Awards and Accomplishments
For his achievements over the last 25 years, Alexander received the global business community’s highest awards and accolades. He came 12th in Chief Executive Magazine’s: “Market Value Added Ranking” of the CEOs of the 1000 largest US corporations, ranking those that “created the most wealth for shareholders”. The successes of Kobi and Comverse were recognized by the world’s leading publications including Barron’s, Bloomberg, Business Week, Financial World, Forbes, Fortune, International Business, and Wall Street Journal. Kobi was awarded “Entrepreneur of the Year” by both Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche.
The Wall Street Transcript, naming Kobi Alexander as the Gold Award Winner in the Computer Telephony industry said: “… an exceptional management team have yielded consistently outstanding revenues, earnings, and shareholder value. Alexander has set some very high standards for this company and this industry.”
In addition to Comverse Technology, Alexander spun off and took public several other companies including Ulticom (NASDAQ: ULCM) and Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT). Companies under his leadership were listed in Barron’s 500, Business Week: “Hot Growth Companies”, “Business Week 50”, Business Week: “The Information Technology 100”, Financial World: “America’s Best 100 Growth Companies”, Fortune: “100 Fastest Growing Companies”', International Business: “100 Fastest-Growing International Companies”, Wall Street Journal: “10-Year Best Performers”, and Wall Street Journal “Honor Roll”, among others. In 2006, Comverse was named one of Institutional Investor: America's Most Shareholder-Friendly Companies". "As CEO of Comverse, Alexander was sought out by the likes of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who slipped away from official meetings in 2000 and steered his motorcade through a pot-holed section of Tel Aviv to meet with him." He served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of CTI from 1987 to May 1, 2006, when he resigned during an investigation being conducted by a Special Committee of CTI's Board of Directors into the timing of CTI's stock option grants. He was Chairman of several CTI subsidiaries, including Verint Systems and Ulticom.
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