Infinity Cross Border Acquisition Corporation

Infinity Cross Border Acquisition Corporation

Apr 14, 2022 by sam.beattie

MANAGEMENT & BOARD


Executive Officers

Amir Gal-Or, 49
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-President and Co-Chairman

Mr. Gal-Or joined Infinity Venture Capital as a partner during August, 1999 and has been managing partner of FBR Infinity II Ventures since its formation in August, 2001. Since January 2007, Mr. Gal-or has been the Managing Partner of Infinity I-China Fund. Mr. Gal-Or is also a member of the board of directors of the management company and general partner of each of FBR Infinity II Ventures and Infinity I-China Fund and is a member of their respective investment committees. From December 2002 until November 2010 Mr. Gal-Or served as chairman of Maayan Ventures Ltd., (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange — MAYN), Israel’s first publicly traded technology incubator and has served as a director of TecnoPlus Ventures Ltd., a publicly traded venture capital investment company from December, 2006 until 2009. Since 2002, Mr. Gal-Or has been a director and controlling shareholder of I.M.S. Group Ltd., a company providing venture capital portfolio management services to Clal Industries and Investments Ltd. and Orama Ltd. Mr. Gal-Or has been a director of I-CSVC Venture Management Co. Ltd. since its inception during May, 2004. Mr. Gal-Or has also served on the board of directors of a number of Israeli and Chinese technology companies including China Wafer Level CSP Ltd., China’s leading wafer level packaging provider and Shellcase Ltd., a leading developer of wafer level packaging products whose intellectual property and certain other assets were sold to Tessera Technologies Inc., during 2005. Mr. Gal-Or was a director of Nanomotion Ltd., a leader in the development and manufacture of ceramic servo motors which is controlled by Hong Kong based Johnson Electric Holdings Ltd. Mr. Gal-Or also served on the board of directors of Proneuron Biotechnologies, Inc., Glucon Medical Ltd., Applisonix Ltd., Nicast Ltd., Redent-Nova Ltd., Opthocare Ltd., Bio-Sense Technologies Ltd., Orama Ltd., Engineering and IP Advanced Technologies Ltd., D&A Hi-Tech Information Ltd. and Tegrity Ltd. Mr. Gal-Or holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and completed a Harvard University program in venture capital and private equity investments. Mr. Gal-Or is a Major (Ret.) in the Israeli Air Force where he piloted F-16 and F-4 fighter aircraft and was a member of the A-4 Acrobatic team.


Avishai Silvershatz, 54
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-President and Co-Chairman

Mr. Silvershatz has been managing partner of FBR Infinity II Ventures since its formation in August 2001. Mr. Silvershatz has been the Managing Partner of Infinity I-China Fund since January 2007. Mr. Silvershatz is also a member of the board of directors of the management company and general partner of the Infinity I-China Fund and is a member of its investment committee. Since 2002, Mr. Silvershatz has been a director and controlling shareholder of I.M.S. Group Ltd., a company providing venture capital portfolio management services to Clal Industries and Investments Ltd. and Orama Ltd. During 1995, Mr. Silvershatz co-founded Verisity Ltd. (formerly Nasdaq: VRST), a provider of software tools for chip designers and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from 1995 until 1999. Mr. Silvershatz also co-founded ScanVec Amiable Ltd. (Nasdaq: SVECF) during 1991 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1991 to 1993, a leader in CAD/CAM software solutions for the sign making, machining and imaging industries. Mr. Silvershatz was a director of Maayan Ventures Ltd., (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange — MAYN), Israel’s first publicly traded technology incubator, Tegrity Ltd. and Mate — Media Access Technologies Ltd. Mr. Silvershatz has been a director of Infinity-CSVC Venture Capital Enterprise since its inception during May 2004. Mr. Silvershatz was also a director of Power Paper Ltd., Mate-Media Access Technologies Ltd., Cerel (Ceramics Technologies) Ltd., PowerID Ltd., On-Line Media SolutionsLtd., Orama Ltd., Capital Point Ltd., Exelate Ltd. and Tegrity Ltd. Mr. Silvershatz has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University (cum laude) and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Weizman Institute of Science (cum laude).


Mark Chess, 34
Executive Vice President

Mr. Chess is a Venture Partner with Infinity Equity and has been with the firm since 2001. He recently negotiated investments on behalf of Infinity with Futuragene (AIM: FGN) which was subsequently sold to Suzano for USD$90 million. Mark was actively involved in helping to establish the first Infinity-CSVC fund in China in 2005 and manages the Fund’s strategic relationships with institutions in the United States, particularly the Infinity-NSF portfolio. Mr. Chess has been with Infinity since 2001. Since January 2007, Mr. Chess has been responsible for off-shore investments in the information technology and agriculture industries for Infinity I-China Fund. Prior to Infinity, Mark was a Director with Partners500, leading the company’s international business strategy. Mark is currently a Director of Oberon Media Ltd. In the philanthropic community, Mr. Chess is the Chairman of  The Presentense Group, LEG-UP Microfinance Fund, and Yesh Shabbat. In addition, Mr. Chess sits on the Boards of  The Museum of Psalms, JSC, and  The Initiative Center of the Negev. Mark graduated with a degree in Business Honors from the University of Texas at Austin.


Limei Zhao, 35
Vice President Legal Structuring

Since January 2008, Limei has been Infinity’s Senior Director of Legal Structuring in China. In this capacity, Limei is responsible for the structure and all aspects of the legal functions of the Infinity group in China, including fund raising, formation and management of RMB funds, negotiating and drafting investment documents, and administering portfolio companies in China. Prior to joining Infinity, in 2007, Limei was an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP after working with Davis Wright Tremaine’s Shanghai Office. Before that, she served as PRC legal director of the worldwide biggest laptop manufacturer, Quanta Computer Group. Her prior practice focused on private equity, venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, commercial transactions, foreign direct investments, and general corporate matters. Limei is a member of the New York State Bar Association and is qualified for the national bar of China. She received her LL.M. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and both LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Fudan University Law School with first-class honors. Limei has published several books and written about 20 articles addressing various legal issues.


Kersten Hui, 44
Vice President Business Development

Since January 2008, Mr. Hui has been Managing Director of the Hong Kong office of Infinity Group. In this capacity, Kersten is responsible for a wide range of projects including: investment analysis, transaction structuring, financial modeling/forecasting, business development/sourcing, due diligence and investment monitoring. He is also responsible for the origination and execution of investments across the region and development of new investments, capitalizing on Infinity’s networks in the market. Mr. Hui is a board member of Power Paper. Kersten is an investment professional with over 12 years of experience in the corporate M&A, private equity investment, property investment and corporate development arena and ranging from Internet start-ups to infrastructure projects, FMCG and Business activities covering primarily China and Hong Kong. In 2007, prior to joining Infinity, Kersten was a Partner at Stone Drum Capital, a company focused on the private equity secondary markets in Asia. Mr. Hui has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Washington State University and a BSc in Business Administration from Lewis Clark State College.


Board of Directors

Mark B. Segall, 49
Director

Mr. Segall is the Senior Managing Director of Kidron Corporate Advisors, LLC, a New York based mergers and acquisitions corporate advisory boutique serving emerging growth companies primarily in the technology, media and financial services sectors, which he founded in 2003. He is also a Founder and Managing Member of Kidron’s private equity fund, Kidron Opportunity Fund I, LLC and is the Chief Executive Officer of Kidron Capital Advisors LLC, a registered broker dealer. Mr. Segall was the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Investec, Inc., the U.S. investment banking operations of the Investec Group, a South African based specialist bank, from 2001 to 2003. He served as head of investment banking and general counsel at Investec Inc. from 1999 to 2001. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Segall was a partner at the law firm of Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP, specializing in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and capital markets activities and between 1991 and 1995 he was an associate at the same firm. Mr. Segall has served as a director of Integrated Asset Management plc, an alternative asset management company, since 2000. Mr. Segall has served as a director of Ronson Europe N.V., a Polish residential real estate development company, since 2008 (appointed Vice Chairman in 2010 and Chairman in 2011). Mr. Segall has served as director of Temco Service Industries, Inc., a facilities support services company, since February 2011 and as a director of Bel Fuse, Inc., an electronic component manufacturer, since July 2011. Mr. Segall served as a director of Answers Corporation, the owner and operator of the Q&A site Answers.com, from December 2004 through April 2011 (when it was sold to Announce Media). Mr. Segall served as director of the Spectrum Group (formerly Escala Group Inc.), a trading and collectibles network company, from 1999 to June 2007, and of Cogo (formerly Comtech Group Inc.), a customized module design solutions business, focusing on the digital media, telecommunications equipment, and industrial business end-markets in China, from 2000 to 2006. Mr. Segall served as a director of Siliconix Inc., a semiconductor component company, from 2000 to 2005. Mr. Segall received an AB in History from Columbia University and a JD from New York University Law School.