Nahum Sharfman, Founder Of Shopping.com, Perishes In Plane Crash

We just received devastating news that #-Link-Snipped-# founder of Shopping.com, has died in a plane crash in Greece. According to #-Link-Snipped-# (the article is in Hebrew, here's the #-Link-Snipped-#), Sharfman, who was a well-known entrepreneur in the Israeli tech space, and his wife perished in a plane crash on the Greek island of Korfo. The story has also been broken on #-Link-Snipped-#A successful entrepreneur, Sharfman founded Shopping.com which he brought to a successful IPO in 2004. Shopping.com was later acquired by eBay for $650 million. Earlier, Sharfman co-founded #-Link-Snipped-# and also brought the security technology company to an IPO 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 was also chairman of social content sharing site #-Link-Snipped-#

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