Management

Adi Sfadia serves as Gilat’s Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to holding the CEO position, Mr. Sfadia served as Gilat’s CFO for five years. Before joining Gilat, Adi served as CFO of Starhome Mach, a leading provider of products and services for the telecommunication mobile market, since January 2013.
From 2008 to 2013, Adi was CFO of RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN), a leading provider of products and technologies for unified visual communications over IP. From 2004 until 2008, he served as RADVISION’s Corporate Controller and Vice President of Finance.
Prior to RADVISION, Adi served in various senior financial positions in Israeli private and public companies, including Corporate Controller, Director of Finance, and Senior Manager at Ernst & Young.
Adi holds a B.A. degree in Business Administration and an MBA (magna cum laude) from the College of Management in Tel Aviv and Rishon Lezion. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Ron Levin serves as Gilat’s Chief Operations Officer

Mr. Ron Levin is COO at Gilat Satellite Networks, where he leads Gilat’s fields of  Global Operations, Supply Chain and Delivery Management. Prior to Gilat, Ron headed Strategic Sales at ECI Telecom, a leading telecom equipment provider. Previously he headed Product Management at Jungo Software Technologies, a developer of software for home and small business gateways, which was later acquired by NDS and Cisco.
Ron holds a MSc in Management from the University of Tel Aviv and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

Bosmat Halpern-Levy serves as Gilat’s Chief Financial Officer.

Mrs. Halpern-Levy has over 18 years of experience in driving financial excellence in publicly traded and private hi-tech, software and industrial companies.
In the past six years, Bosmat served as Gilat’s AVP Finance, where she managed the activities of the corporate finance department.
Previously, she served as CFO at Radvision Ltd., a fully held subsidiary of Avaya Inc., and has held senior financial positions including Corporate Controller at NASDAQ traded bio-tech company Rosetta Genomics Ltd.

Bosmat is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel and was an audit manager at EY Israel. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting from Ruppin Academic Center.

Michal Aharonov serves as Gilat’s Chief Commercial Officer

Mrs. Michal Aharonov is CCO at Gilat Satellite Networks. Prior to joining Gilat, Michal spent twelve years at Amdocs, rising to the position of Vice President, Global Strategic Sourcing. In this role, she was responsible for driving large managed services deals with leading telecommunications companies in Asia, Europe and Canada. Subsequently, Michal took a leadership post at Essence Group where she served as Vice President, Head of Sales and Services.

Michal holds a Master Degree in Public administration focusing on financial information systems from Clark University in Massachusetts, USA. She also holds a BA in Business Management and Finance from the College of Management – Academic Studies in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Noam Rosenfeld serves as Gilat’s Senior Vice President of Research & Development

Mr. Noam Rosenfeld has nearly 20 years of experience in Research and Development. Prior to Gilat, Noam headed the global R&D and the Cyber Security business unit at Verint, a leading cyber intelligence solutions provider.
Previously, he was the Cyber Defense Commander of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) & head of the C4I & HLS military software house.

Noam is a Colonel (Res.) in the IDF and holds B.Sc in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Hagay serves as Gilat’s Chief Product and Marketing Officer.

Prior to joining Gilat, Hagay served as VP Strategic Accounts – Cyber Security at Allot Communications (Nasdaq – ALLT) where he was instrumental in transforming Allot to be the market leader of network-based cyber-security as-a-service for communication Service Providers.   Previously he served as Gilat’s Head of the VSAT Line of Business. In this period Gilat became the world leader for LTE cellular and commercial In-Flight broadband Connectivity over satellite. Earlier in his career, Hagay held senior positions in Sales, Marketing and Product Management at Modu Mobile, PacketLight Networks, which he co-founded (Acquired) and Telstra Research Laboratories. Hagay started his career in an elite technology unit of the IDF and is the co-author of nine granted patents.

Hagay holds a BSc and MSc in Electronic Engineering from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA from Monash University.

Lior Moyal serves as Gilat’ Senior VP of HR.

Mrs. Moyal has ademonstrated track record of 20 years in global small through large scale hi-tech companies, both SW and HW.
In the past 4 years, Lior served as the Director of HR of Wavestream, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat in the US.
Previous to that, she served in different HR Business Partner roles at  Amdocs Ltd and was a Human Capital Captain in the IDF.

Lior holds a BA in Social Science and MA in Organization Development.

Arieh Rohrstock serves as Gilat’s Corporate Vice President Peru

Mr. Rohrstock joined Gilat Satellite Networks in 1998. Since 2008 he has served as General Manager of Gilat Peru. Previously, Mr. Rohrstock has held the positions of COO of Spacenet Rural, COO of Gilat Latin America, Planning and Development Manager, among other management positions. Prior to joining Gilat, Mr. Rohrstock rendered military service in Israel. Mr. Rohrstock is an electronic engineer from Ort Brauda University of Israel.

Bob Huffman serves as Gilat Senior Vice President and General Manager of Wavestream.

Mr. Bob Huffman is SVP at Gilat Satellite Networks, as well as the General Manager of Wavestream, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat. Bob manages all aspects of Wavestream’s activity. Bob has vast executive experience in the Aerospace/Defense and Satellite communications industries, as demonstrated by his past roles as President, Applied Technologies Inc., Vice President of Business Operations for L-3’s Precision Engagement Sector, President, Interstate Electronics Corporation (IEC) and IEC General Manager Military GPS & Communication Systems.
Bob received a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, and participated in the Stanford University Executive Institute, studying General Management/Finance.