Ms. Hacke is well-known in Israel as the founder of HK Catalyst Strategy & Finance, an advisory firm that completed 220 strategy assignments for leading communications, software and electronics companies and investors between 1990-99. Before founding HK Catalyst, Ms. Hacke served for more than four years as Marketing Manager, VP Marketing and CFO of an Israeli start-up.

Ms. Hacke presently serves as a director or observer on the boards of Alvarion Ltd. (Nasdaq: ALVR), BitBand, Mintera Corporation, and Aternity Inc. She is chairman of the Audit Committee of Alvarion. Ms. Hacke was a longstanding board member of the Israel Venture Association (IVA).

A former investment banker at Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York, Ms. Hacke holds a Bachelors degree magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Ms. Kunstler has worked closely with rapidly growing companies, as an early employee at Paychex, a U.S.-based provider of payroll and benefits processing and as a director of Intralinks, a New York-based Application Service Provider (ASP) that supplies secure digital workspaces to help enterprises and individuals communicate and collaborate. She currently serves as a director of Fiberzone Networks,Teknovus and Teranetics.

As Chief Operating Officer of HK Catalyst, Ms. Kunstler advised companies ranging from start-ups to global firms such as Siemens and ECI Telecom.

In addition to her operating experience, Ms. Kunstler spent six years in banking as an analyst for Citibank and then as Finance Manager at Chase Manhattan Bank. Ms. Kunstler earned a Bachelors degree magna cum laude from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Ms. Kunstler has taught courses on entrepreneurship and venture capital in the MBA program at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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Since joining the group in 1998, he has evaluated investment opportunities, analyzed rapidly changing industries such as communications software, optical networking, and wireless data, and assisted senior executives with strategy and business development issues.

Previously, Mr. Roskes co-founded a consulting firm that provided marketing and financial advisory services to Israeli high-tech companies. He also served as business development representative in Israel for three American engineering and consulting firms.