Boaz Misholi

Boaz Misholi was born in 1951 in Ramat Gan

Boaz Misholi was born on November 11, 1951, in Ramat Gan, where he grew up. He went to the Ort Singalovski high school.

He served in the Nahal paratroopers in the IDF. He earned a degree with honors in computer engineering from the Technion. During graduate studies he taught at its Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

In 1972 he joined Shamoa Electronics and worked on a commercial computer sold abroad. He ran a microprocessor consulting firm from 1975 to 1978. In 1980 he founded Efrat Corporation in the United States, which worked on digital signal processing.

In 1982 he founded Efrat Future Technologies in Israel with Yechiam Yemini and Kobi Alexander. In 1984 they set up Comverse in New York to market a voice messaging system called Trilogue. Misholi served as joint CEO and chairman until 1988 and stayed on the board until 1992.

In 1992 he co-founded Aura, an investment company on the Tel Aviv stock exchange. He led it until 2000, investing in firms such as FundTech and Versamed, and then sold it to the Green Group of Yitzhak Tshuva.