Yigal Leiba

Mr. Yigal Leiba is a co-founder and CTO of Siklu. In previous positions, Yigal worked for Runcom Technologies, in charge of the design and the development of the world’s first mobile-WiMAX (802.16e) chip, and a voting member of the IEEE 802.16 standard committee.

Yigal was also a co-founder and CTO of Breezecom’s LMDS group, a spin-off of Breezecom (today Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR)). His career includes project management and chief Engineer positions at Breezecom, where he was responsible for development of wireless access and wireless LAN systems. Before Breezecom, Yigal was an R&D engineer in the Israeli Ministry of Defense Electronics Research Department.

Yigal holds an MSc Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Haifa, Israel.