EFPC - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the Management Team

Dana is experienced in International Project Management, is an Evaluator for the Commission and a member of the Europeans Commission's Ethical Review Board. Most recently, she is the Project Manager for the Finance-NMS-IST project which runs the Finance Helpdesk and Helpline www.finance-helpdesk.org. To date, the project has held 20 Financial Workshops across the 10 New Member States. With Euroconsultants (Israel), she was the Scientific Director of IST Mentor, IST Mentor+ and Tristan-East. These three projects targeted the NMAS and NIS. From a technical perspective, Dana has a background in Mathematics, Computational Biology (e.g. Imaging), Statistics (e.g. Quantitative market Analysis), and Website creation and maintenance. Dana enjoys being involved in innovation. Having worked with Remes Biomedical and Remes Computing she has learned the processes from the first concept to the Licensing of Patents. Dana has been involved in many framework proposals; thus, she is familiar with the processes and workings of the Commission and has attended related events in Brussels and elsewhere from the third framework program. She has first hand experience with high tech SMEs and is experienced in the exploitation of innovation. In addition, Dana is being used by the Commission on their Ethical Review Boards. Professional Experience: 2002 - Present: Director, EFPConsulting Ltd.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Management Team

Qualifications - FCA (UK Chartered Accountant, from 1969) and CPA(Isr.) (Israeli Certified Public Accountant, from 1985). Among his extensive financial/accounting experience he deals with the following matters: • Giving Financial advice to various organisations (companies, universities and government bodies) concerning project proposals and reporting under FP4, FP5 and FP6..

Job Titles:

• Expert
• Member of ISOC IL Accessibility Group

Lisa Seeman is a world expert in web interoperability, the semantic web, and accessible web protocols. She is a key member of the W3C Forum working groups on web accessibility and has been instrumental in creating the standards which are accepted as the benchmark for interoperability and accessibility worldwide. Lisa headed a government funded incubator project that culminated into UB Access as an independent company. She closed the initial investments for UB Access in 2002, successful closing of the sale of UB Access to Aequus Technologies Corp. in 2006. She acted as CEO For the company until 2009. Lisa has consulted, formally and informally, for many notable companies and bodies, including: IBM, SAP, Ex Libris, the European Commission, Firefox, Google and Adobe, the Ministry of Education and NASA. Lisa is an invited expert in the W3C's protocols and formats working group where she reviews upcoming W3C recommendations for their implications for accessibility and interoperability. Lisa is currently the Author and Editor of W3C, WAI interoperability specifications for the Accessibility for Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA). ARIA is an RDF based roles taxonomy and XHTML module for AJAX, DHTML, and other application technologies and increased semantics for any XML based language to increase accessibility and interoperability. Lisa is an active member of ISOC IL accessibility group, Israel government access task force (human right department), ACLIP, and has worked with accessibility groups from Dublin Core and ISO. Lisa has a BEng (Hons) from Imperial College London University in electrical and electronic engineering and has over 12 years experience in Hi - Tech Businesses Management, and a track record in complex problem solving.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Management Team
• Member of European Subcommittee of the Israel Grid Association

Michael has a B.Sc. in Computing science and 20 years of postgraduate experience in the areas of software development, project management and business development within the European and U.S. marketplaces. He also started up and ran a Biomedical company specialising in providing image analysis solutions to pharmaceutical companies. This company took part in several successful EU RTD proposals. Michael re-located to Israel in May 2000 and has been employed in a number of project management and consultancy capacities working with International pharmaceutical companies and telecommunication companies in the areas of e-commerce and interactive television. He has been involved in EU framework programmes since the 4 th framework programme and has much experience in assisting companies with all aspects of developing and writing project proposals involving innovative technologies. Michael is one of the founders of EFPConsulting and a director of the company. Roles include Business development, Project Management, EU consultancy. In addition, Michael is a Member of European Subcommittee of the Israel Grid Association (http://www.grid.org.il)

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Member of the Management Team

Mr Morron is a graduate of the University of Glasgow where he studied Pure Science as well as Computer Science from 1960 - 1965. He has a broad technical background but specialised in software engineering, especially operating systems and supercomputer architectures. He has worked in these fields in the US, UK and Israel. Until recently Myer was IST Director at ISERD, the Israeli body responsible for managing the Association Agreement with the EU on behalf of the Israeli government. He represented the State of Israel on the IST Management Committee for the duration of FP5 and continued this role in FP6. He also represented the State of Israel on the Research Infrastructures Committee. As part of his job he coordinated all Israeli activity in the IST and RI parts of the Framework Program including the NCP activity in those areas. He was part of the team that negotiated the FP5 Association Agreement and then a member of the EC-Israel Research Committee that oversaw the operation of that Agreement. Mr Morron has been involved with IST and its predecessor programs from their inception in 1984 and has acted both as a project manager in many key projects as well as an evaluator and an external expert. Prior to joining ISERD, Mr. Morron held various Senior Technical and Management positions for Computer and Telecommunications Manufacturers. The main companies he has worked for include Control Data (US and Israel), ICL, STC and Nortel (UK) and Elbit (Israel). He was involved in setting up of the ESPRIT program in 1984 and has been involved directly in projects in all Framework Programs since then. He has also been a proposal evaluator for the European Commission on twelve occasions as well as an external expert. During the past twenty five years his work has concerned the development and successful market exploitation of new and emerging technologies and standards with an emphasis on Open Standards and joint collaborative projects. He has consulted and presented extensively in IT related issues, including for the CEC, US DoD, UK MoD, NATO and Standards Bodies ECMA, ISO, CEN, NIST and ETSI.

Paul Morron has had an auspicious career at the top of the Criminal Justice and Social Service System in Scotland. Paul has a law degree from Glasgow University and a post graduate diploma in Personnel Management from the University of Strathclyde. He was also awarded an MBE by the Queen for services to the Criminal Justice System. Currently Paul is an adviser to the Justice Minister for Scotland and is a trustee of the National Children's Homes charity and serves as the Chairman for NCH Scotland. Paul also is an invited lecturer on the Scottish Criminal Justice System at MSc courses at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities and at Edinburgh and Stirling Universities. Paul also lectured at courses for all new Scottish Judges for twenty years on Community based penalties. In his previous positions as Head of Criminal Justice Social Work Services, Glasgow City Council and previous to that of Strathclyde, Paul was instrumental in setting up the Community Service legislation for Scotland as well as its implementation. More recently Paul assisted in setting up the Drug Courts in Glasgow. He was a founder member of Victim Support in Scotland and led the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities Bill team at Parliament in Westminster. Previous to this Paul was a founder member and served for several years as Depute Director of Sacro (Scottish Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders). He has been a member of its Board of Directors for many years, becoming chair in October 2007.

Job Titles:

• Member of the British Association of Social Workers

Victoria, who is a member of the British Association of Social Workers and a Registered Social Worker in England (General Social Care Council), has an honours degree in Philosophy and Politics with a post-graduate diploma in Social Work and Masters degree in Social Work (Dissertation - Use of technologies in the development of care for Older People).

Job Titles:

• Member of the Management Team

Qualified CPA, Graduate of Tel Aviv University in Economics and Accounting, Master's degree in Law (LLM) at Bar-Ilan University. Established the firm Brukner Ingber C.P.A in 1986. Acknowledged as an expert in financial management of consortium projects in the area of High-tech, particularly where funding has been granted by the Office of the Chief scientist in Israel. Previously he was responsible for the financial management of the Marketing Encouragement Fund of the Israel Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Through his accounting and auditing practice in Tel Aviv established with his partner in the 1990's, he serves as the financial and business manager of 11 Corporations pursuant to the Chief Scientist's MAGNET program in the fields of communication, multimedia, microelectronics, Video streaming. He also acts as a qualified financial evaluator for projects receiving grants from the Chief Scientist's Office and from the Investment Centre within the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Yoav has lectured on financial regulations under FP4, FP5 and FP6 in public seminars organized by Israeli NCP and privately. He advised SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises), higher education bodies, and publicly quoted companies in preparation of proposals under the 4th, 5th and 6th Framework Programs, as well as advising during the contract negotiation period and preparing cost statements and financial data for submission with periodic and final reports to the European Commission.