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Elron (TASE, NASDAQ: ELRN)
a leading technology holding company, Elron identifies and harnesses the unique technological creativity of Israel’s high-tech industry - turning promising companies into global industry leaders

Yossi Vardi
Yossi Vardi is one of Israel’s early tech entrepreneurs. For 38 years he founded and helped build over 50 tech companies in diverse areas of software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics, clean water and others. In 1969, at the age of 26, he co-founded and was the first CEO of Tekem, one of the very first software houses in Israel (which became the largest software company at the time, was sold to Tadiran, went public and now is part of Ness). He also co-founded Alon oil company, ITL (International Laser Technologies, went public), Granite Hacarmel (went public) and others. In 1996 he became the founding investor of Mirabilis - the creator of ICQ, which is the first Internet-wide Instant messaging. He serves on the advisory boards of Amdocs and 3i, on the Research Visionary Board of Motorola, and on the Future Trends Forum of The Bankinter Foundation of Innovation. He was advisor to the CEOs of AOL, Amazon.com, Allied-signal, Siemens-Albis and others.