US firm Ondas (Nasdaq: ONDS) right this moment introduced that David Barnea, the previous head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence company has been appointed chairman and world president. Barnea brings with him almost 30 years of expertise in nationwide safety, intelligence, operations, and senior administration. From 2021 to 2026, he served as head of the Mossad, main the group via the conflict. His tenure included the multi-front conflict and the escalating confrontation with Iran and Hezbollah, managing worldwide negotiation efforts, and main intelligence and operational exercise.
Barnea positioned superior applied sciences on the core of the group’s strategic and operational capabilities. This course of included a mix of AI, cybersecurity capabilities, superior communications programs, intelligence programs, and devoted operational applied sciences, designed to present decision-makers and operational forces a bonus in complicated, time-sensitive, and threat-saturated environments.
Earlier than becoming a member of the Mossad, Barnea served within the IDF’s elite Sayeret Matkal particular operations unit. He holds a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration from the New York Institute of Expertise and an MBA in finance from Tempo College. Barnea started his profession within the personal sector within the subject of mergers and acquisitions at a number one funding financial institution in Israel. In 1995, he left the personal sector for public service. Throughout an intelligence profession that lasted three a long time, he held an extended line of subject, command, and senior administration positions.
He’ll give attention to the Center East, Europe and Asia
As Ondas world president, Barnea will help Ondes’ worldwide technique and relationships with protection clients, expertise firms and strategic companions. His areas of accountability will embody Ondes’ strategic and enterprise improvement and technological integration with a give attention to the corporate’s 4 segments, air protection, intelligence assortment and programs, precision assault and unmanned floor autos, with the goal of offering the corporate’s clients with coordinated and built-in multi-dimensional protection programs via software program and AI. His actions will focus, amongst others, on the Center East, Europe and Asia, areas the place governments are growing their investments in autonomous protection programs, anti-drone programs, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, persistent communications, precision assault programs and robotics.
Barnea may also play a central function in Ondas’ expertise technique and acquisitions. He’ll assist the corporate assess evolving operational necessities, establish functionality gaps, evaluation investments and acquisitions of latest applied sciences, and set priorities for improvement and integration between the businesses and programs within the group.
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