In our 6th episode Helen Dotan interviews Zohar Katzman, Shamir Optics current CTO, about his days as an engineering student and how they influenced his perception of innovation, and about innovation in Shamir at present.

In our 5th episode Helen Dotan interviews Bruno Decreton about innovation, and how it is not exclusively linked to technology and R&D… Want to know where else innovation is relevant? Listen to Helen and Bruno’s talk.

In our 4th episode, Helen Dotan interviews Dagan Avishai and Yagen Moshe, who give us an insider's view of Shamir Optics' transformation from a local Kibbutz company to a Nasdaq traded company, and then being taken off the Nasdaq through a merger with Essilor, the world's largest manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses.

In our 3rd episode we discuss shamir’s growth through partnering with optics’ manufacturers around the globe, and how mutual respect and trust have helped accelerate this growth precisely in times of unexpected trouble

The second episode focuses on Shamir's entry into the US market, which started small. In 1989, Michael Latzer went to the US by himself to sell glass progressive molds to local lens manufacturers. Following Michael's introduction of Shamir’s technology into the US market, Hiller van der Veen and Raanan Naftalovich came along to form SII in order to sell not molds but lenses and more importantly lenses that were branded Shamir.

In our first episode, Helen Dottan, our present head of human resources interviews Dan Katzman, who was our head of technology from 1981 until 2014. When Dan joined Shamir in 1981 he had just finished agricultural machinery engineering studies. The first task he got as he joined the company was... to develop a progressive lens - at Kibbutz Shamir in 1981 that made perfect sense…