Arye Kohavi


Arye Kohavi is an Israeli entrepreneur and innovator. He is the founder of Watergen, which develops water and air dehumidification technologies, and former president & co-CEO of the company.
Married with four kids, lives in Neve Monosson, Israel.

Early life and education

Kohavi holds an MBA and a BA in Economics and Accounting from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and served in the IDF as a Combat Reconnaissance Company commander.

Business career

Kohavi founded and was chairman of Composita, a novel E-learning software developer. He also served as an Independent M&A Manager, Chairman and Director in top-end Israeli companies, and as co-CEO at Meitav Corporate Finance, one of Israel's leading investment houses.
Kohavi, an Israeli Special Forces officer, began working on drinking water solution in 2008 after observing the logistics challenges Israeli forces had during the Israeli-Lebanon conflict two years earlier. After several days, most of the convoys were shot up, so the soldier on the front line was out of water. The idea was to provide independency for the troops on the field with an embedded 120-pound system on the vehicle that extracts water from ambient air and is capable of creating 12.6 gallons in 24 hours at 75 degrees Fahrenheit and 55 percent humidity.
On June 2009 Kohavi founded Watergen a company that design solutions for supplying water.
Water-Gen solutions for the defense sector include: atmospheric water generation, treatment of air conditioning run-off water, and battery-operated mobile water purification units. The company has been selling its products to customers such as the US Army, UK Army, Israel Defense Forces, French Army, and civilian applications such as home-appliance water generator.

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