Board of Directors

Mr. Barlev serves as our Chief Executive Officer and Secretary since January 2013 and has served as the Chairman of the Board since 2010. Previously, Mr. Barlev founded our company in 1998 and served as the Chief Executive Officer until January 2010. Mr. Barlev is a seasoned serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in high-technology leadership in military, telecommunications, e-commerce, Big Data and clean energy. Prior to joining Actelis, he was head of the R&D organization at Teledata (acquired by ADC in 1998), a global supplier of advanced digital loop carrier (DLC) equipment from 1996 to 1998. Previously, Mr. Barlev served as a senior research officer with the Israeli government, and he was also founder, Chairman/Acting CEO at companies including Superfish Inc., a leading provider of visual search technology, from 2007 to 2015; Leyden Energy, a leading supplier of breakthrough battery technology from 2010 to 2012; Adyounet Inc., provider of advanced direct marketing services over the Web from 2006 to 2009; and SafePeak LTD., provider of hot data acceleration platform for Big Data across the cloud from 2011 to 2012. Mr. Barlev holds BSC and MSEE degrees from Tel Aviv University, both Summa Cum Laude.

Dr. Niv serves as a board member in our company since 2015. Dr. Niv serves on the board of Palo Alto University and Attolight AG and is an advisor to the Silicom Ventures investment group. Dr. Niv received a BSc in chemistry and a PhD in chemical physics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). He completed his postdoctoral work at the University of Southern California as a Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow.

Mr. Marks is a seasoned professional with over 35 years of experience in leading technology companies, specializing in financial, business, and corporate development roles. Mr. Marks has been serving as an advisory board member of Deepdub, Inc., a company specializing in dubbing and voice over localization, since July 2023, and as the cofounder of DogLog, an app that connects all aspects of a dog's life in one app, since January 2018. In addition, Mr. Marks has been serving as a mentor for Google for Startups Accelerator since January 2018. Mr. Marks’ previous experience includes taking three companies public on Nasdaq as their Chief Financial Officer (Lannet Data Communications Ltd., Radcom Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDCM), and Silicom Ltd. (Nasdaq: SILC)), and successfully leading four others as their Chief Financial Officer (Radnet Inc., RealTime Image, Ltd., Adamind Ltd., and Net Optics, Inc.) to acquisitions. Mr. Marks holds a B.A. in Economics and an MBA Finance degree from Tel Aviv University in Israel.

Dr. Ransom is an industry luminary with nearly five decades of experience in networking and communications technology. He began his career at Bell Labs, contributing to industry-first innovations in applied research and product development. He later held pivotal leadership roles, including directing the Advanced Technology Center at BellSouth and serving as Corporate CTO of Alcatel, where he led global R&D investments and M&A strategy. He has served on the boards of multiple publicly listed companies, including ECI Telecom, Applied Micro, Cyan, and Radisys, as well as ten private technology firms, two of which he chaired. Most recently, he was a Partner at Celesta Capital, investing in and advising deep-tech startups.

His experience extends to optical networking, mobile edge computing, and broadband access solutions, making him an invaluable addition as Actelis continues expanding its leadership in cybersecurity-driven networking for critical infrastructure, government, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Dr. Ransom holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Ms. Kunstler is a seasoned professional with broad experience in the communications components, equipment, and software industry, having served as an executive, venture-fund investor, analyst, and board member. Since April 2024, Ms. Kunstler has been serving as an External Non-Executive Director for Ethernity Networks, a company traded on the London Stock Exchange. Previously, between November 2010 and April 2024, Ms. Kunstler worked at Omdia (a division of InformaTech), lastly holding the position of Chief Analyst for the Broadband Access Intelligence Service, covering the fixed broadband access industry ecosystem. Prior to her role at Omdia, between 2006 and 2010, Ms. Kunstler was the Vice President of Business Development at Teknovus, a venture-backed startup specializing in Passive Optical Network (PON) chip technology. Ms. Kunstler holds a Bachelor's degree from University of Cincinnati and an MBA degree from University of Chicago.