Executive Management

George Dorkhom, Executive Director and Chairman

George joined Greenkote in July 2011 as Non-Executive Director and became Executive Director and Chairman in September 2011. Mr. Dorkhom held positions of Chairman, President and CEO of global organizations including Ingersoll International, Messer Cutting and Welding AG, Contraves Inc, and Oerlikon Missile Systems. Previously, Mr. Dorkhom held senior executive corporate positions with Fortune 500 companies as National Intergroup Inc., Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Alco Standard. He has also served on numerous Boards of public and private companies in the industrial, aerospace, specialty chemicals and financial services segments and as special Board adviser to Private equity Funds in the US and Europe, advising on deal structure and execution as well as providing oversight to portfolio companies.

Arie Laor, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director

Arie Laor joined GREENKOTE in 2005 as Vice President of marketing before taking on his current role. Prior to that, he gained experience in a variety of marketing, business development and turnaround roles in the metal and electronics sectors. Mr. Laor holds a BS and MS in Materials Engineering from Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from the Management College in Israel.

Itzhak Rozentul, Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Rozentul co-founded Greenkote in 1999 and the development of the Greenkote thermo diffusion and thin powder topcoat technologies. His extensive engineering experience in Russian and Israel includes development of special processes for renovation and protection from wear of power station equipment and metallurgical engineering of blades for planes jet engines. Mr. Rozentul has an MSc in Physical Metallurgy from the Pollytechnic Institue of Leningrad.

James Thomson, Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Jim Thomson has been Chief Financial Officer of the company since 2007 after serving in the same capacity at IPC. In November 2011 he became Chief Operating Officer of Greenkote’s operations in North America. He has served in senior financial positions at a variety of companies including Arthur Andersen, BP Coal and Teledyne. He is a CPA and received a BS in Economics and Accounting from Miami University, Ohio, and earned an MBA in Finance and Planning from Xavier University in Cincinnati.

Dan Riter, Director of Engineering

Dan Riter holds an applied science and technology degree in chemical engineering from Lafayette College, with more than 35 years of experience in materials and applications systems within the coatings industry. Mr. Riter’s expertise focuses on electro coating (e-coat), metal plating, diffusion coatings and phosphating technologies. He has managed coating projects in nine countries in the past 15 years, with responsibility for eight major coating line installations.

Non-Executive Board

Victor Segal , Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman

Victor Segal joined Greenkote’s Board as Chairman in October 2006 and became Deputy Chairman in 2011. He retired from the merchant bank Singer & Friedlander in 2000 after 32 years. He headed the bank’s international finance and loan syndication department and in 1983 he pioneered the secondary market in trading of third world financial assets. Mr. Segal has been active in assisting start-up companies since 2000 and is currently chairman of Supercart plc and Sterling Trade Finance. He has an MA in Law from Oxford University and practiced as a solicitor.

Robert Hayim, Non-Executive Director

As a managing director of Charles Street Securities, a private equity portfolio investment advisor, Robert Hayim has participated as Non-Executive Director of Greenkote since 2005. Mr. Hayim has been involved in several start-up technology businesses and financial technology organizations, including E-Vote, Thomson Financial, Data Source Limited, Financial Telecommunications, and IP Sharp & Associates. He has a BA in Economics and an MBA in Management and Finance.