Mr. Shukhman, Metalink's founder, has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors since Metalink's inception in 1992. From 1992 to 1999, he also served as Metalink’s President. Prior to founding Metalink, Mr. Shukhman was an independent consultant for RAD Data Communications Ltd. and ECI Telecom Ltd. from March 1989 until March 1993. Mr. Shukhman served in the Israel Defense Forces, where he founded a group involved in digital signal processing applications. He holds a B.Sc and an M.Sc. from the Technion - Israel's Institute of Technology.
Yuval Ruhama
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Ruhama was appointed Metalink's Chief Financial Officer in January 2006 after previously serving as its Vice President of Finance from April 2005 to December 2005, and Legal Director and Company Secretary from June 2000 to March 2005. Previously, Mr. Ruhama worked for one year at Weksler Bregman & Co. Advocates, an Israeli law firm, and for four years at Somekh Chaikin, the Israeli member firm of KPMG International. Mr. Ruhama holds a law degree and BA degree, cum laude, in Accounting from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA, cum laude, from Bar-Ilan University.
Tzvika Stein
VP Sales Europe & America
Mr. Stein Joined Metalink in March 2008. Prior to joining Metalink, Mr. Stein was VP of business development at Genesis OS, a company developing security solutions for embedded devices. During 2002-2006 Mr. stein was the cofounder and CEO of a software startup focused on providing solutions for enterprise email systems. From 1997 to 2002 Mr. Stein was VP of product management at Audio Codes, a supplier of VoIP gateway solutions. From 1993 to 1997 Mr. Stein was one of the founders and the Director of R&D at Metalink. Prior to that Mr. Stein held several development positions in the Israeli defense industry. Mr. Stein holds a BSEE from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, and a MSEE from the Tel Aviv University.
Alex Pisarevski
Vice President, System Engineering
Mr. Pisarevski joined Metalink at 2006 and served as Wireless System Architect, Project manager of several projects and Director of System Engineering. Mr. Pisarevski has over 14 years of experience in various R&D positions both in the Civilian and military sectors. His last position before joining Metalink was as a system engineer and project manager in the IDF. Mr. Pisarevski holds both B.Sc. EE. (Cum laude) and M.EE. from the Technion – Israel's Institute of Technology.
Noam Benayahu
Vice President, VLSI Engineering
Mr. Benayahu Joined Metalink at 2000 and since then has been involved, at various roles, in all Metalink’s VDSL chip designs and WLS chip designs. Mr. Benayahu is now responsible for the VLSI development and Product engineering at Metalink. Mr. Benayahu has over 13 years of experience in VLSI development. Prior to Metalink, Mr. Benayahu was part of the VLSI development team at Motorola Semiconductor - Freescale now days. Noam holds a BSc in EE from Tel Aviv university - 1996.
Mishael Agami
Vice President, Marketing
Mr. Agami Joined Metalink in March 2009. Prior to joining Metalink Mr. Agami was VP and division manager at SanDisk (2007-08), Corporate VP and BU manager in M-systems (2003-06), General Manager of Mindspeed/Conexant Systems R&D center in Israel (1999-2002), VP R&D Butterfly VLSI (1997-1998)and VLSI Management and Design at National Semiconductor Santa Clara and Israel (1984-1997) . Mishael Agami has B.S.E.E with emphasis in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1979 and M.S.M, Master in Science of Management from University of Boston 1995.
