Ze'ev Drori (Hebrew: זאב דרורי; born 1940 in Tel Aviv[1]) is an Israeli-born American technology entrepreneur currently residing in California.
[2] Uninterested in school, he left home at 15 to move to Kibbutz Hulda, where despite his young age Drori worked in the fields.
He left IBM after receiving a job offer from Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View, one of the pioneering Silicon Valley electronics firms.
[3] During his tenure as Chairman of Monolithic Memories, Drori first invested in and subsequently acquired Clifford Electronics, a fledgling car alarm manufacturer.
Drori brought cutting edge innovations to the auto security industry by incorporating the latest "Silicon Valley" technologies.
He has twice participated in the Long Beach Toyota Grand Prix, and competed in the Formula Car Challenge presented by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company from 2005 until 2009.