"Roni Einav, Technology Entrepreneur, Investor and Author"
Raised in a typical Israeli family of the 1950s, Mr. Roni Einav, one of the first and most
successful entrepreneurs of the Israeli high tech industry, began his professional
entrepreneurship by founding Einav Systems in the 1970s in a small room in Tel Aviv – a
daughter company of which he sold to an American mega-corporation for $680 million. Years
later, he established Einav Hi Tec Assets, an investment company focused on technology
ventures, of which he currently serves as Chairman.
Roni has initiated over 25 venture investments during the past four decades. These
include Liraz Computers (which went public on TASE), New Dimension Software (which went
public on NASDAQ and was acquired by BMC Software), Jacada (traded on NASDAQ) and more.
He has served as Chairman or Director of many of these companies and as an advisor to
several other companies pro-bono.
Mr. Einav holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Industrial Engineering, as well
as a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from the Technion – Israel Institute of
Technology. He has taught entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Technion and other
academic institutions.
Mr. Einav was a Major in the Israeli Defense Forces, where he served as a weapons systems
analyst in a research and development division.
In 2009, Mr. Einav’s co-authored autobiography was published in Hebrew by Kineret-ZmoraBitan. In 2012, the English translation – From Nordau to NASDAQ – was published by Kotarim
International Publishers and is available on Amazon.com (paper and Kindle versions). Dozens of
high-tech developments in Israel’s ‘Silicon Wadi’ have focused tremendous attention around
the question of why such remarkable technological innovation developed in the tiny country of
Israel in particular, spurring Israel’s own economic development. As an autobiography of one of
Israeli technology’s founding fathers, Nordau to NASDAQ helps uncover some of the
characteristics of Israeli innovators from up close, presenting a detailed account of the
marvelous and sometimes desperate journey that has led to such unfathomable financial
success.