Board Members
Yaron Eitan, Chairman of the Board
Mr. Eitan is a partner at SCP Private Equity Partners (”SCP”), having joined the firm with over fifteen years of experience in building a number of high tech companies. He is also co-founder, president, and CEO of Selway Partners, LLC, a technology incubator that Yaron founded in 1998 and an SCP portfolio company. Selway has built five different technology ventures, three of them are now part of the SCP portfolio.
Yaron is Chairman of a number of companies including DVTel, Inc., ClearStory Systems, Software Technologies, Inc., The Q Group, and Magnolia Broadband. He also serves as a director of XVionics, Inc.
Prior to founding Selway Partners, from 1989 until 1998 Yaron was founder, Chairman and CEO of Geotek Communications Inc., Chairman of the Board of Bogen Communications, Inc., and co-founder of Reshef Technologies Ltd., which he founded in 1984.
Yaron holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1984 and a degree in economics from Haifa University.
Yoav Stern, President and CEO
Mr. Stern is the President and CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of DVTel, since February 2011. He is an investor and has been an executive in a variety of high-tech companies and has 20 years of management experience as President, CEO and/or Executive Chairman. He has worked with large international corporations and investment firms in the Homeland Security Industry including as a President and CEO of a $70M multi-national company. Since 1997, Yoav has been Co-Chairman and one of four main shareholders of Bogen Communication International Inc. Yoav served as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Kellstrom Aerospace LLC, a $200M supply chain management company where he remains a director and a shareholder today.
Previously, Yoav was a Founding and Managing Partner of Helix Capital, a private M&A and Turn-Around Advisory Firm. He was the President, COO and Director of WordStar International, Inc., a $50M publicly traded Software Company. He held the position of VP Business Development of a multinational industrial investment holding company. Yoav spent 10 years full time and 20 years in reserve services in the Air Force, where he was a Deputy Commander of an F-15 squadron and involved in management and operations of highly advanced avionics and aerospace technologies.
Yoav has a Practical Engineering Diploma in Mechanics & Automation and a B.S. Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science with Distinction. He is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and graduate of the Air Force Flying Instructors’ course with Distinction.
Edmundo Gonzalez
Edmundo joined Selway Capital in 2007. He has completed dozens of transactions including acquisitions for portfolio companies, debt and equity financings and the sale of companies. Edmundo has 13 years of experience in consulting, entrepreneurial management and investing. He was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Software Technology, Inc. (STI), a portfolio company of SCP from 2004-2007. From 2001-2004 he was C.O.O. of TestU, and had numerous roles in the company since its inception in the late 1990’s. TestU was sold to STI in 2004. Previously, Edmundo was a Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting (now IBM Business Consulting), where he consulted to Fortune 500 clients in the media, telecom and publishing industries.
M.B.A. from Columbia Business School with honors and A.B. from Harvard University with honors.
Thomas G. Rebar
Tom is a partner of SCP and has been with the firm since its inception. He has over 18 years of experience in private equity, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged buyout financing. Tom is a director of several companies, including Magnolia Broadband, Vis.align, LLC, and Pentech Financial Services, Inc. Prior to joining SCP, Tom was a Senior Vice President at Charterhouse Inc., the U.S. investment banking arm of Charterhouse PLC, a leading U.K. merchant bank. At Charterhouse, he was responsible for a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions including representing companies in the purchase and sale of businesses, rendering fairness opinions and business valuations, assisting companies in raising debt capital, and the placement of private equity. Before joining Charterhouse, Tom was a member of the corporate finance department at Bankers Trust Company. Tom received his B.S. summa cum laude from the University of Scranton and his M.B.A. from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration.
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Vincent Dicks
Vincent Dicks is a financial services and business operations veteran having spent more than twenty years at Bear Stearns where he held various management positions as a Senior Managing Director within the firm’s Private Client Services division including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Administrative / Operating Officer, Head of Regional Branches and ultimately Co-Head of the Division. In this role, Vinnie reported directly to the CEO of the firm and was responsible for the day to day management of the $800 million revenue, twelve hundred employee business. Vinnie served on Bear Stearns’ Operations Committee and the President’s Advisory Council. Previously Vinnie spent four years at JP Morgan as part of the Management Training & Development Program. Vinnie currently is a strategic consultant to small businesses, an active philanthropist. He has earned his M.B.A. from Pace University and has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers University College of Engineering.
Leonard M. Lodish
Leonard M. Lodish is the Samuel R. Harrell Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since 1968. He received a Ph.D. (Marketing and Operations Research) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 1968 and an A.B. (Mathematics) from Kenyon College in 1965. He has been at Wharton since 1968 where he was department chair from 1984-1988 and 1991-1992. He has also been a visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School. He is also Vice Dean for Wharton West, Wharton’s San Francisco campus since 2001.Professor Lodish has developed models and decision support systems that have been syndicated to worldwide use. They include MEDIAC® for media planning, CALLPLAN for sales force deployment, and PROMOTER® and PROMOTIONSCAN® for promotional planning and evaluation.In 1996 Len and his wife Susan pedalled their tandem bicycle across the US and since have done long distance bicycle rides each year which have raised over $500,000 for the A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) Association. Len is a licensed sailplane pilot and ardent bicycle commuter.Back to Top
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Roni Kass
Roni Kass founded ioimage, a video analytics company, in 2000 and served as the Chief Executive Officer until 2009. In March 2010, Mr. Kass completed a transaction to sell the company to DVTel, and subsequently joined the Board of Directors of DVTel. Prior to founding ioimage, Mr. Kass founded Dreamteam, a 3D real-time animation company. In 1992, he founded and managed A2i Inc., a Los Angeles based software company, that was acquired by SAP.
