Board of Directors
Barry Eggers
Managing Director, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Barry is a founder of Lightspeed and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of infrastructure technologies, communications and networking, digital media and semiconductors. He has eleven years of venture capital experience and ten years of operating experience.
Prior to joining Lightspeed, Barry held senior business development and operational roles at Cisco Systems from 1991-1997. While at Cisco, Barry was responsible for establishing several of the company's largest distribution channels with OEMs, system integrators and VARs. Also at Cisco, he developed the initial merger and acquisition process and directed the first wave of Cisco's acquisitions and integrations.
Barry has been named multiple times to the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors.
Barry holds a BA in Economics and Business from UCLA and an MBA from Stanford University.
Rami Kallish
Managing General Partner, Co-Founder, Pitango Venture Capital
Mr. Rami Kalish has extensive experience in venture capital and international management in the high-tech environment. Mr. Kalish has been active in the field of venture capital since 1992, and has served as Managing General Partner since that time. Prior to founding Pitango (originally under the name Polaris), Mr. Kalish garnered rich managerial experience at high-technology firms in the U.S., Europe and Israel. He previously held sales and marketing positions at IBM and senior executive roles at Orbotech (NASDAQ:ORBK), a leading manufacturer of capital equipment for the PCB and semiconductor industries.
He earned a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Information Science from the Technion Institute of Technology.
Beyond WeFi some of the Board of Directors on which Mr. Kalish previously served include VocalTec (VOCL), Retalix (RTLX), Optibase (OBAS), RADWARE (RDWR) and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Surf, ForeScout and Comsys, among others. Mr. Kalish was, for many years, also a member of the Board of the Israel Venture Association (IVA).
Zur Feldman
Chairman
Zur has over 20 years of executive experience working with high-tech, high-growth companies and venture capital firms. His experience spans start-ups to billion dollar corporations.
Prior to joining WeFi, Zur Feldman was a venture partner in Pitango, Israel's largest VC firm, where he focused on various investment initiatives in public and matured companies.
Prior to Pitango, Zur Feldman was selected by Microsoft, Echostar, Gilat and ING to co-found and lead StarBand Communications Inc., the first high-speed two-way consumer satellite broadband service in the world. He served as Chairman and CEO for the next 5 years and created a "new category" of satellite Internet services, serving tens of thousands of customers living in rural areas across the US, Central America, Mexico and Canada.
For the 13 years prior to joining StarBand, Zur served in different Senior Executive positions at Packard Bell Electronics. As the Executive Vice President of Operations, Zur managed a massive relocation of Packard Bell's HQ operations following the Northbridge earthquake in 1995 - resulting in the largest PC manufacturing facility in the world, housed under a singe roof. While at Packard Bell, Zur led the integration efforts for several acquired companies including; Zenith Corp. and NEC USA Corp.
Zur Feldman is a graduate of the Harvard Business School program for Senior Executives, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Management for Executives and of the Business and Management program at UCLA, CA. Zur holds a B.A. in Photojournalism, TV Broadcasting and Communications from New York University, N.Y.
Shimon Scherzer
Co-founder
Shimon Scherzer has over 20 years of experience in the cellular sector with specific expertise in cellular network performance and radio technologies. Shimon has managed programs and R&D efforts in theses fields both as a Captain in the military and as a senior executive and founder of technology companies.
Prior to founding WeFi, Shimon founded Kiwi Networks. Kiwi Networks developed radio interference resistant communication links. Kiwi Networks was acquired by Colubris Networks. Prior to Kiwi, Shimon founded Adaptive Telecom which built smart antenna solutions for CDMA base stations. Adaptive Telecom was acquired by Metawave Communications.
Shimon is the inventor of more than 25 patents. He holds a BScEE from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
