Dr. Abe Peled (Hebrew: אייב פלד) Born in Romania, is an Israeli businessman.
Peled graduated from the Technion with BSc, and MSc in 1967 and 1971 respectively, both degrees in Electrical Engineering. He did his graduate work at Princeton University in the US on Digital Signal Processing and got his PhD in 1974.
From 1967 to 1971 Peled was a technical officer in the Israeli Army Signal Corps. From 1974 to 1993 Peled worked for IBM's Research Division in the United States, initially as a research scientist and later in Research management, his last position was Vice President for Systems and Software, with management responsibility for all worldwide research and advanced development activities in the IBM Research Division. From 1993 to 1995 Peled served as Senior Vice President for Business Development at Elron in Israel, where he started the first Internet ISP, and e-commerce sites in Israel.
As of 2009, Peled is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDS Group plc, a leading provider of technology solutions for the pay TV industry. He was appointed to this position in 1995 and during his tenure the company has expanded rapidly and grown tenfold, achieving an over 35% market share in the global digital technology for pay TV industry; a significant proportion of this growth has resulted from being News Corporation's in-house technology provider and the continuing success of that company's pay TV strategy. NDS is a privately owned company, jointly owned by Permira, the majority shareholder, and News Corporation. Peled is also a Member of the News Corporation Executive Committee.
In July 2011, Dave Habiger was appointed CEO of NDS with Peled assuming the full time position of Executive Chairman[1].