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Gamdala was founded by Dror Gill, an industry executive
with over 18 years of experience in communication, multimedia and consumer devices. Mr. Gill served
as CTO of Emblaze Semiconductors (formerly Zapex Research), a fabless manufacturer of multimedia processors. In
this position, Mr. Gill was responsible for the company's entry into the mobile multimedia market, and to it's market leading
role as provider of components to leading handset manufacturers such as Samsung. Mr. Gill's responsibilities at Emblaze
Semiconductor included strategic business development, product roadmap definition, system architecture, standardization body
activities and competition analysis. Mr. Gill also served as Chairman of the Wireless Multimedia Forum (WMF) Technical
Working Group, and Editor of the WMF Specification.
Prior to taking this assignment, Mr. Gill was Project Manager at the
IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel. In this position, he was responsible for the development of multimedia architectures
and frameworks in C and in Java, involved in the development of the world's first mobile videophone, and pioneered the fields
of media streaming over IP, Internet telephony and voice-over-IP gateways. Mr. Gill served as Project Manager for the
Java Media Framework, the standard multimedia extension of the Java language (jointly developed by IBM and Sun). A subset of the Java
Media Framework has recently become the standard multimedia API for J2ME as JSR 135.
Mr. Gill’s previous experience includes serving as Project Officer
in the Israeli Navy, responsible for supervising the S/W development of real-time computer-embedded combat systems.
Dror Gill is a highly-experienced writer and presenter. He recently
published articles in Wireless Europe Magazine and 3G Mobile, and lectured in numerous industry conferences, including Mobile Handset Chips (Amsterdam, 5/2002), Mobile Video (Madrid, 4/2001), Internet World Wireless (New York, 2/2001) and JavaOne (San Francisco, 6/1999).
Mr. Gill holds a B.Sc with honors in Electrical Engineering from the Technion
Institute in Israel.
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