Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Yair was Microsoft’s Corporate Director of Business Development & M&A for Europe, managing the company’s activity across Europe and Israel. Before Microsoft, Yair worked for ECI Telecom as Head of Corporate Strategy and Business Development. Prior to that, he was a senior strategy consultant at Rotem Strategy, one of Israel’s leading consulting firms. Earlier in his career, Yair worked in various bio-tech and hi-tech roles where he established and managed R&D groups, authored patents, published scientific papers and presented at global conferences. In addition to his venture capital investment activities, Yair has lectured at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel.