In addition to serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Syneron Dr. Shimon Eckhouse is also currently the chairman of Ossense Ltd. CardioDex Ltd. NanoCyte Ltd. Replicom Ltd. and Edge Medical Devices Ltd. and a director of WideMed Ltd. Dr. Eckhouse was a co-foujnder of Color Chip and served as its active chairman from 2003 to January 2004 and as its CEO from 2001 to 2003. Dr. Eckhouse was the chairman and CEO of ESC Medical Systems from its inception in 1992 until 1999. Prior to founding ESC Medical Systems Dr. Eckhouse was head of product development and technical director at Maxwell Technologies in San Diego CA. Dr. Eckhouse also previously worked at Rafael Armament Development Authority of Israel as a scientist team leader and head of department and was active in various areas of R&D including lasers and electro-optics. Dr. Eckhouse holds a B.Sc. in physics from the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Irvine. He has more than 20 registered patents and published more than 50 papers in leading reference journals and conferences. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology.
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