Conseil d'Administration

Since 2004, Mr. Anthony Maher has served as Alvarion’s Chairman of the Board of Directors. Since joining Floware’s board in 1997, Mr. Maher has continued his dedicated service throughout the merger, and onwards with Alvarion. In 2002, he became a partner and investment manager with Star Venture Management, a venture capital company with a managing portfolio of $980 million. In addition, he founded and chaired Mustang Ventures responsible for venture capital investments for the wireless and wireline business at Siemens. Until 2002, he served as a member of the Managing Group Board of the Information and Communication Networks Group of Siemens preceded by various managerial positions in the company. He joined Siemens in 1978, after eight years at Bell Laboratories in the USA. Currently, Mr. Maher serves on the boards of Adva Optical Networks, Broadlight, Wavecom and CubeOptics. Mr. Maher graduated cum laude with bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering and physics from the University of Illinois.

Mr. Tzvika Friedman was appointed Alvarion’s Chief Executive Officer in October 2005.  Beginning in 2000 with Floware and continuing in Alvarion as President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Friedman has been responsible for a myriad of facets in the company's daily management, including R&D, operations, sales, marketing and customer service. He has been the driving force behind augmenting these activities in a company undergoing transition of consolidation from two companies, and subsequent acquisitions and incorporations of product lines of Innowave and Interwave. In the previous years, he filled roles as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Next Generation Telephony and DCME division of ECI Telecom and as Vice President of Marketing and Sales of ECI Telecom's SDH division. Mr. Friedman earned a bachelors and masters of science in electrical engineering summa cum laude from Tel Aviv University and also graduated with distinction with a masters in science from the Sloan Program of Management from the London Business School.

Efrat Makov- Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Efrat Makov joined Alvarion in April 2007 as the Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Makov has extensive management experience with Israeli-based NASDAQ-listed companies. Her most recent position, as Chief Financial Officer at Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd., included managing the finance, operations, information systems and human resource functions. Prior to that Ms. Makov served as Vice President of Finance at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., and Director of Finance for NUR Macroprinters Ltd. Ms. Makov also spent seven years in public accounting with Arthur Andersen in New York, London and Tel Aviv. Ms. Makov is a Certified Public Accountant in both Israel and the United States and holds a BA in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University.

Rudy Leser – Corporate Vice President, Strategy and Marketing

Mr. Rudy Leser is Alvarion’s Corporate Vice President of Stategy and Marketing at Alvarion since 2002, a year following the merger. Joining Floware in 2000, he began as Vice President of Business Development. Under Mr. Leser’s management, Alvarion gained market leadership in the broadband wireless access industry, consistently holding more than 30% of market share. In addition, he successfully brought WiMAX products to market. In his role, he is responsible for business strategy, product line management, product marketing, strategic marketing and partnerships, and marketing communications. His prior positions in the fields of marketing included strategic marketing director at Metalink Broadband Access Ltd., a provider of xDSL chipsets used by manufacturers of telecommunications equipment. Mr. Leser holds bachelors of science and masters of science degrees in aerospace engineering from the Technion Israel Institute for Technology.

Amir Tirosh has joined the Alvarion management team as Corporate VP of Corporate Development, bringing with him over 10 years of impressive experience in management and business development. Most recently, Mr. Tirosh served as the Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded Business Unit in M-Systems with full P&L responsibilities, and as the Corporate Vice President of Corporate Business Development, leading all M&A, investment and strategic agreements of the company. Prior to M-Systems, Mr. Tirosh served as the Director of Corporate Business Development at Teva Pharmaceutical, the world's largest generic drug company, where he managed the process of new business opportunities, focusing mainly on M&A and joint ventures. Mr. Tirosh holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Management Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Avinoam Barak, President,  Broadband Wireless Access Division

Avinoam Barak joined Alvarion in November 2005 as President of the BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) Division. Mr. Barak brings to Alvarion vast managerial and telecom experience accumulated during his tenure of 5 years at RADVISION as (RVSN) General Manager of the Networking Business Unit. Prior to joining RADVISION, he served as a communication systems business unit manager at MLM, a division of Israel Aircraft Industries, as well as various senior engineering and project management positions. Mr. Barak earned a bachelors of science in computer engineering from the Technion Israel Institute for Technology, an MBA in information systems and finance from Bar Ilan University, and attended Stanford Executive Program’s (SEP 2004) Advanced Management Program.

Uzi Breier, President, Broadband Mobile Unit 

Uzi Breier joins the Alvarion management team as President of the Broadband Mobile Unit following 20 years of experience in the Semiconductor & Telecommunications industries.  Most recently, Mr. Breier served as CEO of Optibase, where he led this NASDAQ traded company into IPTV, a strategic move that succeeded in creating a new growth-engine.  Prior to Optibase, he served as CEO of Emblaze Semiconductor (part of the Emblaze Group) whose main business was the design and marketing of the application processors for smart mobile phones.  Other positions in his portfolio include, CEO of Ayeca, a company providing creative billing solutions to cellular carriers, and various senior positions at Flextronics and National Semiconductor in Israel and USA.  Mr. Breier holds two bachelors of science degrees in computer science and industrial engineering, both from New York Institute of Technology, as well as an MBA from San Jose State, completing all three with honors.

Avi Wellingstein, President, Customer Business Division

Avi Wellingstein has recently joined Alvarion as President of the Customer Business Division, bringing to the company years of extensive managerial experience earned while at Comverse. Immediately prior to coming to Alvarion, he led the Comverse InSight Open Services Environment group as vice president and chief commercial officer, responsible for its worldwide business. His previous positions at Comverse included corporate VP and chief procurement officer, a position in which he was in charge of $300M annual expenditures and led the company’s cost trimming campaign and prior to that, managing director of APAC. Before joining Comverse, Mr. Wellingstein fulfilled the role of vice president of sales and marketing of Orbotech Pacific where he led the sales of optical inspection equipment for the printed circuit board industry and LCD manufacturers in the Far East. Mr. Wellingstein earned a bachelors of science in engineering and an MBA in information technology and marketing from Tel-Aviv University.

Greg Daily, President, Alvarion, Inc.

Avi Mazaltov – President, Operations and Infrastructure Division 

Mr. Avi Mazaltov joined the company as Vice President of Operations in June 2002 and was recently appointed as President of the Operations and Infrastructure Division. Prior to coming to Alvarion, he held several positions at Teva Pharmaceuticals, including pharmaceuticals plant manager and solid dosage global operations director. Mr. Mazaltov is credited with the smooth consolidation of the operations divisions from the former Floware, BreezeCom and Innowave companies into one unified and efficient unit. Other significant agenda items of Mr. Mazaltov’s have included the pursuance of excellence in all stages of operations, while approaching each stage with a business orientation. Mr. Mazaltov earned a bachelors of science with honors in industrial engineering and management from Ben-Gurion University.

Haim Srur – Corporate Vice President, Human Resources

Since December 2000, Haim Srur has led the Human Resources Department as Vice President throughout the merger of the two companies into Alvarion, and subsequent acquisitions of Innowave and Interwave. In this role, Mr. Srur has concentrated on creating the Alvarion identity as a leader, developing the internal structure that best encourages personal development and growth, and focusing on employee retention. Today, at a level of over 1000 employees worldwide, Mr. Srur is proud of the company’s high level of internal promotion and mobility. Previous to Alvarion, he held the position of HR Director of R&D and Operations Division at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, and prior to that position, he worked an independent consultant in human resources and organizational management to start-up companies.  Mr. Srur holds a masters degree in organizational sociology from Bar-Ilan University, Israel.