Zeev Gilkis, PhD, was the founder of AMIT, an institute for bio-medical development at Technion. For more than eight years he was the CEO of the institute and led the establishment of five start-ups in various fields of medicine, serving as the chairman of the Board of Directors on all five.

For over 11 years he held senior management positions at Comverse Technology (Nasdaq CNSI).

He earned his PhD with a thesis on Artificial Intelligence, and in addition, holds graduate degrees in mathematics, statistics and computer science and MSc in mathematics.

Gilkis served in the mythological 8200 SIGINT Unit of the Israeli Intelligence for 17 years, and was awarded the highest “Award for Israeli National Security” projects by the President of Israel.

He served as the first Israeli military attaché to Poland and Hungary.

In addition to his diversified career, he has devoted most of his free time to neuro-science, health and nutrition.

He is a vegan, practices yoga and meditation.