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Bar Veinstein

CEO

Bar Veinstein

Bar Veinstein was named Chief Executive Officer of Taranis in January 2021. Prior to joining Taranis, he served as President of Ex Libris. Under his leadership, Ex Libris became a rapidly growing $200 million global SaaS business. Bar joined Ex Libris in 2010 as senior vice president of cloud solutions to lead the transformation of Ex Libris’ products and business to SaaS. Before joining Ex Libris, Bar spent twelve years at NICE Systems (a leading CRM software company traded on NASDAQ) in senior product management and marketing leadership roles. He holds a B.A. in Computer Sciences & Economics and an MBA in Marketing & Information Systems, both from Tel-Aviv University.  Connect with Bar on LinkedIn

Ofir Schlam

President & Co-Founder

Ofir Schlam

Raised in Israel, Ofir is fourth-generation to a family of farmers. He began his professional career at the age of 19, while fulfilling his military service in an elite technological unit of the Prime Minister’s Office. In this role, he developed and led groundbreaking technology for classified projects while managing an R&D department of 15 software engineers. Ofir earned a B.Sc. in Math & Computer Science, with honors, and a M.Sc in cryptography.

Ayal Karmi

Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder

Ayal Karmi

Equipped with over 10 years of experience in the agriculture sector, Ayal has a B.A. in Economics and Accounting and is a certified crop advisor. Starting his career Ayal joined the army, serving in an elite intelligence unit where his love for numbers grew. After the IDF, Ayal was in charge of market research of new technologies and banking systems at the Bank of Israel where he designed and wrote specifications for a large-scale new banking system for two years.

Avner Gideoni

CTO

Avner Gideoni

Avner Gideoni is the General Manager of Product and Engineering. Avner owns the product delivery of Taranis, including the AI research group, the software R&D group, the hardware R&D team, and the Product team. Before Taranis, Avner served as VP Security Research and Development of Trusteer, which was acquired by IBM. Avner holds an B.Sc in Industrial and Management Engineering from Ben Gurion University and MBA from Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center. Avner has two kids and is an IoT maker freak in his spare time.

Opher Flohr

COO & CFO

Opher Flohr

Opher was appointed as CFO at Taranis in April 2019 and brings over 10 years of accounting and finance experience. Prior to joining Taranis, he served as Vice President of Finance at Cyren, a publicly traded company managing the accounting and finance departments. Opher previously held public accounting roles at EY, managing an assurance team focused on technology public entities and startups. He holds a degree in economics and accounting from the University of Haifa, and an MBA from the Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University.

Eli Bukchin

Chief Technology Innovation & Co-Founder

Eli Bukchin

Eli is a software architecture and R&D expert with wide experience in software development for meteorological systems. Eli has eight years of experience in the IDF and in hi-tech companies including Symbionix where he was a software engineer. Eli has developed forecasting systems for the Navy that are still in use today and for which he received an award from the chief of the Navy. He has a B.Sc. in Physics.

Michael DiPaola

GM North America & VP Global Sales

Michael DiPaola

With over 15 years of experience in sales and management, Michael DiPaola has held several senior roles in the agricultural industry, including Product Line Lead at Southern States Cooperative, VP Global Sales and Operations at Farmers Edge, and Sales and Marketing at Syngenta.

Avi Altaras

VP Operations

Avi Altaras

Avi brings over 20 years of professional experience in global operations. For many years, Avi managed construction and deployment projects of radio base stations for cellular operators, in different locations in the world. Later he entered the renewable energy market, starting with deployment of solar systems, and most recently worked at an early stage startup as VP operations, developing and distributing solar systems in emerging markets. Avi has a BSc. and MBA degrees. He is married, has 3 kids, and enjoys running for hobby.

Jedidiah Kiesel

VP Product

Jedidiah Kiesel

Jedidiah has close to 20 years of product management and marketing experience in B2C as well as B2B companies both for start ups such as Better Place, Lemonade and Freightos as well as for big companies such as Nokia, SAP, Microsoft & Cisco. His work experience spans a variety of geographies as he has worked in Germany, the US, and Israel. Jedidiah is a native German & English speaker with an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Ayelet Tamir

VP People

Ayelet Tamir

Ayelet brings over 10 years of experience in full-cycle, global HR processes, from both corporate and startup companies. Prior to working in the tech industry, Ayelet gained extensive clinical therapeutic experience. She holds a B.A in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Clinical Criminology.

Amihay Gornik

VP of Hardware Engineering & Co-Founder

Amihay Gornik

With a M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from Ben Gurion University and vast experience in leading multidisciplinary engineering development projects, Amihay leads Taranis R&D of imaging platforms and is in charge of the development of imaging solutions.

Lucas Geraldini

GM Brazil

Lucas Geraldini

Lucas is an Agronomist, graduated in Esalq/USP in Piracicaba and has been working with Brazilian growers of all sizes and regions since 2013 helping them adopting to technologies and increase their profit. Lucas is passionate about technology, and believe that digital tools applied to farming will be the next revolution in Agriculture. Lucas currently lives in São Paulo, keeping his roots in the countryside of the state where his family has a small dairy business.

Kevin Capodice

Director of Marketing

Kevin Capodice

Kevin Capodice was appointed Director of Marketing in November of 2020. Prior to Taranis, Kevin served as a Marketing Specialist for Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company to build and execute on product marketing for their software and robotic systems.  He holds a BFA in Graphic Design and 6 years experience as a drone (sUAS) operator. He combines his passion for technology and creativity to grow Taranis globally through strategic marketing initiatives. Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn

Nir Naor

Director of AI

Nir Naor

Nir is an experienced and innovative R&D manager with almost 10 years of experience in methodological algorithms research in different fields including Computer Vision, Video Analytics and Statistical Modeling. Experienced with Agile Methodologies for both research and production. Process and People Oriented with great interpersonal skills for Managing People and Talents. Holding a B.Sc. degree in Engineering & Math and a masters degree in Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev based on solid academic Mathematical education. Nir has joined Taranis 11 Months ago.

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