Name Yosi Ben-Dov | Spouse Nitza Ben-Dov | |
Born 9 November 1950 (age 73) ( 1950-11-09 ) Haifa, Israel Alma mater PhD University of California, Berkeley 1977, BSc Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1974 Occupation Headmaster, executive director | ||
Dr. Yosi Ben-Dov was born in Haifa, Israel in 1950. He studied at The Hebrew Reali School from 1956 to 1968, and was active at the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation (Tzofim) youth movement. He served the army at a "Nahal" unit, establishing kibbutz and Israeli settlement Mevo Hama at the southern part of the Golan Heights.
Yosi did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics, and received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977. His thesis, Optimal Testing Procedures for Coherent Systems, was written under the supervision of Prof. Richard Barlow. Later Yosi taught at Michigan State University, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1986 Yosi started working on Wall Street at Prudential Securities as the managing director of the Financial Strategies Group. In 1991 he was the Director of the Rappaport Institute near the Rambam Hospital and in 1995 he joined Amdocs as a Senior Vice President in charge of the Haifa branch in Israel.
In 1999 Yosi became the CEO of Schema, a Wireless Optimization company which was later acquired by TEOCO, and in 2008 became the CEO of Time To Know, an education technology company that provided a holistic solution to the K–12 classroom, which included a Digital Teaching Platform together with interactive core curriculum.
Dr. Ben-Dov became the Headmaster and managing director of The Hebrew Reali School in Haifa (the largest and most prestigious preK-12 school in Israel), at the beginning of 2014. During his tenure he has been involved in a funding dispute with the education ministry.
Dr. Ben-Dov is married to Prof. Nitza Ben-Dov, and has 3 children.