Itschak Friedman founded the company in 1986 and has since served as its Chief Executive Officer. His vision for the company emerged while working in a chromatography business unit of one of the larger instrument vendors - at a time when LIMS were inflexible systems running on large computers and costing millions of dollars. Itschak founded the company to develop a PC-based alternative to these legacy systems, and in 1989 the first PC-based LIMS was launched. Under Itschak's leadership, STARLIMS has grown to be a truly global company, with sales, implementation and support activities in 40 countries. Itschak holds a BSc degree in Geology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has served as the Chairman of our board of directors since 1988.