Management Team
Professor Shlomo Breznitz, Chairman & President
Renowned cognitive psychologist, Professor Shlomo Breznitz has been engaged as visiting professor by numerous leading institutions including the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, London School of Economics, and the US Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health. Author of seven books and many scientific articles, Prof. Breznitz is founding director of the Center for the Study of Psychological Stress at the University of Haifa, where he also served as Lady Davis Professor of Psychology, Rector, and University President.
Carlos Rodriguez, Chief Technological Officer
Mr. Rodriguez earned an Industrial Engineering Master Degree from the Polytechnic University Carlos III of Madrid, and is a graduate of the Grande Ecole INSA Lyon, France. Carlos began his professional career at Peugeot Group before joining the Uralita Group as a consultant in the New Technologies department in Madrid. Following this, Carlos joined the Consumer and Market Knowledge department at Procter & Gamble for 5 years, initially working in the Western Europe headquarters in Geneva before moving to Madrid, where he was responsible for overall consumer strategy design for several European brands and key distribution channels.
Dr. Evelyn Shatil, Head of Cognitive Science
Dr. Evelyn Shatil has served as Head of Cognitive Science at CogniFit for the past five years. In this capacity she established and directs CogniFit's scientific research program which includes a large and growing number of research collaborations in the US, Canada, Europe and Israel. She is also a senior researcher at the Department of Psychology and the Center for Psychobiological Research at the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel. Prior to joining CogniFit, Dr. Shatil founded YAHEL, the University of Haifa's Center for Learning Disabled Students, and served as its Scientific and Clinical Director for six years. Her research interests are learning disabilities, brain plasticity, and driving. She studies cognitive factors in early-age learning disabilities; training-induced plasticity in children with developmental disabilities and in neurologically impaired people. She also investigates the cognitive characteristics of, and cognitive interventions for, at-risk and accident-prone drivers. Dr. Shatil's PH.D., from the University of Haifa dealt with cognitive modularity in information processing.
Erez Adiri, Financial Director
Mr. Adiri started his career at the Merrill Lynch Global Markets and Investment Banking Divison in New York. After completing the global analyst program at the bank he specialized in the area of Fixed Income. Mr. Adiri then relocated to Israel and joined a local investment firm, where he headed the Alternative Investments department. Throughout his career Mr. Adiri specialized in different types of financial instruments such as Structured Products and other Fixed Income and Equity related products as well as Hedge Funds. Erez Adiri graduated in highest honors from Rutgers University's Mathematics and Economics departments.