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Boaz Raviv

Boaz Raviv is an Israeli executive who served as CEO of Radvision and Attenti and held management roles at technology companies.

born 1961CEO of RadvisionSale of Radvision to AvayaCEO of AttentiEarly Israeli online banking systems

Born: 1 April 1961, Beersheba
Occupation: chief executive officer
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment

Boaz Raviv was born in 1961 in Beersheba

Boaz Raviv was born in Beersheba in 1961. His father, Dr. Shmuel Raviv, was a nuclear scientist and industrial entrepreneur. He moved to Tel Aviv in 1972 and grew up there.

He studied engineering at the Technion and graduated with honors. In 1988 he went to Montpellier, France, to specialize in robotics and image analysis. There he worked on farm robots and a computer vision system to identify and sort crops.

In 1989 he joined Capgemini in Paris as a development engineer for control systems. In 1995 he returned to Israel and ran the telecom division of Elron Telesoft. There he led internet access infrastructure for Bezeq and early online banking systems in Israel.

He joined Radvision in 2000 and became its CEO in January 2006. He led the purchase of the Italian company Aethra and the sale of Radvision to Avaya. In 2012 he moved to Avaya, where he ran the Mobility division and the Israeli development center.

In 2017 he became CEO of Attenti, an electronic monitoring business bought from 3M by Apax. In 2021 he founded a private investment firm and works in investing and mentoring high-tech ventures. He is married to Dr. Dana Landau, and they have 4 children.