Management

Eldad Aharoni, Co-Founder and CEO
over 19 years experience, previously MobileSpear CEO, structured strategic agreements with leading corporations & mobile operators in Europe & Asia, including Telefonica Spain, Atos Origin, Ericsson, bringing the company to positive cash flow. Win Systems, Senior Executive, led development teams and operation of full turnkey national lottery & gaming systems; the system processes Billions of transactions with zero-error tolerance in Peru, Colombia & Argentina.

B.Sc. in Engineering from the Technion – Israel.

James Fancher, COO
Jim is a senior executive with twenty plus years of payment systems experience in the financial services sector. He joined SeerGate as COO in February of 2010. In his role at SeerGate Jim is responsible for all U.S. operations including product management, implementation, service delivery and customer service.

Jim started his career in 1986 at Mercantile Bancshares of St. Louis as a developer supporting the SuperMICR check capture system. Later appointments include Vice President in Sterling Software Banking Division and manager of the Check Consulting Group at Stockholder Systems (now Fiserv) where he was responsible for check processing implementations in the top 100 FI space.

Jim joined Gilson & Associates in 1995 as director of sales and later was appointed to CEO. During his tenure there Jim tripled top line revenue and managed to a liquidity event in 2003 with VECTORsgi of Dallas, TX. While at VECTORsgi he served as Senior VP of marketing, product development and consulting sales. Jim remained with VECTORsgi through the buyout with Metavante, and subsequently Fidelity, serving as General Manager of Endpoint Exchange, LLC before joining Seergate in February of 2010.

Jim received a bachelor of science in computer engineering from Murray State University.

Jeff Hosterman, SVP Marketing/Strategic Alliances
Jeff has thirty plus years of banking and financial services experience centered on the successful development and introduction of transaction intense emerging payment types and technologies.

His career spans community bank branch management and payments product development and marketing with 2 thrifts in New England to large commercial bank corporate and consumer payments product development and business unit planning with Mellon Bank, NationsBank and Bank of America where he was SVP in the bank's leading Global Treasury Management Division.

With his most recent experience, Jeff worked as VP, Acquiring Solutions Division, for Link2Gov, a subsidiary of Metavante Corporation (now FIS), introducing online debit and credit card payment portals to large domestic FIs for payment of consumer and small business federal income balance due tax payments.

He has a BA in Sociology from Princeton University and an MBA from Northeastern University Graduate School of Business.

Alicia Roisman Ismach, Co-Founder and EVP Business Development: expertise in business development, was VP BD of Print & Pay Networks LLC and Business Strategy Manager at ACTeCASH Ltd (part of 888 Holdings PLC). Master in Enterprise Innovation from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Geri Joskovicz PhD., CTO
Geri's career in engineering and computing spans 38 years. A native of Vienna (Austria), Geri started as a researcher in digital processing of bio-signals and bio-statics working at the University of Vienna and later at Columbia University in New York. His expertise in modern operating systems and software technologies brought him to retail banking in the mid eighties.

Geri managed the technology side for the Banking Competence Center of Siemens in Vienna, designing and implementing branch automation products, self service and e-banking systems. While with Siemens, he worked as project manager and lead architect in banking projects for major European retail banks in Austria (Creditanstalt), Switzerland (UBS) and Ireland (BoI).

He joined Creditanstalt in Vienna as head of the architecture and development group in charge of branch banking and core systems. After moving to Israel, Geri held the position of CTO at the Elron/NCC e-banking group, designing and implementing Internet and electronic banking frameworks.

Before joining Seergate as CTO, Geri spend 7 years designing and implementing global portfolio management, reporting and internet solutions for the International Private Banking unit of Bank Leumi in Israel.

Beside his job-related activities, Geri is engaged in research projects at the Technical University in Vienna.

He holds a Dipl.Ing (MSc) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University in Vienna and a Dr.techn. (PhD) in Biomedical Engineering from the Technical University Graz.