Valens Semiconductor Ltd. (VLN)

Yoram Salinger has run Valens since November 13, 2025. He took over from Gideon Ben Zvi, chief executive from 2020 until November 12, 2025, who remains a director, as he has been since 2011. Salinger came from the cybersecurity company Perception Point, which he led until its acquisition by Fortinet in 2024; before that he ran Red-Bend Software, a maker of software management for phones and cars that Harman International bought. 1234

Guy Nathanzon has been chief financial officer since 2024, after finance posts at chip designers including Altair Semiconductor and Provigent. Two business heads took their posts in February 2025: Gili Friedman, from Sony Semiconductor Israel, leads the newly formed Cross-Industry Business Unit, and Adar Segal, formerly in senior sales at Cadence, the Automotive Business. Amir Boim, with Valens since 2016, has managed operations since 2020, and David Chairman, also there since 2016, has run research and development since 2021. 567891011

Peter Mertens, once chief technology officer of Volvo Cars and a member of Audi's board of management, has chaired the board since 2020. Yahal Zilka, co-founder of Magma Venture Partners, has been a director since 2007, and Moshe Lichtman, a former Microsoft corporate vice president, since 2017. The largest holder is Value Base, with 20.26% of the shares; Tal Yaacobi, a managing partner of the Value Base Fund, joined the board in 2024. The insider filings this site holds begin only in March 2026, when all sixteen people on that record first filed. 12131415161718

At the end of 2025 Valens counted 233 employees and contractors, down from 259 a year earlier, most of them in Israel, where research and development is the largest department. In January 2026 it announced a plan to cut its workforce across departments by about 10% to improve efficiency. None of its employees works under a collective bargaining agreement, and some are military reservists who can be called to active duty. 19202122