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Thursday 13.06.2002, 13:30 |
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Taub Building room 337-8, Technion |
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Dr. Orna Berry |
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Aspects of Turning Research into Practice - Lessons From Personal Experience |
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 Dr. Orna Berry
Dr. Orna Berry is currently active in industrial and entrepreneurial activities in the Israeli Science and Technology based industries. Dr. Berry is a Venture Partner in Gemini Israel Funds Ltd. In addition she is serving as the active Chairperson in both Lambda Crossing, Ltd., an optical component company and in Riverhead, Inc.
Dr. Berry is the outgoing Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Government of Israel. Her background includes co-founding ORNET Data Communication Technologies Ltd.; raising the venture capital, building the world wide infrastructure and managing the sale to Siemens for $30M. Dr. Berry has served as the Chief Scientist of Fibronics and as a senior research engineer in companies such as IBM and UNISYS.
Dr. Berry received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Statistics and Mathematics from Tel Aviv and Haifa Universities.
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