Netta Kerem

Current

• President & CEO at Underwater Technologies Center

Past

• VP marketing and business development at Elam - EL industries Ltd
• Managing Director for the Comsumables Dev. at Scitex Vision Ltd.
• VP for sales and marketing at Contec Medical Ltd.

• Sales and Marketing manager at 3M Israel
• NY Branch manager and Application Engineer at Orbotech Syatems

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Education

• Bradford University, UK
• Tel Aviv University

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Netta Kerem’s Summary

• Over 20 years of experience of Sales, Marketing, Business development and General management, for leading international companies (3M, Orbotech, Scitex Vision) as well as startup companies.

• Experienced with building and managing complex (multiple sites, worldwide spread)

• Leading and managing workers (Sales and marketing, R&D and engineering)

• Major experience with variety of technologies, international markets with multiple cultures, solution providing and customers types.

Netta Kerem’s Specialties:

Leading new business opportunities, sales people and marketers, in different technological areas, over verity of geographical markets.
Experience with multinational leading companies as well as startup companies.

Netta Kerem’s Experience

• President & CEO

  Underwater Technologies Center

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  CEO of Hi-Tech company manufacturing and selling wireless underwater digital communication device (for scuba divers and underwater facilities) www.utc-digital.com

• VP marketing and business development

  Elam - EL industries Ltd

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  January 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 9 months)

  Division Manager for and Vice President Marketing and Business development for Elam Electroluminescent Industries Ltd.
  Developing a new strategic business unit, facing the professional markets.
  Responsible for setting the company’s first priority towards professional market: the emergency services market segment - the Homeland Security related.
  Leading the company’s efforts and building its capabilities to become a player in this market niche.

• Managing Director for the Comsumables Dev.

  Scitex Vision Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Printing industry)

  October 1999 — September 2002 (3 years)

  Business unit Managing Director within Scitex Vision Ltd., offering consumable products to hundreds of the wide format printing houses around the world.
  The company is a leading Digital Wide Format printer manufacturer.
  
  Responsible to was a combination of business development, building a sales organization, building technical organization, providing logistic support operation
  Among my direct responsibilities
  
  The main territories were active are Europe (East, Central and West), The US and Asia (mainly Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong)

• VP for sales and marketing

  Contec Medical Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)

  January 1998 — December 1999 (2 years)

  Vice- president for sales and marketing for Medical equipment Company Contec Medical Ltd. The company was focused on development and sales of computerized, on line, multi media documenting system of medical procedures.
  Leading 12 sales managers dealing with marketing, sales and customer support.

• Sales and Marketing manager

  3M Israel

  (Public Company; Defense & Space industry)

  1992 — 1998 (6 years)

  Executive Sales and Marketing Manager for 3M Israel Ltd., In charge for the commercial activities of 3M industrial sector.
  Defining marketing strategies, Distribution policy and distribution agreements, and implementing distribution channels.
  Recruiting, training and guiding new sales people.
  The industrial sector involves: Chemicals additives, Respiratory products, Safety products, Graphic arts, Digital printing, Reflective materials, Adhesives, Abrasive products and many more.

• NY Branch manager and Application Engineer

  Orbotech Syatems

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  May 1988 — December 1992 (4 years 8 months)

  Orbotech Systems (a worldwide leading company for Automatic Optical Inspection machines, for the PCB (Printed Circuits Boards) Industry: Branch Manager in New York .
  Relocated with my family to New York, for two years.
  Managing of a service and support team, maintaining hi-tech machines, used at several IBM sites.
  Leading and developing new applications within the IBM R&D group of the MCM technology.
  
  Orbotech Systems Ltd., in the position of R&D Projects control Manager for the R&D group.
  Defining and building computerized support s/w applications for performance measurements and cost control.
  Creating computerized working plan (for R&D projects), in cooperation with the technical project manager, for projects engaging a vast number of engineers and technicians.
  
  Application Engineer.
  Became an expert for some of the systems developed by the company, combining specialized hardware and software systems with CAD/CAM software.

Netta Kerem’s Education

• Bradford University, UK

  MBA , Marketing , 1997 — 2000

• Tel Aviv University

  BSc , Ind. Eng, Management, IT , 1983 — 1987

Additional Information

Netta Kerem’s Interests:

Business cooperation, Technology related opportunities, entrepreneurial opportunities, International business

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