Ori Kirshner

In my (small amount of) spare time I enjoy cooking (for my kids), heavy-duty gardening (for the muscles) and challenging off-road SUV trips (for the soul).

Ori Kirshner, Managing Partner, joined Giza in 2000 with 20 years of business and technology experience. He focuses on communications and information technology, and has particular expertise in the areas of semiconductors and software infrastructure. Ori is responsible for Giza’s investments in Mintigo, Altair, Xeround, XtremIO, Lucid and AOI and has led or co-led investments in Actimize, Mysticom and Oplus.

Prior to joining Giza, Ori managed the Products group at MINT (acquired by Sungard), a software company in the application integration space; founded and managed IBM's microelectronics division in Israel; and managed products and R&D projects within IBM's networking division. He also held senior technical positions at Motorola Semiconductor and worked for Tecnomatix and Cycon, startup companies in robotics and CAD/CAM, where he led R&D teams in the fields of computational geometry and graphics processing.

Ori holds an MBA and a BSc in mathematics & computer science, both from Tel Aviv University.