Robin Hacke is the founder and Managing Partner of Portview Communications Partners, a specialized international venture capital firm investing in early stage communications technology companies. Ms. Hacke has been active in high technology since 1986 as a director, manager, investor and advisor to numerous companies. An American executive with a broad international perspective, Ms. Hacke brings to Portview a unique combination of entrepreneurial, operating and financial experience. Ms. Hacke is well-known in Israel as the founder of HK Catalyst Strategy & Finance, an advisory firm that completed 220 strategy assignments for leading communications, software and electronics companies and investors between 1990-99. Before founding HK Catalyst, Ms. Hacke served for more than four years as Marketing Manager, VP Marketing and CFO of an Israeli start-up. Ms. Hacke presently serves as a director or observer on the boards of Alvarion Ltd. (Nasdaq: ALVR), BitBand, Mintera Corporation, and Aternity Inc. She is chairman of the Audit Committee of Alvarion. Ms. Hacke was a longstanding board member of the Israel Venture Association (IVA). A former investment banker at Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York , Ms. Hacke holds a Bachelors degree magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |