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Biomor has
a diversified management team:
Ko bi
Spector - CEO
Mr. Spector
Joined Biomor in April 2006. Mr. Spector brings with him over 20
years of senior management experience in a long list of Start-ups in
the fields of Biotechnology, Medical diagnostics and equipment and
Semiconductors. In his last position Mr. Spector served for 7 years
as VP business Development for Shellcase Ltd, a public traded IP
company and a leader in the semiconductors miniaturization industry.
During his service the company grew from 20 to 240 employees while
obtaining a world leader position in its field, Constructing
state-of-the art production facilities in Israel and in JV’s in
Taiwan, Korea (where Mr. Spector served as board member) and China
and Licensing its technology to a number of the world’s leading semiconductors companies. At the fall of
2005, Shellcase’s IP was sold for US$33M to Tessera Technologies,
Inc. (Nasdaq:TSRA). Mr. Spector’s
unique, extensive and diversified experience in R&D, Operations, and
mostly in Business Development and international Marketing and
Sales, expands Biomor’s management’s expertise and supports its
plans in further expanding its international business and range of
applications. Mr. Spector holds a B.S. in Agriculture, Biochemistry
and Physiology, and double Master's Degree in Business Management
and Applied Science, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
D ani
Neifeld – Founder and COO
Mr. Neifeld has founded Biomor with a vision to bring solutions to professional
farming that will be effective and at the same time ecologically
sound. Mr. Neifeld has drawn on his vast hands-on experience in farming
as well as on his entrepreneurial spirit. The idea of using Tea
Tree Oil based compounds came to him when he spent a number of
years working in Australia where Tea Tree Oil is used traditionally
for human pharmacological uses.
Mr. Neifeld has industrial and management
experience. In addition
he was responsible for 3000 youth in one of Israel's youth movements.
Mr. Neifeld holds an MA in History and a BSc. degree
in Biology and Ecology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Prof.
Moshe Reuveni – Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Prof. Reuveni received his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from
the Department of Life Sciences of Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
He spent four years as post -doctoral research fellow and research
associate at the Plant Pathology Department, University of Kentucky,
USA, and worked for three years as senior research scientist for
Plant Biotechnology Industry in Israel. He joined the Golan Research
Institute, University of Haifa in Israel in 1990 and since 1999
he serves as the Head of the Institute.
His research is mainly focused on various aspect of Integrated
Pest Management (IPM). Major research interests include the role
of biological, physiological and molecular aspects of induced
and non-induced resistance to fungal diseases, the development
of new anti-fungal compounds for reduction of pesticide usage
and disease control; the development of new broad-spectrum bio-organic
tea tree-based formulations for the control of plant diseases.
Prof. Moshe
Reuveni - Curriculm Vitae and List of Publications
Dr. Gr egory Pipco – Chief Chemist
Dr. Pipco received his Ph.D. in Chemical Technology from the
Soviet Academy of Science in Kiev in 1970. in the early 70’s he
became a dissident in the USSR and after a struggle managed to gain his
freedom and immigrated to Israel in 1972. He continued his academic
career as a Sr. Fellow Researcher and Consultant in the faculty
of Chemical Engineering Science in the Technion, in Haifa.
Dr. Pipco has accumulated vast industrial, consulting and
R&D experience in various positions and companies.
His Research Activity resulted in over thirty published papers
and more than fifty patents in broad areas including fungicides,
inorganic compounds for agricultural and civil engineering, Anticorrosive
pigments based on slow release technology; Conductive Ceramics;
Salt separation in electrostatic field, Development of new fertilizers
and slow released fertilizers, new processes for obtaining nitrates
and phosphates; liquid extraction; ion exchange and more.
Dr. Zvi Paster –
Director and Regulation Consultant
Dr.
Zvi Paster has over 25 years of experience in toxicology, with
particular experience in the registration and notification of
pesticides and other agro products and in developing regulatory
strategies for gaining product registration and approval from the
US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and EU authorities.
In the past he headed the Marketing Department of agro-chemicals
giant Makhteshim-Agan Industries, were he was responsible for
product strategy for both new products development and the
existing product lines. There he also led a team of scientists and
agronomists in the development, from synthesis through
registration to launch, of a very successful innovative pesticide.
Zvi received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem and had been a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Neurobiology
in the University
of Southern California
Dan Mayshar –
Director and Regulation Consultant
Dan
has more than 40 years experience in the agro industry, including
approximately 30 years in agro-chemicals giant Makhteshim-Agan
Industries, where he filled many management positions including
World Wide manager of the herbicide product line, Marketing and
development manager for the European operations and export manager
for global regions ranging from Asia through Europe to Latin
America. Dan has particular expertise in the regulatory
requirements of the EU authorities, and manages Biomor’s
regulatory efforts in the EU.
Yoram Zor -
Global Marketing Consultant.
Yoram has over 30 years of experience in introduction
and marketing of plant protection inputs in the global agro
industry, with 25 years of various positions in Maketeshim-Agan
group as Asia/Africa and Australia export manager, Global
insecticide marketing manager and several years of managerial
overseas positions in Japan and India.
Yoram has an MSD
degree in Entomology from the Hebrew University in Jeruslaem.
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