Executive Team
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.
Anton Mariash
CIO
Anton comes to Wefi with over 20 years of experience in Technology Operations, Product Development, and Go-to-Market strategy for global business units. His experience spans small start-ups to large corporations.
Prior to joining WeFi, Anton co-founded two successful companies in the BI and ERP/GRC space. Before founding his businesses, Anton was CIO of CIBC World Markets US Equities, Telmar Holdings and worked for Warburg Pincus and Lazard Freres &Co.
Anton is an avid explorer and traveler.
Uri Neeman
VP Business Development
Uri is responsible for WeFi’s worldwide Business Development and Sales Activities.
Uri has over 18 years of executive experience in Business Development, Sales and Marketing, working with High-Tech Companies and start-ups in the Telecommunications domain.
Before joining WeFi, Uri was EVP Business Development Sales & Marketing at ITS Telecom, a leading Telecom equipment provider. Prior to ITS, Uri held VP positions at Comverse, Visonic Networks, Packet Technologies (a security Chip provider acquired by TI) and as Director of Business Development & Sales at RADLinx (a Fax over IP pioneer acquired by VocalTec).
Uri is a graduate of the Recanati School of Business Management TEP (Top Executive Program), majoring in International Marketing and holds a BA in Business Development from Jerusalem University Business School. Uri Served as Captain in the IAF (Israeli Air Force).
Michelle Trainor
VP US Operations
As VP of US Operations Michelle is responsible for the US Market; managing all US Marketing, Business Development and Operations for WeFi.
Michelle has over 18 years of experience working with telecommunications providers and high-tech start-ups. Michelle has a unique combination of technical and operations business experience. Michelle was an executive in Accenture's Communications & High Tech practice for 10 years, until moving on to become CIO and VP of Product Development for an Internet Service Provider. After leaving her position as CIO, Michelle worked as the VP of Sales and Customer Lifecycle Management for GlowPoint, Inc., a video conferencing network provider. Most recently Michelle served as the COO of ApproxiMatch Inc. a search engine company serving the Internet Yellow Pages market.
Tamir Scherzer
Co-founder, VP Research and Development
Tamir Scherzer brings 15 years of experience in communications engineering to WeFi. Prior to joining WeFi, Tamir led the System and Architecture team at Modemart, a 3G cellular chip company which was acquired by Agere. Before, Modemart, Tamir was a product manager and researcher at Paragon Communications, which developed high-efficiency cellular base-station amplifiers. Prior to Paragon, Tamir led large communication engineering teams as a Captain in the IDF Intelligence Core.
Tamir holds MScEE and BScEE degrees from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Amit Shaked
VP Products and Web
In his role as VP of Web and Products, Amit oversees the design and delivery of new products. He manages the Internet development and online marketing strategies.
Amit brings more than 18 years of technology and product development leadership to the WeFi management team.
Prior to joining WeFi, Amit was General Manager and VP of Product Technologies at SmartShopper.com, a spin-off from Hotbar.com, which was acquired by Zango. Before Hotbar, Amit served as VP R&D for Finjan Software, a prominent web content security company.
Prior to Finjan, Amit served as G.M. and VP R&D at SoftWatch, a pioneering e-health company (acquired by eWave), co-founder and VP Products of Enbaya, developer of 3D graphics compression and streaming technologies, and CTO of Composit Communications.
Amit served 6 years as a technical officer in the IDF Military Intelligence, ranking as Major (in reserve). Amit holds M.Sc and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
