leadership

Isaac Angel, began serving as an officer of the Company in April 2014 and has served as our CEO since July 2014. On February 24, 2020, Mr. Angel notified the Company of his decision to retire from his position as CEO of the Company, effective July 1, 2020. Mr. Angel will remain employed at the Company through December 31, 2020 in order to assist with the transition of the new CEO, and, as more fully described below, if elected to the Board, Mr. Angel will also assume the position of Executive Chairman effective July 1, 2020. Mr. Angel served as a director of Retalix Ltd. from 2012 until 2013 and as a director of Frutarom Ltd. from 2008 until 2016. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Angel served as Executive Chairman of LeadCom Integrated Solutions Ltd. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Angel served as Executive Vice President, Global Operations of VeriFone after the acquisition of Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd. (“Lipman”) by VeriFone. From 1979 to 2006, he served in various positions at Lipman, including as its President and CEO.

Byron G. Wong, has been a member of our Board since July 2017. Mr. Wong has been a private energy consultant following his retirement from Chevron Corporation (“Chevron”) at the end of 2012 after more than 31 years with Chevron, its affiliates and predecessor companies. While at Chevron, from 2001 to 2012, Mr. Wong was Senior Vice President - Commercial Development (Asia) for Chevron Global Power Company, managing a team of professionals in identifying and developing opportunities for independent power projects to monetize Chevron’s gas in the region, and also participating as a member of a decision review board for overseeing Chevron’s geothermal development opportunities in Indonesia and the Philippines. Prior to the merger with Chevron in 2001, Mr. Wong established and staffed the initial Asian office location for Texaco Power and Gasification in Singapore in 1999. Before moving to Singapore, from 1995 to 1999 Mr. Wong was based in London with Texaco Europe, first as the Director of New Business Development (Downstream) for Central/Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union, with primary responsibility for developing Texaco’s downstream entry into this region; then second, from 1998 to early 1999 as Vice President of Upstream Corporate Development for Europe, Eurasia, Middle East and North Africa, focusing on opportunities for upstream oil and gas mergers, divestments and acquisitions. Mr. Wong received both his BA in Economics and his MBA in Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Dafna Sharir, has been a member of our Board since May 2018. Ms. Sharir has served on the board of directors of Frutarom Industries Inc. from 2013 to 2018 and the board of directors of Gilat Satellite Networks since 2016. From 2012 to 2015, she served on the board of directors of Ormat Industries Inc., which was merged into Ormat Systems Ltd. in February 2015. Since 2005, Ms. Sharir has served as a consultant, providing mergers and acquisitions advisory services, including with respect to due diligence, structuring and negotiation, to public and private companies around the world. From 2002 to 2005, she served as Senior Vice President – Investments of AMPAL, a US public company and was responsible for all of AMPAL’s acquisitions and dispositions. From 1999 to 2002, she served as Business Development – Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at AMDOCS and was responsible for international acquisitions and equity investments. Ms. Sharir earned an LL.B from Tel Aviv University School of Law and a BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University School of Economics, as well as an LLM from New York University School of Law and an MBA from INSEAD.

David Granot, has been a member of our Board since May 2012. Mr. Granot has served as the Temporary Acting Chairman of Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Co. Ltd. since July 2017 to May 2018 and as a board member there since. From 2001 through 2007, Mr. Granot served as the Chief Executive Officer of the First International Bank of Israel Ltd. He also serves on the board of directors of non-United States public companies Sonol Ltd., Tempo Beverages Ltd. and Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd. Mr. Granot serves also as the Chairman of MALRAN Ltd. and of the investments committee of the Tel Aviv University. During the past five years, Mr. Granot served as a member of the board of directors of the following non-U.S. public and private companies, for which he no longer serves as a director: Alrov (Israel) Ltd, Geregu Power Plc, Harel Insurance, Investment and Finance Ltd. (Chairman of the investments committee of the Nostro), Calcalit Jerusalem Ltd and Protalix Ltd. He earned a BA in Economics and an MBA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Karin Corfee is the founder and CEO of KC Strategies LLC, a business consultancy firm specializing in climate and sustainability services, a role she has held since the company’s founding in April 2021. Ms. Corfee has 30 years of experience in the energy industry. Most recently, she served as Partner and Western Team Leader at Guidehouse, a management consulting firm, where she oversaw the firm’s western energy practice from October 2019 to April 2021. Ms. Corfee served as Managing Director and Leader of Clean Energy Programs and Sustainability at Navigant Consulting, Inc., a management consulting firm, from 2011 to its acquisition by Guidehouse in October 2019. Prior to Navigant, Ms. Corfee was the Vice President and West Coast DSM Manager at KEMA Inc., a global energy consultancy company.

Michal Marom has served on the board of directors and the audit and compensation committees of REE Automotive Ltd. (Nasdaq: REE) since July 2021 and the board of directors and audit, finance, investment and compensation committees of Partner Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq: PTNR) since January 2021. She is also a member of the boards of directors of several Israeli companies, including OPC Energy Ltd., the largest private electricity company in Israel, and Dan Transportation Ltd. From 2011 to 2015, Ms. Marom served as the Chief Financial Officer of Linkury Ltd., an Israeli high-tech company she co-founded in 2011. She also previously served on the board of BiondVax Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Nasdaq: BVXV) from 2015 to 2019. Ms. Marom is a certified public accountant in Israel and also acts as a consultant providing strategic advice on business models and financial transactions

Mike Nikkel currently serves as Senior Managing Director of the Energy and Eco- Services Business Headquarters of ORIX where he assists with business development and management, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Nikkel joined ORIX in 2016. He has held senior management positions in the energy and infrastructure sectors across development, finance, legal and management for more than 25 years. Mr. Nikkel started his career in the sector at the AES Corporation in 1996 where he became Vice President and Head of Business Development as well as Chief Financial Officer of the firm’s Asian operations before departing the company in 2003. From there he has been Managing Director and a regional head at CLP Holdings, the Chief Executive Officer of a joint venture between CLP and the Mitsubishi Corporation, the Asia-based Partner at private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners as well as the internal infrastructure and energy advisor to the Jardine Matheson and Astra International group of companies. He has served on a number of boards of directors and various of their committees including the board and executive committee of publicly listed Electricity Generating PLC of Thailand. Mr. Nikkel holds a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School.

Ms. Ravit Barniv was previously a member of our Board from November 2015 until May 2021. Ms. Barniv previously served as the chairperson of the board of directors of Tnuva Group, the largest food group in Israel, from 2013 to 2015, as a board member of Clalit Health Care, Israel’s largest healthcare provider, from November 2016 to October 2022. She also served as a chairperson of the board of directors of Shikun & Binui Ltd., an infrastructure, real estate and renewable energy group in Israel, from 2007 to 2012, and as CEO of Netvision Communications, an internet service provider and provider of integration and telecommunication services, from 2001 to 2007.

Stanley B. Stern, has been a member of our Board since November 2015. Mr. Stern is the Managing Partner of Alnitak Capital, which he founded in 2013 to provide board level strategic advisory services and merchant banking services, primarily to companies in technology-related industries. From 1981 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2013, he was a Managing Director at Oppenheimer & Co, where, among other positions, he was head of the investment banking department and technology investment banking group. He also held positions at Salomon Brothers, STI Ventures and C.E. Unterberg. Mr. Stern has served as chairman of the board of directors of Audiocodes, Inc. since 2012, and has served as a member of the board of directors of Ekso Bionics Holdings, Inc. since 2015 and Foamix, Ltd. since 2014. In the past, Mr. Stern served from 2015 to 2018 as the chairman of the board of directors of SodaStream International Ltd. and as a member of the board of directors of the following public and private companies, for which he no longer serves as a director: Given Imaging, Fundtech Inc., Tucows, Inc. (Chairman) and Odimo, Inc. He earned a BA in Economics and Accounting from City University of New York, Queens College, and an MBA from Harvard University.