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Ronen Shilo, Founder & CEO

Ronen Shilo is an inventor at heart, from sophisticated software applications to cool musical puzzles, and introducing groundbreaking Internet applications is his passion. Before founding Conduit, Ronen started Effective-I, a learning system that categorized, organized and delivered information to shorten search cycles within an enterprise. Ronen also founded DoubleAgent, the first company to develop a collaboration technology that enabled application sharing over the Internet. DoubleAgent was later acquired by NetManage, and he managed this division for three years following the acquisition. Ronen received a BSc in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Dror Erez, Founder, VP R&D & CTO

Dror Erez is responsible for creating and implementing the Conduit product vision, including all product and technology strategy. A veteran of multiple technology startups, Dror has deep experience and knowledge of Internet, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and web syndication technologies. Before founding Conduit, Dror was cofounder and development manager of Effective-I, a learning system that categorized, organized and delivered information to shorten search cycles within an enterprise. Prior to this, he was development manager at DoubleAgent, where he led the engineering team that designed and developed the DoubleAgent application for sharing applications over the Internet. He also held leading technical positions in the Israeli Navy software division where he managed two projects that won awards from the Israel Navy Commander. Dror received his BSc in Physics and Computer Science from Israel's Bar Ilan University.

Gaby Bilczyk, Founder, VP Product Development

Gaby Bilczyk runs all software and systems engineering at Conduit, and brings extensive Internet software development skills to the Conduit team. He has worked for some of the most innovative software companies in Israel, including Effective-I with Dror and Ronen, and has deep experience building robust, highly scalable websites and web services. As a project and team leader, Gaby balances a passion for great products with strong process discipline. Gaby received his BA in Computer Science from the Tel Aviv - Jaffa College in Israel with a focus on complex algorithms and distributed computing.

Joel York, VP, Marketing

Joel York is responsible for communicating and monetizing the Conduit vision. With more than 15 years of success in bringing software, web and software-as-a-service (SaaS) brands to market, he possesses deep expertise in both B2C and B2B business models with transactions ranging from $50 web subscriptions to $5M enterprise deals. Joel's experience includes vice president of marketing roles at Navis, eMind and Passlogix. Previously, he was a division general manager at SPSS and a consulting manager at Deloitte. Technically strong, Joel has a unique strategic grasp of the most cutting-edge web technologies from social networks to syndication. Joel holds a BS in Physics from Caltech, an MS in Engineering Physics from Cornell, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

David Feuerstein, VP - Business Development

David Feuerstein is Conduit’s rainmaker in residence. A serial entrepreneur, David has founded and been instrumental in building revenue at multiple successful startups in the VOIP and Internet payments sectors. In the course of his career, David has developed, structured and closed innumerable multimillion dollar business partnerships and investments. David’s experience includes roles as cofounder and director at ATS Communications, vice president of business development at DeltaThree and one of its founding employees, and managing director at The Waban Group, a business partnership that helped facilitate regional business cooperation in the technology and natural resource and energy sectors in the Middle East. David holds a BA from the University of California at San Diego.

Roy Gen, VP - Finance & Operations

Roy Gen oversees Conduit’s financial activity and manages corporate operations. Roy brings more than 10 years of extensive experience in corporate and international financial management, including experience in accounting and auditing. Prior to joining Conduit, Roy served as vice president of finance at Exanet, a leading provider of clustered NAS (Network Attached Storage) solutions, where he led finance, accounting, and corporate control. Roy is a CPA and holds a BA (cum laude) in Economics and Accounting from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the Recanati School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University.

Eitan Lev, VP - Business Intelligence

Eitan Lev is in charge of maximizing the value and performance of the Conduit services portfolio. A technology and startup veteran, Eitan has served as vice president of research and development at multiple successful technology companies, including Scopus Network Technologies Ltd., Effective I and Vsoft Ltd. He also has deep software management experience, having led teams at Nexus and Advanced Technology Ltd. An avid inventor, Eitan has five patents and is in charge of intellectual property and patent management at Conduit. Eitan holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Reena Jadhav, CMO

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Board of Directors

Ronen Shilo

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Dror Erez

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Zack Rinat

Zack Rinat is the Founder and CEO of Model N, leader of revenue management solutions.
He is an expert in creating successful startup operations and new markets for advanced technology. Prior to founding Model N, he co-founded NetDynamics in 1995, a leading enterprise software company widely acknowledged as the creator of the exploding market for application servers and winner of several industry awards. At NetDynamics, Zack served as president and CEO until its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 1998, and subsequently served as vice president and general manager of Sun's NetDynamics business unit. Previously, he held senior management positions in operations, marketing, and engineering at Silicon Graphics, Inc. and at Advanced Technology Israel. Zack received a BS in Computer Science from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Boaz Goldschmidt

Boaz is a General Partner and co-founder of Yozma, one of Israel’s prominent venture capital funds, and played a key role in the formation of the Israeli venture capital industry via its fund of fund activity.

With some $200M under management, Boaz is in charge of early stage investments in Communication, Software and Medical technology companies.

Boaz has led many of Yozma's investments in Communications and Software companies, including E-sim (NASDAQ: ESIM), CommTouch (NASDAQ: CTCH), and Telegate (acquired by Terayon Communications, NASDAQ: TERN). He currently sits on the board of directors of several entrepreneurial technology companies. Prior to Yozma, Boaz evaluated hi-tech investments as head of the Royalties Department at the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) in Israel.

Boaz holds a BA degree in Economics and an MBA degree from the Hebrew University, Israel.

Michael Eisenberg

Michael Eisenberg joined Benchmark Capital as a general partner in July 2005 from Israel Seed Partners where he was a general partner since July 1997. Eisenberg began his career at Jerusalem Global where he started and led the firm’s successful investment banking group and partnership with Montgomery Securities. Michael has focused on Internet investments since 1995 and has invested in and sat on the board of Israel’s leading companies and start ups, such as Shopping.com (Nasdaq SHOP, acquired by EBAY), Answers.com (Nasdaq ANSW), Finjan, Tradeum (acquired: VERT), and Picturevison (acquired: EK). Michael writes a blog on Internet trends, Israeli politics and children’s issues at www.sixkidsandafulltimejob.blogspot.com. Michael also serves on the board Yeshivat Har Etzion, Israel’s largest yeshiva combining traditional Talmudic study with military service. In January 2005, Eisenberg co-founded www.scoop.co.il, Israel’s first and only citizen journalism project.

Michael lectures frequently on the topics of Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He holds a BA in Political Science from Yeshiva University in New York. Michael lives in Jerusalem, Israel with his wife and seven children.