In addition to TopTier Software, Agassi co-founded several other companies with his father, Reuven Agassi, including Quicksoft Ltd., a leading multimedia software localization and distribution company in the Israeli market TopManage, a developer of small business software that was also acquired by SAP in April 2002 (which became SAP Business One, the small business offering by SAP) and Quicksoft Media, a multimedia production company that ceased operations in 1995. TopTier was a leading enterprise portal vendor when SAP acquired the company in April 2001 at a price of US$400 million. He was directly involved in all critical phases of the company's development, including its strategic plan, technical direction and financing, management of two acquisitions, and negotiation of OEM agreements with companies such as SAP, Baan Corporation, and Microsoft. Agassi served the company in various capacities including chairman, chief technology officer, and then CEO. He founded TopTier Software (originally called Quicksoft Development) in Israel in 1992 and later moved the company's headquarters to California. Agassi has a bachelor's degree in computer science and has been awarded a large number of patents in software, automotive and energy infrastructure.Īfter graduating from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Agassi set out as a software entrepreneur. Throughout the 90s, Agassi started and successfully sold a number of technology startups, in the areas of enterprise software, internet technology, multimedia and small business administration. In 2010, Foreign Policy magazine included Agassi on its annual list of the 100 most influential global thinkers. In 2009, Agassi was included in TIME magazine's 100 most influential people list. In 2008, he was named in one of TIME’s “Heroes of the Environment". In 2003, at the age of 36, Agassi was named one of the top 20 'Global Influentials for 2003' by CNN- Time magazine. Prior to founding Better Place, Agassi was President of the Products and Technology Group (PTG) at SAP AG until 2007. The company went bankrupt in 2013, after Agassi spent over $850 million on publicity while deploying fewer than 1000 cars. He is the founder and former CEO of Better Place, which had developed a model and infrastructure for employing electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology. Shai Agassi ( Hebrew: שי אגסי, born April 19, 1968) is an Israeli entrepreneur.
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