Speaker Bio
Dror Fixler, a mobile cybersecurity expert, is Chief Executive Officer and co-Founder of FirstPoint Mobile Guard, Ltd., a company that develops a solution that simplifies the management of complex IoT networks and consolidates security for all connected devices by providing a comprehensive Secured Connectivity Management Platform (CMP) built for IoT enterprises.
He is an established entrepreneur with decades of experience in the telecommunications industry. He previously founded a pay by mobile startup, Raging Mobile, which was acquired by Northbridge Capital Partners. He also served as Chief Technology Officer at Monitel A.N. Technologies Ltd. Dror has developed systems to revolutionize data security for mobile devices and holds 13 patents.
Dror has been awarded top industry accolades; he received President's International Fellowship Initiative Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. He was honored with the European Science Foundation’s Plasmon-Bionanoscience Award in 2015. In addition, he received an award from the Wolf Foundation to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind.
He is currently the director of the Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials and a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was a visiting professor at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry in China. Dror received his B.Sc. Ms.C. and Ph.D. degrees in physics and computer science from Bar-Ilan University.