Mission & Vision
Our mission is to foster global development, adoption, and compliance of wanwave communication protocols and related standards through collaboration, education, testing, and certification.
At wanwave, we’re proud to have a management team that brings decades of experience and expertise to the table. Led by our CEO, Igal Zak, our team is passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technology to solve real-world problems. With backgrounds in engineering, telecommunications, software development, and business, our management team has the skills and knowledge needed to drive innovation and deliver exceptional results.
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Our Team
Alexander Nelles
Chairman
As a seasoned Customer Centric Executive, Alex boasts 24+ years of experience in business and IT across various sectors, including Telco, Retail, Travel, and Healthcare. Known for expertise in creating value through optimization and Digital Transformation, he develops strategic solutions to drive business growth and enhance overall performance.
With extensive experience as a CIO/CTO, Alex has worked with diverse teams across Europe, Asia, North America, and the Middle East. Throughout his career, he held various management positions at Vodafone and served as CTO at Kuoni Global Travel Services and as CIO of one of the top 10 hospitals in Switzerland .
Igal Zak
CEO
Hands-on executive with years of technical expertise and leadership roles. Experience building from scratch and running high-tech companies in Europe, Asia, and Middle East. Extensive knowledge in the design and implementation of highly complex technology solutions including advanced networking, AI and computer vision.
Shlomi Kelsi
CFO
Shlomi specializes in leading special situation restructure. Over the past 20 year, Shlomi lead several restructures and LBO’s. Shlomi was involved in most of the holding groups restructures in Israel in the last 10 years and successfully managed to recover on average a yearly annual return of over 30%.
Shlomi Holds MSc. in Finance and BA in economics (summa cum laude) and accounting, both from Tel Aviv university, and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (IL).
Denis Muravyev
COO
Over 20+ years of IT expertise and building custom solutions for Fortune 500 companies
Alexander Sheptovetskiy
CTO
More than 30 years of professional experience in radio communications and development of radio devices. Author of numerous inventions
Ofer Lavi
CPO
A product person at heart, Ofer previously acted as Lead Product at Conduit’s U Browser unit. Prior to that Ofer served as NTTM’s VP. Product and held several product, technology and business positions at AxisMobile (acquired by Synchronica) and Motorola.
Ofer received his B.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Israel’s Tel-Aviv University.
Ivan Zenin
CIO
Throughout his career, Ivan has worked as Chief Engineer in information security projects, focusing on trusted environments and data leakage protection systems development, and various embedded hardware/software development projects across different industries, where he was responsible for designing solution architecture, managing technical teams and establishing continuous integration processes. Prior to his current role, Ivan was the CIO/CTO of an AI-based MedTech company where he led software development, infrastructure, and information security activities. Ivan graduated from Cybernetics Moscow Engineering Physics Institute with a degree in Applied Mathematics.