Company History

Dr. Noa Ruschin-Rimini

Founder and CEO

Dr. Noa Ruschin-Rimini founded Grid4C in 2013 with the vision of using Artificial Intelligence in order to extract maximum value out of smart meter and IoT data, for the purpose of optimizing the energy value chain.

Noa holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Machine-Learning from the Engineering Faculty at the Tel Aviv University, specializing in anomaly detection and predictive analytics of time series. She has published patents and papers in prestigious journals and conferences in the field of Machine-Learning, and held a senior lecturer position.

Noa has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry. She held several positions in leading software companies, including Head of the Presales Department at Oracle, Sales Manager at IBM, and Business Development Director in several startup companies.

Noa is passionate about creating from scratch innovations that make a difference in the world.

Eran Samuni

VP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Eran has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry and over 8 years of experience in R&D management, both in large organizations and startups.

Eran specializes in Machine Learning in the area of anomaly detection and predictive analytics over big data and was responsible for the development of leading products of large software enterprises - from idea to deployment.

Eran holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics and an MBA. He is also the author of several patents in the field of anomaly detection.

Daniel Adrian

Chief Technology Officer

Daniel is a Senior Software Engineer, with over 10 years of experience in the IT and software industry. He is an alum of the Israeli Defense Forces Software Development Elite Unit and served in an elite national security unit.

Prior to joining Grid4C, Daniel was a senior software expert Hewlett-Packard, developing different products from web and mobile applications to big data analytics solutions.

Daniel is passionate about technology and has been hacking at computers since an early age.

Amos Rozental

Chief Financial Officer

Amos brings over 20 years of experience in global companies and is an expert in the areas of finance, M&A, and tax.

Amos was the CFO of Hexatier, a start-up Company that was acquired by Huawei on December 2016, and managed the tax department of Huawei R&D center in Israel. Previously, Amos was the CFO of Piedmont, a U.S. based company held by TAT Technologies. He also worked at Comverse Network Systems and was the CFO of Odigo, a start-up company acquired by Comverse.

Amos began his career at KPMG and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Ilya Brodin

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LEAD

Ilya is a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the IT industry.

For the last 7 years, Ilya was a software expert at Hewlett-Packard Software division working on large scale business service management solution as well as big data analytics projects.

Ilya holds a B.Sc. degree from the Computer Science department at the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology, specializing in Software Engineering.

Meir Ukeles

Board Member

Meir is a co-founder and partner at ICV, where he focuses his activities on solar, energy efficiency and smart grid technologies, with a particular interest in solutions for the developing world. He currently represents ICV on the boards of Panoramic Power, Nova-Lumos, Grid4C and Gro Intelligence.

Prior to co-founding ICV, Meir served as CFO of Sentry Technology Group Inc., an Israeli-US startup.

From 2000 to 2004, he worked at SG Cowen, a leading technology and healthcare investment bank, initially as an investment banker working on public and private equity offerings and M&A transactions, and subsequently as a research analyst covering defense and industrial technology companies.

Meir began his venture capital career in the mid-1990's, working at Jerusalem Global Ltd., an Israeli merchant bank and consulting practice that was a leading player in the early days of Israel's venture industry.

Meir holds a B.A. from Columbia College in Political Science and East Asian Studies. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.