VisiMix Team Leaders

Gad Amir

Chief Executive Officer

BSc in Mathematics cum laude and MSc in Information Systems.
Over 25 years of experience in management, marketing, development, and support of software for banks, commercial companies, and the Israel Air Force.
Founder and director general of Quality Computers 77 Ltd., a publicly traded company, and a leader in management of online systems.
Dr. Leonid Braginsky

Founder and Vice President (R&D)

Chemical Engineer in Organic Synthesis, PhD, D.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Mat. Modeling. Over 50 years of experience in research and mathematical modeling of mixing, heat and mass transfer, 40 years of experience in development of chemical and bio-chemical processes, and more than 20 years – in designing and manufacturing of industrial mixing equipment.
Until 1990, Head of The National Laboratory of Mixing Equipment in the State Research and Design Institute of Chemical Machinery (St. Petersburg). Between 1961 and 2015, Dr. Braginsky with co-workers authored about 20 patents (USA, Israel, Russia), three books, and over 100 articles related to flow dynamics, heat and mass transfer in mixing equipment. Dr. Braginsky is known as one of the world leaders in the field of mixing, a member of the EFCE Mixing working party.
Efim Entin

Founder and Software Development Manager

MSc in Mathematics, over 40 years of experience in mathematical modeling and software development, specializing in problems of heat and mass transfer. Author of numerous publications, including a book on computer implementation of numeric methods in heat and mass transfer in areas with moving boundaries (Leningrad University Press, 1987) and of dozens of articles in scientific journals and in the publications of the Academy of Sciences in the former Soviet Union.
Dr. Yuri Kokotov

Founder & Chief Scientist.

M.Scs. in Physics, PhD in Chemical Engineering. Over 35 years of experience in research and mathematical modeling of mixing, heat and mass transfer, process development, designing of mixing, polymerization and liquid extraction equipment. Expert in mathematical modeling and software development.
Until 1990, senior researcher at the State Research and Design Institute of Chemical Machinery and at the State Institute of Polymer Resins (St. Petersburg). Author of numerous patents and publications on mixing and liquid extraction in various scientific journals, including Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Technology, Journal of Disperse Science and Technology, etc. (1980 -2015)..
Yuri Nekhamkin

Founder and Senior scientist

M.Sc. in Applied Physics. 40 years of experience in studying and mathematical modeling of fast chemical reactions, turbulent mixing and heat transfer and development of industrial process equipment. Special expertise with respect to the mixing equipment inherently safer design. Before 1990 – senior research engineer in State Research and Design Institute of Chemical Machinery ,St. Petersburg, later – successful employment in Israeli Hi-tech industry. Numerous publications in the field of heat transfer.
Dr. Michael A. Reyz

Principal R&D Engineer

M.Sc. in Applied Physics, PhD in Chemical Engineering. Over 35 years of experience in mathematical modeling of heat/mass transfer and combustion processes. Before 1990 held a position of a senior research engineer at State Research and Design Institute of Chemical Machinery, St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1990s held a faculty position in Physical Chemistry at The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Successful career in engineering consulting in the US. Many publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Moshe Bentolila

Customer Support Manager

MSc in Reactor Design from the Technion (Israel institute of technology) Haifa and BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Technion (Israel institute of technology), Haifa,. More than 20 years of experience in process development and scaling-up in the API industry as pilot engineer (IMI Institute for R&D Ltd. ICI Israel Chemicals) and pilot department manager (Chemagis Ltd., Agis Group, Israel). From 1999 – practical experience in VisiMix application for process analysis, development and scaling-up
Dr. Roberto Novoa,

Senior Customer Support Representative.

MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad de Oriente , Santiago de Cuba. 25 years of experience as a professor of Chemical Engineering, over 12 years of experience in simulation of batch/semi-batch chemical processes in the API production. Research and publications in the field of fluidized bed drying, in simulation and scaling-up of chemical processes
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