Dov Moran

Dov Moran ( born 1956 ) is an Israeli engineer, inventor and businessman.

Moran is a graduate of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

He founded in 1989 the company M-Systems. This company developed was the memory technologies DiskOnKey and DiskOnChip, which are key components of flash memories.

As he was about business friends run a PowerPoint slide presentation, failed his notebook, on which the only copy of his presentation was saved because she was too big for a floppy. This gave him the idea of ​​developing a storage medium that was small and sturdy and could store enough data. Based on this idea he developed with his company M-Systems USB stick and is therefore considered to be an inventor. In 2012 he was awarded the Eduard Rhein Award.

In late 2006, M-Systems for 1.6 billion U.S. dollars to the SanDisk Corp.. sold.

Today, Dov Moran Founder and Chairman of the company modu. This company is working on the development of modular, modular phone, which together with additional devices ( so-called BCs ) can be used, and that came in several countries since 2009 on the market.