Board

• Professor Richard Stone

  Chairman of the Board

  Professor Stone is a major shareholder of Espro and represents additional investors.

  
  Professor Stone is active in the field of venture capital, particularly in the area of biotechnology. Two of the companies he co-founded are now public companies and one has merged into a public company.

  
  Professor Stone graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1963 and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1967. After two years in private practice, Professor Stone was appointed assistant solicitor general of the United States, where he served from 1969 to 1973. In 1974, Professor Stone was appointed to the faculty of the Columbia Law School, where he was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1979. In 1990, he received the Wilbur Friedman Chair in tax law, which he holds today.

  
  He currently sits on the boards of several American and Israeli companies.
   

• Israel Gal

  Director and Company CEO

  Mr. Gal has served as Espro's president and CEO since 1997. He has transformed the company from an OEM manufacturer into a media & technology international company. In 2004 Mr. Gal brought Espro to the London Plus market and in 2005, he led the acquisition of its main competitor Acoustiguide Corporation, and formed the Espro Acoustiguide Group. Since then he has been serving as the Group CEO.

   

  From 1993 to 1997, he served as CEO of a subsidiary of Koor, and before that as the manager of the Tel Aviv branch of Bank Tefahot. From 2002 to 2004 he sat on the board of directors of Elbit Visiion Systems, a public company traded on NASDAQ.

   

  Mr. Gal has a Master's degree in social sciences from Haifa University and a Bachelor's degree in economics and business administration from Bar-Ilan University.
   

• Shmuel Shalem

  Director and Company CTO

  Shmuel Shalem is one of the founders of Espro and is responsible for all technical functions and activities of the company from R&D, to complete design of the company's products.

   

  Prior to founding Espro in 1992, Mr. Shalem worked at National Semiconductors Ltd., Israel, for eight years, managing a team of chip designers and software engineers responsible for the design verification of new VLSI computer products.

   

  Mr. Shalem earned a Master of Science desgree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Santa Clara in California, specializing in computers, digital systems and microelectronics. He has a Bachelor's degree (BSEE) from the Technion - Israel institute of Technology.
   

• Giora Meyuhas

  Director

  Mr. Meyuhas served as the CEO of Gadot Petrochemical Industries Ltd. and as the Economic Minister to North America.

  
  He is presently serving as the Chairman of the council of Ramat Hovav, Massuot I tzhak, Xenlight, Diagnostic Technology and Qualion, and as a Director at the International Bank, Maabarot Products and Teuza.
  
  Mr. Meyuhas has a Master's degree from the Technion and has participated in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

  
  Mr Meyuhas is the recipient of the 1993 Industrial Prize.