Yosi Ben-Dov
Yosi Ben-Dov is an Israeli manager and university lecturer.Biography
Ben-Dov was born in Haifa, Israel in 1950. He studied at The Hebrew Reali School from 1956 to 1968, and was active at the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation youth movement. He served the army at a "Nahal" unit, establishing kibbutz and Israeli settlement Mevo Hama at the southern part of the Golan Heights.Academic Life
Ben-Dov did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics. He later joined the PhD program at the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department of the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied from 1973–1977, receiving a Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1977. His thesis, Optimal Testing Procedures for Coherent Systems, was written under the supervision of Prof. Richard E. Barlow. Later Ben-Dov taught at Michigan State University, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Professional Career
In 1986 Ben-Dov started working on Wall Street at Prudential Securities as the managing director of the Financial Strategies Group. In 1991 he was the Director of the Rappaport Institute near the Rambam Hospital and in 1995 he joined Amdocs as a Senior Vice President in charge of the Haifa branch in Israel.
In 1999 Ben-Dov became the CEO of Schema, a Wireless Optimization company which was later acquired by TEOCO, and in 2008 became the CEO of Time To Know, an education technology company that provided a holistic solution to the K–12 classroom, which included a Digital Teaching Platform together with interactive core curriculum.
Ben-Dov became the principal and managing director of The Hebrew Reali School in Haifa at the beginning of 2014. During his tenure he has been involved in a funding dispute with the education ministry.Personal life
Ben-Dov is married to Prof. Nitza Ben-Dov. They have three children: Merav, Michal and Jacob. They live in Haifa, Israel.Publications
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