{"id":13934,"date":"2024-07-05T15:18:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/?p=13934"},"modified":"2024-07-05T15:18:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T15:18:51","slug":"highcon-announces-ceo-transition-following-successful-drupa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/highcon-announces-ceo-transition-following-successful-drupa\/","title":{"rendered":"Highcon Announces CEO Transition following Successful drupa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shlomo Nimrodi to be succeed by Yair Alcobi on 1 August and to assume Active Chairman role<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highcon Systems Ltd (TASE: HICN), today announced that Yair Alcobi will succeed Shlomo Nimrodi as Company CEO on 1 August. On that date, Nimrodi will succeed Alon Bar Shany as Active Chairman of the Board of Directors. Bar Shany will remain on the Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alcobi has over 25 years of experience in technology and advanced manufacturing, supported by a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion, an Executive MBA from Haifa University, and executive programs at Stanford GSB and the Technion Institute of Management. He has held leadership positions at XJET Ltd., KLA Corporation (formerly Orbotech), Kulicke &amp; Soffa (K&amp;S) and other companies where he focused on and consistently delivered growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrior to committing to Highcon, I visited drupa 2024. Highcon\u2019s presence there was vibrant and impactful, and the opportunity to get an overview of the industry was invaluable.\u201d said Yair Alcobi, incoming CEO. \u201cI look forward to coming on board, meeting customers, employees, partners and customers, and to leading Highcon to ever-greater success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter 5 exhilarating but challenging years and following the success of drupa 2024 as a culmination of the repositioning of Highcon and its portfolio, the time is right for me step down as CEO\u201d said Shlomo Nimrodi, outgoing CEO. \u201cI\u2019m immensely proud of what we\u2019ve achieved at Highcon. I have complete confidence in the team I\u2019ve built and in Yair\u2019s ability to lead Highcon into the high-growth chapter of the coming years. My association with Highcon continues with my new role of Chairman of the Board; I\u2019d like to thank Alon who has filled this role so effectively over the last 3.5 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shlomo Nimrodi to be succeed by Yair Alcobi on 1 August and to assume Active Chairman role Highcon Systems Ltd (TASE: HICN), today announced that Yair Alcobi will succeed Shlomo Nimrodi as Company CEO on 1 August. On that date, Nimrodi will succeed Alon Bar Shany as Active Chairman of the Board of Directors. Bar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[701],"class_list":{"0":"post-13934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corrugated-folding-carton","8":"tag-highcon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13936,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions\/13936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}