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Dr. Abe Peled
Chairman and CEO, NDS Group

Dr. Peled obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1967 and 1971 respectively, and his MA and PhD degrees from Princeton University in 1972 and 1974. His PhD thesis was on novel implementation techniques in digital signal processing.

Dr. Peled is a Fellow of the IEEE; between 1989 and 1993 he served on the US National Research Council’s Board on Computer Science and Telecommunications. In addition, he served on numerous advisory boards and councils, among them: New York State Centre for Advanced Technology, Princeton University EE Dept., DARPA ISAT, USRA.

In addition, Dr. Peled holds four patents, is the co-author (with Prof. Bede Liu) of a book on digital signal processing, published by John Wiley & Sons and which has been translated into Russian and Chinese. He has authored numerous scientific publications and was the invited author of the lead article in the in October 1987 special issue of Scientific American on the future of computing.

From 1967 to 1971, Abe was a technical officer in the Israeli Army Signal Corps. In 1974 Abe joined IBM Research Division at the Thomas J Watson Research Centre to work on advanced digital signal processing technologies. In 1978 he was named Manager of Signal Processing. In 1980 Abe moved to the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory (now Almaden) where he was promoted to Functional Manager of the Computer Science area. In 1983 he returned and was promoted to IBM Research Division Director of Technical Planning and Controls with staff responsibility for the integration of the technical and financial plan of the division.

In 1985, Dr. Peled was named IBM Research Division Vice President, Systems and Software with functional responsibility for all research and advanced development in these areas across IBM Research’s laboratories world-wide (Almaden, Zurich, Tokyo and Haifa). He also had line management responsibility for the systems, software and application areas at the Watson Research Centre, with over 800 professionals. In this capacity he made major contributions to getting new technologies into the marketplace, among them RS/6000, SP2, APPN, PVS and Data Explorer. His novel approach was featured in the cover story of the New York Times Business Section on 12/8/91.

In September 1993 Dr. Peled joined Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. in Haifa, Israel as Senior Vice President for Business Development. He also served on the boards of several of Elron's affiliated companies, among them PC Etcetera, Rafael Development Corporation and as chairman of the executive committee of Chip Express. In addition, he initiated and led Elron's strategic thrust into networking services and software including establishing the first Internet commercial service in Israel. Upon joining NDS, Dr. Peled was elected to Elron's board of directors in May 1995.