About Coppergate
Gideon Barak
Gideon is the Chairman of IXI Mobile and Advasense and is also a Venture Partner of Benchmark Capital. He has more than 25 years of experience in consumer electronics and wireless technologies. Gideon was co-founder and CEO of DSP Communications (NASDAQ: DSPC), a developer of chips for mobile phones acquired by Intel for $1.6 billion. He also served as Chairman of Butterfly VLSI, a company that developed Bluetooth chipsets and became the short-range wireless division of Texas Instruments. He co-founded Envara, which developed wireless LAN networks and was acquired by Intel to become part of its WiMAX development group. Gideon was also an investor and active board member in ModemArt, which was acquired by Agere Systems.
Dan Shklarski
Dan brings over 33 years of communications and business development experience in leading Israeli companies. He is an expert in communications technologies with 12 journal articles and patents to his credit. Dan is a consultant to companies such as Cellcom, RDC, Elron, ECI Telecom and Eurocom on communications related subjects. Dan’s record also includes the position of Chief Scientist and New Business Development Manager at the Electronic Systems Division of RAFAEL (Israel’s Armament Development Authority) and the position of Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry of Communications. Dan holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institution at Troy, New York, and a B.Sc. in Physics from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,