About Us : Ace Verification

Mr. Michelson, a founding member of Ace Verification, has specialized in functional verification of HDL designs for the past thriteen years. During that time, he developed breakthrough methods for design and execution of verification projects with high quality, in a timely and predictable schedule. His experience verifying over a dozen projects in Digital Semiconductor (1996-1998) and Intel Corporation (1998-2004) has allowed him to design, collect and improve numerous verification patterns which have be used by a vast array of designs around the world. Akiva holds a BSc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University. He lives in Israel with his wife and six children.

Benny Sharaby, Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Sharaby brings to his position as Ace Verification CEO, over 15 years of experience as a manager of multi-disciplinary R&D teams in networking and telecommunication organizations. Previously, Mr. Sharaby was the AVP R&D at Actelis networks and took an active role in R&D group management. Prior to this, he was the vice president of R&D at Civcom, managing the development and testing groups. Mr. Sharaby also took many positions, at Alvarion, for more then 7 years, as project manager and HW teams’ manager. Mr. Sharaby holds a Bachelors and Masters of Science in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University and also graduated with a Master of Business Administration from Recanati School at Tel-Aviv University.

Mr. Refael joined Ace Verification in 2007. In his 20+ year career he has focused on Telecommunication and Networking in global and regional companies. He specializes in Designing SystemVerilog environments for FPGA designs and SVA Assertions. Herry holds a BSee from Ben Gurion University (1984)