Management Team

Hagay Sitry, CEO Hagay Sitry, CEO
Hagay Sitry, founding team member, has over 25 years experience as CEO. Prior to establishing Pixer he was co-founder of UC Laser, founding member of UCL. Prior to that, he was CEO of Coatlab, a specialty optical film coating company and founder and CEO of Hanita Lenses. He is a Board member of several companies, including TAG medical devices and Shellcase semiconductor packaging.

Guy Ben-Zvi, Executive VP & CTO Guy Ben-Zvi, Executive VP & CTO
Guy Ben-Zvi, founding team member, before founding Pixer together with Hagay Sitry, was CTO for UC Laser. Prior to that, he held the position of VP Technology at Palram Industries, a $200M plastics and chemicals company, for 10 years and was a board member. He has vast experience in bringing dozens of products from concept to market. He holds an MBA from Kellogg Northwestern and holds about 10 patents in plastics technology and laser technology.

Bill Turnquist, VP Sales Bill Turnquist, VP Sales and Marketing
Bill Turnquist joined Pixer after 25 years experience in the Semiconductor Industry. He held senior management positions in capital equipment companies including KLA-Tencor, Asyst Technologies, Nanometrics and XMR Lasers. He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and attended the AEA Stanford Executive Program.

Steven Labovitz Steven Labovitz, Director of Strategic Marketing
Steven Labovitz joined Pixer after 11 years in the Semiconductor Industry. He held both applications and marketing management roles at KLA-Tencor. Prior to that, he served in process development and engineering management roles at the Intel Mask Operation. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Babson College.

Avner Gamliel, Director of Finance Avner Gamliel, Director of Finance
Avner Gamliel joined Pixer after serving as CFO at Oren Semiconductors for 7 years until it was acquired by Zoran Corporation. Prior to that, he worked for 5 years for “Arthur Andersen” and Ganor Troyaner Gelber, accountancy firms. He holds a CPA and B.A. from the Management College of Tel Aviv.

Arik Gott, Director of Operations Arik Gott, Director of Operations
Arik Gott joined Pixer after 20 years experience in senior Operations positions, with several leading Israeli/International High Tech companies. He served as Director of Materials and was founding member of Anorad Israel. Prior to that, he was Purchasing Manager of KLA Tencor Israel. He holds a B.A. in Business Management from the Open University of Israel.

Yuval Perets, Director of Engineering Yuval Perets, Director of Engineering
Yuval Perets joined Pixer after 14 years experience in Research & Development and Project Management positions, with several leading Semiconductors capital equipment companies such as Applied Materials Israel.