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The Signal Business Develolpment team has depth and breadth of experience in a wide number of fields including sales and marketing, finance, computer science, microbiology, electronics, management, accounting, civil engineering, public relations, and communications. Their extensive experience in diverse markets enables them to bring a broad, fresh perspective to their work.
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D. Todd Dollinger, Chairman, The Trendlines Group
Todd Dollinger is the founding partner of Trendlines, Inc., a Kansas City-based company providing sales, marketing, consulting and product development services for the American market in 1978. Todd served as president of the Company until 1990 when he and his family relocated to Israel.
In 1991, Todd joined the marketing department of SRD Medical. He later became president and chief executive officer of the company. At SRD, Todd managed private equity placements and all aspects of electronic products development and marketing. Todd left SRD in late 1993, forming Trendlines International (now Signal Business Development) with Steve Rhodes. Todd consults to the senior executives and boards of directors of numerous companies.
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Tina Ornstein, CEO, Signal Business Development
Tina Ornstein began her career more than two decades ago as one of the founders of In Other WORDS Ltd., a communications company providing key services to the high-tech sector. After nearly 10 years of establishing that company's reputation as the leading agency of its kind in Israel, she spent three years in her hometown of Montreal, Canada, as a shlicha (representative) of the Jewish Agency.
Upon her return to Israel in 1996, she continued her career at e-Sim Ltd., where she headed a state-of-the-art Web content project for which she built and managed a team of 20 professionals in Israel and 40 more in India. In 2000, she became vice president of professional services at AppSwing Ltd. She built the company's customer and partner relationship infrastructures from the bottom up, including technical sales support and project management.
Tina returned to In Other WORDS in 2003 as vice president of business development. She was instrumental in significantly extending the scope and depth of the company's business activities throughout Israel. She joined Signal in 2005.
Tina earned a B.A. degree in history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Mark Dollinger, CEO, Signal Business Development America
For more than 25 years with Trendlines Inc., Mark J. Dollinger has realized extensive business experience in a variety of industries.
Mark has identified international market opportunities for U.S. businesses, introduced Israeli corporate executives to their U.S. counterparts, conducted scientific and business research and developed marketing strategies for companies in a variety of sectors. Additionally, Mark has led businesses through complicated negotiations, helping to draft agreements and bridging cross-cultural differences.
Throughout his career, Mark has hired, trained and managed sales teams, coordinated field representation and activities, provided on-site training and exhibited at regional and national industry-related shows, seminars and conferences.
Coupled with his extensive business expertise, Mark has had an illustrious academic career. After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois, Mark earned his Ph.D. in the neurosciences from the University of Connecticut. He capped his academic career teaching and doing post-doctoral research at Princeton University. During those years, he published numerous articles in professional and scientific journals, authored a number of developmental psychobiology book chapters and presented talks at academic conferences.
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Amos Kamil Senior Marketing Communications Consultant
Amos comes to Signal as a high level branding consultant from the USA, where he developed brand architectures, wrote strategic positions and brand lines, named companies and products lines for many international brands including American Express, GE, Burger King, KFC, Gatorade, IBM, Delta Airlines, DuPont, Motorola, Sony, Verizon, Rockefeller Center, Kodak, Dow, Caterpillar, and West Point. As a playwright and producer, his literary work has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC-News, TNT, Classic Sports, and Israel21c.
Amos received his BA in English Literature and Theater from the University of Vermont and a MFA in filmmaking from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. In 2005, he was became a member of President Katzav's World Jewish Forum's Committee on Jewish Literacy. Amos is a newcomer to Israel, immigrating with his wife and children in 2009.
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Anita Baker, Administration
South African-born Anita Baker worked as a legal secretary before immigrating to Israel in 1986. Anita has lived and worked on Moshav Manof since her arrival in Israel. She managed the Moshav's co-op and has a long history of volunteer work. Anita joined Trendlines in 1999.
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Andi Chai, Senior Consultant
Andi Chai has marketed a diverse variety of products, from dairy products to women's undergarments, tools to marine paints. Starting in the import department at Nahariya Dairy Strauss Ltd., she was responsible for product support and identifying new suppliers. Pursuing her interest in marketing, Andi joined Tefron Ltd., a manufacturer and exporter of women's undergarments and later moved on to Tomak Dies and Tools where she researched and compiled data on foreign competition. Andi comes to Trendlines from Tambour Ltd., Israel's largest paint manufacturer, where she oversaw exports to the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Far East, and South Africa.
Andi has an undergraduate degree in business administration from George Washington University. She earned her M.B.A. in banking, finance, and marketing from the Hebrew University. Andi has lived in Israel since 1982.
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Debbie Yerushalmy, Senior Consultant
A native of Richmond, Virginia, Debbie Yerushalmy began her professional career as a social worker for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
After moving to Israel with her family in 1982, Debbie entered the field of bookkeeping, working in the medical electronics and plastics sectors. She also set up and managed the accounting department of Gintec Active Safety, Ltd., a high-tech electronics company producing transportation safety equipment.
In 2000, Debbie started her career as a technical communicator at e-Sim, Ltd., a company specializing in online, interactive user manuals. Debbie holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an MSW from the University of Michigan. She also has a certificate for bookkeeping from the Israeli Department of Labor. Debbie joined Signal in 2001.
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Gabriel (Gabe) Siegel, Consultant
Prior to joining Signal in 2008, Gabriel Siegel worked as a consultant in the Financial Services Division at KPMG Tel Aviv. His work at KPMG focused on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, and due diligence. As a brand manager at Spiral Solutions, Gabriel gained extensive experience in online media and Internet marketing.
He received his MBA from the University of Haifa, with a specialty in international marketing and finance. He has a B.A. in marketing and accounting from DePaul University in Chicago. A native of Chicago, Gabe moved to Israel in 2003.
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Guy Weinberg, Senior Business Consultant
Guy is a senior manager and executive experienced in the medical device and healthcare IT global markets. Guy has a wide range of proven experience in establishing sales and marketing channels gained when he was working for CDP Medical, and delivering medical devices to market. This was achieved during Guy's work with DeepBreeze and other international medical device companies. His work also included sales and marketing, R&D, clinical trials, worldwide regulations (including FDA), IP and patents, service and support, and clinical education.
Guy holds an MBA and a B.A in Business Administration from The College of Management Academic Studies, (COMAS) in Israel. Guy joined Signal Business Development in December 2009.
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Maura Rosenfeld, Business Development
Maura Rosenfeld began her career in corporate legal practice in the United States and continued in private practice after moving to Israel in 1994. In 1997, Maura joined RiT Technologies (Nasdaq: RITT) as general counsel and served as a member of company management. After leaving RiT in 2004, Maura became an independent consultant, working with companies in the United States and Israel. Maura joined Signal in 2006.
Maura earned an MBA from Manchester University in Israel. She holds a J.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the bar in Israel and Pennsylvania.
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Melanie Davids, Accounts
After immigrating to Israel from South Africa in 1982, Melanie Davids started her bookkeeping career while living on Kibbutz Tuval in the Galilee. She worked in Tuval's accounting department for four years. Since leaving the kibbutz in 1996, Melanie has worked in an accounting office and at an Israeli export company as head bookkeeper responsible for all import/export-related matters.
Melanie has studied accounting at Ort Braude College in Karmiel and is a qualified Type 3 bookkeeper. She joined Signal in 2001.
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Ron Lachman, Venture Partner
Chicago- and Silicon Valley-based Internet guru, angel investor and a minority shareholder in The Trendlines Group, Ron Lachman played a leading role in the development of the UNIX TCP/IP communications protocol (the de facto standard for transmitting data over networks). Ron sold his consulting group, Lachman Associates, to Eastman Kodak's Interactive Systems subsidiary in 1989.
Following the sale of Lachman Associates to Kodak, he served as executive vice president at Interactive Systems Corporation. He subsequently co-founded Praxsys, selling the company to Sun Microsystems in 1992. Ron founded Lachman Technology to pursue new product ideas in networking products, data archival and storage management. Lachman Technology/Associates licensed millions of copies of networking protocols (mostly in the UNIX OEM marketplace), and was a technology leader in hierarchical storage management. The company was acquired by Legent Corporation in 1994. Ron served as vice president for Open Systems before leaving in 1995 to co-found, co-fund and build the management team of a number of networking and software related companies.|
A networking and systems software entrepreneur and expert in OEM/ISV software licensing business models, Ron currently serves in a senior advisor/board member capacity to technology companies in the realm of distributed computing and Internet commerce.
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Saul Rurka, Senior Consultant, Media & IT
Saul Rurka is a serial entrepreneur focused on early to mid-stage companies, specifically those involved in IT, the Internet, and telecommunications. Over the past 12 years, Saul has founded a number of IT start-ups and served in executive and management positions at his own companies and others. He brings great strength in understanding IT, sales, management, and business development. He also served as a strategic consultant to an international financial group. Saul studied law and English linguistics at Bar-Ilan University.
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Tomer Sofinzon, Manager, Investment & Strategic Partnership Services
Over the past eight years, Tomer Sofinzon founded a number of start-up companies, led several successful fund-raising projects, and oversaw many business development and channel/sales management activities in Europe (both at executive positions at his own companies and as a consultant). He brings substantial experience, an extensive network, and in-depth understanding of the European marketplace and its leading industry players.
Tomer graduated from the Ecole Supérieur Libre des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées (ESLSCA) in Paris, and participated in an extensive exchange program with the University of California at Berkeley. In 2009, he began his MBA studies at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Tomer spent most of his life in Europe. He is fluent in English, French, and Hebrew, with an excellent level of Spanish. He joined Signal in 2008.
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Zohar Zommer, Consultant
Zohar Zommer has worked as a director of the non-profit organization Hakol Chai, which is dedicated to helping animals in Israel, but has spent most of her career practicing law, including tort, real estate, and banking law.
She received her LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. As part of her MBA program, Zohar led a team that developed a market strategy for a Signal client. She joined Signal in 2007.
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