Directors and Advisors

Nati Perry was a founder and CEO of Barak 013, one of the leading ISP and telephony companies in Israel. Prior to Barak 013, Mr. Perry was an officer in the Israeli Air Force, and headed communications, planning, and logistics units.

Ronnie Braun is managing director and head of creative operations in the Helicon Group, having co-founded the company in 1985. The Helicon Group is involved in all aspects of the musical content industry, from manufacturing to retail and new media, and is the market leader in Israel, handling the recorded music catalogues of Universal and EMI, as well as an impressive stable of Israeli talent.  In 1995, Mr. Braun co-founded Gravity, a cutting edge visual effects house, with studios in Tel-Aviv, New-York, and Toronto. In 2004, Rhinoceros-Gravity, the U.S. operation was chosen as one of the top ten companies in the U.S. in the area of visual effects.

Mr. Braun was co-founder of Comverse Media – a company founded with Comverse for the purpose of solving issues of content for internet, cellular handsets, ITV, etc., which was later absorbed into Comverse, being the basis for the VOICD division.

Mr. Braun started his career in the music industry with CBS Records, Israel and subsequently CBS International. He has BA in psychology and cinematography from the Tel-Aviv University.

Mark Bernstein is a veteran of the Internet revolution having been instrumental in building two of the Internet’s premier businesses.

Bernstein was part of the small team that birthed CNN’s new media businesses ultimately serving as a Senior Vice President of CNN and the General Manager of CNN Interactive. There he oversaw the management, strategy and operations of CNN’s primary provider of digital content and helped build it into one of the premier properties on the Internet. In addition to launching CNN.com, Bernstein was instrumental in broadly distributing and syndicating CNN content through a variety of channels including mobile telephony, enhanced and interactive TV services, pagers, video streaming, broadband and teletext. Bernstein was responsible for the development of CNN Interactive in multiple languages, which included creating joint ventures for worldwide production of content.

Bernstein was recruited away from CNN to serve as the President of Springstreet.com, a division of Move.com (formerly Homestore.com) — the Internet’s dominant real estate portal. This Kleiner Perkins backed company went public in 1999. Following that service, Bernstein has run his own private investment company working with early stage technology and media companies. In that capacity he has served as the CEO of Juventus Bioscience, LLC and currently serves as the co-Publisher of Hundreds of Heads Books a company that he co-founded.

A native of Knoxville, Tenn., Bernstein is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and New York University’s School of Law. He was an attorney with the King & Spalding law firm in Atlanta and served as Senior Legal Counsel at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

 

Paul-Rene Albertini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-Rene_Albertini ) has been a media industry leader for over 2 decades, formerly CEO of Warner Music International,  CEO of Polygram Disques, the leading company in France with more than 30% of the market share, CEO of Sony Music France and EVP of Sony Music Entertainment Europe

As a Technology Fellow and Producer for Electronic Arts, Philippe has helped solve numerous critical problems related to technology on a variety of products. Philippe co-founded Xenote, demonstrated the product and raised 9.5M$. 3 months of test with 15000 iTag users demonstrated the stickiness and potential of the service then sold it to MicroVision, allowing them to ship an innovative barcode reader. A strategic advisor to DxO Labs, Philippe has contributed to the product definition of DxO Optics Pro from inception through its numerous iterations and has helped DxO communicate effectively with photographers and the industry.

Passionate about image and photography, Philippe sells his images to various organizations and companies. UNICEF has been featuring his images worldwide for point of sales displays, catalog covers, calendars, and cards.