Michel Assayag

Michel has filled a multitude of Senior management roles in large corporates like Scitex, Motorola, Digital, Intel, ECI etc… as well as a the management of start-up company (TeraCross) where he built up his experience with the smaller size, higher risk management challenges. Over 30 years of experience in Silicon, SW, System and IT projects, including multidisciplinary and Global teams management. Michel’s previous position at Intel was Israel and India CIO, followed by the position of Head of ECI Telecom R&D, where he managed a 1,100 employee global organization with design centers in Israel, India, US and China. Michel was a Coach with TIM (Technion Institute of Management) and consulted as a Mentor to senior managers in Technology companies. Michel's last position at Intel was managing Cognitive Computing Team, with focus on conversational speech understanding. He then went to found and lead Oazis, the Ben Gurion University Venture Builder and Accelerator until lately, and now is back to consulting and lecturing on Innovation