Mr. Israel Gershman brings extensive unmatched experience in the area of reliability design and implementation for very long life electronic systems located in extreme outdoor environments. Mr. Gershman's background spans more than 25 years of design and production of multidisciplinary and highly reliable systems.
 
Prior to Solaredge, Mr. Gershman concluded a number of projects as an independent consultant in the area of system- and hardware-reliability engineering from design to production and regulatory certifications. Among these were high capacity IP networking devices, innovatory medical equipment and large-area trespassing probing system.
 
Prior to that, Mr. Gershman was with the Technological Department of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the elite organization responsible for multidisciplinary R&D and cutting-edge technology, for over 23 years. He served in various R&D and technological positions, and fulfilled executive management roles including head of Reliability and Quality division, and head of the engineering department, where he was directly managing over 120 employees and running large scale projects involving hundreds of engineers from a wide variety of science disciplines.

Mr. Gershman was awarded the Israel Defense Award, Israel’s most prestigious recognition for technological innovation and contribution to national security (1995).
 
In parallel to his current occupation, Mr. Gershman is studying towards his Ph.D degree in Reliability engineering at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan. His current research interests include physics of failures of mixed-signal power electronics and multi-mechanism failure analysis. Mr. Gershman holds a B.Sc (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University (1989).