Dr. Orna Berry has spent over 25 years in science and technology industries, as an academic researcher, entrepreneur, executive, policy maker and most recently, venture capitalist. The Israel Venture Association, which she chairs, is the organization representing the Israeli venture capital community. Israeli Venture activity, started in the early 1990's with the "Yozma Program", has grown to become the major source of financing for start-up and early stage technology companies.

With $10 billion in capital, Israeli VCs have played a major role in making Israel an important global source of innovation. As a Venture Partner at Gemini, Dr. Berry applies her expertise in the high-tech arena to assist and advise Gemini portfolio companies.   She is currently Chairperson of Prime Sense.  Orna is the outgoing Chief Scientist and Director of the Industrial R&D Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Government of Israel.  Prior to that post, in 1993, Orna co-founded ORNET Data Communication Technologies Ltd. and was there until its sale to Siemens in 1995.  Orna has also served as the Chief Scientist of Fibronics, a senior research engineer at IBM and UNISYS, and a consultant to Intel.  She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Statistics and Mathematics from Tel Aviv and Haifa Universities.