Board

Dr. Micha Brunstein was named Nova’s Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2006, after serving as member of the board of directors from 2003. Dr. Brunstein has served as Managing Director of Applied Materials Israel Ltd. Prior to that, he served as President of Opal Inc., and as a Director of New Business development in Optrotech Ltd. At present, Dr. Brunstein serves as a board member of Ham-let Ltd., a company listed on the TASE He is also a Chairman and serves on the Board of Directors of several privately owned companies. Dr. Brunstein holds a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and MSc and PhD degrees in Physics from the Tel Aviv University.

Mr. Avi Cohen serves as the Chief Executive Officer at RRsat Global Communications Network, a public company traded on NASDAQ. Prior to that, Mr. Cohen served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Orbit Technologies, a public company traded on the TASE. Prior to joining Orbit Technologies, Mr. Cohen served as Chief Operating Officer and Deputy to the CEO at ECI Telecom Ltd. Prior to joining ECI, Mr. Cohen served in a variety of management positions at KLA-Tencor. He was a Group Vice President, Corporate Officer and Member of the Executive Management Committee based at the corporate headquarters in the U.S. During his tenure, he successfully led the creation of KLA-Tencor’s global Metrology Group. Previously he was the President of KLA-Tencor Israel and responsible for the Optical Metrology Division. Before joining KLA-Tencor, Mr. Cohen was the Managing Director of Octel Communications, Israel. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer and founder of Allegro Intelligent Systems, which was acquired by Octel. Mr. Cohen holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and applied physics from Case Western Reserve University, USA.

Dr. Alon Dumanis is the Chief Executive Officer of Crecor B.V., Docor International B.V., Docor Levi Lassen I BV, Docor Levi Lassen II BV and Docor International Management Ltd., all Dutch investment companies, subsidiaries of The Van-Leer Group Foundation. He is currently a chairman of Aposense (TASE-APOS), XSight System, Softlib, Bondex, Clariton, DNR Imaging, and a member of the board of directors of Spectronix (TASE-SPCT), Collplant (TASE-CLPT), Ice Cure (TASE-ICCM), and other Hi Tech companies in Docor’s investment portfolio. Dr. Dumanis is a former member of the board of directors of Tadiran Communications (TASE-TDCM), of El Al Israel Airlines (TASE-LY), of Protalix Biotherapeutics (NYSE-PLX), and a former member of the board of directors of Inventech Investments Co. Ltd. (TASE-IVTC). Previously, Dr. Dumanis was the Head of the Material Command in the Israel Air Force at the rank of Brigadier General. He currently serves as chairman and member of several national steering committees and is the author of many papers published in a number of subject areas, including technology and management. Dr. Dumanis holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Mr. Dan Falk was elected as the Company’s external director in 2005, and was re-elected for an additional term in 2008 and in 2011. Mr. Falk is a business consultant to public and private companies. Mr. Falk has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Sapiens International NV. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Orbotech Ltd.

Mr. Falk serves as a member of various companies’ boards of directors including Orbotech Ltd., Nice Systems Ltd., Ormat Technologies, Inc., Attunity Ltd. (which are all publicly traded in the United States), Orad Hi-tech Systems Ltd. (as the chairman of the board of directors), Amiad Water Systems Ltd., Oridion Medical Ltd. (which are publicly traded in Europe) and Plastopil Ltd. (traded on the TASE).

Ms. Naama Zeldis was elected as the Company’s external director in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Law in 2006 and was reelected for an additional three-year term in 2009 and in 2012. Ms. Zeldis serves as Chief Financial Officer of Netafim Ltd. Prior to that, she served as Chief Financial Officer of EDS Israel, Radguard, and Director of Finance of RAD Data Communications. Ms. Zeldis has is a former member of the board of directors and of the audit committee of Metalink, a publicly traded both on NASDAQ and the TASE. Ms. Zeldis holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Business Administration, majoring in Financing, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a B.A. in Accounting from Tel-Aviv University.