"Yoram Jacob"

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Yoram Yaakovi (born March 29, 1957) is a computer man who served as Microsoft CEO Israel Research and Development – Microsoft Research and Development Center in Israel, from 2011 to the end of 2017.

biography
Yoram was born in a solid building on March 29, 1957. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Technion. In 1983, he began his career in Elbit, in which he was engaged in the programming of an innovative real-time communications system for air force aircraft. In 1984, he joined Intel in which he worked nine years in engineering, counseling and training roles, including collaborations with leading companies in Israel and led an Unix and X-Windows development team at Intel headquarters in the United States.

In 1993, he joined Microsoft and his 11-year work at the company’s headquarters in Bradmond filled a series of software development and software development roles including Windows 95, NetMeeting, Microsoft Reader, ClearType, MSN Communities, Microsoft Rights Management (DRM) Server and more. In his last post, Bradmond served as a team manager at Information Worker and was responsible for the development of Office Information Bridge Framework.

From 2004 to 2008, he served as Senior Vice President in Amdocs, a leading provider of software for the Telecom industry. In Amdocs, he led the development of the company’s product basket in his role as the company’s product development organization and later as the product group’s operating manager.

In 2008, he returned to Microsoft and for three years served as CTO at the Microsoft Research and Development Center in Israel. His responsibilities included the leadership of laboratories and innovation groups, cooperation of the R&D Center with the local academia and industry, as well as the technological ties with the headquarters of society in the United States. He also established in his role in cooperation agreements with Israel’s leading universities and was directly involved in most of Microsoft’s purchases in Israel in these years.

In 2011, he was appointed CEO of Microsoft Research and Development Center in Israel. Under his management, the development center in Israel grew and became Microsoft’s strategic global R&D center. The Israel Research and Development Centre has trained more than 1,000 employees engaged in Cybersecurity, Business Analytics, Consumer Analytics, Hardware, and innovation groups.
Microsoft’s development center in Israel spans several cities – the development center in Herzliya, the development centers in Haifa and Nazareth, as well as Microsoft Accelerator in Tel Aviv. Jacobi has led Microsoft’s ties to the comprehensive technological community, among other things, the acquisition of five Israeli companies over the past three years and serves as director of the Multinational Companies Forum in Israeli Advanced Technologies Industries, a forum of 50 CEOs of international corporations in the hi-tech sector.

In September 2017, he announced his retirement from Microsoft at the end of the year. For the replacement, he collected Rappaport.

Yoram Jacobi is a partner of filing 23 patents, 17 of which have been confirmed to this day. In June 2017, he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Technion. It is active in promoting the generation of technological future in Israel, as well as ensuring a combination of social and geographical periphery in scientific professions. Yoram works to promote and integrate Arab society in these areas. He also wrote a tour guide on Cyprus – a guide to Cyprus.

on a personal plane.

Married to Gary and Dad for three children.

External links
Yoram Yaacovi, Israel R&D Center

marginal comments

Israelis in the software industry
Microsoft CEO Israel Research and Development
Technion graduates – Israel Institute of Technology

Israelis born in 1957