Investors backing Israeli tech.

Jacob Ukelson is the CTO at Orchestra Group. Jacob Ukelson attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Jennifer Sieber joined Touchdown in 2018. She graduated from Brown University with degrees in history and education and was introduced to the world of entrepreneurship and venture capital while working at the Israeli Consulate in Boston. In her role at the Consulate, she worked in support of some of the 250+ Israeli-founded startups in Massachusetts as they made their transition into the US market. At Touchdown, Jen focuses on investments in the Internet of Things (IoT), physical security, and property tech sectors.

Jesse Israel is the Founder at The Big Quiet. Jesse Israel attended New York University.

Jim is Managing Partner and co-founder of Second Alpha Partners. He is an author and frequent speaker on topics related to advanced technologies, business innovation and the evolution of venture capital investing. Jim has spent more than twenty years as a venture capitalist, secondary investor, corporate advisor and technology executive. He is Chairman of June Media and serves on the board of Terago Networks (TSX:TGO). Prior to Second Alpha, Jim was a General Partner at ABS Ventures, where he focused on investments that combined elements of traditional venture investing with secondary share purchases in growth companies. At ABS, Jim’s investments included Everbridge, Qualys (NASD:QLYS), Gomez (acquired by Compuware), Inxight Software (acquired by Business Objects/SAP), AlphaBlox (acquired by IBM), Overtone (acquired by KANA) and Intralinks (acquired in a syndicated buyout led by Rho Partners). Jim was also a senior member of the ABS team that structured the secondary purchases of several portfolios of venture assets from Deutsche Bank. Before ABS, Jim was a Managing Director in Deutsche Bank’s DB Capital Venture Partners and Corporate Investments organizations. He also served as Chief Technology Officer and Director of Technology Investment for Deutsche Bank’s London-based corporate venturing group. Previously, Jim held IT management positions at Deutsche Bank, Barclays Bank and Bell Atlantic (now Verizon Communications). Jim was Co-Chairman of the 2007, 2008 and 2009 New England Venture Summits, and has presented at leading venture capital and IT industry events, including the NVCA Annual Meeting, the US/Israeli Venture Summit, Internet World and M-Commerce World. He is the co-author of The Text Mining Handbook (Cambridge Univ. Press) and The Text Mining Handbook: Japanese Edition (Tokyo Denki Univ. Press). Several of Jim’s seminars on venture investing have been published by Reed Seminars/ExecSense Publications. Jim’s blog can be found at infocapitalist.com. Jim received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Chief Executive Officer, Joanna Schneier, has been developing cutting-edge language learning apps and other educational technology since 1999. A native of Israel, Joanna is an experienced graphic artist and businesswoman. She transformed a side-gig creating pre-IPO road show collateral into a full-fledged end-to-end business strategy and marketing consultancy. This consultancy, Third Space Creative, has served Fortune 500 corporations, governments, the world's largest publishers and leading universities. With help from her Cognotion colleagues, she built the two leading digital language learning products in the US foreign language K-12.

John Halamka is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), co-Chair of the national HIT Standards Committee, co-Chair of the Massachusetts HIT Advisory Committee and a practicing Emergency Physician. As Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3,000 doctors, 14,000 employees and two million patients. As Chairman of NEHEN he oversees clinical and administrative data exchange in Eastern Massachusetts. As co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee he facilitates the process of electronic standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide. As co-Chair of the Massachusetts HIT Advisory Committee, he engages the stakeholders of the Commonwealth to guide the development of a statewide health information exchange. Halamka received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and holds a master's degree in bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley .

John Somorjai is the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development & Salesforce Ventures at salesforce.com. Since 2005, he has been leading the evaluation, deal execution and integration of mergers and acquisitions, and investments. John’s team has helped bring the company into significant new growth areas through acquisitions including Exact Target, Radian6, Buddy Media, Heroku, Jigsaw, Instranet, and Rypple, and also brought onboard a number of key leaders. In addition, his team has made investments in more than 100 technology companies located in the US, Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, China, and Israel.

In less than four months I helped turn 43North from an idea into an international brand with nearly 7,000 applications from 96 countries and all 50 states. 43North received in excess of 300 media hits from national publications like Businessweek, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider, to international outlets like the Financial Times (UK), Inc42 (India), The Times of Israel, and The Toronto Star. With $5 million in cash prizes, including a top award of $1 million, six $500,000 awards and four $250,000 awards, 43North is helping entrepreneurs, startups and teams from across the globe turn their business ideas into reality in Buffalo, NY. I initiated the launch of Buffalo Startup Weekend to give aspiring entrepreneurs a platform to kick-start their ideas and create businesses. The event has received extensive media coverage from The Buffalo News, Buffalo Business First, Artvoice, Buffalo Rising, WGRZ, WIVB and Buffalo TWC News. To date, nearly 500 aspiring entrepreneurs have gone through the program. In my spare time I have been attending conferences to learn more about Bitcoin and blockchain technologies. I am excited to see what opportunities may arise in the future as Bitcoin evolves to universal appeal and recognition.

Katharina is an investor at Cherry, where she was e.g. involved in the investments in Twaice, ELISE and Chemsquare. She primarily spends her time covering the DACH region for Cherry and is particularly interested in the enterprise software, industry 4.0 and femtech space. Prior to Cherry she spent a few years at The Boston Consulting Group in Zurich and worked with start-ups in the US, Germany, Israel and Ghana. Katharina studied business at the University of St. Gallen and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kfir Magen is the Co-Owner and Founder of Vanguard Tech. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

In 2006, Larry Lopez moved from Silicon Valley to Perth, bringing with him his wisdom of technology investment, global venture capital, entrepreneurship and financing for start-up companies. For eighteen years, Larry held senior and executive positions at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), playing a key role in the growth of the SVB Financial Group from a community bank to a global financial leader. In his role at SVB he sponsored the Bank’s investment in numerous European, Israeli and Australian venture capital funds. Over the years, Larry worked with hundreds of offshore companies launching products in Silicon Valley, and served on boards in Stockholm, London and Australia.

Lee leads a team of professionals who provide operational and strategic support for Intel Capital and Portfolio Companies through customer introductions, networking events such as Intel Capital Technology Days and Intel Capital Global Summit, press coverage, and marketing events designed to generate awareness and increase deal flow for Intel Capital. Lee and his team are responsible for developing strategic relationships with customers and service providers to support Intel Capital’s portfolio companies. Lee joined Intel in 1989 and has worked in Human Resources in Manufacturing and R&D in the US and Asia. Lee lived in Asia from 1995 to 2001, and he has managed teams based in Malaysia, The Philippines, Ireland, Israel and Costa Rica in Assembly and Test and Wafer Fabrication factories. Prior to Intel, Lee worked for Pepsi Cola. Lee holds a BA from Colorado College. He is based in Portland, Oregon.

Liat is co-founder and Managing Director of Horizen Labs Ventures (HLV), a Web3 advisory and venture investment company that was launched out of Horizen Labs. Liat co-founded and served as COO of Horizen Labs from its inception as a blockchain technology company until 2022. Before joining the Web3 space, Liat was the COO of Selina, a high growth start-up in the hospitality space. Before that, she was a Partner at Marker LLC, a leading Israel-New York based venture capital firm, where she continues to oversee their follow-on annex fund and legacy investments. Her years at Marker LLC were preceded by serving as the Executive Director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at IDC, the innovative venture creation program she helped grow and develop, that enables undergraduates in their final year of study at Reichman University to experience entrepreneurship hands-on; forming teams, developing ideas and launching them into funded startups. Many successful companies, including Gift’s Project, Wibiya, Wibbitz, Bizzabo, Argus, Loox and Overwolf were founded out of the program. Today she continues her involvement by serving as the chairperson of the program and as managing director of the ZEP Fund LTD. that invests in Zell alumni companies. Liat holds a B.A. in political economy of industrial societies (economics and political science, cum laude) from the University of California at Berkeley, an LL.B. and MBA from Tel Aviv University, and an LL.M. in European Law from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands (cum laude). She became a member of the Israel Bar Association in 1999, after completing her internship at Kantor, Elhanani, Tal & Co. She attained practical experience in mergers and acquisitions and new ventures as an associate attorney at Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co., a position she held until joining Reichman University in 2005. In addition to Horizen Labs Ventures, Liat is a board member at Wristcam, Layer3 Labs and the Israel Democracy Institute. She is a member of Friends of IDC’s advisory board and advises: WiSe, Weizman Institute’s entrepreneurship program; Scola, the 81 Unit entrepreneurship program; the Sheba Entrepreneurship Program; and, I-Fair, an Israel-Nigeria entrepreneurship program.

Marcos is one of the Founding Partners for Skylake Capital, a fund focusing in early stage VC investments in the Data Infrastructure Ecosystem (Cyber Security, Data Centre & Cloud Infrastructure, Data Analytics, AI, etc). Prior to Skylake, Marcos was the Managing Partner for a late stage London based fund called C5 Capital. Marcos stayed three years at C5, from 2016 till 2019, prior to founding Skylake Capital. Prior to C5, Marcos worked for 18 years at Intel Capital, an organization he joined in 1998. From 2010 until his leaving in 2016, Marcos was the Managing Director for Western Europe & Israel, as well as, a voting member of Intel Capital’s worldwide investment committee. In 2013 Marcos was appointed as Vice President for Intel Capital. During the past 20+ years Marcos worked on a substantial number of transactions, amongst which Azure Solutions (acquired by Subex), eTel (acquired by Telecom Austria), Imagination technologies (publicly listed in the LSE), Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel), IPTego (acquired by AcmePacket), Aldebaran Robotics (acquired by Softbank), Anobit (acquired by Apple), Indisys (acquired by Intel), Omek (acquired by Intel), Tribold (acquired by Sigma Systems), FeedHenry (acquired by Red Hat), Tobii (publicly listed in Nasdaq Stockholm), Amplidata (acquired by Western Digital), Velostrata (acquired by Google), iZettle (acquired by Paypal) and many others. Prior to Intel Marcos worked at BBA Creditanstalt, one of the leading investment banks in Brazil. Marcos is a Naval Architect and Marine Engineer having graduated from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo. Marcos holds an MBA from INSEAD

Maria Pennanen is a co-founder of Accelerator Frankfurt, an investor, and CEO of monetizationAI. She is an experienced manager with in-depth experience in B2B sales and marketing within Europe and Asia. Maria Pennanen’s passion is to support startups in the early and growth phase. She believes that blockchain and AI technology is going to disrupt the way we do business today. She is involved in numerous German, Finnish and Israeli start-ups. Additionally, she acts as an advisor to ICOs. With 20 years of experience in Entrepreneurship, Maria Pennanen has accompanied and advised over a hundred start-ups. She was nominated 2017 as the leading Female FinTech Influencer in the German-speaking world.

Mark Hass is a Professor of Practice at the Arizona State University. He founded and leads Peconic First LP, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage marketing and media companies, whose business models are built on social platforms, data analytics, or immersive virtual experiences. Peconic First investors have a vision for a future built in a digital context. They will provide funding, as well as strategic, business development, and communications support, to portfolio companies based in the greater New York City area, the San Francisco Bay area, and Israeli. He previously led the U.S. operations of Edelman and joined the firm in 2010 as China President. He has extensive experience helping global brands such as General Motors, Procter & Gamble and United Airlines integrate compelling digital and media strategies into reputation management, brand-building, crisis management, and CSR programs. Mark previously founded MH Group Communications, a New York-based firm now part of Edelman Digital. He is also the former Global CEO of MS&L Worldwide and President of Hass Associates, a Michigan-based PR firm known for its digital communications. He is a trustee of the Institute for Public Relations and a member of the Arthur Page Society. Earlier in his career, Mark worked as a reporter and editor in Washington, Miami, and Detroit, where his staff won the Pulitzer Prize and where he was part of a team that created one of the nation’s first comprehensive newspaper websites in 1993.

Mauro Pretolani is a Senior Partner at Fondo Italiano d' Investimento SGR SpA, which he joined in February 2015. He recently participated in the launch of the new FII Tech Growth fund, on behalf of which he is also a board member of the portfolio company BeMyEye, Everli, Healthware and Termo. Mauro has over 20 years of technology investment experience in Europe, USA, Israel and China. Since 1999, Mauro has served as a General Partner of TLcom Capital LLP, participating in the management of the company, fundraising and the management of TLcom I and II funds. Mauro was also an independent director of Seat Pagine Gialle (PG.MI) from 2012 to 2015. Since 2016 Mauro has been a board member of MotorK on a personal basis. Over the years Mauro has also been an operational role in technology companies, such as Executive Chairman, CEO and EVP sales. Mauro worked for Bain & Company as Manager for Proctor & Gamble in both Marketing and Finance. He graduated in Economics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and obtained an MBA "with distinction" from Harvard Business School.

Michael is the Co-Founder and CEO of Forter, the leading payment fraud prevention solution. Prior to founding Forter, Michael was the VP Product & International Operations at Pango Parking where he was in charge of the deployment and adoption of Mobile Wallet technologies worldwide. In 2008, before its acquisition by PayPal, Michael led Product at Fraud Sciences, where he faced some of the most challenging questions in the cyber security ecosystem. Michael’s fascination with online fraudsters began following a successful “self experimentation with the Internet” phase as a teenager and an even more successful period of service as an intelligence officer in the early days of the Israeli Cyber Command.

Leveraging over 15 years of high-tech industry experience, Michal is the founder and Managing Partner of Eva Ventures. Michal is responsible for the firm’s vision and values, business development, and all operations. Prior of becoming an investor, Michal made her career in Product, Marketing and Strategic consulting. Michal developed her passion for high tech and belief in the value of entrepreneurship early in her career – as a young Product Manager at Comverse (CMVT), as the head of Roaming Services at Pelephone (Israel’s first Mobile operator), through many years of Strategy and marketing consulting to a variety of companies, ranging from cutting edge startups to retail and consumers market leaders. Ms. Michaeli received her MBA from the Reccanati School of Business at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her BA from the The College of Management Academic Studies.

Managing partner at Agate Venture, Founder & CEO Matar Capital Advisors. Former Director Business Development, Elron Electronic Industries, part of the IDB group (NASDAQ ELRN). Led Elron's Medical Device sector investments, served on the BOD of Elbit Vision Systems, Nulens, AMT, 3DV Systems & others. Former Head of investment banking Israel at ING Barings, the investment banking arm of ING Group. Vice President Investment Banking, Cukierman & Co., where he managed private placements and IPOs in Europe. Israel's Economic Consul in Boston, & Commercial Attache to South Korea. B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Member of the Technion Alumni 100 Club.

Before becoming Chairman of gigas, Moisés Israel was a partner of Atlas Capital, where he led mergers and acquisitions in the hosting and communications sector, among others. He served as CEO of Internet provider Ya.com from 2000 to 2003, which was later acquired by T-Online (Deutsche Telekom). His previous experience is in investment banking for major financial institutuions including Citibank, Santander Investment and Merrill Lynch. He has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Technion Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Gursahaney is the president and chief executive officer, and a member of the board of directors, of The ADT Corporation, a leading provider of electronic security, interactive home and business automation and monitoring services for residences and small businesses in North America. Prior to ADT’s separation from Tyco in September 2012, he served as president of Tyco’s ADT North American Residential business segment and was previously president of Tyco Security Solutions, then the world’s largest electronic security provider to residential, commercial, industrial and governmental customers.Gursahaney joined Tyco in 2003 as senior vice president of operational excellence. He then served as president of Tyco Engineered Products and Services and its Flow Control business. Prior to joining Tyco,Gursahaney spent 10 years in leadership roles at General Electric, including general management, marketing, business development and information technology. He was president of GE Medical Systems Asia, chief information officer of GE Medical Systems and vice president of service for GE Medical Systems Asia. Before GE, he served with global consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton and began his career as an engineer with Westinghouse Electric in the U.S. and Israel.Gursahaney has been a director of NextEra Energy since July 2014

Noam Rathaus currently works as an Investor for Vicarius. He previously worked at Israel Defense Forces as a Security Specialist. Noam Rathaus attended the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Noam Wolf is the CEO of Marketman. He attended the Open University of Israel.

Oded is responsible for leading Zoom's Product Management. He brings more than 15 years of product experience to the Zoom team, providing in depth knowledge in video-centric collaboration and hands-on experience in building large-scale, cloud-based services. Before joining Zoom, Oded held leadership positions in video conferencing and unified communications product management. He was VP of Product Management at Blue Jeans Network and head of UC integrations at Cisco Webex. Oded has also served as Director of Business Development at Radvision. Oded holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).

Ofer is a people's person. That’s how he looks at deals. He is always eager to meet extraordinary entrepreneurs, make introductions, help develop teams, and work strategically for our companies. Ofer has over 20 years of extensive experience managing, investing in and selling companies, as CEO and a GP in one of the most successful 2000 vintage VC funds. Prior to co-founding Inimiti, Ofer co-founded and managed Delta Ventures, a seed and early stage Israeli fund. He had an active role in building portfolio companies from the ground up and assisting in more advanced stages by serving as a member of their boards. Before Delta Ofer was president of Jacada (NASDAQ: JCDA), bringing the company from the startup stage to an international, public company. Ofer is a board member of FiftyOne Inc., Broadlight Inc. and ClickFox, Inc. (all international companies with aggregated revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars) and was a fighter pilot at the Israeli Air Forces. He holds a BSA in Economics and a BA in Business Administration from Haifa University.

Ofir Eyal Bar, a successful businessman, digital marketing entrepreneur and Real Estate investor. With more than 15 years of experience in global financial markets as a real estate entrepreneur and investor. Ofir’s experience and go-getter approach has rewarded him with a wide variety of successful real estate investments. Ofir was born in Israel and owns several properties, including residential and commercial real estate properties in Israel as well as London. He is also the owner of multiple mines in Africa.

Omer Goldberg is the Founder and CEO of Chaos Labs. He previously worked at Instagram as a Tech Lead. Omer Goldberg attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Philippe is an intra and entre-preneur in business building services. He recently joined Eggsplore's co-founders as Managing Partner. Until 07/2016, Philippe was a Partner in the Brussels office of McKinsey&Company, which he joined in 1995. After being elected a Partner in 2000, he ideated, designed, launched and led McKinsey Solutions, from late 2006 to early 2015. He then set up and led McKinsey Scale Up, McKinsey's efforts to help fast growing tech companies in Europe and Israel in achieving higher performance, and especially in better working with corporates. He is now setting to continue working as a bridge between corporates and start-ups, between markets and innovation ecosystems, and between selected service providers (a.o. McKinsey) and those needing support.

Based in Silicon Valley, Richard co-founded Pond in 1997 and brings over 15 years operating experience including P&L management and 17 years in venture capital. He raised & invested 3 VC funds totaling $236M, is very active in portfolio companies mentoring management, & helped companies raise over $300M in VC, achieve $1.4B in acquisitions, and raise $75M in IPOs. Richard currently serves as Chairman of Emefcy Ltd. (Israel), Board member at ACCO Semiconductor (Sunnyvale, Paris), & observer at Mantis Vision (Israel). Prior Boards include picoChip (acquired by Mindspeed 2/12), Nanotech Semiconductor (acquired by Gennum 4/11, now Semtech), 4Home (acquired by Motorola Mobility 12/10), Gigle Networks (acquired by Broadcom 12/10), Transitive (acquired by IBM 12/08), YAC (acquired by J2 Global 7/07), Artisan Software (management buyout 4/07), SealedMedia (acquired by Stellent 8/06, now Oracle), Eccord Systems (assets acquired by Codima 8/03), Microcosm Communications (acquired by Conexant 1/00, now Mindspeed). Richard has a B.Sc. (1st Class Hons.) and an M.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Manchester University.