Nahum Sharfman was an
Israeli tech
entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...
who, along with
Amir Ashkenazi, founded
Shopping.com. Shopping.com was later acquired by eBay for $650 million. He was also the Chairman of social content sharing site
eSnips Ltd.
Prior to shopping.com, Sharfman co-founded the IT security company
Commtouch for which he served as the
Chairman of the Board from its inception in February 1991 to November 1997. Commtouch IPO'ed in 2000.
Prior to starting his own ventures, Sharfman spent 11 years working for National Semiconductor. He received a Ph.D. in High Energy Nuclear Physics from Carnegie Mellon University and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Physics from the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology.
Sharfman and his wife, Nava, died in a
plane crash
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on the
Mount Ainos
Mount Aenos or Ainos (Ancient Greek: '' Ὄρος Αἶνος''; Modern Greek: '' Όρος Αίνος''; Italian: ''Monte Nero'' or ''Montagna Nera'') is the tallest mountain on the Ionian island of Cephalonia, Greece, with an elevation of . It ...
in the
Ioanian island of
Cephallonia
Kefalonia or Cephalonia ( el, Κεφαλονιά), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios. It ...
,
Greece
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while en route to
Corfu on April 29, 2009.
References
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2009 deaths
Technology company founders
Israeli businesspeople