Elisha Yanay

Chairman of the Board and General Manager
Motorola Israel Ltd.

Chairman of the Board
Israel Association of Electronics and Information Industries

As General Manager of Motorola Israel Ltd., Elisha Yanay heads one of the largest electronics and communications companies in Israel. Motorola Israel employs about 5,000 people, and has annual sales in excess of $1 Billion.

Elisha has a degree in Electronics Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, graduating summa cum laude.

Shortly after earning his degree in 1970, Elisha joined Motorola Israel as a development engineer. The computerized irrigation system that he designed and developed won the Rothschild Prize for Innovation in 1980.

In the course of his 34 years with Motorola, Elisha has served in a variety of positions, including as marketing manager for all signaling products in Israel and abroad, when he established a marketing organization in Western countries; several years stationed in the United States as Motorola Israel's representative in the U.S.; as manager of the Fixed Data business, with worldwide responsibility for the Alarm & Control product line developed by Motorola Israel.

In 1990, Elisha was appointed General Manager of Motorola Communications Israel Ltd. (MCIL), Motorola Israel's largest subsidiary, and in 1997 he was elected Corporate Vice President of Motorola Inc. Since the beginning of 2001, Elisha has been serving as Chairman of the Board and General Manager of Motorola Israel Ltd.

Elisha is very active in the community and heads Education 2000, a forum for the expansion and enhancement of technological and scientific education in Israel. He is also the Industry Representative on the Council for Higher Education - a position he has held since the beginning of 2002.

In 1996 Elisha was elected to the Board of Directors of the Israeli Association of Electronics Manufacturers, and that same year he was also elected to the Technion's International Board of Directors. In recognition of his personal initiative and contribution to the development and promotion of technological education in Israel, in June 1997, Elisha was awarded Distinguished Fellow of the Technion Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Honorary Fellow of the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Engineering, and in May 1998, he was awarded Honorary Fellow of the Technion. January 1st 2004, Elisha was elected to the office of Chairman of the Israel Association of Electronics and Information.