Shai Belzer

Color Chip (Israel) Ltd. designs and manufactures optical sub-systems and components. It develops application specific photonic integrated circuits. The firm delivers optical high-speed transceivers to the datacom/telecom markets and passive optical splitters to the FTTx markets. The company was founded by Shimon Eckhouse, Moshe Price and Shlomo Ruschin in January 2001 and is headquartered in Yokneam, Israel.

Elscint Ltd. owns, operates and constructs hotels. It provides construction, renovation and up gradation services to the hotel and leisure industry. The company was founded in 1969 and is located in Tel Aviv, Israel.

CyOptics, Inc. designs, develops and markets optical chips and components. It designs, develops and markets a line of InP optical chips and components for integration into access, metro and long-haul communications systems. The firm also provides contract design, foundry and packaging services. The company was founded by Uzi Koren, Micah Zimmerman, Mansur Roni and Yair Halpren in January 1999 and is headquartered in Allentown, PA.