Erhard.

trepreneur than a bureaucrat.
"We want to give a higher-lev-
el starting point for projects that
stand to be eventually priva-
tized ."
Ms. Berry's own high-tech
starting point began after her
military service.
Realizing that a career in sci-
ence would guarantee her eco-
nomic independence, Ms. Berry,
a public personality who keeps
her private life tightly concealed,
decided to study mathematics
at the University of Haifa.
She went on to get a master's
in statistics from Tel Aviv Uni-
versity and a master's and Ph.D.
in computer science from the
University of Southern Califor-
nia.
After receiving her doctorate
in 1985, Ms. Berry worked as a
research scientist at Unisys and
later at IBM. In 1989, Ms. Berry
moved to Fibronics, an Israeli
computer networking pioneer,
where she served as chief scien-
tist, responsible for establishing
standards for new technologies
and for international techno-
logical cooperation projects.
In 1993, along with a number
of former Fibronics colleagues,
Ms. Berry was asked to help es-
tablish Ornet, a company that
developed a unique device used
in computer networking. Dur-
ing her three-year term as co-
president, Ms. Berry was
responsible for sales, finance,
marketing and business devel-
opment.
She helped treble the work
force from 35 to 106 employees,
while quadrupling sales and en-
tering new markets in Europe,
America and the Far East.
In 1996, Ornet, which was
ranked in the top 25 percent of
telecommunication-switching
companies by Harvard Univer-
sity, became the first Israeli pur-
chase by German multinational

Siemens. According to the terms
of the agreement between the
two companies, Ms. Berry
stayed with Ornet for one year
following the sale.
When the year was up, Ms.
Berry planned to teach software
engineering or to do something
voluntary, but then Yehoshua
Gleitman, the former chief sci-
entist, approached her about
taking over his post.
At first, Ms. Berry thought
working for the government
would cramp her entrepreneur-
ial style. After a meeting with
Minister of Industry and Trade
Natan Sharansky, however, Ms.
Berry was convinced she would
have the necessary freedom to
influence Israel's high-tech into
the 21st century.
"I now have a good sense of
mission," she says. "I'm in a po-
sition to enable the development
of a significantly sized indu-
try." ❑

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