senior financial positions specializing in accounting, mergers and acquisition activities, due diligence, negotiation, company’s revenue recognition, global worldwide international tax planning, forecasting, and IT.
Prior to joining Aitech, Tal was the CFO and COO of Frontline FCB Solutions. Before that she held a VP Finance position at Orbotech (a NASDAQ company acquired by KLA), and worked 11 years at Ernst & Young as a Senior manager.
“well-behaved women seldom make history” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Pratish Shah​
- Responsibility: General Manager of Aitech USA
- Joined Aitech: 2019
- Education: MBA from Pepperdine University – Malibu, CA. BS Computer Science with Minor in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Troy, NY.
Experience:
Pratish brings over 30 years of engineering, business development, marketing and management experience across enterprise, consumer electronics and defense industries to Aitech. In addition to leading the American business unit, Pratish helps develop the company’s global growth initiatives as well as manage its technology offerings.
For 10 years prior to joining the company, he led global military defense companies, identifying new opportunities, leading mergers and acquisitions and building successful businesses.
Nitzanit Bar Levy
- Responsibility: VP Global Human Resources
- Joined Aitech: 2019
- Education: MA in Labor Studies from the Tel-Aviv University
Experience:
Nitzanit is responsible for the company’s human resources strategy and practices. With more than 15 years of experience as a senior HR leader at a number of companies, Nitzanit applies her extensive expertise for shaping the employee experience, driving cultural transformation, building both talent and leadership capabilities, and improving management processes for Aitech.
Prior to joining Aitech, Nitzanit was VP Human Resources at Taldor Computer Systems, VP Global HR at Ericom Software and head of the Human Resources Development branch at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
“Success in business is all about people, people, people. Whatever industry a company is in, its employees are its biggest competitive advantage.” –Richard Branson
Boris Baer
- Responsibility: VP Global R&D
- Joined Aitech: 1999
- Education: BA Computer Science - The Open University of Israel MBA - The Open University of Israel Practical Electronic Engineer - Tel Aviv University, School of Practical Engineering
Experience:
Boris began his career at Aitech as a testing technician and worked his way up to hardware designer and, finally, VP R&D. Having come up through the ranks, Boris is intimately familiar with all aspects of development and testing at the company.
As VP R&D, Boris is responsible for the development of dozens of Aitech products including single board computers (SBCs), video/graphics boards, Ethernet switches, I/O boards, power supplies and rugged computer enclosures as well as the hardware and software/firmware engineers who develop them.
Boris is also supports customers when integrating Aitech products into their systems.
People – employees and customers – are the driving force of technology innovations.
Motti Shapira
- Responsibility: VP Global Quality
- Joined Aitech: 2019
- Education: B.Sc. Electronics Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel, M.Sc. Reliability & Quality Assurance, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, MBA, The Open University of Israel, graduated with honors
Experience:
With almost three decades of experience in quality management positions at industry-leading, multinational companies such as Kramer Electronics, Lumenis, and ECI Telecom, Motti has a proven track record in establishing quality management systems (QMS) that have significantly improved processes and product reliability, while reducing costs. He has also established environmental & safety management systems in order to comply with local, national and international requirements & regulations to ensure worker safety and to promote environmental responsibility.
Motti has extensive experience managing multinational quality teams (US, China, Japan) and supporting leading global customers. During his army service, he spent five years in the IDF Signal Corps as the head of a reliability group responsible for various defense projects.
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” -Henry Ford
Gil Barak
- Responsibility: VP Global Operations
- Joined Aitech: 2019
- Education: EMBA – Executive Business Administration - Bar Ilan University, BA – Economics and Management – Academic College of Tel Aviv
Experience:
Gil brings to Aitech 20+ years of experience with global companies in the electronics sector, including rugged solutions, such as Enercon, Kramer Electronics and Alvarion. He has vast experience in all aspects of operations including planning, purchasing & sourcing, production, engineering, configuration control, logistics, and supply chain management.
When you say jump, we say how high.
Gil Botton
- Responsibility: VP, Head of Business Development – SEA & EMEA
- Joined Aitech: 2007
- Education: M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering majoring in Industrial Management, from Ben Gurion University, Israel. B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, majoring in Computer Science also from Ben Gurion University, Israel
Experience:
Gil has been leading Aitech’s Business Development for SEA & EMEA regions since 2021. He started at the company as a hardware design engineer, working on Intel-based single board computers (SBCs). Gil also held various management roles in the R&D department including project manager.
Before Joining Aitech, he worked as a hardware and system engineer at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty” – Winston Churchill
Shine Ho
- Responsibility: Chief Delivery Officer, Aitech US
- Joined Aitech: 2024
- Education: BS in EE, MS in EE, and PhD in Engineering from the University of New Hampshire
Experience:
Shine has over 30 years of experience in engineering management, program management, and advanced technology development with 25 years in aerospace. He led teams for space, civil, DoD, and commercial applications across all phases of product lifecycle from concept to decommission.
Prior to joining Aitech, he was the Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Redwire for design, manufacturing, and operations of payloads for advancing manufacturing capabilities in space. Prior to Redwire, he was at Northrop Grumman for 20 years with the latest role as Director of Systems Engineering for national defense space programs and environmental satellite systems.
He was the primary inventor of two US patents from designing new innovative motor products for Johnson Electric Automotive Motors.
A. Murugan
- Responsibility: R&D Manager, Aitech India
- Joined Aitech: 2019
- Education: Bachelor of Computer Science & Applications
Experience:
Murugan has more than two decades of experience in the field of product design & system integration. He has extensive expertise designing standard and custom system solutions in form factors such as VME, VPX, CompactPCI, and PMC/XMC, including small form factor (SFF) computing solutions.
Before Joining Aitech, Murugan spent over 18 years as a product engineering manager at an Indian defense system integration and product design company. He was instrumental in creating and mentoring the design team, and played a major role in the design and production of high speed backplanes, boards and custom solutions.
Murugan has executed and managed more than 200 custom solutions & integration projects for customers in India and worldwide.
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