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Shlomo Dovrat

Shlomo Dovrat is an Israeli businessman and venture capital investor who co-founded Carmel Ventures, later Viola Ventures, and headed the Dovrat Commission on education reform.

born 1959Co-founding Viola VenturesFounding TecnomatixThe Dovrat Commission on educationRestructuring ECI Telecom

Born: 22 July 1959
Occupation: businessperson
Education: Tel Aviv University
Founded: Carmel Ventures (2000)

Shlomo Dovrat was born in 1959

Shlomo Dovrat was born on July 22, 1959. He is the son of businessman Aharon Dovrat and Dalia, daughter of Yaakov Tsur, and he grew up in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. He is married with 3 children.

He served in Unit 8200 of the Intelligence Corps. After his discharge he studied economics at Tel Aviv University but did not finish because of his business abroad.

In 1982 he set up Oshap with Shaul Shani and Oded Peleg, and he became its CEO in 1983. He lived in Antwerp for several years to run companies Oshap bought in Belgium. Oshap went public on Nasdaq in 1985 and was sold to SunGard in 1999 for $220 million in stock.

He founded Tecnomatix in 1983 and was its CEO and president until 1995, then chairman until 2001. The company was sold to UGS in 2005. From 2002 to 2007 he chaired ECI Telecom, which he restructured before its sale in 2007.

He co-founded Carmel Ventures, later renamed Viola Ventures, and sits on the boards of companies such as Outbrain and Lightricks. He headed the Dovrat Commission, which in 2004 recommended better-quality teaching. He chaired the Israel Democracy Institute and founded the Aaron Institute for Economic Policy at Reichman University.