Israel Shamay

Israel Shamay is an MBA graduate of the Recanati School of Business at the Tel-Aviv University and a graduate of the Technion in Haifa, faculty of Information Systems Engineering. Since 2013, established and leads the Americas Operations in MATIMOP (Israeli Industry Center for R&D), the International Operations agency of the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist, focusing on developing and implementing cooperation platforms for industrial R&D and innovation projects in the Americas region.Formerly, as Executive Director for Cooperation with Europe, was in charge of architecting, realizing and evaluating industrial innovation cooperation frameworks at bilateral and European level, making them the major R&D cooperation instrument for Israeli industry with Europe. In 2010-2011 was Head of the EUREKA Chairmanship Program (EUREKA is Europe`s largest innovation network, with 40 member states and a number of thematic clusters led by multinational enterprises). The Israeli EUREKA chairmanship program focused on developing new financial instruments for innovative SME’s and on expanding EUREKA`s international dimension. Since 2006, in addition to managing the Israeli EUREKA office, Shamay served as Israel`s National Representative in several intentional R&D programs and also as an expert evaluator for the EU Framework Programs for R&D. He also managed the Israeli R&D collaboration with the EU Global Satellite Navigation Program – GALILEO. Before joining MATIMOP, Mr. Shamay served senior technical, marketing and executive positions in Israeli hi-tech companies operating globally, including the RAD group and Comverse Technologies. In his position as VP Marketing and Business Development in Comverse Information Systems (currently named VERINT Systems, NASDAQ: VRNT) Shamay supported the international operations of the company, and in particular strategic alliances with service providers, large enterprises and government organizations in the fields of telecom and business analytics software solutions.