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Dr. Shimon Eckhouse
shimon eckhouse
Dr. Shimon Eckhouse is a co-founder of Syneron Ltd (NASDAQ: ELOS) and serves as its Active Chairman. Syneron is active in the area of non-invasive technology for aesthetic/medical procedures. Syneron has grown since its inception in September 2000 to sales of $117M in 2006. The company became public on NASDAQ in August 2004 and completed a $225M secondary offering in March 2005.
Dr. Eckhouse is also the founder of a few start-up companies in Israel including Cardiodex specializing in cardiology, NanoCyte specializing in the area of trans-dermal drug delivery, Colorchip specializing in integrated optics for telecom applications, Orsense developing non-invasive glucose measurement devices, Ventor in the area of cardiology, Navotek specializing in medical tracking technology and Tulip specializing in obesity treatments as well as a few other companies.
Dr. Eckhouse was the founder, Chairman and CEO of ESC Medical from its inception until 1999, bringing the company from a concept that he invented in 1992 to revenues of more than $220M in 1998. During this period he developed the distribution channels of the company, created a worldwide sales and marketing organization with direct sales forces in the US, major EEC countries and Japan and a network of more than 50 distributors in other countries. Dr. Eckhouse took ESC Medical public in 1996 and raised more than $250M in 3 public offerings in 1996 and 1997.
Prior to starting ESC Medical, Dr. Eckhouse was Head of Product Development and Technical Director at Maxwell Technologies in San Diego, CA. From 1986 to 1990 Dr. Eckhouse was a scientist, team leader and head of a department in Rafael, Armament Development Authority of Israel and was active in areas of research and development including lasers and electro-optics. Dr. Eckhouse holds a BSc degree in Physics from the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology and a PhD degree in Physics from UC Irvine. He has more than 25 registered patents and published more than 50 papers in leading refereed journals and conferences. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology.