The board of directors has its registered office in Stockholm, Sweden. According to the Company’s articles of association, the board of directors shall consist of minimum three and maximum eight ordinary board members, without any deputy members. Currently, the board of directors consists of four ordinary members, elected until the end of the next ordinary annual general meeting.
Board of Directors
Below is further information on the directors’ age, position, current assignments, prior assignments during the past five years, other relevant experience, independence and ownership of shares and share related instruments in Eco Wave Power. Assignments in subsidiaries within the Group have been excluded.
Mats Andersson
Chairman of the board
Born: 1948.
Position: Member and chairman of the board of directors of the Company.
Board member since: 2019
Other assignments and relevant experience: Mats Andersson is an experienced COB with experience from board work in private companies and listed companies. Mats also has a long operational experience as CEO and COO in Anticimex AB, Conductor AB, Unitraffic AB and Televerket. Current assignments as Chairman of the Board of DAFO AB, Bluetest AB, Gäfle Testteknik AB and CWT AB.
Independent of Eco Wave Power and the senior management: Yes.
Independent of major shareholders: Yes.
Holdings in Eco Wave Power: 10,500.
David Leb
Board Member and Founder
Born: 1962.
Position: Member of the board of directors of the Company.
Board member since: 2019
Other assignments and relevant experience: A serial entrepreneur, businessman and angel investor. David has made a number of successful exits in various sectors, including a publicly traded medical company on the Canadian Stock Exchange, blockchain based technologies, and real estate investments. He holds several patents for advertising and computerized platforms.
Independent of Eco Wave Power and the senior management: Yes.
Independent of major shareholders: No.
Holdings in Eco Wave Power: 11,810,102
Inna Braverman
Board member, Founder and CEO
Born: 1986.
Position: Member of the board of directors of the Company.
Board member since: 2019
Other assignments and relevant experience: Technology entrepreneur, Inna Braverman founded Eco Wave Power in 2011, at the age of 24, and was recently chosen as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world by medium.com (along with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and others). Under her leadership, Eco Wave Power installed the first grid connected wave energy array in Gibraltar. She is also responsible for securing the significant projects pipeline for the company.
For Inna, clean electricity is a very personal journey, as she was born two weeks before the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and suffered respiratory arrest due to the pollution in the region. She got a second chance in life and decided to devote it to mitigating pollution.
Inna has given three TEDx speeches and her personal journey as a female entrepreneur was documented in a virtual reality film by Google, under the name “Female Planet”. She was also featured in Sanjay Gupta’s “Tomorrow’s Hero” in CNN for her impressive work in the wave energy field.
Some of her notable awards include:
- “100 Makers and Mavericks” by Medium.com
- Wired’s list of “Females Changing the World.”
- “Eight young innovators with ingenious ideas for the future of energy” by Smithsonian Magazine
- The “30 most influential women in the world” by MSN.com
Independent of Eco Wave Power and the senior management: No.
Independent of major shareholders: No.
Holdings in Eco Wave Power: 11,750,000.
Annath Abecassis
Board member
Born: 1971.
Position: Member of the board of directors of the Company.
Board member since: 2022
Other assignments and relevant experience: Ms. Annath Abecassis has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2022. Ms. Abecassis is a business strategist whose consultancy has been sought out by industry professionals in clothing, energy and tech. She has been working as the head of the business development at Liam Design, a men’s apparel company, since November 2016. Throughout all of her endeavors, Annath has always strived to keep the planet in mind, from Liam Design’s biodegradable clothing line to relying on renewable energy sources whenever possible.
Independent of Eco Wave Power and the senior management: Yes.
Independent of major shareholders: Yes.
Holdings in Eco Wave Power: None.
Gilles Amar
Board member
Born: 1962.
Position: Member of the board of directors of the Company.
Board member since: 2023
Other assignments and relevant experience: Mr. Gilles Amar is a recent addition to our board of directors, having been appointed in June 2023. Mr. Amar has over 25 years of management and leadership experience, which includes his tenure at Copidata where he served first as Assistant VP Finance and then as Office Manager and Director of sales and marketing for over 13 years. Since 2001 Mr. Amar has served as an independent business consultant, specializing in the office automation sector, in addition to multiple ventures in the retail and wholesale sectors. Mr. Amar holds a Bachelor of Commerce, with a major in finance and a minor in M.I.S., from Concordia University in Montreal. Mr. Amar possesses a strong knowledge of accounting principles and financial verification processes. Mr. Amar speaks French, English, and Hebrew and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
Independent of Eco Wave Power and the senior management: Yes.
Independent of major shareholders: Yes.
Holdings in Eco Wave Power: None.