Company

Avner Schneur led a number of companies from early stage to IPO or other exits. Schneur is the Founder and Managing General Partner of Kormeli, LLC www.kormeli.com an investment Group dedicated to funding and guiding early-stage technology entrepreneurs and enterprises.

Schneur is chairman and board member in a number of security and enterprise software companies. In late 1999 Schneur founded Emptoris, leading Supply and Contract Mgnt. Software Company and served as the company’s Chairman, President and CEO. On December 2011 Emptoris was sold to IBM.

Prior to founding Emptoris, Schneur was the senior vice president of operations for Vectis Corporation, a leading software vendor of electronic medical records.

Before Vectis, Schneur served as vice president and chief technology officer for Astea International, a leading developer of customer interaction software, and helped lead the company to a successful IPO.

Prior to Astea, Schneur was director of Software development at Elscint, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end medical imaging systems.

Schneur Graduated Cum Laude in Industrial Engineering, with a specialty in Information Systems, from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).

Avi Menkes was cofounder, President and CEO of SandLinks, an active RFID/WSN company. Under his leadership, the company developed a revolutionary very low power UWB System On Chip.

Prior to SandLinks, Mr. Menkes served as the Managing Partner of DictumBDO, an international business development company, creating business opportunities for various companies.

Prior to DictumBDO Mr. Menkes was a cofounder and Senior Vice President Business Development of eZoneX.

Mr. Menkes held senior Strategic Partnership and Business Development positions at Sapiens International and Oracle.

Prior to that, Mr. Menkes was the President and Co-Founder of Saga Management Information Systems (SMIS), which specialized in Supply Chain Execution Systems for the oil & gas and construction industries.

Mr. Menkes holds BSc in Computer Science from the University of Houston.

Amir Ganani is an industry veteran with over 40 years experience in system engineering and project management in various fields of electrical engineering.
Amir comes to PetPace from VocalZoom, a Start-Up company that developed a unique optical sensor, where he served as the Vice President of Research and Development. For 5 years before that Amir managed projects and products for the fast storage companies Kaminario and EMC.
Amir also worked for 10 years at Cisco, managing engineering teams that played a major part in the development of Cisco’s High-Speed Core Routers. Amir arrived to Cisco following the acquisition of Pentacom, a startup company who developed an Optical Network Concentrator. At Pentacom Amir was the HW engineering manager, and after managing the hardware group of Harmonic Lightwaves in Israel for 3 years Amir spent 8 years in the silicon valley, developing High-Speed Super Computer I/O and networking systems, and different kind of appliances (Video Phones, Fax Network devices, Video compression cards, etc.)
Amir holds a BSc.EE from the Technion, Israel.

Elad Kaminer brings over 12 years of experience in electronics engineering and project management. Before joining PetPace, he was a hardware project manager at STMicroelectronics and was responsible for developing the world’s smallest MEMS based pico-projector system. Prior to that, Elad served as a Captain in the Israeli Defense Forces, managing projects for several large multidisciplinary systems. He holds a B.Sc. (magna cum laude), a M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.