Key People

Gershon Silbert, CEO

An internationally acclaimed concert pianist, Gershon ran a prestigious vintage piano reconstruction company in the US and founded Silpor Music Ltd., which developed software application for expressive humanized playback of musical scores. He formulated VivoText's TTS algorithms upon principles and methods derived from his extensive musical performance research and experience.

Dr. Yossef Ben-Ezra, CTO

Dr. Ben-Ezra served as senior researcher in Tel-Aviv University and the Communication Department of Holon Institute of Technology. He co-authored 5 book chapters, over 40 papers and 2 patents, and is a reviewer for leading international journals. He received his Ph. D. from Tel-Aviv University in 1999.

Samuel H. Solomon, Chairman

Director and Shareholder in Trendlines. A successful entrepreneur and business executive with over 30 years experience in the legal, financial, and information technology industries; founded and led U.S.-based litigation consulting firm DOAR, recently retiring as chairman – raised nearly $70mm in private equity and sold firm in 2005; chairman of the board of two private software companies and a member of the board of a NASDAQ-listed mutual fund.

Advisory Board

Dr. Deborah Dahl, internationally acclaimed speech technology consultant
Prof. Alex Grosu, Linguistics Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Benjamin Perl, eminent musicologist, the Open University in Tel Aviv