Gideon Argov

About

Gideon Argov is a Managing Partner and Co-founder at New Era. He has been an Advisory Director to Berkshire Partners, an investment firm based in Boston. From 2004 to 2012, he served as President and CEO of Entegris, a global supplier of products used in the production of high technology components and substrates. Prior to that, from 2001 to 2004, he was a Managing Director of Parthenon Capital, a private equity partnership in Boston. From 1991 to 2000, he was Chairman, President, and CEO of Kollmorgen Corporation, a supplier of high-performance electronic motion control products. Gideon is also a serial angel investor in Israeli technology companies and has served as the chairman of Fundtech and Servotronix. He is the founder of the Shlomo Argov Fellows program for leadership in the public sector at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya) in Israel and a trustee of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Gideon received his BA in Economics (magna cum laude) from Harvard University and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.