Dror has many years of operational, go-to-market, technology, and entrepreneurial experience having worked extensively in both the U.S. and Israel. He focuses on multi-stage (seed to pre-IPO) and multi-domain (enterprise, cloud, consumer, semi) investments related to Israel. Dror currently serves on the boards of ActiveFence, Amplication, Cynet, Gong, Sightfull, Treeverse, VastData, Weka.io, Wiliot, and three other stealth-stage companies.

Prior to joining Norwest, Dror served as executive vice president and chief strategy officer of ECI, which he joined in 2004. In this role, he was responsible for ECI’s strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business development, and strategic marketing. He also served on the board of Veraz Networks.

Before joining ECI, Dror was CEO of Axonlink, an optical components start-up company. Before Axonlink, he was president of I-Link, a US-based VoIP service provider that acquired MiBridge, a VoIP software company he founded.

Dror was also a senior research engineer at AT&T Bell Labs where he developed voice and video compression technologies, including the speech coder that became the standard for CDMA cellular in North America.

Dror holds a BSc in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.