Eric Brock
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Brock has been the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since 2018 and our President since June 9, 2023. Mr. Brock also serves as Chairman of the Board of Ondas Networks Inc. since September 28, 2018, Chairman of the Board and President of Ondas Autonomous Systems Inc. (“OAS”), since December 7, 2023, Chairman of the Board of American Robotics, Inc. since August 5, 2021, Secretary of American Robotics, Inc. since November 9, 2023, and Chairman of the Board of Airobotics Ltd. since January 23, 2023. Mr. Brock served as Chief Executive Officer of American Robotics, Inc. from June 9, 2023 to October 11, 2023 and as Chief Executive Officer of Ondas Networks Inc. from September 28, 2018 to January 20, 2025. Mr. Brock is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of global banking and investing experience. He served as a founding Partner and Portfolio Manager with Clough Capital Partners, a Boston-based investment firm, from 2000 to 2017. Prior to Clough, Mr. Brock was an investment banker at Bear, Stearns & Co. and an accountant at Ernst & Young, LLP. Mr. Brock holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS from Boston College. Our Board believes that Mr. Brock’s experience in the public markets makes him well qualified to serve on our Board.
Richard Cohen
Director
Mr. Cohen was appointed as one of our directors on September 28, 2018. Previously, he had served as a member of the Board of Ondas Networks Inc. from April 2016 to September 2018. He has been the President of Richard M Cohen Consultants since 1995, a company providing financial consulting services to both public and private companies. He has served as a director of Great Elm Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: GECC) since March 2022, Direct Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRCT) since November 2021, and Smart For Life, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMFL) from February 2022 to October 2022. From March 2012 to July 2015, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Chord Advisors, a firm providing outsourced CFO services to both public and private companies. From May 2012 to August 2013, he was the Interim CEO and member of the Board of Directors of CorMedix Inc. (NYSE: CRMD). From July 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Cohen was a member of the Audit Committee of Rodman and Renshaw, an investment banking firm. From July 2001 to August 2012, he was a partner with Novation Capital until its sale to a private equity firm. Mr. Cohen holds a BS with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), an MBA from Stanford University and a CPA (inactive) from New York State. He is considered an expert to Chair the Audit Committee of a publicly traded company. We believe that Mr. Cohen’s educational background and financial experience supporting publicly traded companies including as a CEO and Board member of a public traded company on the New York Stock Exchange makes him well qualified to serve on our Board.
Joe Popolo
Director
Mr. Popolo was appointed as one of our directors on March 27, 2024. Mr. Popolo serves as the CEO of Charles & Potomac Capital, LLC, a private investment firm he founded in 2014 to focus on investments in technology, healthcare, media, energy, and real estate. From 1997 to 2019, Mr. Popolo helped transform the Freeman Company (“Freeman”) into the world’s leading live event and brand experience company. As its President for eight years and CEO for 11 years, he and his team transformed Freeman and tripled it in size to $3 billion in revenue, expanding Freeman into new services and geographic markets, while leading 7,500 employees in 25 cities on four continents. Responsible for over $1.5 billion in M&A activity over his career, in 2019, Mr. Popolo led the team that marketed and sold Freeman’s Encore Event Technology subsidiary to Blackstone, creating the world’s largest-venue-based audio-visual company. Currently, Mr. Popolo is Chairman of the board of Pinnacle Live, LLC and a board member of Ondas Networks, and sits on the advisory boards of the Jordan Edmiston Group Inc., Samesurf Inc., and Advisory Research Inc. Mr. Popolo graduated from Boston College with a BS in Finance and from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with an MBA in Finance and Economics, subsequently receiving a Dean’s Award of Distinction from the Booth School of Business in 1997. Mr. Popolo graduated from Boston College with a BS in Finance and from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with an MBA in Finance and Economics, subsequently receiving a Dean’s Award of Distinction from the Booth School of Business in 1997. Mr. Popolo is active with other charitable and philanthropic organizations. We believe Mr. Popolo’s experience in senior leadership positions at companies and his board experience makes him well-qualified to serve on our board of directors.
Randall P. Seidl
Director
Mr. Seidl was appointed as one of our directors on November 16, 2020. Mr. Seidl has served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Rainwater Technologies (NASDAQ: RAIN) since January 2, 2025. In 2020, Mr. Seidl founded and continues to serve as Chairman of Sales Community, a sales social network with a mission to add value to technology sales professionals. In 2016, he founded and continues to serve as Chairman of Top Talent Recruiting, a boutique contingency-based recruiting business. In 2013, he founded and continues to serve as Chairman of Revenue Acceleration to help tech companies accelerate revenue growth. From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Seidl served as Sr. Vice President/General Manager of Hewlett Packard’s Americas and U.S. Enterprise Group. From 2006 to 2009, he served as Sr. Vice President/General Manager of Sun Microsystems’ North America business and as Vice President/General Manager for Financial Services. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Vice President/General Manager of East Region at StorageTek. From 2003 to 2004, he served as Chief Executive Officer and director at Permabit, from 2000 to 2003 was co-founder and Executive Vice President of GiantLoop, and from 1996 to 1999 was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Workgroup Solutions. He began his career at EMC Corporation, employee #33, holding various domestic and international positions including Vice President of Open Systems Sales for North America from 1985 to 1996. Since 2015, Mr. Seidl has served as director of Data Dynamics, a leader in enterprise data management, and since 2016 a director of ISG, the leader in claim and litigation support services for insurance and legal communities. He previously served as director of Datawatch Corporation (2015-2018, Nasdaq: DWCH, acquired by Altair). He continues to serve on the advisory boards and consults with ZoomInfo, AuctusIQ, TitanX, Sandler, and others. Mr. Seidl is a graduate of Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Mr. Seidl serves as a Trustee Associated on Boston College’s Board of Trustees and the Board of Trustees of St. Sebastian’s School. He is also a member of CEO (Chief Executives Organization) and YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) and is active with other charities. We believe Mr. Seidl’s experience in senior leadership positions at private/public technology companies and his private/public board experience makes him well-qualified to serve on our board of directors.
Jaspreet (Jas) Sood
Director
Ms. Sood was appointed as one of our directors on January 19, 2021. Ms. Sood is a seasoned executive who has strategic expertise in the areas of sales, product management, P&L management, operational transformation and go to market strategies. Since August 2021, Ms. Sood serves as Senior Vice President of Sales — US Enterprise for Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW). Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Ms. Sood held a variety of executive level positions with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) and its predecessor companies in the areas of business operations, strategy, product management, and finance. Ms. Sood was employed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its predecessor companies for twenty-five years. Ms. Sood holds an MBA with an emphasis in Technology Management from Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine. In 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, she was honored as a “CRN Power 100 Woman of the Channel” and sales executive of the year in 2023. Ms. Sood is routinely featured as a guest speaker at various technology industry events. We believe Ms. Sood’s business experience makes her well qualified to serve on our Board.
Ron Stern
Director
Mr. Stern was appointed as one of our directors and a director of Airobotics Ltd., an indirect subsidiary of the Company, on January 6, 2025. Mr. Stern has over 20 years of leadership experience in supporting organic and inorganic growth of emerging technology companies, including IPO’s M&A’s and Exits. From April 2017 and until March 2025, Mr. Stern served as a General Partner and as the head of Portfolio Management of OurCrowd, with responsibility for OurCrowd’s global portfolio of over 250 active companies, including over 100 board and board observer nominations and led or participated in over 400 financing rounds for start-up and growth companies. During his tenure at OurCrowd, Mr. Stern was appointed to the board of directors of Airobotics Ltd. in November 2019 and later became Chairman of Airobotics Ltd in January 2021. In this capacity Mr. Stern led the initial public offering of Airobotics Ltd. on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, ultimately leading to the sale of Airobotics Ltd. to Ondas in January 2023. From February 2015 to April 2017, Mr. Stern served as Chief Financial Officer and Finance Director of Adgorithms, an AI marketing company, which Mr. Stern helped take public on the London Stock Exchange, raising over $40 million to the company and its shareholders. From January 2010 to December 2014, Mr. Stern served as a scout and Senior International Advisor to a number of leading U.S. venture capital firms and US based family offices. From September 2002 to December 2009, Mr. Stern was a partner with Shamrock Holdings where he built the Israeli investing team and facilitated four initial public offerings of Shamrock’s portfolio companies. Mr. Stern currently serves as Chairman of Blue Green Water Technologies. Mr. Stern graduated from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a degree in Economics and from Columbia Business School with an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship. We believe Mr. Stern’s experience in senior leadership positions at companies and his board experience makes him well-qualified to serve on our board of directors.