Thomas Gill and Dr. Yehoshua (Shuki) Gleitman Directors of the Board at Voltaire
For a three-year term
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 2, 2009 at 2:40 pmVoltaire Ltd. announced the results of its Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on June 30, 2009, at the offices of the Company at 13 Zarchin Street, Ra’anana, Israel.
At the Annual Meeting of Shareholders,
the shareholders adopted the following resolutions:
- to elect Mr. Thomas J. Gill and Dr. Yehoshua (Shuki) Gleitman as Class II directors, each to serve for a three-year term, pursuant to the Articles of Association of the Company;
- to approve the grant to Mr. Miron (Ronnie) Kenneth, as of the date of the Annual Meeting, of options to purchase 125,000 ordinary shares of the Company under the Company’s 2007 Incentive Compensation Plan, with an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company’s ordinary shares on the Grant Date; and
- to approve the reappointment of Kesselman & Kesselman, a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2009 and until the 2010 annual meeting of shareholders, and to authorize the Board of Directors, upon recommendation of the audit committee, to determine their annual compensation.
Shareholders of record as of the close business on June 1, 2009 were entitled to vote at the meeting. A total of 15,937,222 shares, representing approximately 76% of the Company’s total outstanding shares, were represented at the meeting.
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Thomas J. Gill has served as a director since
March 2007. Mr. Gill was appointed by BCF II Belgium Holdings SPRL, an
affiliate of Baker Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm
investing in communication equipment, software, services and
applications providers. Since 2003, Mr. Gill has served as the Managing
Partner of SALTT Development Co., LLC, a real estate development and
construction company. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Gill served as the
Managing Partner of G4 Partners, LLC, an early stage private equity
fund. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Gill served as Chief Executive Officer and
President of FORE Systems, Inc., a designer, developer and manufacturer
of high speed networking equipment. From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Gill held
various positions at FORE Systems, Inc., including Chief Operating
Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance. From
1991 to 1993, Mr. Gill served as the Vice President of Finance at
Cimflex Teknowledge, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of automated
factory systems. Prior to serving as Vice President of Finance, from
1987 to 1991, Mr. Gill served as Director of Finance at Cimflex
Teknolwedge, Inc. Mr. Gill has served on the board of directors of
several companies, including, from 2003 to 2004, FreeMarkets, Inc., a
publicly-traded company that provides business-to-business online
auctions and sourcing software and solutions, from 2002 to 2004,
PrintCafe Software, Inc., a publicly-traded company that provides print
management software, which was acquired by Electronics for Imaging,
Inc. in 2003, and, from 2002 to 2003, WaveSmith Networks, Inc., a
provider of multiservice switching solutions. In addition, from 1998 to
1999, Mr. Gill served on the board of directors of FORE Systems, Inc.
Since 2001, Mr. Gill has served on the board of directors of Helium
Networks, Inc., a mobile and wireless solutions company, which he
co-founded in 2001, and, since 2005, Mr. Gill has served on the board
of directors of SEEC, Inc., a provider of software solutions. Since
2001, Mr. Gill has served on the board of trustees of Sewickley
Academy, an independent college-preparatory day school in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and was appointed Vice Chair in 2004. Mr. Gill holds a
B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Yehoshua (Shuki) Gleitman has served as a
director since May 2003. Dr. Gleitman was appointed by the Shrem,
Fudim, Kelner Technologies Ltd, an affiliate of the SFK Group. Since
August 2000, Dr. Gleitman has served as the Managing Director of
Platinum Venture Capital Fund, LLC, a venture capital firm investing in
Israeli high technology companies, which he founded in 2000. Since
January 2001, Dr. Gleitman has served as the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Danbar Technology Ltd., an investment company
listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. From February 2000 through
December 2005, Dr. Gleitman was the Chief Executive Officer of Shrem,
Fudim, Kelner Technologies Ltd., an investment company publicly
traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, which he co-founded. Prior to
that, Dr. Gleitman was the Chief Executive Officer of AMPAL Investment
Corporation, an investment company listed on The Nasdaq Global Market,
from 1997 through 2000, and the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry
of Industry and Trade from 1992 to 1997. From 1996 to 1997, Dr.
Gleitman was also the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of
Industry and Trade of the Office of the Chief Scientist. In addition to
Danbar Technology, Dr. Gleitman currently serves on the board of
directors of the following publicly-traded companies: Capitol Point
Ltd., a technology incubation company listed on the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange; Walla Ltd., an Internet portal listed on the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange; Teuza Ventures Ltd., a publicly-traded venture capital firm
listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange; and Mer Telemanagement Solutions
Ltd., a billing solution company for the telecommunication industry
listed on The Nasdaq Global Market. Dr. Gleitman holds B.Sc., M.Sc. and
Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. Dr. Gleitman has served as the Honorary Consul General of
Singapore in Israel since 1998.