Todd Dollinger brings decades of entrepreneurial experience to Trendlines.
He serves as the Chairman of Trendlines Medical Singapore and as Investment Committee chair of Trendlines Incubators Israel. As well, Todd is a director and chairman of a number of Trendlines’ portfolio companies. He founded The Trendlines Group with Steve Rhodes in 2007 and shares the positions of Chairman and CEO of Trendlines with Steve. Together, they lead the Group’s strategy.
In 1991, Todd joined the marketing department of Israeli medical device start-up SRD Medical and went on to become SRD’s CEO. It was at SRD that Todd met Steve.
In 1993, Todd and Steve founded Trendlines International. Under their leadership, Trendlines International grew to become one of Israel’s leading business development consulting firms. They merged the principal consulting activities of Trendlines International into the Group in 2008.
Under the strength of their longstanding partnership, Todd and Steve oversaw the Singapore Stock Exchange IPO in 2015, took two companies public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (E.T.View Medical and FlowSense Medical), and expanded the Group’s activities internationally, including raising funds for Trendlines’ portfolio companies around the world.
Some would say that Todd was born with the entrepreneurial gene, starting a tropical fish import and breeding business when he was 15. While a student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he established a concert promotion company. His passion for bringing ideas to market led him to launch Trendlines, Inc., (in the United States) with his brother Mark in 1978, providing sales, marketing, and business development services in the United States. Todd served as Trendlines’ president until 1990 when he sold his interest to Mark and moved to Israel with his family.
More than four decades of business, marketing, and entrepreneurial experience
Steve Rhodes brings decades of business, finance, and banking experience to his position at Trendlines.
He serves as the Chairman of Trendlines Incubators Israel and as Investment Committee Chair of Trendlines Medical Singapore. Steve is a director and chairman of a number of Trendlines’ portfolio companies. He founded The Trendlines Group with Todd Dollinger in 2007 and shares the positions of Chairman and CEO of Trendlines with Todd. Together, they lead the Group’s strategy.
In 1988, Steve joined SRD Medical. After serving as its CFO, he became its VP Sales and Marketing. It was at SRD that Steve met Todd. In 1993, Steve and Todd founded Trendlines International. Under their leadership, Trendlines International grew to become one of Israel’s leading business development consulting firms.
In 2004, Steve became CEO of the of the incubator that is now Trendlines Medical, a position he held until 2010.
Todd and Steve founded The Trendlines Group in 2007 and merged the principal consulting activities of Trendlines International into the Group the following year.
Under the strength of their longstanding partnership, Todd and Steve oversaw the Singapore Stock Exchange IPO in 2015, took two companies public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (E.T.View Medical and FlowSense Medical), and expanded the Group’s activities internationally, including raising funds for Trendlines’ portfolio companies around the world.
Steve began his career at the Chicago branch of Bank Leumi in 1979 where he advanced through a number of financial marketing and lending positions, including director of marketing. He moved to Bank Leumi in Israel when he and his family moved to Israel in 1985. Steve rose to the position of deputy manager of Bank Leumi’s International Division.
Steve received his MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Harvard University. He is a CPA in the State of Illinois.
More than four decades of business, finance, and banking experience
Zeev Bronfeld, together with Chairmen and CEOs Todd Dollinger and Steve Rhodes, founded the Company and was appointed as a Director upon the formation of our Company on 1 May 2007. He was last re-elected on 26 April 2017 in accordance with the Company’s Articles of Association. He is a Non-Executive Director.
Zeev is currently the CEO of M.B.R.T. Development and Investment Ltd. He has significant experience in the management and building of medical device and biotechnology companies. He co-founded Bio-Cell Ltd., an Israeli publicly traded holding company, at the time specializing in biotechnology companies, and was its director and CEO until 25 December 2014 and 11 October 2015, respectively. Zeev is a director and chairman of a number of private and public companies.
He received his BSc in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Founded Trendlines, together with Todd Dollinger and Steve Rhodes
Elka Nir was appointed as our Director on 15 October 2015 and was last re-elected to the Board to serve as our External Director under the Israeli Companies Law on 24 February 2016. She is our Lead Independent Director.
Elka is the founder and CEO of E.LeadIN Ltd., a company that provides business, strategy, marketing, strategic alliances, and investment consultancy services. In addition, she is the CEO of Carmel Ltd. (the economic corporation of Haifa University, Israel), where she is responsible for, among other things, leading commercial and business activities and where she founded and serves as the CEO of Carmel Innovations Ltd., a microfund that invests in projects from Haifa University, Israel. She holds directorships in Carmel Innovations Ltd.’s subsidiaries as well as in several other companies.
She served as the VP marketing, sales, and customer support at a subsidiary of GE Medical before joining General Electric Medical, Israel, as their VP engineering and research. She was the COO and director of development and operations at Biosense Webster (Israel), Ltd., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. She was the managing director and general partner of Giza Venture Capital Fund (“Giza VC Fund”), a venture capital fund that invests in innovative high-tech and life sciences companies and where she was a member of Giza VC Fund’s investment committee and had strong connections to its global investors, specifically in Asia. Elka served as a board director and investment committee member at Van Leer Technology Ventures, a technological incubator that invests in innovative medical and information technology companies.
She received her BSc in computer sciences from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology and her diploma (magna cum laude) in business administration from the University of Haifa, Israel.
Founder and CEO of E.LeadIN Ltd., a business strategy, investment, and marketing company
Professor Hang Chang Chieh was appointed as our Director on 15 October 2015 and was last re-elected to the Board to serve as our External Director under the Israeli Companies Law on 24 February 2016. He is our Independent Director.
Professor Hang is currently the executive director of the Institute for Engineering Leadership at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a position he has served in since its founding in 2011.
Professor Hang worked as a computer and systems technologist in the Shell Eastern Petroleum Company (Singapore) and the Shell International Petroleum Company (The Netherlands) from 1974 to 1977 before joining NUS. Professor Hang served in various positions in NUS, including the Vice-Dean of Engineering, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Business Ventures). Professor Hang was seconded to the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (“A*STAR”) and acted as A*STAR’s Executive Deputy Chairman. Upon completion of the secondment to A*STAR, Professor Hang returned to NUS in January 2004 as the Founding Director of the Centre for Management of Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering. He served as the founding Head, Division of Engineering & Technology Management, Faculty of Engineering, NUS, from 2007 to 2016.
Professor Hang has served as a board member of several public organizations, including his appointment as the founding Deputy Chairman of Singapore’s National Science and Technology Board, founding Chairman of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, and founding Chairman of the IP Academy of Singapore.
Professor Hang received his PhD in Control Engineering from the University of Warwick and a BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from NUS.
Executive Director, Institute for Engineering Leadership, National University of Singapore
Professor Steve Haslett was appointed as our Director on 15 October 2015 and was last re-elected as a Director on 19 April 2016 in accordance with the Company’s Articles of Association. He is our Independent Director.
Professor Haslett provides consultancy services in business development and commercialization through Silver Fox Pte Ltd, a company he founded. He has more than 40 years of experience in the IT business, and held executive positions at Hewlett Packard, Dell Computer, and various technology start-ups where he assisted in the commercialization and globalization of their technologies. He is a professor of entrepreneurship at INSEAD, where he teaches postgraduate and executive courses on, among other things, corporate entrepreneurship, business building in Silicon Valley, private equity, venture capital, and computer-based business simulations.
He holds an MSc and BSc (Hons), both in aeronautical engineering, from Imperial College, London, and a Diploma of Imperial College from the University of London. He is also an associate of the City and Guilds Institute, London, and a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.
More than 40 years of experience in global technology companies and start-ups
