Ariel joined Infinity in 2005, bringing 25 years of financial and commercial experience in the high tech industry.

Previously he served as CFO and Interim CEO for Shellcase Ltd. For seven years, he was a senior executive at Nexus Telocation Systems, where he held positions including president and COO, vice president of operations, and director on the board of EDEN. Ariel also served as the chief financial officer of OTM Technologies, where he was in charge of the Japanese market. Prior to this, Mr. Poppel worked for 15 years at Tadiran in various financial and business positions, including CFO of Tadiran Communication Systems, a division that established three new high tech startups that evolved into companies with revenues over US$100M. He was also the head of the economics and business department at Tadiran.