Former Mossad chief appointed Ondas president

US firm Ondas (Nasdaq: ONDS) in the present day introduced that David Barnea, the previous head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence company has been appointed chairman and international president. Barnea brings with him almost 30 years of expertise in nationwide safety, intelligence, operations, and senior administration. From 2021 to 2026, he served as head of the Mossad, main the group by means of the warfare. His tenure included the multi-front warfare and the escalating confrontation with Iran and Hezbollah, managing worldwide negotiation efforts, and main intelligence and operational exercise.

Barnea positioned superior applied sciences on the core of the group’s strategic and operational capabilities. This course of included a mixture of AI, cybersecurity capabilities, superior communications techniques, intelligence techniques, and devoted operational applied sciences, designed to present decision-makers and operational forces a bonus in advanced, time-sensitive, and threat-saturated environments.

Earlier than becoming a member of the Mossad, Barnea served within the IDF’s elite Sayeret Matkal particular operations unit. He holds a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration from the New York Institute of Know-how and an MBA in finance from Tempo College. Barnea started his profession within the personal sector within the subject of mergers and acquisitions at a number one funding financial institution in Israel. In 1995, he left the personal sector for public service. Throughout an intelligence profession that lasted three a long time, he held an extended line of subject, command, and senior administration positions.

He’ll concentrate on the Center East, Europe and Asia

As Ondas international president, Barnea will help Ondes’ worldwide technique and relationships with protection clients, know-how corporations and strategic companions. His areas of duty will embody Ondes’ strategic and enterprise improvement and technological integration with a concentrate on the corporate’s 4 segments, air protection, intelligence assortment and techniques, precision assault and unmanned floor autos, with the purpose of offering the corporate’s clients with coordinated and built-in multi-dimensional protection techniques by means of software program and AI. His actions will focus, amongst others, on the Center East, Europe and Asia, areas the place governments are rising their investments in autonomous protection techniques, anti-drone techniques, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, persistent communications, precision assault techniques and robotics.

Barnea can even play a central function in Ondas’ know-how technique and acquisitions. He’ll assist the corporate assess evolving operational necessities, establish functionality gaps, overview investments and acquisitions of latest applied sciences, and set priorities for improvement and integration between the businesses and techniques within the group.

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on August 3, 2026.