Carmel Vernia is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Startup Factory. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Israel Growth Partners Acquisition Corp.
From June 2003 to January 2005, Mr. Vernia served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Tower Semiconductor, a silicon foundry based in Israel.
From 2000 to May 2002, Mr. Vernia served as the Chief Scientistin the Government of Israel’s Ministry of Industry and Trade.
From 1984 until April 2000, Mr. Vernia was employed by Comverse Technology (Nasdaq), one of the world’s leading suppliers of voicemail systems and other value added services to wireless and wireline telecom operators, including as its Chief Operating Officer from 1994 to April 2000, as well as Chief Executive Officer of Verint Systems (Nasdaq), an independent subsidiary of Comverse Technology and a world leader in digital voice and video recording for communications and business intelligence.
Mr. Vernia also serves on the Executive Council of Tel Aviv University.
Mr. Vernia received an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.
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