Zami Aberman, Co-Chairman, Pluristem's President & CEO
Aberman joined Pluristem in September 2005 and
changed the Company’s strategy towards cellular
therapeutics. Mr. Aberman has 20 years of experience
in marketing and management in the high technology
industry. He has held Chief Executive and Chairman
positions in Israel, the USA, Europe, Japan and
Korea. He has operated within high-tech global
companies in the fields of automatic optical
inspection, network security, video over IP,
software, chip design and robotics. Mr. Aberman
serves as the Chairman of Rose Hitech Ltd., a
private investment company; and has served in the
past as the Chairman of VLScom Ltd., a private
company specializing in video compression for HDTV
and video over IP and as a Director of Ori Software
Ltd., a company involved in data management. Prior
to that, he served as the President and CEO of Elbit
Vision Systems (EVSNF.OB), which supplies inspection
systems for the microelectronic industry.
Mr. Aberman has served as President and CEO of
Netect Ltd., specializing in the field of internet
security software and was the Co-Founder, President
and CEO of Associative Computing Ltd., which
developed an associative parallel processor for
real-time video processing. He has also served as
Chairman of Display Inspection Systems Inc.,
specializing in laser based inspection machines and
as President and CEO of Robomatix Technologies Ltd.
(RBMXF.OB).
In 1992, Aberman was awarded the Rothschild Prize
for excellence in his field from the President of
the State of Israel. Aberman holds a B.Sc. in
Mechanical Engineering from Ben Gurion University in
Israel.
Mark Germain, Co-Chairman Mr.
Germain was appointed Co-Chairman of the Board of
Directors on May 17, 2007. For more than the past
five years, Mr. Germain has been a merchant banker
serving primarily the biotech and life sciences
industries. He has been involved as a founder,
director, Chairman of the Board of, and/or investor
in over twenty companies in the biotech field, and
assisted many of them in arranging corporate
partnerships, acquiring technology, entering into
mergers and acquisitions, and executing financings
and going public transactions. He graduated New York
University School of Law in 1975, Order of the Coif,
and was a partner in a New York law firm practicing
corporate and securities law before leaving for the
private sector in 1986. Since then, and until he
entered the biotech field in 1991, he served in
senior executive capacities, including as president
of a public company sold in 1991. In addition to
being Co-Chairman of the Company, Mr. Germain is a
director of the following publicly traded companies:
Wellford Real Properties, Inc., Stem Cell
Innovations, Inc., and Collexis Holdings, Inc. He is
also a co-founder and director of a number of
private companies in the biotechnology field.
Mr. Doron Shorrer
Doron Shorrer (CPA, Israel) was Chairman of the
Board of Phoenix Insurance Company, one of the
largest insurance companies in Israel and Mivtachim
Pension Benefit Group, the largest pension fund in
Israel, managing $15 billion. Before assuming these
positions, Shorrer held senior appointments that
included: Arbitrator at the Claims Resolution
Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland;
Economic and Financial Advisor, Commissioner of
Insurance and Capital Markets for the State of
Israel; Member of the Board of Directors of
"Nechasim" of the State of Israel; Member of the
Committee for the Examination of Structural Changes
in the Capital Market (The Brodet Committee);
General Director of the Ministry of Transport;
Co-Founder and Director of an accounting firm having
three branches (Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa); Member
of the Lecture Staff of the Amal School Chain;
Chairman of a Public Committee for
Telecommunications; and Economic Consultant to the
Ministry of Energy.
Among many areas of expertise, Mr. Shorrer
formulates, implements and administers business
planning in the private and institutional sector.
Additionally, Mr. Shorrer consults on economic,
accounting and taxation issues to a large audience,
ranging from private concerns to government
ministries. Mr. Shorrer holds a B.A. in Economics
and Accounting and an M.A. in Business
Administration (specialization in finance and
banking) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He
is a Certified Public Accountant (ISR).
Ms. Hava Klemperer Meretzki
Hava Klemperer Meretzki, Adv. is a partner in
the law firm of Ben-Noun Meretzki in Haifa,
Israel. She specializes in civil, trade and
labor law and is presently Vice-Chairman for the
National Council of the Israel Bar Association.
She previously was a Director of the Israel
Electric Company. Ms. Meretzki received a
Bachelors Degree in Law from the Hebrew
University in 1991, and, in 1992, was admitted
to the Israel Bar Association.
Isaac Braun
Mr. Braun was appointed a director of Pluristem on
July 6, 2005. Mr. Braun is a business veteran with
entrepreneurial, industrial and manufacturing
experience. He has been a co-founder and board
member of several hi-tech start-ups in the areas of
e-commerce, security, messaging, search engines and
biotechnology. Mr. Braun advises private companies
on raising financing and business development.
Israel Ben Yoram
Mr. Ben-Yoram was appointed a director of Pluristem
on January 26, 2005. Mr. Ben-Yoram has been a
director and partner in the accounting firm of Mor,
Ben-Yoram and Partners in Israel from 1985 to the
present. This accounting firm currently employs over
15 employees in the field of auditing, consulting,
and associated projects. Since 1992, Mr. Ben-Yoram
has served as a shareholder and the head director of
Mor, Ben-Yoram Ltd., a private company in Israel, in
parallel with the operation of the Mor, Ben-Yoram
and Partners accounting firm. This company provides
management services, economic consulting services
and other professional services to businesses. Mr.
Ben-Yoram received a B.A. in accounting from the
University of Tel Aviv, an M.A. in Economics from
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an LLB and an
MBA from Tel Aviv University and an LLM from
Bar-Ilan University.
Nachum Rosman
Mr. Rosman is an expert in finance, management and
organization. He has held Chief Executive and CFO
positions in Israel, USA and England. He has
operated in High-Tech global companies in Software
and Business. In these jobs he was responsible for
finance management, fund-raising, acquisitions,
technology sales, preparation of financial reports
for due diligences, etc.
Mr. Rosman serves as a consultant to start up
companies in financing, strategy and reorganization.
He serves as the CEO of Multiview Ltd, a company he
co-founded in 1999. He serves as a director at
Zoomix data mastering and Knolan.
Mr. Rosman was a director actively involved in the
sale of New Dimension Ltd. to B.M.C. Inc. for $675
million. Prior to that he held a Co-CEO position in
R.T.S. Ltd. (Virinet Ltd.), where he participated in
the IPO in NASDAQ.
Shai Pines
Mr. Pines is a lawyer admitted to practice law
in the State of Israel since 1981. He is a
partner with, and heads the Commercial and
International Transactions Department of, the
Israeli law firm of Hamburger Evron & Co. Since
2000 Mr. Pines served as a member of the
Supervisory Board of Globe Trade Centre SA (GTC),
a Polish company, which is traded on the Warsaw
Stock Exchange, and between the years 2000 -
2005 as a member of the Supervisory Board of GTC
International BV, a Dutch private company. Mr.
Pines is also a member of the Board of Governors
of the Law Faculty of the Tel-Aviv University
since 2006. Mr. Pines holds an MBA degree from
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
University, U.S.A. & the Leon Recanati Graduate
School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv
University and an LL.B. degree from Tel-Aviv
University.
