Harel Kodesh

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Mr. Harel Kodesh serves as a Non-Executive Director, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, and Member of Audit Committee at BrandShield. As a Non-Executive Director with effect from 27 July 2021 Harel, who is based in Silicon Valley, brings a wealth of experience to BrandShield, particularly in terms of driving the rapid growth and expansion of technology companies. Harel served as Operating Partner at Silver Lake Partners, a global leader in technology investments with $74 Billion in combined assets under management and committed capital. Prior to Silver Lake, Mr. Kodesh served as Vice President at Predix and Chief Technology Officer at GE Digital. He was responsible for driving the technical strategy behind Predix, GE's cloud platform for the Industrial Internet, and the applications developed by GE for the industrial sector. Before joining GE, he co-founded and served as CEO at Nurego, a spinoff of EMC Corp. At EMC, he acted as Executive VP for Cloud Business Systems and as CEO of Mozy, its wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to Backup as a Service. He is a partner at BiologyWorks, which develops at-home molecular tests for viral infections. From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Kodesh served as Chief Product Officer at Amdocs, transforming the organization from a professional services company to a product-driven offering. He also served as CEO of Wing cast, the Ford Motor Company Qualcomm telematics joint venture. Until 2000, Mr. Kodesh held various executive positions at Microsoft, including VP of the Information Appliances Division leading, developing the Microsoft Windows CE - or Windows Mobile - operating system, and pioneering its mobility business. Mr. Kodesh holds a BS in computer engineering and an MS in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He has served on boards for Mobilitec, DreamBox Learning, BSquare, and Modern Systems. He also sits on the Board of Councillors for USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. Mr. Kodesh was the 2017 recipient of the USC Viterbi School's Daniel J. Epstein Award for Engineering Management. He is an Investor at Hyperwise Ventures.