Company

Executive Management & Board

Executive Management

CEO

Coby Hanoch

CTO

Ishai Naveh

VP R & D

Ilan Sever

VP Marketing & Business Development

Eran Briman

CFO

Alla Felder​

Chief Revenue Officer

Issachar Ohana

CEO

Coby Hanoch

Coby comes to Weebit Nano with 15 years’ experience in engineering and engineering management and 26 years’ experience in sales management and executive roles. Coby was Vice President Worldwide Sales at Verisity where he was part of the founding team and grew the company to over $100M in annual sales which facilitated its acquisition by Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS). He was also Vice President Worldwide Sales at Jasper, doubling sales before it was acquired by Cadence. Coby was brought in as CEO to help PacketLight avoid bankruptcy and get it back to a leadership position in its domain. Prior to Weebit, Coby set up his own consulting company, EDAcon Partners, helping startups define their corporate strategies, to set up their worldwide sales channel and raise capital. Coby holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems Design from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

CTO

Ishai Naveh

Ishai is an industry veteran with more than 35 years’ experience in the semiconductor field, ranging from process development and integration, silicon manufacturing, setting technology requirements and directing technical teams to obtain customers’ needs, as well as various marketing positions. He started his career at National Semiconductor, where he served in various technical roles. Later he served in key management positions overlooking NVM and Foundry Technologies at Tower Semiconductor, one of the leading foundries worldwide. In 2007 Ishai co-founded Adesto, one of the early ReRAM companies, where he served as VP of Marketing and Business Development, leading Technology and Product definition and adaptation for market requirements. He served in Adesto until its acquisition by Dialog Semiconductors in 2020.

Ishai has a B.Sc. degree in physics from the Hebrew University and an M.B.A. from Heriott-Watt University, and holds numerous patents in the NVM field.

VP R & D

Ilan Sever

Ilan has over 25 years of design & project-management expertise in the field of Non-Volatile-Memory, Semiconductor IP and SOC design. Prior to joining Weebit-Nano, Ilan served as the Memory-Group CTO and Subsidiary GM at Dolphin-Design, leading the development of numerous memory architectures, as well as innovation projects in the fields of security, rad-hard memories and RISC-V memory subsystems. He previously managed the VLSI activities of Sandlinks Systems – a company in the field of IoT, developing a breakthrough Low-Power, Mixed-Signal/RF SOC. In his previous roles Ilan was Director of IP & Libraries at Tower Semiconductors and Design Manager of Flash-Memory at ST Microelectronics. Ilan holds a BSCEE from the Technion – Israeli Institute for Technology, and has several granted patents and awards.

VP Marketing & Business Development

Eran Briman

Eran has nearly 30 years of experience in the semiconductor IP field. At Weebit Nano (ASX:WBT), Eran serves as VP of Marketing and Business Development, leading the company’s ReRAM commercialization efforts. Prior to joining Weebit in 2020, he was VP of Marketing and Business Development for Corephotonics, an imaging IP start-up that pioneered the multi-aperture domain in mobile devices and was acquired by Samsung Electronics in 2019. Before that, Eran was VP of Marketing and Corporate Development for CEVA (NASDAQ: CEVA), where he helped to shape the company as a leader in numerous DSP markets including mobile, IoT, surveillance, infrastructure and automotive. Over more than a decade at CEVA, Eran held numerous roles including Chief Architect, where he had overall responsibility for the research and development of next-generation DSP cores. He also held engineering and engineering management roles at DSP Group, where he led large development teams.

Eran holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the Kellogg Business School at Northwestern University. He holds several patents in and has authored numerous technical publications.

CFO

Alla Felder​

Alla has over 20 years’ experience as a Certified Public Accountant. As a senior manager at PWC Israel (Kesleman & Keselman) Alla was responsible for auditing large public companies traded on the TASE and US Stock Exchanges. She has also served as the CFO of several start-up companies and has extensive experience with SEC filings, SOX procedures, taxation reports and IPO procedures. Currently, Alla serves as an active director on the board of several public companies traded on the TASE and NASDAQ. She is also a Professor of Accounting at the College of Management, Academic Studies, School of Business Administration. Alla holds a CPA and a Master’s degree in Finance from the City University of New York.

Chief Revenue Officer

Issachar Ohana

Issachar has an extensive background in semiconductor IP licensing and venture capital. Before joining Weebit in March 2024, Issachar was previously a Managing Partner at Gimmel Ventures, an early-stage Venture Capital firm in Palo Alto, CA. He also held advisory board seats in several technology companies. Before that, he was EVP and Officer at CEVA, Inc., a semiconductor IP licensing company listed on NASDAQ. At CEVA, Issachar built, hired, and managed a global sales force, technical support, and legal operations. Prior to that, Ohana held roles at CEVA including VP of Worldwide Sales and GM/VP of the DSP Intellectual Property Licensing Division. He was previously VP of Sales of the Core Licensing Division at DSP Group, having started his career there as a VLSI Design Engineer and holding positions of increasing responsibility over the years.

Issachar holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel and an MBA from Bradford University, United Kingdom.

Board of Directors​

Chairman

David (Dadi) Perlmutter

Executive Director​

Dr. Yoav Nissan-Cohen

CEO

Coby Hanoch

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Atiq Raza

Non-Executive Director

Ashley Krongold

Non-Executive Director

Naomi Simson

Chairman

David (Dadi) Perlmutter

Dadi is a technology and social entrepreneur. With almost 40 years’ experience in the semiconductors industry, Dadi has held a number of very senior global positions, including Executive Vice President and General Manager at the Intel Architecture Group (IAG) and also Chief Product Officer of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC). The award-winning executive received a prize for innovation in industrial development from the Israeli President in 1987 and an award for the development of the i387 math co-processor. Dadi was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Fellow) for his contributions to the mobile personal computer industry. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) until it was acquired by nVidia. Dadi is also a chairman of another Israeli startup called Teramount . He invests in numerous startups in Israel and Silicon valley focusing in deep technology and high performance computing like fast interconnects, AI, storage and new materials He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and chairs a number of non-profit organizations.

Executive Director​

Dr. Yoav Nissan-Cohen

Yoav manages Weebit’s R&D activities. Yoav’s career covers nearly 40 years of scientific research, technology development, and executive management in the hi-tech industry. 

Yoav received his PhD researching non-volatile memories, under the supervision of Prof Dov Frohman, the inventor of the first non-volatile memory technology.

He started his illustrious career as a research scientist in GE’s R&D center in New York where he studied the use of silicon dioxide in semiconductor memory devices. He then led the spin-off of National Semiconductor’s fabrication facility in Israel, establishing Tower Semiconductor, a Nasdaq-listed, global specialty semiconductor foundry leader with a market cap of US$3.4 billion, where he served as CEO for nine years. Dr. Nissan-Cohen also played a key role in establishing a non-volatile technology startup, Saifun Semiconductor, which was subsequently sold to Spansion. After two years in the venture capital industry, he returned to his entrepreneurial origins taking up Chairman and CEO positions in Amimon which provides wireless transmissions of HD Video at zero latency. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Zullavision, a company which leverages Israeli technologies to provide innovative solutions for film and TV productions. Dr. Nissan-Cohen holds a PhD in Applied Physics where his focus was SiOx memories.

CEO

Coby Hanoch

Coby comes to Weebit Nano with 15 years’ experience in engineering and engineering management and 26 years’ experience in sales management and executive roles. Coby was Vice President Worldwide Sales at Verisity where he was part of the founding team and grew the company to over $100M in annual sales which facilitated its acquisition by Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS). He was also Vice President Worldwide Sales at Jasper, doubling sales before it was acquired by Cadence. Coby was brought in as CEO to help PacketLight avoid bankruptcy and get it back to a leadership position in its domain. Prior to Weebit, Coby set up his own consulting company, EDAcon Partners, helping startups define their corporate strategies, to set up their worldwide sales channel and raise capital. Coby holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems Design from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. 

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Atiq Raza

Atiq is a highly respected veteran in the semiconductor industry, playing a significant role in the evolution of the semiconductor industry over the past 30 years. Atiq gained his reputation as Chairman and CEO of NexGen, which revolutionized the design of x86 processors, and was acquired in 1996 by Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD). Atiq then became President and COO of AMD and led its transition from running behind Intel processors to being a direct competitor, gaining significant market share in PCs and the Cloud. Later Atiq was the founder, Chairman and CEO of RMI which was acquired by NetLogic which in turn was acquired by Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) on the strength of the RMI processor. Since then Atiq has held multiple roles, including investor, Chairman and CEO of semiconductor companies, and serving on the boards of many companies including Mellanox, Magma Design Automation, Matrix and Solantro, to name a few. Today Atiq is the Executive Chairman of the Board at Virsec Systems Inc.

Non-Executive Director

Ashley Krongold

Ashley is the CEO of the Korngold Group – a third-generation, family-run group of companies based in Melbourne, Australia.  The Group engages in various businesses globally including construction, property development, property investment, finance, technology, venture capital and travel. Ashley’s background in the Investment Banking and Accounting industry spans 15 years during which he was a founding member of Investec Bank Australia, opening its Melbourne office in 2000 and later leading the Bank’s Private Client Lending division. Ashley formerly worked at William Buck Chartered Accountants, ANZ Corporate Finance (London) and ANZ Private Bank (Australia). He serves on the Boards and is a Director of various ASX listed companies, communal charities, foundations and organisations globally. He is also a member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization), the world’s premier peer network of chief executives and business leaders. Ashley holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Business from Monash University, Melbourne.

Non-Executive Director

Naomi Simson

Naomi had a corporate career in marketing with Apple, IBM, Ansett and KPMG before founding RedBalloon, an online marketplace for experiences, in 2001. RedBalloon now sits within Big Red Group, which she co-founded in 2017. In addition to offering wholesale services, platforms and technology to experience operators, Big Red Group also houses consumer brands; Adrenaline, Experience Oz, Local Agent and EverythingNZ.

Naomi sits on a number of boards including Australian Payments Plus, Colonial First State, Big Red Group, University of Melbourne Economics and Business Faculty and Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation. Known as an entrepreneur and business leader, Ms. Simson is also a best-selling author, podcaster and speaker. She has consistently been recognised for her corporate marketing expertise and leadership with awards including the National Telstra Business Women’s Award for Innovation in 2008, a 2011 finalist in BRW’s Entrepreneur of the Year, and being named Australia’s Top Business Blogger in 2020.