Beeologics is led by a seasoned team of executives and scientists
with decades of entrepreneurship, corporate work and research experience.
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Eyal Ben-Chanoch
Chief Executive Officer,
President and Co-founder
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Eyal Ben-Chanoch is Chief Executive Officer, President and Co-founder of
Beeologics. With more than 20 years of experience founding and running companies
in the technology space, Mr. Ben-Chanoch is an experienced entrepreneur
and executive with a proven track record of success.
In his role, Mr. Ben-Chanoch sets the strategic direction for Beeologics,
collaborates with scientists on the company’s research efforts, and
determines go-to-market strategies that enable Beeologics to achieve
its mission of controlling Colony Collapse Disorder
(CCD), Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV)
infection and other diseases that threaten the world’s bee population.
In 2007, Mr. Ben-Chanoch established GreenOvation Labs, a business
accelerator focused on green technology, which led to the foundation
of Beeologics. Prior to this, Mr. Ben-Chanoch founded and led several
technology companies through a series of mergers & acquisitions that
culminated in the formation of Aspect Software where he led a team of
850 individuals across 23 countries as Senior Vice President of Customer
Support. Before this, he served as Chief Engineer for Tadiran Electronic
Industries, Inc. (TEI), a subsidiary of Tadiran Telecommunications,
Ltd., one of the world’s leading PBX manufacturers. During his career,
Mr. Ben-Chanoch held several engineering roles in the Israeli technology
industry with companies such as IAI, Elbit and Intel. At Intel, he was
part of the team that developed the architecture and design of the first
Pentium Microprocessor.
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Nitzan Paldi, M.Sc.AGri
Chief Technology Officer
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Nitzan Paldi brings expertise in research and development and product regulation
to the Beeologics leadership team. As Chief Technology Officer, he is responsible
for transforming the company's intellectual capital into products that will
help achieve its mission of restoring bee health and protecting the future
of insect pollination.
After earning his Masters Degree in Agriculture from Hebrew University,
Mr. Paldi went to work for Gesher Advanced Biotechs Ltd., a firm that
incorporated technology for design and construction of combinatorial
DNA libraries. There, he refined his research skills before taking the
entrepreneurial route which led to founding biotechnology enterprises
including ScentGene Pollination Ltd., a company based on a patent for
enhancing cross-pollination; Phosphogenesis Inc., a company that developed
technology for spatially addressable Enzyme Substrates; and PlantScent,
a company focused on joint development of biotechnology-based, environmentally-friendly
alternatives to agricultural practices.
Then, Mr. Paldi joined Bio-Oz Biotechnologies Ltd. as Head of Research
and Development where he coordinated research projects for Magnet Tevel,
a consortium of generic technologies for Israeli Ag-Biotech and PotyProtect,
a European Community Fifth Framework Program (EC5) designed to recognize
novel plant-immunity-inducing mild viruses. Shortly thereafter, he was
promoted to Head of Regulation and Intellectual Property. It was then
that he laid the foundation for the regulatory approval of Bio-Oz's
flagship product in Europe and the United States. This product is one
of the few biological solutions to receive such approval by the very
strict Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD), the British equivalent of
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In 2006, Mr. Paldi went on
to become Bio-Oz's Chief Operating Officer.
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Professor Ilan Sela
Chief Scientist and Co-founder
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As Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Beeologics, Professor Ilan Sela is
responsible for the scientific vision and research direction of the company.
In his position, Professor Sela puts more than five decades of accumulated
knowledge in virology, plant and insect pathology and RNAi technologies
to work to specifically address the long-term well being of the bees.
Professor Sela is world renowned for his innovative work in virology
and is credited with identifying, sequencing and naming the Israel
Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) in 2002. As a Professor Emeritus of
Virology and Molecular Biology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
he sits on the faculty of Agriculture at the Robert H. Smith Institute
of Plant Sciences and Genetics, Virus Laboratory, and teaches undergraduate
and graduate courses in Molecular Biology, Virology and Genetic Engineering.
His current research is focused on bee viruses including Colony
Collapse Disorder (CCD), the expression and silencing vectors for
plants, and the integration of viral sequences into host genomes.
Over the course of his career, Professor Sela has authored more than
100 papers that have appeared in reviewed scientific journals, and has
supervised 106 graduate students' theses. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry
and Virology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Dr. Gal Yarden
Executive Vice President of Business
Development and Co-founder
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Dr. Gal Yarden brings a wealth of knowledge and executive experience to
the Beeologics team. As Executive Vice President of Business Development,
he guides Beeologics in developing the strategy that will produce a balanced
product roadmap and worldwide distribution channels for Beeologics' products
worldwide.
After earning his doctorate in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Ecology
from Ben-Gurion University and a Post Doctorate in Virology from ARO
in Israel, Dr. Yarden has spent his career lecturing; advising students
in Chemical Ecology and Applied Virology; and earning competitive research
grants for studies across the globe. Dr. Yarden has helped raise more
than $12 million for research and development for various initiatives
and has registered six different industry patents for his inventions.
In 1996, he applied his know-how to co-founding Bio-Oz Biotechnologies,
a firm focused on applied virology for plant vaccinations of which he
took on the role of CEO in 1999. Dr. Yarden has also served as Coordinator
of PotyProtect, a European research and development consortium for plant
vaccines Director of both ScentGenePollination Ltd. and Bio-Horizons
Ltd., a chemical-ecology firm; and Director of a bi-national Israel/Germany
research and development consortium aiming for the development of nutritional
improvements of agricultural projects.
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