Moshe Lichtman

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Mr. Moshe Lichtman is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Israel Growth Partners. He serves as Board Member at Replix and Zadara. He serves as Advisor at LinearB. He also serves as a Board Member at EnagageYa and Optimove. In 2011 he retired from Microsoft where he was Corporate VP responsible for several of its consumer businesses. As head of MSN's international business in the late 90's, Moshe was responsible for quadrupling the business to become the #1 network in Europe, Canada, Australia and many other international markets. Under Moshe's leadership in the early 2000's, Microsoft's TV business became the leading provider of IPTV platforms to telecom operators globally. Upon returning to Israel in 2006, as President of Microsoft's R&D center in Israel, Moshe was responsible for turning the Israel operation into one of the three largest strategic innovation hubs outside the US. Mr. Lichtman was also among the leaders of the Windows 95 team and President of Softimage, a leader in media creation software. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Lichtman held software development and management positions in several high-tech startups. Mr. Lichtman is the co-author of the best-selling book "The complete guide to the C language" and holds a BSc Cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School. In 2009 Mr. Lichtman was selected Top High Tech CEO of a large multinational company in Israel by the Israel Management Institute. Mr. Lichtman is currently an active angel investor in Israeli startups and is a board member or observer at CallApp, Similar Web, MyRoll, Softwatch, Engageya, Appsee and R2Net.