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Management
 Gonen
Fink, Co-Founder and CEO
Before founding Pythagoras
Solar, Mr. Fink was at Check Point Software
Technologies (CHKP) for twelve years as Vice
President of Products (R&D) and Vice President
of Solutions & Strategy. As one of Check
Point’s first employees, Mr. Fink was
instrumental in building the company from
an early stage start-up to a multi-billion
dollar global market leader in Internet Security.
Prior to Check Point, Mr. Fink served for
seven years in the Israeli Defense Force’s
elite intelligence unit as a Captain and continued
as a special consultant to the Ministry of
Defense. Mr. Fink holds a B.Sc. summa cum
laude in Physics and Computer Science and
M.A. in Digital Philosophy from the Tel Aviv
University, Israel.
 Dr.
Itay Baruchi, Co-Founder and CTO
Dr. Baruchi’s
background represents the essence of Pythagoras
Solar’s new and cross-disciplinary approach
to photovoltaic technology. In December 2007,
work on biological memory completed by Baruchi
and others was named one of the ‘50
most significant scientific breakthroughs
in 2007’ by Scientific American
magazine. Prior to co-founding Pythagoras
Solar, Dr. Baruchi was a physicist at Genoa
Color Technologies, developing novel image
improvement technologies for TV screens and
post-production applications; before that
he was at Karat Digital Press, a Scitex company,
where he developed algorithms and laser imaging
systems for automated, high speed, high quality
printing press. Dr. Baruchi holds a Ph.D.
in Physics from Tel-Aviv University, where
he also completed his Physics M.Sc. cum laude
and B.Sc. studies. Baruchi has been widely
known for his work on neuronal networks as
well as other topics.
 Udi
Paret, VP Business Development & Marketing
Before joining
Pythagoras Solar, Mr. Paret was President
of Fusion Dynamic, where he led its global
expansion and partnership development with
IBM. Prior to that, Mr. Paret joined the founding
team of Intransa, a pioneering storage-over-IP
company and oversaw it from early development
to multi-million global revenue and OEM agreements
with Huawei, China and HCL, India. Earlier
in his career, Mr. Paret held executive positions
at 3Com Corp. including Sr. Director of Customer
Care for its $600M OEM division and Director
of Supply-Chain Operations for LAN-over-ATM
division, bringing it from product development
to $250M business. Mr. Paret holds a B.Sc
in Industrial Engineering & Management
from the Technion in Israel and participated
in Executive Programs at Stanford University.
 Joseph Kochba, VP R&D
Mr. Kochba brings to Pythagoras
Solar extensive experience gathered in over
20 years of building advanced multidisciplinary
products in various domains. Most recently,
he was vice president of product development
at Medinol, a world leader in stent systems
for cardiac vessels; prior to that he was
vice president of R&D at superDimension,
a provider of image-guided, electromagnetic
intra-body navigation system for pulmonology,
where he oversaw product life-cycles from
research and development through validation,
certification to transfer for manufacturing,
covering the spectrum of scientific, medical,
clinical, and technological disciplines. Earlier,
Mr. Kochba held several roles at Orbotech
(Nasdaq: ORBK), a world leader in automated
optical inspection, imaging and computer-aided
manufacturing technologies: these roles included
management of complex multidisciplinary development
projects for entire product lines and a field
post, managing Orbotech’s service organization
in the eastern U.S. Mr. Kochba holds a B.A.
in Computer Science from the Bar Ilan University
in Tel Aviv and participated in the Management
joint program of Boston University and the
Ben Gurion University. He is also a graduate
of the Israeli Air force Academy and served
as a fighter pilot, reaching the rank of Major.
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