Archive for September, 2010

GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi hosting Thomas Curran, CTIO of Deutsche Telekom

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

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in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

* Thomas Curran , CTO at Deutsche Telekom AG

* Ori Cohen, co-founder and CEO at Narus, Skyrider and ChooChee

Deutsche Telekom AG is one of the world’s leading telecommunications and information technology service companies.
It offers its customers all kinds of products and services for connected life and work.
As an international Group, Deutsche Telekom is represented in some 50 countries worldwide.
More than half of its net revenue is generated outside Germany. The Company employs some 260,000 (in June 2009) people overall.

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, October 5th,  18:00 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

* Thomas Aidan Curran, CTO at Deutsche Telekom AG
Thomas Aidan Curran is the Chief Technology Officer for Products and Innovation at the Deutsche Telekom AG. As one of Europe’s largest telecommunications providers, DTAG operates in circa 50 countries.

Previously Thomas was founder and CEO of Telemos AG, Munich Germany. In 2006 to NYC he was technology advisor to the chancellor of the New York City Department of Education.

* Ori Cohen, co-founder and CEO at ChooChee
Dr. Cohen is an accomplished entrepreneur and the founder of several technology companies, most notably Narus and Skyrider.
Ori founded and served as CEO of Narus, the dominant player in real-time traffic intelligence for large IP networks, and the only company that provides security, intercept and traffic management solutions within a single, flexible system.
Narus’ patented technology is deployed on the largest IP networks around the world including AT&T, KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), France Telecom, Reliance (India), Saudi Telecom, and US Cellular.
Prior to founding Narus, Ori was the Vice President of Business and Technology Development for VDOnet, a leading provider of Internet video conferencing and video on demand software solutions.
Before joining VDOnet, Ori served as the CEO of IntelliCom Ltd.