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Until last summer, Shlomit Weiss managed 20,000 people at Intel centers around the world, overseeing development of the company’s most widely-used computer chips. Her resume includes three decades in the bosom of the US-based chip manufacturer, which is also the largest private employer in Israel, and another three years as Mellanox’s hardware development manager. And if that’s wasn’t enough, she was also one of those who persuaded Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to acquire Mellanox.
But now, at age 62, Weiss is reinventing herself, and busy with the small details of starting an independent business: building her own website, handing out business cards everywhere, and renewing connections with former colleagues in order to find potential clients, namely CEOs who need guidance or good advice. Forty years after studying computer engineering, one of the Technion’s most challenging courses, and reaching a senior position at Intel as the co-general manager of the company’s Design Engineering Group, she is recasting herself as a mentor, an expert in developing executives and building teams, at her newly-founded company, Weissway, a pun on “wise way.”
Shlomit Weiss is a Technion alum.