Board of Directors

Mr. Zisapel has served as Chairman of the Board since 1996. Mr. Zisapel is also a founder and a director of RAD Data Communications Ltd., of which he served as CEO from January 1982 until January 1998 and served as chairman from 1998 until 2012. Mr. Zisapel also serves as chairman of RADCOM Ltd., as a director of Silicom Ltd., Amdocs, Limited and as chairman or director of several private companies. Mr. Zisapel received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (“Technion”) and an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University.

Mr. Palti served as Ceragon's President, CEO and Director from 2005 until July 2021. From January 2003 to August 2005, he was CEO of Seabridge Ltd., a Siemens company that is a global leader in the area of broadband services and networks. Prior to joining Seabridge, he was the COO of VocalTec Communications Ltd., responsible for sales, marketing, customer support and product development. Among the positions Mr. Palti held before joining VocalTec was founder of Rosh Intelligent Systems, a company providing software maintenance and artificial intelligence diagnostic solutions.

Efrat Makov is currently serving as a director of Allot ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT), iSPAC 1 Ltd. (TASE: ISPC) and B Communications Ltd. (TASE: BCOM). Ms. Makov previously served as a director of BioLight Life Sciences Ltd. (TASE: BOLT), Kamada Ltd. (NASDAQ: KMDA) and Anchiano Therapeutics Ltd. (NASDAQ: ANCN). Previously, she served as the CFO of Alvarion (formerly NASDAQ; TASE: ALVR), and as the CFO of Aladdin Knowledge Systems (formerly NASDAQ; TASE: ALDN). Formerly, she served as Vice President of Finance at Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP). Earlier in her career, she spent seven years in public accounting with Arthur Andersen LLP in its New York, London and Tel Aviv offices. Ms. Makov holds a B.A. degree in accounting and economics from Tel Aviv University and is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel and the United States.

Mr. Shlomo Liran joined Ceragon’s Board of Directors in July 2015, bringing with him over 30 years of experience in senior management positions in the telecommunication industry. Until recently, Mr. Liran served as the Chief Executive Officer at Hadera Paper. From 2010 to 2013, Mr. Liran served as the Chief Executive Officer of Avgol Industries 1953 Ltd. From 2007 to 2010 Mr. Liran served as the Chief Executive Officer of Ericsson Israel. From 2003 to 2007 Mr. Liran led the Scandinavian cellular network TRE as Chief Executive Officer in Sweden and in Denmark. From 2000 to 2003 he led the satellite television company YES, and prior to that he led the Strauss conglomerate from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Liran holds an engineering degree from the Technion, a Masters in systems engineering from the University of Toronto and an AMP-ISMP Diploma in business administration from Harvard.

Mr. Rami Hadar serves as a Managing Partner in Claridge Israel, an Israeli High-Tech Growth Fund, as well as serves on the board of its portfolio companies: AlgoSec, Gigaspaces, Cloudify and D-Fend. Prior to joining Claridge Israel, from 2006 to 2014, Mr. Hadar served as CEO and board member of Allot Communications [ALLT]. Early in his career Mr. Hadar co-founded and served as the CEO of CTP Systems (micro cellular networks) until its acquisition by DSP Communications (NASDAQ: DSPC). Mr. Hadar continued with DSPC’s executive management team for two years, and subsequently the company was acquired by Intel. Thereafter, Mr. Hadar co-founded Ensemble Communications, a pioneer in the broadband wireless space and the WiMax standard, where he served as Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Following that, Mr. Hadar served as CEO of Native Networks where he was instrumental in successfully reshaping the company into a market-driven provider of MPLS based solutions to tier-1 telecoms and in orchestrating the company’s ultimate acquisition by Alcatel. He spent one year as a venture partner in JVP before joining Allot. Mr. Hadar holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology.

Mr. Ilan Rosen currently serves as Managing Director in HarbourVest Partners LLC, a global private equity firm with more than 700 employees, that manages about $75B worth of investments in various private equity strategies around the globe. Mr. Rosen has been managing the activity of HarbourVest in Israel since 2003. Mr. Rosen additionally serves as a board member of the “Nazareth District Water and Sewage municipal authority LTD” since 2019. From 1997-2012 Mr. Rosen served as Chairman of the Board of Tdsoft LTD which later merged into VocalTec, (VOCL at NASDAQ). In the years 1996-2003 Mr. Rosen served as VP of Investments at Teledata Communications, where he was an active Chairman of various Teledata Subsidiaries, all of them high-tech communications companies (including Tdsoft). From 1993-1996 he served as the CEO of Adsha Development Ltd., an Israeli investment company that went public in 1994 on the Tel Aviv stock exchange. From 1989-1993 Mr. Rosen worked as a Senior Investment Manager at the Bank Hapoalim Investment Company, a private equity investment firm that was traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. In the years 1985-1989 he worked as an economic consultant at A. Twerski Economic Consulting. Mr. Rosen holds a BSc (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 1979 and an MBA from Tel Aviv University in 1986.

Mr. David Ripstein has three decades of experience in senior management positions in Israel’s telecommunications industry and Israel Defense Force technology and intelligence units. Since 2017, Mr. Ripstein has been serving as the President and Chief Executive Officer of GreenRoad Technologies Ltd., a global leader in fleet safety telematics. In 2016 Mr. Ripstein served the CEO of Spotoption Technologies a fintech SW provider. From 2000-2015, Mr. Ripstein served in various positions in RADCOM, a Nasdaq-traded (RDCM) provider of service assurance solutions, first for six years as a General Manger and then for nine years as its President & Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Radcom, Mr. Ripstein co-founded two technology startups and served for 10 years as the head of a large R&D engineering group within the Israel Defense Force’s- Intelligence Unit. Mr. Ripstein holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Haifa Institute of Technology.