Alon Stopel

Experience

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  IDF Intelligence Corps

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1991

  Development Engineer

  Development Engineer in the Intelligence Corps. Managed integration team and ongoing work with the end users.

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  IDF Intelligence Corps

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1995

  Development Team Leader

  Managed a communication system development project including analog, digital, and optical systems, while integrating embedded components into real-time applications.

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  RCI

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2000

  CEO, Entrepreneur

  • Establishing and building companies.• Managing of business activities.• Road show, fundraising and building business models.

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  IMOD

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2015

  managed the R&D and implementation activities from vision-building phase, through implementation together with defense industries, in collaboration with American government agencies:• Formed a vision and work plan based on threatening scenarios.• Initiated new capabilities development and architecture changes.• Managed R&D and deployment activities in the field of radar and optical sensing, advanced signal processing algorithms, compression, and data fusion.• Managed multi millions (NIS) budgets.Collaboration with the US Missile Defense Agency - ongoing daily activity with engineering and finance units.• Led the development and production of the state-of-the-art system to the delivery phase.Key Achievements:• Vision implementation.• Transforming IMOD project radar, which provides a solution for strategic threats, into operational.• Upgrading tactical sensor array for strategic capabilities, saving hundreds of millions of dollars. Show less The “system of systems” is a six-year project of state-of-the art technology (Analog, Digital, RF and real-time data processing) involving collaboration between countries. • The project was managed as a GTG joint venture, and required collaborative work and development teams between countries, armies and industries.• Initiated break-through capabilities including knowledge transfer between different countries and units.• Managed a contract that guaranteed the interests of both countries.• Increased R&D activity as well as the contract scope. Show less

  • LTC - Head of Sensors Department - IMOD – IMDO (Israel Missile Defense Organization)

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

  • LTC, Head of multi-system multi-technology project

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2012

  • Maj, Head of Radar SAR section.

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  • Maj, Head of Microelectronic Applications Branch

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  • Maj, Head of Radar Section

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2003
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  Elbit Systems Ltd

  Mar 2016 - Jan 2024

  Corporate Chief Scientist, Vice President

  Established and implemented an R&D strategy for the technological infrastructure to support the company's key business vectors. Initiated and managed R&D activities as growth engines and / or enhanced growth projects.• Establishment of R&D centers worldwide, management and leading central infrastructure’s R&D activities.• Management of multi-year technological roadmaps, determining work vectors, constant monitoring of Disruptive Technologies and implementing relevant technologies.• Leading corporate-level activity with the Innovation Authority and EU in all arenas/programs.• Work with academic institutions in Israel, and research institutes worldwide. Collaboration with IEEE. Initiation of and leading activities within the European R&D programs, USA, Government funding and national laboratories.Key Achievements:• Establishment of R&D centers to increase market share in target markets.• Identification of relevant emerging technologies, like facilitating growth engines, and advancing cross-organizational R&D vectors.• Promote collaboration and R&D consortiums in Israel and worldwide, connecting a variety of industries and academic institutions. Increasing R&D share budgets from external sources, basic R&D and product R&D for building a technological infrastructure that supports the corporate strategy. Show less

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  Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Government of Israel

  Feb 2024 - now

  Chief Scientist for Innovation and Chairman of the Board of Israel Innovation Authority (IIA)

  The Israel Innovation Authority is an independent public entity that operates for the benefit of the Israeli innovation ecosystem and Israeli economy as a whole. Its role is to nurture and develop Israeli innovation resources, while creating and strengthening the infrastructure and framework needed to support the entire knowledge industry.