Dov Moran is an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i engineer, inventor and businessman.

Moran obtained a Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...

 at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a research-intensive institute of technology in Haifa, Israel. Originally called the Technikum, it was founded in 1912...

.

He was founder and chairman of M-Systems

M-Systems

M-Systems Ltd., was a Nasdaq-listed Israeli producer of Flash memory storage products founded in 1989 by Dov Moran and based in Kfar Sava, Israel. They were best known for developing and patenting the first flash drive, marketed in 1995 as DiskOnChip, and the first USB flash drive, marketed in...

. This company invented the DiskOnKey, the DiskOnChip and other similar devices. At the end of 2006 the company was sold to SanDisk

SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory...

 for the amount of $1.6B.

Nowadays Moran is founder and chairman of modu

Modu

modu is an Israeli mobile phone company that was founded in 2007 by Dov Moran. modu company holds the record for the world’s lightest mobile phone...

. This company invented the modu, a modular cellular

Cellular

Cellular may refer to:*Cellular automaton, a model in discrete mathematics*Cellular , a 2004 movie*Cellular frequencies, assigned to networks operating in cellular RF bands*Cellular manufacturing...

 device which can be used in various other devices.

Moran is also chairman of Tower Semiconductor

Tower Semiconductor

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. , global specialty foundry leader and its fully owned U.S. subsidiary Jazz Semiconductor, operate collectively under the brand name TowerJazz, manufacturing integrated circuits with geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.13-micron...

 and Biomas, a biotech company.

External links

• modu Website
• Dov Moran, CrunchBase
• Dov Moran's world of total connectivity, Haaretz
  Haaretz
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  , Feb 13, 2008