Advisory Board

A co-founder and Chairman of CRM LLC. Prior to co-founding the firm in 1973, Gerry was a Senior Partner at Oppenheimer & Company. Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn is a leading value-oriented investment firm with more than $11billion in assets under management. Since it was founded in 1973, its client list has grown to include corporate and public pension plans, endowments and foundations, hospitals, community and religious organizations, Taft-Hartley and multi-employer funds as well as individual and family trusts (www.crmllc.com).

Gerry earned a BS from Syracuse and attended the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Graduate School of Finance. He also served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy.

Yoav Doppelt has been with Ofer HT from its inception in 1997, defining its vision and formulating its methodology. Ofer Hi-Tech is a leading investor in technology-based Israeli-related companies, from pre-seed through early-stage to publicly-traded, working in communications, software, medical devices, bio-technology and microelectronics. Ofer Hightech is part of the Ofer Brothers Group (www.oferhitech.com).

Yoav serves as an active board member for Yozma Venture Capital ($170M under management), Lumenis, Enzymotec, MGVS, Chiasma, Cardiodex and is actively involved in numerous investments within the Israeli private equity and high-tech arena.

Yoav has led several exit deals and has extensive experience in exit management. In addition, Yoav is well seasoned in hands-on activities with portfolio companies including MGVS (cell therapy), Naopass (Medical devices) and Chiasma (drug delivery) and Coreflow (Capital Equipment). He is also served as an active chairman for Enzymotech (industrial biotechnologies).

Since 1996, Yoav has held various finance and managerial positions in the Ofer Brothers Group. He has served as a director in Tower Semiconductors (Nasdaq: TSEM) and IMI—Israel Chemical's R&D Institution.

Yoav received a bachelor’s degree from the faculty of industrial management in the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from Haifa University, Israel.