Co-founder and Active Chairman Syneron Ltd (NASDAQ ELOS). Founder of a few start-up companies in Israel including Cardiodex, NanoCyte, Colorchip, Orsense, Ventor, Navotek and Tulip as well as a few other companies.

Former Chairman and CEO of ESC Medical (Lumenis) from its inception until 1999, bringing the company from a concept that he invented in 1992 to revenues of more than $220M in 1998, took ESC public in 1996 and raised more than $250M in public offerings.

Prior to that, Head of Product Development and Technical Director at Maxwell Technologies in San Diego, head of department at Rafael, Armament Development Authority of Israel. BSc in Physics from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and PhD in Physics from UC Irvine. More than 25 registered patents and more than 50 papers published.

Member of the Board of Directors of the Technion.

Co-founder and one of the major shareholders of Qualcomm, served on its Board of Directors.

Secretary on the Board of Directors, and is a major shareholder of ANG, Inc. involved in the manufacture of products for the military, commercial and industrial markets.

Shareholder of Markstone Capital Group LLC in Israel.

Served as Chairman of Qtron, Inc.,a world-class turnkey contract manufacturer. 

Serves as a member of the Advisory Board at Bear Stearns Merchant Banking Partners in New York.

Trustee of the Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation, which initiated the Mayo Foundation partnership with Chaim-Sheba Medical Center for Medical Simulation Curriculum.

Mr. Nazarian was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by the University of Haifa and received a degree as a Mechanical Technician, attending universities in Tehran and Israel. 

Former Director General of the RAMBAM medical center, the major academic hospital in northern Israel. Associate clinical professor in military medicine and emergency medicine at the Technion faculty of medicine.

Director in the Macabi Health Services directorate and director in the Asuta hospital and director in SAREL, the company that supplies the government owned hospitals in Israel.

Chairman of the committee that led to the reorganization of MDA ( "magen david adom" - the Israeli pre hospital emergency system). Chairman of the committee that led to the establishment of the Israeli National Trauma System and Chairman of the National Council of Trauma. President of the Teaching Center for Trauma, Emergency and Mass casualty at the Rambam medical center.

Brigadier General (Res.) of the IDF medical corps, Surgeon General of the Israeli army. MD Medicine, the Hebrew University.