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UniPrime Capital Announces Key Management of ``Secure2wireless'
TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov 6, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- UniPrime Capital Acceptance Corp. (NQB:UPRC) announced that, in connection with its report today describing a Letter of Intent to acquire Secure2wireless Inc. ("Secure2wireless"), it has detailed Secure2wireless's key management.
Names, positions, and brief biographical information are as follows:
Mr. Samuel Weiss, CEO & Co-Founder
Mr. Samuel Weiss is a reserve colonel in the Israeli army. He graduated magna cum laude from the Staff and Command College, and has since specialized in the sales and marketing of command and control systems. He held the position of vice president of business development at Clal Trade, subsequently became business development advisor to the mayor of Tel Aviv.
Weiss co-founded Lenex and took charge of technology sales and implementation, and gained unique experiences in the leading of a number of international IT projects, while he developed business for several IT companies.
He initiated various classified projects, especially in the classified realm of identity verification and security, including image-processing methods. In addition, Mr. Weiss specialized in the field of identification of personal documents (ID documents, passports, bank security notes, etc.) before he founded Sec2wireless.
Mr. Yehuda Biron, Vice President Operations & Logistics, COO
Mr. Yehuda Biron, co-founder of the company, received his law degree from Tel Aviv University in 1974. Further studies included Computer Sciences at the IBM Institute, Systems Engineering at the Sivan School (where he later lectured for a period of four years), and Marketing at the Open University.
From 1971 to 1982, Mr. Biron held positions of increasing responsibility in the computer departments of Yardenia Insurance and the United Mizrahi Bank. From 1982 to 1990, Mr. Biron was a partner of Bir-Shel Ltd., the Israeli representative of Visual Graphic Corporation, specializing in computerized pre-press systems.
In 1991, he took part in founding ImageStore Systems Ltd., which later became Net2Wireless Inc., currently Jigamy Corporation, whose technology focuses on data and multi-media communication over cellular networks.
Mr. Lucien Geldzahler, Vice President Finance, CFO
Mr. Lucien Geldzahler is a co-founder of the company, and is also a director of TAT Aero Equipment Industries Ltd., a manufacturer of military avionic equipment, traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Geldzahler is a principal at West End Ventures Ltd., a spin-off of West End Technology Investments Ltd., which invests start-up companies specializing in telecommunications and information technology (www.westendgroup.com).
In 1998, he joined ImageStore Ltd. and I.T.E.S., which later on turned into Net2Wireless Inc. Geldzahler has played a major role in the transformation of I.T.E.S from a small company into Net2Wireless, which employs approximately 150 persons. Geldzahler is a consultant for high-tech companies in the fields of medical systems and equipment, avionics and electronics.
He has founded Ampex Engineering Ltd., a private firm, which aimed at opening new markets for Israeli start-up companies and built international partnership agreements. Previously, Geldzahler has been the Commercial Director of TAT Aero Equipments Ind. Ltd. and Senior Auditor at Coopers & Lybrand in Brussels.
Geldzahler graduated from the University of Antwerp, RUCA with an MBA, M.Sc. in Engineering Management and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering.
Mr. Eli Zehngut, Vice President Business Development
Mr. Eli Zehngut graduated from the Technical Institute of Haifa (Technion) with a B.Sc and an M.SC in Electrical Engineering. He specialized in signal processing. Zehngut has more than 18 years of experience in algorithm development, in the fields of image compression and restoration and speech processing.
He has developed algorithms for companies such as Elbit, the Speech Processing Laboratory at the Technion and Efrat Future Technology, a subsidiary of Comverse Technologies Inc., which later on split into two companies, the biggest of them known as Comverse Network Systems. Zehngut has nine years of extensive experience as research group manager in Efrat Future Technology and Comverse Network Systems.
As director manager of Comverse's Speech Processing Group, he supervised the development of core technologies in the area of speech recognition, applications of speech recognition and speaker verification, and full-fledged systems for the telecommunications environment. He also supervised all marketing and business activities of his
group.
Mr. Yair J. Porat, Vice President R&D
Mr. Yair Porat is a co-founder of the company, and worked at the Computer Science Center during his military service in the Israel Defense Forces. He studied physics and astronomy at Tel Aviv University and computer science and systems engineering at the Sivan School and the IBM Institute.
Porat worked for Scitex Israel and Scitex Europe and then became product manager and hardware & software team leader for Amcor Electronics, developing a multimedia product for Kodak and imaging systems for the medical sector. Porat was director of R&D customer service manager in AMGENICS (a subsidiary company of GENAM USA), which owned the medical group of Amcor Electronics.
The company developed special software for DNA and Chromosome analyses. In 1993, Porat founded P.L.B. Technologies, which specialized in the development of identification and security systems using imaging and biometric methods. Porat has been in charge of all of the company's activities, utilizing and implementing projects for national institutes and agencies in the Far East, Africa, and Israel.
Mr. Amit Meltzer, Vice President Technology
Mr. Meltzer has gained outstanding experience in all IS fields during the last 17 years, mostly in the Prime Minister's Office, where he reached the level of CTO of the IS division. Meltzer graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a B.A. in Strategy and Political Science.
Mr. Itay Yanovski, Vice President Products
Mr. Yanovski studied law at Tel Aviv University and is a member of the Israeli Bar. He also studied Computer Sciences at Haifa University and the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion). Yanovski served four years in the encoding and decoding unit of the Communication, Electronics and Computers Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, commanding this unit during his last year of military service.
Yanovski has extensive experience in computer security. His highly professional skills allow him to combine his technological knowledge with his analytical abilities, which he gained during his law studies and his work at the Israeli Supreme Court.
Before joining Sec2Wireless, Yanovski began his high-tech career as a consultant to Xpert Trusted Systems, a leading integration house in Israel. Later on, Yanovski became a senior consultant and also founded and managed Xpert Trusted Systems' IT Security Services department.
Secure2wireless Inc., based outside Tel Aviv, has developed a solution for centralized user authentication and monitoring. The solution provides in a single design the ability to identify a person's identity.
Secure2wireless's technology can be applied for physical access (airports/transportation or corporate campuses), for remote information access (Internet, call-center or cellular-based), and transaction-based services (e-commerce, m-commerce, cellular vending or point-of-sale). In so doing, it provides a state-of-the-art solution to enhance existing security systems, and ease migration to new solutions.
CONTACT: Secure2wireless Inc.
Lucien Geldzhler, 011-(972)39-210548
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