Kenaf Ventures is a clean-tech and impact company focused on developing eco-friendly solutions that replace common polluting materials in the construction, plastics, and insulation materials industries.We at Kenaf Ventures care about our planet and believe we need to proactively shape a prosperous, peaceful, and sustainable world.We do this by addressing some of the most challenging environmental problems, such as reducing global CO2 emissions and the use of polluting materials by the industrial sector.By leveraging our unique know-how, intellectual property, and the mechanical properties of natural fibers such as Kenaf and Hemp plants, we create bio-based raw materials that meet the UN SDG’s environmental goals, end-users’ demand for sustainability, and manufacturers’ requirements for improved properties and price- competitive solutions.

• Managing the company’s IT in all aspects – Infrastructure, Information Security, Applications, development, BI, Digital strategy, and solutions• Managing a department of 15 employees who deliver IT solutions and services, infrastructure and development• Mapping, analyzing and defining the company requirements, implementing system and solutions in all areas of operations• Program and budget management, tenders and negotiations, planning and implementing the digital strategies Primary achievements:o Replacing the company’s legacy core systems, AS400 based, in-house developed for the last 25 yearso Reestablish the company’s infrastructure o Leading the company through a digital transformationo Outsourced the helpdesk, system and network infrastructure

Director of Business Delivery in the IT• Managing a team of Project Managers/Business Analysts and the Integration Architect. Professional guidance and execution control• Managing the relationship with all the IT customers• Scoping and defining the systems strategy, enhancing business capabilities by process improvements, roadmap development.Primary achievements:• Design and implementation of a BRM (Business Relationship Mng.) methodology within the IT and its customers• Definition and implementation of Project Management methodology in the IT• Developing and executing the integration roadmap (based on MDM and SOA concepts)

• Foundation, recruitment, and management of 4 teams which include: engineers, project managers, programmers, and implementers. In the areas of SharePoint, XRM, Engineering applications and service applications• Definition of R&R, task and performance control, procedural and work methodologies enforcement • Supporting 2500 users across continents leading cross-company process improvement efforts Primary achievements:• Major implementations: IBM Maximo Asset Management, Autodesk Vault, DMS and LMS on SharePoint, Sales CRM, Positions and Flights on MS Dynamics, MS SCSM, and Provance• Building the roadmap and executing dozens of new implementations, interfaces, development efforts and process improvements

• Requirements gathering, analysis, design, configuration, customization, implementation, and training systems to support the Engineering, Project Management, Services and QA requirements• Definition of the data management methodology of the companyPrimary achievements:• The implementation and support of – Oracle Agile PLM, Engineering Base and multiple interfaces between the two and to other enterprise systems

• Designing, implementing and maintaining the company’s configuration management methodology cataloging, BOM, change management and product lifecyclePrimary achievements:• The foundation of the field in the company from scratch which includes SKUs, P/Ns, BOMs and configuration control processes

• Product analysis, writing MRDs• Doing road shows for customers in the far east, demand and requirement analysis and solution matching• Leveraging the company's business relations with its customers to promote new products and maximize volume Primary achievements:• Creation of a new marketing index for the comparison of SSD to HDD

• Design and implement a strategic planning company-wide process of 6-12 months ranges• Manage all interfaces with Far East contract manufacturers, according to manufacturing needs (BOMs), quality assurance and performancePrimary achievements:• Increasing company margins due to design and implementation of optimization system of Flash allocation through scenarios running and extensive company-wide data collection • Improving the interfaces between the Ops, Eng, R&D, QA teams and the sub-contractors

• Manage all project interfaces – Production, Planning, Engineering, and Purchasing.• Expanding the “Lean Manufacturing” methodology for the purchasing operations, working with vendors and implementing it in large corporations• Implementing the Lean Methodology through diagnosing and analyzing manufacturing processesPrimary achievements:• Reduction Ops expenses due to implementing “Lean Manufacturing” methods• Major cost reduction at customers by assimilating just in time inventory management methods

• Considerable inventory cost reduction through excess inventory elimination.• Part of industrial Eng. Team dealing with Production floor, inventories and supply chain.

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