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Education

Peled graduated from the Technion with BSc, and MSc in 1967 and 1971 respectively, both degrees in Electrical Engineering. He did his graduate work at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

in the US on Digital Signal Processing and got his PhD in 1974.

Career

From 1967 to 1971 Peled was a technical officer in the Israeli Army Signal Corps. From 1974 to 1993 Peled worked for IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

's Research Division in the United States, initially as a research scientist and later in Research management, his last position was Vice President for Systems and Software, with management responsibility for all worldwide research and advanced development activities in the IBM

IBM

Research Division. From 1993 to 1995 Peled served as Senior Vice President for Business Development at Elron in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

, where he started the first Internet ISP, and e-commerce sites in Israel.

As of 2009, Peled is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDS Group

NDS Group

NDS Group Plc. is a developer of pay TV technology. NDS was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by News Corporation in 1992. The company is currently headquartered in Staines, United Kingdom...

plc, a leading provider of technology solutions for the pay TV industry. He was appointed to this position in 1995 and during his tenure the company has expanded rapidly and grown tenfold, achieving an over 35% market share in the global digital technology for pay TV industry; a significant proportion of this growth has resulted from being News Corporation

News Corporation

News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

's in-house technology provider and the continuing success of that company's pay TV strategy. NDS

NDS Group

is a privately owned company, jointly owned by Permira

Permira

Permira is a United Kingdom-based private equity firm with global reach. The firm advises funds with a total committed capital of approximately €20 billion....

, the majority shareholder, and News Corporation

News Corporation

. Peled is also a Member of the News Corporation Executive Committee.

In July 2011, Dave Habiger

Dave Habiger

David "Dave" Habiger is an American digital media executive and entrepreneur. He has been appointed as NDS Group Chief Executive Officer in 2011 . He was president and chief executive officer of Sonic Solutions. He was the founder of Providence Productions.-Early life:Habiger was born in Joliet,...

was appointed CEO of NDS with Peled assuming the full time position of Executive Chairman.

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