Moshe Lichtman

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Mr. Moshe Lichtman is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Israel Growth Partners. He served as a Board Member at EngageYa. He is an angel investor, he serves as an Advisor at Illumex. He serves as a Board Member at SafeBreach. He serves as a Board Member at Valens Semiconductor. He serves as an Advisor at Semperis. He serves as Chairman at Zadara. He serves as an Advisor at LinearB. He served as a Board Member at Optimove. He served as a Board Member at Replix. He served as an Advisor at SimilarWeb. He brings over 35 years of product and leadership experience and 20 years of investment experience in the global high-tech industry. 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 '90s, He was responsible for quadrupling the company to become the #1 network in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other international markets. Under his leadership in the early 2000s, 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, He was responsible for turning the Israel operation into one of the three largest strategic innovation hubs outside the US. He was also among the leaders of the Windows 95 team and President of Softimage, a leader in media creation software. Before Microsoft, He held software development and management positions in several high-tech startups He holds a BSc Cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School.