Meet our Leadership Team

Dr. Avner Sharon is an entrepreneur and has served as the CEO of PBC Lasers and the GM and VP Marketing of GWS-Photonics. He has managed multidisciplinary, engineering, and operation teams. He has vast experience in leading marketing and business development activities with leading vendors and customers internationally, leveraging his extensive technical expertise in electro-optics, laser technologies, semiconductors, telecommunications, and metrology systems. Dr. Sharon holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in the area of lasers and semiconductors, and a Master’s degree in Business Management from Tel Aviv University.

Mr. Oz Abramson is an accomplished entrepreneur and a veteran in the defense & telecommunications industries with a proven track record in business development, marketing, and sales. He is one of the founders of RFOptic and currently holds the position of VP of business development and marketing & sales at RFOptic and its US subsidiary, RFOptic Inc.

Oz worked in several senior sales and marketing positions at leading various Defense and  telecommunications companies, including ELTA Systems, ADC Teledata, and RadWiz which was acquired by Terayon (currently part of Motorola). He also held the position of Chief Analyst at StageOne Ventures and VP of business development of its incubator LabOne, where he was responsible for the technology analyses of start-ups.

Oz holds an MSc degree in Applied Physics from the Hebrew University and a BSc in Math and Physics from the Hebrew University, including business studies.

Dr. David Gabbay has over 35 years of Microwave and Electro Optics (E-O) design experience, ranging from RFIC and MMIC technology including numerous chip designs to module level, product prototyping and production and failure analysis. He has an extensive modeling, applied theory and technology knowledge which he accumulated over many years of successful consulting as CEO/CTO of Savant Technologies Ltd serving both commercial and military clients. In that capacity he worked with a number of chip fabrication companies such as IBM/Global Foundries, UMS, Tower/Jazz as well as numerous clients including Elta, Sensible Medical Systems, SunDisk/Applied Materials, FEI/Elcom and others. A wide range of experience in Optical, Electro-Optical component design and Microwave design along with technical software development uniquely positions David to advance RF-over-fiber products and technology. He holds IP and a patent in the area of E-O data compression, GaAs E-O Modulator design and Direct Digital coherent microwave synthesis. David received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ in the area of microwave component modeling and simulation.

Mr. Moshe Carmel has over 25 years of experience in executive sales, marketing, and business development at various companies. Before joining RFOptic, Mr. Carmel served as the Director, Business Development at Broadcom and as the Vice President, Marketing and Sales at Emza Visual Sense (acquired by Himax Technologies). He also held the position of Executive Vice President, Sales at Wisair and served as the Vice President, Carriers Sales at Alvarion Technologies.

Mr. Moshe Carmel holds an MBA degree from Tel Aviv University and a BSc in EE from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).