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Sunday 22.6.2003, 17:00 |
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Taub Building room 337-8, Technion |
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Mr. David Shemla |
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Galileo's formula: Innovation, Creativity and Zionism. |
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 Mr. David Shemla
David Shemla joined the founding group of Galileo in September 1994. Acting on the management team of Galileo, David was one of the responsible for the courageous shift Galileo made from making chips for color printers to the Communications Infrastructure. This dramatic decision had led Galileo to be the first company in Israel that went public in the category of Communication Semiconductors. During all this time David had functioned as Vice President of product definition.
On Jan. 2001 Galileo had merged with the American Marvell Technology Group, another Communication Semiconductor company, and reached sales of $220 million per year.
Prior to joining the Galileo, David spent 9 years at Digital Equipment Corporation, most
recently as a design team manager for Communication controllers.
David Shemla holds a B.S.E.E. from the Technion and a MBA from Tel-Aviv University.
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Summary of the meeting:
The TechIA forum was honored to host Mr. David Shemla for a presentation entitled “Galileo formula: Innovation, Creativity and Zionism”.David eloquently depicted the story of Galileo, starting from its foundation through its successful NASDAQ IPO up until the Marvell acquisition.
David’s fascinating description included a behind the scenes look at the discussions, the considerations and the decision process. The remarkable strategic decision to change the company’s market from printer chips to communication chips was an illustrious example.
In addition, David skillfully described how the charismatic personality of Avigdor Vilence, Galileo’s CEO was apparent throughout the company existence.
Galileo’s unique attitude towards its employees, was one of the company’s aspect David elaborated on. The company appreciated its most valuable resource and made efforts in that sense. An excellent example for that was the fact it created several offices in strategic locations (Galilee, Technion, Lod and Caesaria) in order to bring the work to the employees and not the other way around.
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