Investors backing Israeli tech.

Roi Bar-Kat is an Investment Director at Intel Capital, focusing on investment opportunities related to Israel. Roi started with Intel Capital in 2019 and has been active in the Venture Capital industry since 2009, investing primarily in early stage opportunities across multiple technology domains and market verticals - cyber security, automotive, big data & AI and more. Prior to Intel Capital, Roi spent a few years working with the US-based fund, Liberty Technology VC (funded by Liberty Media), and prior to that was a Principal at Genesis Partners and VP at Incentive-Peregrine VC. Roi’s current investments with Intel Capital are Anodot, Duality, EasySend, Intezer, Lightbits and Neuroblade.

Ronen joined Viola Ventures in February 2008 and currently serves as a General Partner. His investment areas of focus include SaaS, big data, cyber security, and internet. Ronen is currently a board member in Samanage, ironSource, Perfecto Mobile, enSilo, Redis Labs, and CodeFresh. He also served as a board member at Shunra (acquired by HP), Amadesa (acquired by Live Person), Kampyle (acquired by Medallia), and Cloudyn (acquired by Microsoft). Before joining Carmel, Ronen was VP of Product Management at Verint Systems, and director of project management at ECtel (NASDAQ: ECTX), where he led the delivery of large-scale, multi-million dollar projects in North and Latin America. Ronen served for 13 years in an elite Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence Unit where he still holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Res.). He holds a B.A. (Com Laude) in Economics and Middle-East history from Tel Aviv University, and an M.Sc in Technology Management from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC).

Rotem Eldar is the co-founder and Managing Partner of the venture capital fund 10D. He has over 20 years of experience in developing and investing in deep technologies. Rotem was a Partner at Gemini Israel Ventures and later the CEO of Eagle Labs. Prior to becoming an investor Rotem headed product management for two Boston based startups. Rotem is a graduate of Talpiot and served in 81, the elite technological unit of the Intelligence Corps. He holds a BSc in physics, mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, magna cum laude, and an MBA from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business.

Experienced International investor as Founding Partner of ZGC & 2P9 and former investor in Intel Capital with proven track record. Has unique Business and Deep technical experience from leading innovation to AI and cognitive. Holds patents, published Algorithms and has contributed to several standards such as Wifi and BT. Has extensive experience in consulting, Businesses Development and Building innovation & partnerships programs. As a mentor sharing his business transactions experiences ranging from Licensing, Equity Investments, JV to M&A. Roy was the Founder and Managing director of the Intel Ingenuity Partner program to enable. In 2016 Roy started Intel FinTech Technology HUB at “The Floor” in Tel Aviv in partnership with partners like RBS, Banco Santander, HSBC, Intesa Sanpaolo, Accenture and KPMG. Roy joined Intel through the acquisition of Envara LTD. In Intel he served in various R&D and leadership positions enabling new technology initiatives with Telephone companies ,Through leading wireless and mobile innovation programs, where he led multiple successful initiatives including CCF®, OIC and Intel Unite®. Roy is Graduate of the Israeli Naval officer academy and also served as the head of communication and cyber for Operation in Navy. Holds a BA in Computer Science & Business management (Magna Cum Laude). Ramon is an Investment Manager in Intel Capital’s Platform Engineering Sector (PEG). Roy leads Israel and EU external partnerships in the area of Semiconductor and Intellectual Properties (IP) that help PEG to create market leading SOCs via business transactions ranging from Licensing, Equity Investments, JV to M&A. Roy is also the Founder of the Israel/EU based Intel Ingenuity Partner program to enable startups be successful via hosting and coaching by Intel expert engineers. In 2016 Roy started Intel FinTech Technology HUB at “The Floor” in Tel Aviv in partnership with partners like RBS, Banco Santander, HSBC, Intesa Sanpaolo, Accenture and KPMG. Roy joined Intel through the acquisition of Envara LTD. After that he served in various leadership positions enabling WiMax initiatives with Sprint & Clearwire. Through wireless innovation programs, Roy led the formation of innovation teams and led multiple successful initiatives including CCF®, OIC and Intel Unite®. Roy holds multiple patents and has contributed to several standards. Roy is an Entrepreneur at heart and sold his first startup at the age of 17. Roy has advised multiple startups in Israel and co-founded GenomeCompiler that was later acquired in March 2016. Roy is Graduate of the Israeli Naval officer academy and had the distinguished pleasure of contributing as the head of communication and cyber unit of Navy. He holds a BA in Computer Science & Business management (Magna Cum Laude). Outside of work, Roy Is an active “Maker of various technologies” and volunteers in promoting technology learning with under privileged students. He also loves to scuba dive and bike.

Roy Saar has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2007. Before joining Mangrove in 2011, Roy had been doing business on 4 different continents and He have now been looking at the world of technology from very different perspectives throughout his career. He have been active in Software, IT Services and the Internet and he have acted alternatively as a business angel, a VC and an entrepreneur, having founded and developed several start-ups himself over the past 15 years. He bring corporate, start-up and investment experience to the table. This helps him to better support their entrepreneurs during the first steps of their ventures and to better protect their interests at later stages. He strongly believe in out of the box thinking and a no bull approach and he introduce investment opportunities to the team only when he have been intrigued by both a business idea and a founding team. He also consider himself a hands-on investor and he currently seat on the boards of 3 of their portfolio companies: WalkMe SohoOS and Wix. After completing a B.A. in Economy & Administration, he started his career as a Marketing Manager for an American Consumer Goods company and only went back to technology at the end of the 90s when he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a company providing automation, provisioning, virtualization and management Saas solutions to hosting companies and Telecoms, which was sold to Parallels in 2007. In 1998, he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a virtual servers technology vendor for SaaS providers. In 2002, Roy co-founded RFcell Technologies Ltd., a wireless product and service provider in Israel. Outside of work, he like to get involved in initiatives in Africa (among them a Malaria eradication project) and he also enjoy water sports (surfing, scuba diving and sailing), horse riding and he is an amateur numismatist.

Rupert Ashe is an entrepreneurial corporate financier who has extensive experience of starting, managing and selling companies. He has extensive relationships with private equity funds, family offices and very high net worth individuals (VHNWs) and has overseen investments in a number of highly successful companies. As an investor relations adviser, he worked on over 50 M&A and IPO transactions including the demerger of Schroders PLC and the IPO of Alliance & Leicester PLC. As a corporate finance advisor, he has conducted over 20 disposals and 20 funding rounds. As CEO of D5 Capital he has raised finance for a number of technology & media companies in Europe & Israel.

Sanjiv joined Battery in 2013 and focuses on Internet, SaaS/software and digital media investments. Prior to Battery, Sanjiv worked for Bessemer Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm with offices in the U.S., India, Brazil, and Israel. Sanjiv also worked with an early-stage angel investment group in Chicago and with 37signals, makers of the popular project management software Basecamp. Previously, Sanjiv was Business Development Manager with Constellation Software (TSX:CSU), where he helped grow his division 5X through a combination of organic and inorganic growth initiatives. Sanjiv graduated from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth.

Scott Dubin is the Managing Director of Investor Relations at ff Venture Capital. He previously worked as OurCrowd’s Director of Investor Relations, has over ten years of experience leveraging the power of communities. Prior to joining OurCrowd, Scott was the founder of The AIPAC Technology Division, a network of pro-Israel political activists, and worked as an operative on municipal, gubernatorial, and US Senate campaigns in addition to consulting for advocacy campaigns and not-for-profits in the United States, Canada, and Israel. A lifelong advocate of Israel, Scott Dubin has served in leadership roles at the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency for Israel, and was elected to the Zionist General Council and Zionist Congress. He received his BA from the New York University, and served in the IDF’s Artillery Corp.

Scott joined Battery in 1997 and currently leads investments in Israel, the US and Europe. His investments include ActivePath, Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM), Anobit Technologies (acquired by Apple), @stake (acquired by Symantec), Champions Oncology, Diablo Technologies, Istra Research, ITA Software (acquired by Google), Kashya (acquired by EMC), The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE; acquired by Euronext), MetroPCS (NYSE:PCS), ProfitLogic (acquired by Oracle), Pursway, Sabre, The Tennis Channel, Ximian (acquired by novell), and ZeRTO. Scott was named multipled times to the Forbes Midas List, which ranks top venture capitalists from around the world and in 2009 relocated to Battery’s Israel office to build the team there and to lead the firm’s expansion into Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. Prior to joining Battery, Scott spent time in corporate finance and was previously the Director of Corporate Development at FutureVision, a venture-backed software company that was sold to Softkey International. He graduated with honors from Brandeis University with a BA in International Relations and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.

Investor active in the Israeli technology ecosystem.

Ms. Shirley Schoenfeld is an investor and operator with over a decade of experience building, advising, and investing in early stage technology companies, mainly in Israel and to a lesser extent in Europe and the US. She is an independent early investor in Venus Aerospace, XPay, Inkbox, Krab, and Activeloop. Ms. Schoenfeld is a Venture Partner at M2M Ventures, Israel’s first aerospace focused venture fund. In 2019, she co-founded Seneca VC LLC, which has invested in Strattic, FYI, The Coven, Elpha and Archipelo. Prior to founding Seneca, she was a Principal at 83North (Greylock Israel), responsible for sourcing, diligencing and supporting investments in enterprise software, fintech and applied AI. From 2013-2017 she was the CEO of Nooyalla, a technology advisory firm focused on product strategy and capital raising. Prior to that, she was the Structured Finance Head of Growth at Standard & Poor’s and led the launch of new enterprise data and regulatory tech products. Ms. Schoenfeld started her career at Morgan Stanley, as VP Enterprise Infrastructure where she supported strategic and operational initiatives such as core banking projects, desktop virtualization, and the post-GFC joint venture between the wealth management businesses of Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley. Shirley holds an MBA (Strategy, Finance) from NYU Stern School of Business and a BA (Economics) from Harvard University.

Shmuel Chafets is the Founder and Partner at Target Global. Prior to joining Target Global Shmuel was a partner at the Berlin based Hasso Plattner Ventures where he invested in companies such as iZettle and Hansoft and served as a board member in DreamLines and reBuy. Before that Shmuel was a partner at Giza Venture Capital in Tel Aviv where he invested in companies such as Soluto (sold to Asurion), Vishal.ly and other early stage internet ventures. Together with Giza, Shmuel founded GPV, a pioneering Warsaw based venture fund where he also lead virus internet and software investment. Shmuel was also co-founder of LocaLoco (sold to Say Media Group ) a social gaming start up targeting emerging markets. Shmuel started his career as strategic consultant to GCS and a consultant for several members of the Israeli parliament and government.

Investor active in the Israeli technology ecosystem at Israel Ministry of Economy and Industry.

Simone Botti is a Venture Partner at Matar Capital Advisors Ltd. He serves as Chief Executive Officer of Metabomed LTD. Simone Botti is currently employed at Merck Serono S.A., Investment Arm. He was the Vice President of Business Development at RAD BioMed Accelerator. He joined RAD BioMed Accelerator in November 2008. He regularly acts as a consultant for major European and Asian governments and financial institutions in matters of technology transfer and technology financing. He has a successful ten year career of life science entrepreneur, business development professional, and consultant. Prior to Matar Capital Advisors, he was the Founder and Managing Partner at Altiora Ventures a Corporate Finance and Investment Banking Boutique specialized in cross border M&A and international business development. Simone Botti was also a Senior Director, Business Development (EMEA) for Cogenics. He was the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientist at BioStrX Ltd. He also co-founded the firm. He was a Vice President at SIXX Partners. Simone Botti was a Councilor of the Italian-Israeli Chamber of Commerce and a founding member of the Israel-Asia Chamber of Commerce. In this capacity, he organized a number of high-level conferences on technology transfer between Israel and several European and Asian countries. He is Senior Consultant to the Israel Structural Proteomics Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a member of the Biophysical Society. He was NIH–ADDP Fellow at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He received the “Dov Elad“ award in Structural Biology. Simone Botti holds a Ph.D. Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Talmon Marco is currently the CEO and co-founder of Juno - a new approach to ride sharing. At Juno, drivers are truly partners by earning ownership in the company with every ride they take​. Prior to Juno, Marco co-founded and sat as CEO of Viber which was sold in early 2014. Talmon​ has​ also co​-​founded and sat as CEO for both Expand Networks​ and​ later iMesh. ​Talmon, who was ​born in Israel,​ ​completed a degree in Computer Science and Management from Tel-Aviv University​ and ​later ​moved to the United States.

Investor active in the Israeli technology ecosystem.

Tomas Kemtys is a Partner at Contrarian Ventures having joined in February 2019. Previously, he was a Senior Associate at Centerview Partners, a leading independent investment banking and advisory firm. Having worked out of London, Tomas has focused mostly on healthcare and consumer retail but has also worked on transactions in energy, industrials, and other sectors. He has executed transactions across various countries including UK, USA, Israel, Jordan, South Africa, and others. Other relevant experiences include various positions in BNP Paribas, Société Générale and British Petroleum. Tomas is an alumnus of Finance program in ESADE Business School in Barcelona.

Tomer leads Product and Design at Gusto. He’s responsible for the development and execution of the product roadmap and for making Gusto’s product vision a reality. Tomer is passionate about creating products that have a true impact on people’s lives while promoting equity and human values. He believes that the key to doing this successfully is to build experiences people truly and passionately love. Before co-founding Gusto, Tomer was the CEO and co-founder of Vizmo, a customer support startup. His prior experience includes computer systems research at Intel, serving as a commander in the Israeli Air Force, and working on product development at Bump Technologies. Tomer was selected to the 2013 Inc. 30 Under 30 list. Tomer holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He was born and raised in Haifa, Israel where he helped grow his family’s small business. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Sara and his daughter Shira.

Zeev Holtzman is the Founder and Chairman of Giza Polish Ventures (GPV). He previously worked at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology as a Chairman of the Supreme Investment Committeee of the Technion Endowment and Pension Funds. Zeev Holtzman attended Columbia University Business School, New York.

Zvi Schechter co-founded GizaVC in 1992 following 20 years of experience in private equity, investment banking, research and company valuations. At Giza, Zvi focuses on communications and information technology. As Chief Investment Officer, Zvi is responsible for identifying significant trends, overseeing deal flow, due diligence and portfolio valuations. Zvi is responsible for Giza investments in Takadu, ViewFinity, Continuity, Odysii, Soluto and has been involved in numerous successful investments including Cyota, Telegate, MoreCom, Yadata and Oridion. Zvi co-founded Giza Group in 1985, and served as a financial adviser to major Israeli banks and government-owned companies undergoing privatization. Previously, he was Chief Economist at Leumi & Company Investment Bankers with responsibility for advisory services, corporate finance, due diligence, fundraising and underwriting. Zvi earned his MBA from Tel Aviv University and a BSc in Economics and Management from the Technion, both magna cum laude.

A native of Israel, Adam Milstein moved with his wife and children to the United States in 1981. There, he earned his MBA from USC in 1983. He entered the commercial real estate business as a sales agent and worked his way up to managing partner at the firm Hager Pacific Properties. Inspired by the charitable actions of a friend and colleague, Mr. Milstein realized that he needed to give back to his community - specifically, the Israeli-American community. Along with his wife, he founded the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation and Sifriyat Pijama B'America to promote the unity of the Israeli-American community and nurture a stronger sense of Jewish identity among the children of first-generation Israeli-Americans. As co-founder of the Israeli-American Council, Mr. Milstein works to forge a tighter bond between the American Jewish community and the Israeli-American community. He and his wife live in Encino, CA, and have three daughters, two grandsons, and a granddaughter.

A chess prodigy, Firouzja won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12 and earned the Grandmaster title at 14. At 16, Firouzja became the second-youngest 2700-rated player and won a silver medal at the 2019 World Rapid Chess Championship. In November 2021, at 18, he won the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament and an individual gold medal at the European Team Chess Championship. He won a bronze medal at the 2021 World Blitz Chess Championship. Firouzja left the Iranian Chess Federation in 2019, because the country's longstanding policy against competing with Israelis presented an obstacle to tournament success.[4] He played under the FIDE flag until mid-2021 when he became a French citizen and began representing France, where he had already been living.

Prior to LBBW, Andreas was the managing director for EcoMobility Ventures at Idinvest Partners for two years. The fund focused on investments within transportation sectors and was financed by SNCF, Total, Air Liquide, Michelin and Orange. During his tenure, Ouicar was sold to SNCF. Before that, Andreas founded and managed the European and Israeli venture capital operations for GE Capital from 2008 till 2014. His investments included Solarage (NASDAQ: SEDG) and EMEFCY (ASX:EMC). Previously he was part of the leadership team of GE’s European R&D Centre, focusing on governmental funding and jointly developing research projects with GE customers in the energy, healthcare and inspection sectors. Andreas started his career in 1999 at Airbus and switched in 2000 to OHB System AG, leading the development of instruments for manned and unmanned space missions for four years. Andreas holds a Masters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Delft and a MBA from INSEAD. He is a native German speaker and is fluent in English, French and Dutch.

Assaf Shalvi began his career as an Israeli naval officer, after which he immediately forged leadership roles in business management and consulting for software R&D, finance, and medical industries in Israel, England, and the US. Shalvi’s experience includes work with RBS Projects, MAXIMUS, and A4e, among others. He holds an MBA from international INSEAD, and a business and economics degree from the esteemed Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Assaf founded SWIFT SHIFT in 2014 in order to bring SaaS solutions that deliver the most home healthcare to the most patients.

Chaim Meir Tessler is a General Partner of OurCrowd, where he was a founding team member when he relocated to Israel in 2012. He formerly worked in New York City real estate development.

A San Francisco native, Danny spent 20+ years in technology, holding executive roles at Google and Microsoft. At Google, he ran business development and strategic partnerships for products like Google Search, Google Assistant, Google Research, Chrome/Web Platform (Accelerated Mobile Pages and Progressive Web Apps), Google+, Google Identity and Sign-In, Firebase, and other products. He successfully sold Meebo, a Sequoia Capital-backed Web 2.0 startup, to Google in 2012. At Microsoft, he led critical product lines for Microsoft Teams. Danny is now the Managing General Partner for HawkTower, an investment fund focused on backing entrepreneurs and companies in Central California, an area with significant innovation and commercialization potential, focusing on the hub of the Monterey Bay Area. HawkTower is a new member organization of MBEP and DART. Founding HawkTower allows him to concentrate on his lifelong passion for developing local value and community building. An alum of the Stanford Executive Program and University of California at Davis. Danny, his wife Leslie, their two children, and puppy, River, live in Carmel Valley. Danny is the Vice President of the Board of Trustees for Congregation Beth Israel in Carmel. He is Secretary of the Board of Directors for Camp Ramah in Northern California. He sits on the Flanders Mansion Restoration Committee and the Stevenson School Campaign Committee. He also founded the CreativeMornings lecture series on the Monterey Peninsula.

Mr. Gray is an entrepreneur and financial professional with an extensive background in the business world. Upon graduating from Cornell University, David spent over 7 years at J.P. Morgan in New York. His current position as Chief Financial Officer for SleepArt, Inc. began with a private investment in the startup back in March 2012. SleepArt Inc. is the creator of the SleepArt® Body Support Mattress Topper Collection (featuring XcelGel® Technology). As a former investment banker, and one of SleepArt’s first retail customers, David Aaron Gray quickly recognized the enormous potential behind the company’s truly innovative body support design. Now, having served as a customer, investor and officer with the company for close to 18 months, Mr. Gray not only handles the daily responsibilities of a typical CFO but has also been instrumental in building out the company’s new suite of products and customer footprint. When he is not focusing on the business of sleep (or finding a little of his own snooze time) David Aaron Gray, devotes countless hours to various community and charitable organizations. David’s life long passion for building awareness of the past has motivated much of his activity outside the office. From volunteering at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles to assisting those at the Israel Levin Senior Center in tracing their ancestral roots, Mr. Gray believes it “to be essential for any decent society to embrace, preserve and promote the accurate understanding and representation of the people and events that have shaped our history.” In this spirit, Mr. Gray has recently embarked upon the launch of a motion picture project dedicated to bringing to life, some of history’s most inspiring (yet untold / forgotten) stories. Mr. Gray formed Gray Financial Ventures, an LLC specializing in developing film and television projects based on events of historical significance. The company’s first project, Operation Auschwitz focuses on the remarkable true story of Witold Pilecki, the only person to voluntarily be imprisoned at the notorious Concentration camp. Mr. Gray also uses his participation in athletic competition (having completed several marathon and Ironman triathlon races) as a method to support and raise money for certain charitable causes. One of these organizations, The Boomer Esiason Foundation, is among the largest not-for-profits focused on research into combating the disease cystic fibrosis. In the past two years alone, David Aaron Gray has raised over $20,000 for charitable causes (including The Boomer Esiason Foundation and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center).

Eyal Victor Mamou is an Israeli lawyer that has been living in Korea for several years. Today is the founder and managing partner of KOISRA Seed Partners (KSP), the first Korean - Israeli tech startups accelerator in Seoul. Mr. Mamou also is the founder and CEO of KOISRA - the largest business consulting firm for Korean and Israeli markets. Prior to KOISRA, Eyal founded Joomini and co-founded E.M. Advanced Internet Solutions, a successful Internet applications and servers development companies.

Gil Smolinski is an angel investor and business developer. He has devoted the last 8 years of his career to supporting technological progress and innovation. During this period he has invested in several Israeli startups in a variety of fields. Early Career in Tech: Smolinski first ventured into tech in 1998 when he founded NTC New Projects, a systems integrator that specializes in bringing together big multi-faceted tech projects in the fields of complex security systems, telecommunications and video control, automation of operative and manufacturing processes, and creation of smart systems and operative control centers. NTC's solutions and services cover all stages of creating and activating automated information systems: consulting - design - integration - maintenance - support. In 2003 he entered the field of digital traffic enforcement when founding SMEU-Astana. SMEU provides a full scale of traffic control services and solutions across Kazakhstan. These include manufacturing, installing, upkeeping and operating advanced traffic control devices, and developing and implementing smart transport and safety systems. Next he expanded his dealings from Central Asia to the West by acquiring RedSpeed International. RedSpeed provides state of the art traffic control systems aiming to improve general driving patterns and lower the amount of speeding and other forms of reckless driving. Working with government and local authorities, safety partnerships and the police forces, RedSpeed aims to provide unparalleled service and systems coupled with exceptional value for money. Based in Worcestershire, UK the company also has offices in Hertfordshire, UK and Illinois, USA. Business Development in Kazakhstan: Before delving into innovative traffic control Smolinski used his experience in business development and close acquaintance with the Central Asia market to create Almaz Asia, a consulting center for entrepreneurs and businesspeople who wish to start a business in Kazakhstan. Almaz was established in 1999, and provides comprehensive consulting services that accommodate client needs in financial planning and analysis, market research, logistics, system management and legal support. Гиль Смолински — неутомимый предприниматель. Он рад приносить пользу другим, применяя свой многолетний профессиональный опыт. При этом Гиль и сам не перестает учиться и совершенствоваться — всегда и везде.

Gustavo de Arístegui originates from a long standing conciliatory foundation, his dad and granddad were both senior representatives posted as represetatives in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Mr Arístegui alongside his local Spanish communicates in English, French and German, and is keen on all the worldwide issues that are connected in any capacity to Spain, universal security and key issues, psychological oppression, European undertakings, Islam and the Arab–Israeli strife. His english is faultless as fitting for a scion of a representative family. Mr Arístegui is the writer of the trailblaziing books 'El islamismo contra el Islam', distributed in 2004, and 'La yihad en España' (2005). Both manage the war on dread and Al Qaeda in Spain, a nation which has needed to manage this issue not at all like some other European nation. He is likewise the writer of well more than two hundred articles that have frequently showed up in El País, El Mundo, ABC, Al Hayat, Expansión and Reforma. He has addressed in numerous colleges and current issues gatherings, and he is Professor of Diplomatic and Consular Law at Madrid's Pontifical University of Comillas (ICADE), one of Spain's most prestigious colleges. Mr Arístegui is additionally the writer of a few scholastic articles in the Spanish release of the magazine Foreign Affairs. In both his political and strategic vocations he has voyage broadly. Mr Aristegui has survived some significant worldwide clashes – both as the child of a negotiator, and as an ambassador himself. Amid the military upset in Argentina, the Nicaraguan Civil War and the Lebanese Civil War, Gustavo was there, living with his dad, Spain's minister to those nations. Furthermore, amid the Second Gulf War, he was the Director for the Middle East and Africa of the Spanish Ministry. He has likewise been observer to some major notable occasions, for example, the opening of the Israeli government office in Amman, and the marking of the Wadi Araba Peace Treaty as Spain's DCM and Chargé D'Affaires in Amman, Jordan (1993-96). As Chief of Staff of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior (1996-2000), he increased direct understanding on an extensive variety of issues, including global sorted out wrongdoing, worldwide psychological oppression, residential fear mongering, parliamentary issues, and European undertakings. Mr Aristegui by and by holds a seat in Spain's National Parliament, speaking to the area of Ciudad Real and he has been the representative for Foreign Affairs for the Popular Party in Congress since 2001. Mr Arístegui alongside his local Spanish communicates in English, French and German, and is keen on all the worldwide issues that are connected in any capacity to Spain, universal security and key issues, psychological oppression, European undertakings, Islam and the Arab–Israeli strife. His english is faultless as fitting for a scion of a representative family. Mr Arístegui is the writer of the trailblaziing books 'El islamismo contra el Islam', distributed in 2004, and 'La yihad en España' (2005). 'El islamismo contra el Islam' or ‘Islam against Islam’ is a detailed political and cultural analysis of the radical Islamic dogma that drives its proponents to wage Jihad. The book focuses on the fuel that keeps such destructive ideas aflame. It also discusses the main cause of 9/11 and Madrid attacks on 11 March 2004 that claimed 191 victims. 'La yihad en España' addresses the origin and growth of Islamic fanaticism in Spain. The book explains that Islamic terrorism and Jihad do not conform to a singular definition. Islamic terrorism does not correspond to the classical model of political and religious violence. Rather, it’s a struggle of civilizations. The book analyses the role of false interpretations of Koran that justify aggression and debauchery on the Spanish soil.