Gadi Ponte

Gadi Ponte has held various positions in the tech industry since 2000. Gadi started as a Sr. Project Manager at Aviv in 2000, then moved to Alon Group in 2003 as General Manager. In 2005, they joined SANDISK in Milpitas, CA as Senior Director of Customer Programs Management at Mobile Network Operations Division, Senior Director,World Wide Operations, Audio Video Division, and Associate Vice President Contract Manufacturing World Wide. In 2012, they were VP of Operations at Eye-Fi, where they migrated the old data center to an advanced environment, improved monitoring and implementing tools toward virtualization, implemented no SQL DB servers, and moved from traditional data center architecture to sharding approach. In 2013, they founded LiiFii, Inc. as Founder and CEO, where they supported start ups and corporations in global value chain, scaling up supply chain and operations, bringing new products to the market efficiently, and connecting companies to the right vendors. Finally, in 2014, they joined ThinOptics as CEO and CoFounder, President and Co Founder, and Chief Delivery Officer and Co Founder, where they managed products, operations, and supply chain management.

Gadi Ponte completed a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev between 1987 and 1991. Gadi then went on to obtain an MBA in Business from Heriot-Watt University between 1995 and 1997.