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Eyal joined Walden Israel in 1995, shortly after the firm was founded. Walden Israel is an independent early stage venture capital firm with institutional investors from the US, Europe and Israel. Eyal focuses on early stage investments in information technology and wireless communications companies. He currently serves on the Boards of several Walden portfolio companies. Prior to joining Walden Israel, Eyal was one of the early senior executives at Geotek Communications, a U.S. pioneering company specializing in wireless and mobile data technology. At Geotek, Eyal held senior roles in business and strategic development and in marketing. He helped grow the company from three initial employees to over 400 and to bring the company to a market cap of close to $1 billion. Eyal led the business development efforts, as well as Geotek’s activities in Wireless Data, an area in which Geotek was considered a pioneer. Eyal was a regular speaker at industry and Wall Street conferences on wireless communications and mobile data.Eyal holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Technion in Israel, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and an MA in international studies from the School of Arts and Sciences at The Lauder Institute, the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Chairman of the Wharton-Israel Alumni Club and a Board member of the Technion Alumni Association, and is active in a couple of leading not-for-profit organizations in Israel. In his free time, Eyal has traveled the Arctic (and Antarctica) several times by foot, kayak, and canoe. | 