Ronen Lin co-founded Citala and is the company’s president and CEO. Prior to joining Citala, Ronen served as a manager in the high-tech department at the Israeli offices of Ernst & Young.

During his tenure, he worked closely with multiple high-tech companies—helping them to achieve their business and financial goals, including all aspects of private placement funding and initial public offerings.

Dr. Tomita served as VP of BiZDev. at X2 Technologies Inc., an IT start-up in San Rafael, CA. He was co-founder of Ribomic Inc., a biotechnology start-up in Tokyo, Japan. COO and President of Tucson Optical Research Corp in Tucson, AZ. He worked as a Project Manager at Silicon Light Machines, a Silicon Valley display technology startup. Dr. Tomita worked with Raychem Corporation in Menlo Park, CA, and as technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Prior to joining Citala, James held senior international executive management positions at Sony Electronics, Hitachi Data Systems and Ricoh Silicon Valley. Most recently James was assisting early stage high-tech companies develop their business through strategic alliances and distribution partnerships.

Before joining Citala, Mr. Baron served as a CFO of HelioFocus, company for high efficiency solar-thermal systems to provide high temperature heat. Before joining HelioFocus, Mr. Baron served as a CFO of Samsung Semiconductor Israel, previously known as TransChip, there he was deeply involved in the first acquisition of Samsung Electronics in Israel. Before that, Mr. Baron served as Director of Finance in Orckit Communications (NASDAQ: ORCT).