Yoram in the general manager of the Microsoft Israel R&D center, responsible the R&D centers in Haifa and Tel Aviv, new core R&D projects, and partnering with the local VC community and academia. Yoram is a board member of the Israeli Advanced Technology Forum (IATI). In 2010 Yoram founded the MNC Forum, a forum that brings together the General Managers of all the Multinational R&D centers in Israel, which consists of close to 50 companies. In addition Yoram is a member of the core team of BTI, and have founded the “Small Steps” workgroup within BTI, to encourage and drive small steps towards co-existence between Israel and Palestine. Previously to his current role, Yoram was the CTO of the Microsoft Israel R&D, VP R&D and COO of the products group at Amdocs (NYSE:DOX), and spend 11 year in product development roles at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Yoram is the co-author of 23 patent applications and several IETF RFCs. He has a BSc in Computer Science from the Technion.