Recently a General Partner at Kodiak Ventures, Ilan focused on communications and semiconductor investment opportunities. He is an active investor, advisor and Director on various high profile technology companies.

Ilan's career has included extensive entrepreneurial, engineering leadership, and general management in the chip, data, and communications markets. Prior to Kodiak, Ilan spent several years with Nortel Networks (as part of the Bay Networks acquisition), where he was Vice President and General Manager responsible for Bay Networks' router business, including multiple products, markets and acquisitions.

Ilan also served at 3Com Corporation as Vice President and Business Unit Manager, responsible for 3Com's enterprise gigabit switching business. Before 3Com, he joined a start-up, Chipcom Corporation, where as Vice President of R&D he built a world class organization, and delivered two major platforms to the enterprise market. In addition,
Ilan worked for Fibronics Ltd., in Haifa, Israel, where he was the Director for R&D and delivered the first Fiber Distributed Data Interface product to the market.

Ilan has a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from the Technion (IIT - Israel Institute of Technology), and was a Captain in the Israeli Air Force for five years.

He is a private pilot and member of the U.S. Civil Air Patrol.