Company
Team
Dr. Avi Messica, CEO & Co-Founder
Avi has gained his Ph.D. at Weizmann Inst. of science studying ultrafast transistors and quantum devices. He has 25 years of managerial experience in the high-tech industry. He served as the device group manager of Tower Semiconductors and has hands-on experience in the design and fabrication of CMOS devices.
Avi led large R&D teams to successful product commercialization. He acted as VP of Engineering of ShellCase and was instrumental in commercializing its wafer-level chip-scale packaging technology which is currently the dominating CSP packaging of CMOS image sensors.
As VP of Engineering of Shellcase he successfully worked with more than 50 customers. He co-founded and acted as the CEO of semiconductors companies in the fields of active pixel CMOS image sensor and MEMS optical cross-connect as well as integrated optics and successfully worked with numerous fortune-500 business partners.
Ziv Leshem, CTO & Co-Founder
Ziv has more than 24 years of experience in VLSI design. He has worked for some of the globally leading semiconductor companies and managed large and complex chip design projects. He served as a senior ASIC design engineer at National Semiconductors and a chip design team leader at DSPG. He co-founded LogixL technologies which developed a hardware-based HDL simulator and acted as VP of VLSI.
He worked at Synopsys, a leading EDA tools company, and supported Intel’s
processors’ group as a Synopsys P&R specialist. He served as the director of field applications engineering at Newsight Imaging and supported its LiDAR and eTOF™ sensors customers.
Before co-founding Neologic, Ziv served as the director of the physical design group at Inomize (acquired by Meta), where he managed the physical implementation group which provided turnkey services to customers in different verticals such as automotive, space, etc., using various process nodes from 40nm down to 7nm.
Amit Yaacov, VP VLSI
Amit has more than 20 years of experience in processor design and has worked for prominent firms such as Intel, Marvell, and several others. He possesses an extensive skill set across all areas of chip design. He has played a pivotal role in delivering high-performance processors and complex SoC products from initial concept to mass production.
Over the last decade, Amit held senior managerial roles and led multidisciplinary R&D
teams of large-scale silicon projects. As a frontend design leader, he prioritizes of working closely with the physical design team and the physical implementation of the processor.
Amit leads the frontend team of NeoLogic and the company’s hardware R&D strategy. He supervises the architectural implementation of the company’s products, transforming cutting-edge chip design technology into leading-edge silicon. In this position, he leads NeoLogic’s engineering teams throughout the entire development lifecycle to guarantee the successful delivery of our processors.