The Team

Dr. Miky Tamir - Founder & Chairman
Founded and headed the Electro-Optics dept. at Soreq Research center. Headed the Electro-Optics division in Elbit Systems. Dr. Tamir initiated many successful night-vision, detection and observation products for the defense and security industries.
Founded Orad, served as the company’s Exec VP and managed R&D, marketing & operations. Dr. Tamir initiated most of the company’s products. Orad is a public company, world leader in virtual sets, broadcast graphics, sports production tools and visual simulations. Dr. Tamir is also the Founder of Vumii and serves as Chairman and the CTO of company, responsible for R&D and operations.
Dr. Miky Tamir has a Ph.D. in physics (special excellence), 23 papers in the open literature and more than 100 reports. He received the E.D. Bergman award (5/84) for “a special contribution in Electro-Optics” from Israel’s president.
Dr. Tamir founded SportVU in February, 2005 and has since served as the company’s chairman.

Shimon Katzubes – CEO
During his career Shimon Katzubes has held key positions at a variety of companies in the IT industry. Shimon Katzubes served as MIS Manager at Uniroyal Technology inc., a manufacturer of Cast Acrylic sheets for the aviation industry in Stamford CT. Held various managerial positions including VP sales and Marketing at Applicom Ltd (System integrator), Acted as VP Sales & Marketing at Matrix-One (Oracle Technology System integrator) and afterwards as VP Sales & Marketing at Taldor, were he served as a member of the company management team and was responsible for multi million complex IT projects, alliances and channels  as well as corporate strategy.
Shimon Katzubes holds a BSc. in Industrial Engineering and a MSc. in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration from the University of Connecticut.
Shimon Joined SportVU in 2007, as VP Sales and Marketing and was appointed as CEO in February, 2008.

Gal Oz – Executive VP R&D
Gal Oz has 10 years experience in the IDF Visual Intelligence unit. In this role, Gal managed a team of 25 developers and completed many image processing and interpretation projects.
Gal Oz has a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering.
Gal joined SportVU in 2005 as R&D manager, and was appointed as Executive VP R&D in 2007.

Avi Klinger – CFO
Co founder of Assure Credit Insurance Co. Financial Manager of Innowave ECI Wireless Systems Ltd (subsidiary of ECI Telecom Ltd, registered on the NASDAQ). CFO of Solid Applied Technologies Ltd – High tech company in the field of electronic measurement equipment.
Avi Klinger has a B.Sc. in Computers, B.A. in Economics and a MBA with honors from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Avi joined SportVU in 2006 as company's CFO.

Danielle Shor - CTO
Danielle brings to SportVU over 15 years experience of research and development in numerous, inter-disciplinary startup companies in the fields of 3D vision, interactive video, medical imaging and physical simulation. Danielle holds a B.Sc in physics, Summa cum laude, from Technion in Haifa. Danielle worked on projects with SportVU from 2007, and joined SportVU in 2008 as company's CTO.