Israel Greenfeld, PhD

Dr. Israel Greenfeld, the co-founder and owner of inVenture, is an entrepreneur and inventor of broad and bold vision, and possesses a wide knowledge of systems engineering. He has been the inventor and innovator of well-known products in the area of airborne electro-optical pods, namely the Litening airborne targeting pod, and the RecceLite airborne reconnaissance system.

PhD from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, he has done extensive academic research in the field of differential games, particularly games of pursuit and surveillance, as well as in the fields of robotics and manufacturing systems, particularly open-architecture manufacturing and open-system machine controllers. His current research activities are in nanotechnology at the Technion and the Weizmann Institute of Science, including electrospinning, nanofibers, nanomaterials, nanocomposites, and polymer physics.

He worked for over twenty years in the Israeli defense industry, and was responsible for initiating and managing large-scale projects for domestic and export applications. He spent two years as a research scientist at the Robotics and Manufacturing Research Laboratory of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU), and there he invented and built MOSAIC, a universal open-architecture controller for autonomous machines, and was a consultant to DARPA on autonomous manufacturing. On 1997 he established inVenture together with his wife Ady Greenfeld, and has been developing and managing the company since. 
 

He published numerous scientific articles, technical reports and patents, as well as lectures and presentations in conferences, on the subjects of nanotechnology, nanomaterials, differential games, open-system machine controllers, autonomous manufacturing, electro-optical targeting and reconnaissance, mechanical design, cadcam, systems engineering, and project management.

Israel Greenfeld was born in Israel and lives in Kfar Vradim in the upper Galilee with his wife and children. They own and operate a non-profit art gallery, Tal Gallery, in memory of their son who was an artist. He loves music and piano playing, arts and carpet design, writing poetry (in Hebrew), reading, gardening, computer programming and sports.