Avner Ronen Innovators Series

Innovators Series at NAB

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Avner Ronen
Founder and CEO
boxee

Named one of Rolling Stone's "Agents of Change" for 2009, prior to boxee Ronen was the Head of Corporate Development and M&A for Comverse, Inc. a leading provider of software and service to Telecom service providers. Ronen was responsible for acquisitions valued at $450M, which were key to the company's evolution from a voicemail company to a billing and VAS provider.

Ronen joined Comverse in 2002 when they acquired Odigo, a company he co-founded in 1998. Odigo was one of the early instant messaging services on the Web serving over eight million users worldwide, and earned Ronen the 2002 honor of being a member of Crain's "40 under 40".

Prior to Odigo Ronen served for 4.5 years in the Israeli Defense Force in the special computer unit, MAMRAM.