Dr. Avner Sharon
CEO & CTO
Meet our Leadership Team
Dr. Avner SharonCEO & CTO
Dr. Avner Sharon is an entrepreneur and has served as the CEO of PBC Lasers and the GM and VP Marketing of GWS-Photonics. He has managed multidisciplinary, engineering, and operation teams. He has vast experience in leading marketing and business development activities with leading vendors and customers internationally, leveraging his extensive technical expertise in electro-optics, laser technologies, semiconductors, telecommunications, and metrology systems.
Dr. Sharon holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in the area of lasers and semiconductors, and a Master’s degree in Business Management from Tel Aviv University.
Oz Abramson
VP Sales & Business Development
Oz AbramsonVP Sales & Business Development
Oz Abrahamson | VP Sales and Business Development
Mr. Oz Abramson is an accomplished entrepreneur and a veteran of the defense and telecommunications industry. As the Senior VP, his responsibilities include system engineering and integration of RFOptic solutions. He has extensive experience in the development of multidisciplinary products, specializing in RF engineering technology, microelectronics processes, laser welding, and antenna design as well as electro optical devices.He also led technology groups and project management teams and counts with vast experience in various areas of product management. Mr. Abramson served as a Product Manager in ADC for their product line “ERC” – a point to multipoint radio access system.
He was the CEO of Microlink, an encryption technologies company that was acquired by Elbit. Later on, he became Chief Analyst of the pre-seed activities fund of Stageone Ventures focusing on technology analysis for start-ups.
Previous to his stint in the telecom industry, Mr. Abramson managed technology groups in ELTA for development of MIC technologies and Phased Array antennas based on MMIC technology. Mr. Oz Abramson holds an MSc degree in Applied Physics from Hebrew University, Jerusalem and a BSc in Mathematics and Physics also from Hebrew University.
Dr. David Gabbay
VP R&D
Dr. David GabbayVP R&D
Dr. David Gabbay has over 35 years of Microwave and Electro Optics (E-O) design experience, ranging from RFIC and MMIC technology including numerous chip designs to module level, product prototyping and production and failure analysis. He has an extensive modeling, applied theory and technology knowledge which he accumulated over many years of successful consulting as CEO/CTO of Savant Technologies Ltd serving both commercial and military clients. In that capacity he worked with a number of chip fabrication companies such as IBM/Global Foundries, UMS, Tower/Jazz as well as numerous clients including Elta, Sensible Medical Systems, SunDisk/Applied Materials, FEI/Elcom and others. A wide range of experience in Optical, Electro-Optical component design and Microwave design along with technical software development uniquely positions David to advance RF-over-fiber products and technology. He holds IP and a patent in the area of E-O data compression, GaAs E-O Modulator design and Direct Digital coherent microwave synthesis. David received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ in the area of microwave component modeling and simulation.
Mr. Moshe Carmel
Director Business Development
Mr. Moshe CarmelDirector Business Development
Mr. Moshe Carmel has over 25 years of experience in executive sales, marketing, and business development at various companies. Before joining RFOptic, Mr. Carmel served as the Director, Business Development at Broadcom and as the Vice President, Marketing and Sales at Emza Visual Sense (acquired by Himax Technologies). He also held the position of Executive Vice President, Sales at Wisair and served as the Vice President, Carriers Sales at Alvarion Technologies.
Mr. Moshe Carmel holds an MBA degree from Tel Aviv University and a BSc in EE from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).