Boaz Misholi
Israeli computer specialist
Boaz Misholi (Hebrew: בועז משעולי; born November 11, 1951) is one of the pioneers of high-tech in Israel. He was a co-founder of Comverse, Verint Systems, Telemesser, DSP, Fundtech, Versamed and others, companies which paved the way for the establishment of many other Israeli technology ventures.
Biography
Boaz Misholi was born and raised in Ramat Gan, where he attended Ort Singalovski high school. In the Israel Defense Forces he served in the Paratroopers Brigade of the Nahal. He studied Computer Engineering at the Technion in Haifa, from which he graduated with honors. As a graduate student, he was a teaching assistant at the Technion's Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
Business career
In 1972, Misholi joined Shamoa Electronics and was part of a team that developed the first commercial computer manufactured in Israel and marketed worldwide. From 1975 to 1978, he opened a consulting firm that advised on the use of microprocessors.
In 1978, he was invite dto Stamford, Connecticut to oversee the design of an automatic telephone credit verification system using digital voice response technology.
Efrat Corporation
In 1980, Misholi founded the U.S. based Efrat Corporation, which developed digital signal processing (DSP) technologies and architecture for computerized handling of multimedia.
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