SHARON DEVIR

A general managing partner at Rimonim Venture Capital (SaliCrop’s key investor to date), Sharon has more than 20 years’ experience in the agro-technology and dairy industries and in high-tech start-ups. He served as CEO of NGT, the world’s first Arab-Israeli life science technology incubator, from its inception. He was CSO at SAE Afikim (Afimilk), the world leader in milk monitoring, and was a research engineer at IMAG-DLO, the Dutch research institute in Wageningen. In addition to SaliCrop, Sharon also co-founded Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies.

Sharon holds a PhD in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University (Netherlands) and an MSc, BSc in Agricultural Engineering from the Technion-Israel.