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Innoviz Expands Board of Directors with Global Technology and Automotive Industry Veterans
The Newly Appointed Board Members Will Support Innoviz in Deploying its Automotive-Grade LiDAR Product Line Globally and Accelerating Safe and Ubiquitous
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[{"type":"text","content":"The Newly Appointed Board Members Will Support Innoviz in Deploying its Automotive-Grade LiDAR Product Line Globally and Accelerating Safe and Ubiquitous Autonomous Vehicle Adoption.\n\n\nTEL AVIV, Israel, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: INVZ), a technology leader of high-performance, solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software, announced today that it has appointed Amichai Steimberg, Aharon Aharon, Dan Falk, Ronit Maor, Orit Stav and James Sheridan to its board of directors effective today. They join existing board members Omer Keilaf, Co-Founder and CEO of Innoviz, and Oren Rosenzweig, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Innoviz. The new appointees bring decades of experience leading publicly traded companies in the technology and automotive sectors as executive officers and members of boards of directors.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nThese appointments follow the consummation of Innoviz's merger with Collective Growth Corporation (formerly Nasdaq: CGRO) on April 5, 2021. \nThe following provides information about the new appointees to Innoviz's board of directors:\nChairman of the Board: Amichai Steimberg, Former CEO of Orbotech Ltd.Mr. Steimberg previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Orbotech Ltd. from 2013 to 2019, and as Chief Executive Officer of Orbotech Ltd. from 2019 to 2020. Mr. Steimberg is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Israel Amplify Program Corp., and serves as a board member in several private companies, including as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Airovation Technologies Ltd. From September 2020 to January 2021, Mr. Steimberg served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Highcon System Ltd., an Israeli company listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Mr. Steimberg holds a BSc in Agricultural Economics and Business Administration from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.Aharon Aharon, CEO of Israel Innovation AuthoritySince 2017, Mr. Aharon has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Israel Innovation Authority, an independent public entity that promotes Israel's innovation ecosystem. Prior to that, Mr. Aharon served as the Corporate Vice President of Hardware Technologies and General Manager of Apple Israel from 2011 to 2017, and as the CEO of Camero from 2004 to 2010 (at which time the company was acquired). Mr. Aharon serve...