Joseph (Yossi) Vardi

Author: Stephan Salat

Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is a co-chair of DLD. With 39 years experience of co-founding, leading and participating in building over 60 high-tech companies, he is one of Israel's early entrepreneurs.

Yossi co-pioneered instant messaging as the founding investor and the former Chairman of Mirabilis Ltd., the creator of the highly popular instant messaging program ICQ now sold to AOL.
Yossi Vardi looks back to an extensive government and public career. Achievements, amongst others, include Director General of the Ministry of Energy and chairman of Israel's National Oil Company and of the Jerusalem Foundation.

Numerous investments Yossi Vardi founded went public, such as answers.com, Scopus, Granite and Lasers or have been acquired.

He now acts on the advisory boards of 3i and Amdocs. Vardi served on boards of numerous state and private corporations including Bezeq, Israel Electric, the Bank of Israel. He has also been an advisor to the CEO's of AOL, Amazon, and Allied Signal.

He has received many awards, including two time the Prime minister of Israel Hi-Tech award for life achievements, the Industry prize, the Ramniceanu prize and C-E-O's Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.

 

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