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Joseph Shamir is the CEO of ToolsGroup, which he co-founded with Eugenio Cornacchia in 1993. He has more than twenty years of business experience in supply chain and manufacturing, and is a specialist in advanced modeling techniques for planning and optimization. He has been instrumental in the development of decision support software for logistics planning of complex logistics networks, and has directed major strategic and logistics projects in many leading European companies. Before founding ToolsGroup, Mr. Shamir held various high-level management positions with ITP Group, including Director of Sales, and later as COO of the Automation Group. The group, specialized in industrial automation and logistics, has implemented during his time several very large "factory of the future" systems at large manufacturers such as Olivetti and Electrolux. Prior to ITP, Mr. Shamir held several CIO positions, first at the Italian gear manufacturing company, ESP Group, and then at Norasia shipping line, where he developed an innovative profit-driven operations planning system for world maritime container transportation. Mr. Shamir graduated in solid-state physics from Tel Aviv University. | 