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With extensive experience in advanced technologies such as messaging and electronic video processing, Dr. Eyal Bartfeld co-founded Integra5 in 1999 to develop interactive messaging services and new applications for television consumers. He has established the strategy and the basic technology for the company, as well as managing the company's R&D team, bringing an in-depth knowledge of the technical and business aspects of unified messaging, telephony and Internet-based services to his role at Integra5.
Before starting Integra5, Eyal founded UniTel, a start-up company focused on developing and deploying unified messaging systems for corporations. Under his guidance, the company deployed more than 300 systems worldwide, raised two rounds of financing, and established a subsidiary in the United States.
Prior to establishing UniTel, Eyal was conducting basic research, trying to understand brain functions and mechanisms involved with visual processing of images, in order to better understand how the eye and the brain process and understand pictures. The research was performed at the Rockefeller University in New York, together with IBM Thomas Watson Research Center and the Weizmann Institute. Research results were published in the Proceedings of the American National Academy of Science and are routinely cited in scientific articles and text books.
Earlier in his career, Eyal developed and implemented new automated visual inspection technologies for quality assurance within manufacturing processes on behalf of Opal Ltd., which was later was acquired by Applied Materials, Inc., a world leader in equipment manufacturing for the semiconductor industry.
Eyal is a widely published scientific expert and lead developer for a number of imaging-technology related patents. He was awarded the 1988 Outstanding Software Project Award by the Information Procession Association of Israel for the development of a computerized microscope. He holds both B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. | 