Shaul Shani ( he, שאול שני; born c. 1955) is an Israeli businessman in the technology industry, and the owner of

Swarth Group Swarth Group is a private equity company, owned by Israeli investor Shaul Shani. In 2007, it purchased Israeli ECI Telecom for $1.24 billion. The company headquarters are in Petah Tikva, Israel. The company specialises in Telecoms. In 2008, it acq ...

Early life

Shaul Shani was born circa 1955. He grew up in Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa. His father worked at the Port of Haifa

Career

Shani started investing in the 1980s. He founded Oshap Technologies in 1982. It was listed on the

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three years later, in 1985. By 1999, he sold it to

SunGard SunGard was an American multinational company based in Wayne, Pennsylvania, which provided software and services to education, financial services, and public sector organizations. It was formed in 1983, as a spin-off of the computer services div ...

for US$210 million. He was also a co-founder of

Sapiens International Corporation Sapiens International Corporation is a publicly traded company, headquartered in Israel, that develops computer software for the insurance industry, Sapiens' shares are traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. ...

and

Tecnomatix Tecnomatix Technologies, Ltd. (formerly NASDAQ: TCNO) is a provider of Manufacturing Process Management and Product lifecycle management software to the electronics, automotive, aerospace and heavy equipment industries, currently owned by Siemens ...

, two companies listed on the NASDAQ which he later sold. He founded Global Village Telecom, a Brazilian telecommunications company, in 1999.Secretive Israeli Billionaire Invested In Tech Before It Was Cool
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''Haaretz'', 1 November 2014 Upon selling it to Vivendi for US$4.5 billion in 2009, he made a profit of US$1.5 billion. He is the owner of

, which controls

ECI Telecom ECI Telecom Ltd is an Israel-based manufacturer of telecommunications equipment that provides packet optical transport products, software-defined networking applications, cybersecurity and professional services. History The Electronics Corp ...

. In May 2015, his net worth was estimated at US$3.0 billion. As of February 2022, ''Forbes'' listed his net worth at $4.1 billion.

Personal life

Shani resides in Italy.

References

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