Anton is currently a head of corporate development projects at Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX), #1 technology ecosystem in Russia & CIS and one of Europe's largest technology companies.

Prior to Yandex, Anton worked for 7 years in various roles in investment banking and principal investments in Sberbank Group, the largest financial institution in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Anton also advises and invests in fast growing companies.

Roi Bar-Kat is an Investment Director at Intel Capital, focusing on investment opportunities related to Israel. Roi 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, semi-conductors, 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.

Alex is a Partner at Relay Ventures. Alex’s background in strategy and finance lend well to his roles overseeing Relay Ventures’ investments in a broad range of financial services and connected device companies. Prior to joining Relay Ventures, Alex worked as a management consultant with BearingPoint and PwC Consulting, specializing in retail banking, consumer and commercial credit card, and loyalty marketing solutions. Alex has managed large projects for some of the world’s most prominent financial institutions, including Visa, American Express, Bank of America, BarclayCard and PayPal. Alex is a graduate from York University, Schulich School of Business and is a Kauffman Fellow. Alex is based in our Toronto office.

Claudia is Investment Manager at Scail Capital. Scail Capital is a venture capital firm based in Switzerland that invests in attractive retail and consumer-related investment opportunities. Main sources of inspiration are the digital transformation and disruptive shifts in consumption. Claudia is responsible for target screening, leading due diligence processes and creating a value-add approach for portfolio companies. She initiated her career at Monitor Deloitte Brazil and Argentina, managing a variety of strategy projects across several industries. Before joining Scail Capital, Claudia worked for the retail and consumer goods investment division of the family office Península Participações in São Paulo. She holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and International Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas São Paulo, Brazil and completed the course Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital at Harvard Business School.

Dr. Paolo Bavaj is Head of Corporate Venturing for Henkel Adhesive Technologies.

He joined the Adhesive Technologies business unit of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA as Corporate Director Strategy and Business Development in December 2010. In April 2013, he became Head of New Business Development, with responsibility for identifying and evaluating innovation opportunities through strategic Foresight Management, Scouting, Start-up Screening, Venturing and Incubation.

He joined Celanese Chemicals in 1996, where he worked in Operations, New Business Development and led then a global R&D and New Business Development team, gained experience as Area Sales Manager in the United States, and ran the Celanese Emulsions Textile and Engineered Fabrics business in Europe as well as their global Glass Fiber business.

Paolo holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany.

Barak manages BGV’s operations in Israel & Europe and is responsible for identifying and mentoring the relevant companies in BGV’s portfolio.

Prior to BGV Barak held various management positions at several investment firms in Russia, France and in leading Israeli Incubators. At this capacity Barak led dozens of investment transactions and worked closely with CEO’s of early-stage companies.

Before his tenure as an investor Barak was a co-Founder and held C-level positions at several Israeli technology start-up companies, including CEO of Flash Networks, GM of European Operations at Business Layers, and CEO of Prolify.

Barak is also an Investment Committee Member at the Israel Innovation Authority, and an Advisory Board Member, mentor and a panelist at several international acceleration programs, including at the Technion’s BizTEC Program, IBM AlphaZone Accelerator, Samsung’s Runway Acceleration Program, and others.

In addition, Barak teaches MBA-level seminars in Entrepreneurship at leading universities, including at NYU, the Technion, and Tel-Aviv University in Israel, ENPC in France, GIST in Korea and Tsinghua University in China.

Barak holds an MBA and a Doctorate of Business Administration, with honors, from the International School of Management, Paris, France and a B.Sc. in Information Systems, with honors, from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

Lars Böhnisch is an Investment Manager at Evonik Venture Capital GmbH. Prior to joining the team, Lars was heading the External Growth / M&A department at Evonik Resource Efficiency GmbH. Between 2012 and 2014 he worked in different strategy functions within Evonik. Before he joined Evonik in 2012, Lars worked as a M&A manager within the E.ON group. In his final position, he was responsible for the management and implementation of national and international acquisition and investment projects at E.ON Climate & Renewables GmbH. Lars studied economics in Bochum and Cork (Ireland).

Justin is the Founder and Managing Partner at Ibex Investors, a Denver-based investment firm. Prior to Ibex, Justin worked at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. in both the private equity and investment banking groups in New York and London. Justin has served on the Board of Directors of several non-profits including the Anti-Defamation League and Colorado Public Radio. In his spare time, he also became a syndicated cartoonist for over a decade with a daily comic strip appearing regularly in over 300 newspapers across the country. Justin graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics.

Dr. Leslie Broudo-Mitts currently serves on the faculty of Tel Aviv University, where she also runs the Coller Institute of Venture and the Sofaer Global MBA Program. Leslie previously built and led the largest entrepreneurship practicum at the Wharton School for high-growth ventures. Prior to moving to Tel Aviv, she was CEO of a University – associated venture fund that invested in education technology ventures globally.
Leslie received her MBA from the Wharton School with a concentration in Decision Sciences, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tony Cannestra is the Director of Corporate Ventures for DENSO International America (DIAM). DIAM is the U.S. subsidiary of DENSO Corporation, once of the world’s largest auto parts and systems suppliers. Mr. Cannestra’s primary responsibility is to identify, and invest in, startup companies working on new technologies that are of strategic interest to DENSO’s future product roadmap. Prior to joining DENSO, Mr. Cannestra worked as an Independent Consultant helping clients with startup technology discovery in Silicon Valley. Prior to his work as an Independent Consultant, Mr. Cannestra was Executive Vice President of Ignite Group, a venture capital company based in Silicon Valley.

Jaewon Peter Chun founded XnTREE, an in-house global accelerator of Level39, the largest open tech cluster in Europe. XnTREE has nurtured a number of startups in the field of blockchain, fintech, AI, data analytics and smart city solutions. Mr. Chun is also President of World Smart Cities Forum (WSCF), a non-profit organisation based in London, UK, which assists local governments, projects and NGOs to build and develop credible smart cities around the world

Eilat heads Kimberly Clark Corporation’s Global Digital Innovation Lab, leading new ventures and disruptive innovations for the company. Eilat has a strong background in entrepreneurial initiatives and has led business development, M&A and investments in IoT, SW, Internet, mobile and physical sciences spaces for both startups and large corporate. Prior to Kimberly Clark, Eilat established and headed a global Start up collaboration framework for the Telecom Industry where she took an instrumental part in shaping Open Innovation strategies for large corporates such as AT&T & SingTel Group including establishing innovation centers and new business lines to enable growth.

Adrian Daniels' practice involves a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings and complex finance transactions.

Adrian has extensive expertise in U.S. securities laws, has represented issuers in public and follow-on offerings in the United States, and advises Israeli companies on ongoing SEC and NASDAQ matters.

Adrian also has extensive experience in day to day corporate matters, providing young companies with legal advice on a full range of routine and complex corporate and commercial issues.
Adrian is also active in managing the firm's pro bono practice and leads the firm’s cryptocurrency practice.
Adrian joined the firm in 2000 and became a partner in 2006.
Adrian received his law degree from Leeds University in 1991 and an M.A in Middle Eastern Studies from London University in 1992. He is a Wolfson Scholar of Lincoln`s Inn.
Adrian was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1993 and to the Israel Bar in 1997.

Christophe is a Vice President of Centrica Innovations leading its Venture Capital effort deploying £100m over the next five years. He started his career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch in London before joining the Private Equity firm TowerBrook Capital Partners where he focused on growth equity investments and leverage buyouts in a variety of industries. Following his MBA, Christophe joined Centrica, a FTSE 100 company, in the group M&A team and later leading the European gas origination team as part of Centrica Marketing and Trading. In 2014, Christophe moved to North America where Direct Energy, a subsidiary of Centrica is the largest competitive energy retailers. He was part of the M&A team where amongst other things, he led the acquisition of Panoramic Power, an energy management and intelligence company. Most recently, he was Chief of Staff to the CEO of Direct Energy.

Christophe has a BA in Economics and International Affairs from Colorado College, a Finance graduate degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Christophe is married with three children.

Adam has served as a Managing Director of Ibex Investors since April 2016. Prior to joining Ibex, Adam was Chief Investment Officer at BlueM Capital, a single family office, responsible for asset allocation, investment analysis and manager selection. Prior to joining BlueM Capital, Adam was a partner at a hedge fund. Before that, Adam managed a $300 million global consumer portfolio at Millennium Partners. Previously, he was a sector analyst at Vardon Capital Management. He started his career in 1998 as an Analyst in the Industrial Group at Salomon Smith Barney. Adam graduated magna cum laude from University of Maryland with a B.S. in Economics.

Dr. Petros Farah joined Vickers in 2019 and is based in London. His technical expertise is in AI and nanotechnology.

Before joining Vickers, Petros worked in AI and strategy consulting in London. While at Monitor Deloitte he helped some of the UK’s largest retailers use AI to inform their strategic decisions and developed customised AI models for them. Prior to that he worked at a boutique London strategy firm helping multi-national Oil & Gas companies take complex decisions by leveraging decision and data science.

Petros received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in the field of NanoPhotonics (Physics), investigating the ultrafast properties of plasmonics and metamaterials. In parallel to his academic work, he was involved in tech transfer projects at the university through the i-teams program.

Christian is the founder and CEO of GreenCom Networks, a leading European energy IoT company. GreenCom enables new business models for utilities, ESCOs, and OEMs in a distributed, renewable and customer-centred energy world. Before, Christian was the founding father and Managing Director for Smart Grid at Cisco Systems and spent more than 20 years working in the utility industry for the management consultancies A.T. Kearney and Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds a PhD in business administration from the University of Hohenheim

Ed Frank founded Axis Innovation on the principle that the right team can connect the right people and bring great ideas to life. With broad experience in the telecom, media and technology sectors, Ed has focused on strategic and operational issues as a corporate investor, consultant and entrepreneur.

Previously, Ed served as CEO of IDT Ventures, a division of IDT Corporation (NYSE:IDT) which invested in several companies that led to high-profile exits including Hopstop (to Apple) and LateNiteLabs (to Macmillan). He created the IDT Startup Bootcamp to connect early stage startups with co-investors which was a springboard for the creation of Bootcamp Ventures which he co-founded. Ed dedicates significant time mentoring startups and has an MBA and BS in Engineering, both from Columbia University.

Prior to running Amdocs Ventures, Moshe was an M&A “dealmaker” for Amdocs and was responsible for the acquisitions of Vubiquity, Vindicia, UXP, BriteBill and cVidya. Prior to Amdocs, Moshe was an investment banker with Deutsche Bank and Jefferies and graduated from Princeton University with High Honors.

As the head of the Visa Innovation studio Tel-Aviv, Shahar is responsible for driving Visa’s activities with the Tech eco-system in Israel including venture investments, POC’s and commercial partnerships. He began at Visa as the head of digital market development in South East Europe, responsible for the expansion of digital propositions in nine markets. Shahar led the engagement with Visa clients and partners in the region to help them plan and deliver their digital transformation. Prior to joining Visa in 2013, Shahar worked at OTI, one of the global pioneers of contactless payments technologies where he assumed different leadership roles of product development and professional services teams in the US and Israel. He is an experienced professional, with strong technical and business understanding of the payments industry, new trends, and emerging technologies. Shahar majored in Computer Science at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yafo, and obtained an MBA from City University of NY.

At Sistema_VC Iskander is focused on investments in products built around AI/ML, cognitive technologies, complex software solutions, virtual network infrastructure, big consumer internet platforms with the potential to disrupt a certain industry. Sistema_VC is a venture capital firm investing in tech companies in Europe, Russia and Israel. Sistema_VC invested in SQream, VisionLabs, TraceAir, Connecterra, DataSine, SenSat, and others.



Iskander holds MBA degree of Fordham University (USA) and master’s degree in Global Management of Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA). Prior to Sistema_VC he was into M&A, assets management and restructuring in JSFC Sistema, VimpelCom, also counselling for Alliance UniChem (Alliance Healthcare) and other businesses.

Orly is a Partner at Vintage, where she leads the Value-Added Services team tasked with bringing startup digital innovation to solve corporate challenges. Based on thousands of relationships with major corporations and an ecosystem of startups in the Vintage network, Orly is the go-to for corporate executives seeking solutions to pain-points by way of the Vintage venture capital network with 6,500+ startups globally.

David Goldschmidt, aka Dede, is VP & Managing Director, Head of Europe & Israel at Samsung Catalyst Fund. Prior to joining Samsung, he served as General and Managing Partner at Valley VC and Mofet Technology Fund. Earlier in his career, Dede held operational roles in the telecom industry, including executive Marketing and Product Management position at ADC (Israel), and Business Development for Teledata Communications, that was acquired by ADC.

A business development professional with deep understanding of the startup ecosystem. 10 years of international experience, specializing in the online market. Vast experience in investments, M&A and strategic partnership management. Proven track record of identifying new business opportunities, building strong relationships, developing partnerships and increasing company revenue and user reach through innovative and creative strategies. A strategic thinker with great project management skills, passionate about technology and enthusiastic about contributing from my experience to drive startups growth.

Miles has 15 years of venture and growth experience and a background forming and running new ventures and 34 patents applied for around the world.
He Previously ran Qualcomm’s Venture Capital Group in Europe as well as formed and ran Qualcomm’s new business incubator. He holds an BA in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bristol University and an MBA from the University of California

Tanja has 4 years of venture experience. Prior to working as investment manager at Fluxunit, Tanja has founded a venture in the AR/VR space. She has profound knowledge in Design Thinking having studied at the Center for Design Research at Stanford University. She has a very diverse background holding a BS in nutritional science/biomedicine, conducting immunoncology research, as well as holding a MS in Management from Technical University of Munich.

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Fluxunit is the venture capital arm of OSRAM and invests in high tech startups in the automotive, sensing, horticultural as well XR space. Fluxunit seeks to accelerate growth by leveraging OSRAM’s leading position in the photonic industry having access to a global network of industrial and technological expertise.

Tim Lafferty is the Chief Operating Officer of Mawsonia, a publishing, data and events company founded in 2010 which serves the needs of three distinct venture communities – corporates, universities and governments. Members of the Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Leadership Society, can access news and data about corporates taking minority equity stakes in startups as well as connecting with each other at world-renowned conferences and development programs.

Similarly, Global University Venturing (GUV) addresses the needs of universities around the world that take equity stakes in their own spinouts, an increasingly important development in the funding of start-ups. Global Government Venturing GGV writes about how governments support their innovation ecosystems.

Tim has worked in media for over twenty-five years. Prior to Mawsonia, Tim was the Director of Marketing and Product Sales for Dow Jones in Europe overseeing brands including The Wall Street Journal, Financial News and Private Equity News. Previously he held senior roles at BusinessWeek and Readers’ Digest following a ten year career as an officer in the Royal Navy. He is based in Mawsonia’s head office in London.

Jeremy spends much of his time physically on the ground in Israel, where he has developed a strong international network of Israeli companies, investors, entrepreneurs, bankers, accountants and local lawyers. He currently coordinates and helps lead DLA Piper's development efforts and initiatives cultivating international business emanating from Israel, serves as a liaison for Israeli clients seeking legal guidance in non-Israeli jurisdictions where DLA Piper has a presence, and provides guidance to non-Israeli clients evaluating business relationships and strategic partners within Israel.
Jeremy directly represents and oversees a significant number of key Israeli relationships that have touched upon more than 35 different international jurisdictions and more than 40 DLA Piper global offices. These clients cover virtually all sectors of the Israeli economy, including leading venture capital and private equity funds, institutional real estate investors and multiple companies in the biotech, high tech (software, Internet and semiconductors), telecommunications, industrial, food/beverage, agro-tech, defense, homeland security and gaming sectors.
In addition, Jeremy maintains a focused US-component of his practice that operates at the intersection of corporate, real estate and hospitality law. He assists public and private companies, private equity funds and cash flow lenders in business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, senior and mezzanine debt financings, equity investments and joint ventures. In addition, Jeremy has significant experience in the hospitality industry, including transactions on hotels involving franchise and management portfolios (development and ongoing operations) as well as joint ventures and equity investments in hotel/resort projects. He also provides general corporate representation to a number of clients, among them real estate development companies.

Jillian Manus is an experienced banking and media executive, a technology investor and entrepreneur. She is the Managing Partner of Structure Capital, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. In her role with Structure Capital, Jillian provides strategic support to founding teams focused on creating value in underutilized assets and excess capacity. She also serves on the boards of several of her portfolio companies.

Prior to Structure Capital, Jillian was Founder of Broad Strategy, Manus Media and Global Goal Sports Management.
Earlier in her career, Jillian worked in banking and media, serving as M&A co-director of TMT for Credit Suisse Zurich, and later as Director of Development for Universal and Warner Bros. Studios.

Jillian has chaired the Board of The Women's Conference, where she helped to create the world’s largest conference addressing issues important to women. Jillian is an active philanthropist and sits on the boards of Stanford University Digital Health, Stanford University School of Medicine Board of Fellows, DukeEngage, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Communities in Schools.

Jillian attended The University of Oxford and NYU, where she served on the Board of Trustees. She was named one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business 2016 by the San Francisco Business Times.

With over 20 years’ experience in financing technology companies at all stages of growth, Alex joined Silicon Valley Bank in 2010 and works closely with technology companies and the venture capital community to deliver financial services and debt solutions, and leverages Silicon Valley Bank’s global network to help companies succeed.

Prior to joining Silicon Valley Bank, Alex was Investment Manager at venture capital fund TTP Ventures, where he invested in and managed a number of portfolio companies. In 2001, Alex also co-founded TISS Ltd. to develop a range of security systems for commercial vehicles. As Managing Director, Alex raised several rounds of venture capital funding and helped TISS to grow and achieve global sales to logistics companies including TNT, DHL, UPS and Mercedes. He successfully exited the business in 2007 after selling part of his stake to a Family Office. Alex holds an Investment Management Certificate from the UK Society of Investment Professionals.

Brad McManus is managing director at Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. The mission of Motorola Solutions Venture Capital is to accelerate sustainable growth through investments in new technologies, new businesses and new talent. Brad’s role is to oversee the strategic venture unit, which actively identifies, analyzes, invests in and manages compelling and relevant startups strategic to the core and emerging businesses of the corporation.

Corporate venture investing enables access to external seeds of innovation and offers unique engagement strategies for successful business outcomes. Motorola Solutions is also a strategic partner and LP in the Labs/02 Incubator, based in Jerusalem, Israel. The incubator develops and funds promising, seed stage startups in cooperation with Our Crowd.

Brad is a veteran strategic venture investor. His background includes heading Panasonic’s venture investment group for over eleven years. He has also advised dozens of other corporations in the building of their internal strategic investment arms with the objective of seeking innovation and new business growth by partnering in targeted vertical markets.

Looking for early stage energy related companies and more specifically at the areas of: Distributed Energy & Power, Connected Home, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, IOT, Electric Vehicle, Big Data and Analytics.

Idan has been actively engaged in the Israeli startup scene in the last 15 years, from SW engineer position in a startup ( P-cube) that was later acquired by Cisco, to a principal investor in one of Israel’s largest VCs, Evergreen Ventures ( $700M under management). Following that, Idan joined a startup team in Alcatel-Lucent that initiated a new business unit for telecom cloud infrastructure. Recently, he was been the CEO of PeoplePost, a Social Travel Startup which provided a platform for travelers to share their experiences, recommendations and make their hotel bookings.

In his experience as a VC he led the investment process in early stage companies. Areas of interest included Semiconductors ( Siklu, OptimalPlus), Mobile ( Inneractive, acquired by Fyber) and clean-tech ( Pentalum -wind energy , acquarius – wastewater treatment ).

Idan holds a BA in Computer Science and Economics from Tel-Aviv Academic College and MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Michal Mravec is an investment manager at Inven Capital (http://www.invencapital.cz/), a Czech Republic based venture capital fund focusing on investments in mid to later stage smart energy startups in Europe and Israel. Michal has joined Inven in 2016 and since then has been responsible for three investments: Sunfire (Board Observer), Cloud&Heat (Board Observer) and Driivz (Board Member), assisting also in other numerous opportunities and investment. His previous professional experience includes managing operations of a technological startup; working in the strategy department of the largest Central European utility CEZ, with focus on market analysis, forecasting, plant optimization and trading support; and research activities at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences with emphasis on energy market liberalization. Michal holds a PhD in economics and a masters degree in computer science.

Talia Rafaeli serves as an Investment Director with Porsche Ventures, the investment arm of Porsche AG. In this capacity Talia both invests in, and partners with, promising technology startups in the areas of smart mobility, emerging automotive technologies, Industry 4.0 and digital lifestyle. She also oversees the investments Porsche has made in leading venture capital funds in the Israel ecosystem. Prior to joining Porsche, Talia spent six years as a venture capital investor at two prominent Israel-focused enterprise software funds, Gemini Israel Ventures and StageOne Ventures. She began her career as an investment banker focusing on transactions in the tech & retail sectors at leading global financial institutions including Goldman Sachs (New York) and Barclays Capital (London), with a short stint as an IT consultant at Accenture. She received her MBA from Columbia University’s Business School, and completed her undergraduate studies in Economics and Computer Science at Emory University in Atlanta.

Benjamin Rohé is an entrepreneur who co-founded a public company amongst other startups and has worked in the tech, renewable energy, digital space since 1997. He started his first company at the age of 17 and has been investing time and money into startups throughout Europe since 2007. He has given talks and lectures at different European Universities as well as at various European startup and economic conferences. In 2011 his business angel investment activities became more structured by forming angelfund.vc and bringing in an advisory board of industry experts. Benjamin also served as a Partner in the Venture Capital Funds of Redalpine Venture Partners AG in Switzerland. He is an accredited investor by the European Investment Fund (EIF - EAF). He co-authored several books and industry specific articles.
Benjamin founded GERMANTECH in 2014. He serves today as Founder and Chairman of the Board. Founding Partners and Industry Partners include Noerr LLP, Union Investment, TishmanSpeyer, RWE, Henkel and 2 foundations.

Hans-Peter Rohner, born 1953, swiss-citizen, mgmt-education by IMD, spent my entire business-life in media, communication, advertising in Switzerland and abroad. From 2002 to 2012 CEO of Publigroupe (world-wide-actif organization for advertising-and-media-service, 3000 employees), from 2009 to 2014 Chairman of Publigroupe. In parallel various board-seats in large media-corporations in Switzerland, India, HongKong and other countries. First Internet-investment in 1995, since then created/supported/initiated more then 30startups. Today private investor, mainly in the field of Digital Signage, DigitalMedia, Data-Analytics, VR-applications.

Responsible for investing and managing a sector diversified portfolio of participations in tech companies spread across Europe, US and Israel. Board member for Texel, an Israeli technology start-up active in the immersive experience sector (i.e. virtual, augmented and mixed reality).

10 years of experience in banking and advisory roles in Europe. Since 2009 at UBS working across M&A, Strategy & Corporate Development and Asset Management departments. Business Development Director in UBS Real Estate & Private Markets group between 2015 and 2017, where he successfully contributed in raising over EUR 1bn of equity from institutional investors.

Master degree in Finance and Bachelor degree in Economics from Bocconi University.

Mr. Emek Sadot is the CEO of FSIGHT, a company providing Distributed Energy Resource Management SaaS solutions.
Before joining Foresight, Mr. Sadot worked at the Israeli Public Utility Authority and served as a consultant in the field of Smart Grid, Electric Vehicles and Batteries for European utilities and the private sector.
For 5 years, Mr. Sadot was a Senior Director and Head of the Energy Services and Battery group at Better Place.
Prior to that, Mr. Sadot was the R&D Manager and CTO for Avaya USA, leading the Smart Grid, Security, Wireless, and Mobility divisions.

Ulrich Seitz is the Managing Director of BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures, a newly established corporate venture capital firm focusing on digital energy solutions, storage and e-mobility.

With over ten years of experience on the startup scene as founder, management consultant and venture capital manager Ulrich Seitz knows the various perspectives on venture investing profoundly.

Thus he combines an entrepreneurial spirit with the strategic ambition a corporate venture capital firm needs.

He holds a master’s degree in Entrepreneurship and Company Building of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and has a strong passion for motorbikes.

Kristin is the Chief Transformation Officer at Thirdware, where she is leading a nimble start-up team within the company focused on accelerating the adoption of key emerging technologies: Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Distributed Ledgers, and Connectivity & the Internet of Things.
Prior to joining Thirdware, Kristin spent over 3 years at EY as an Executive Director leading the Future of Mobility team in the Americas, where she advised clients in the future of mobility and smart city topics, guiding them to understand how they can be relevant in the future. She utilized innovation methodologies and strategic frameworks in her work. Her understanding of autonomous vehicle technology, connected car and electrification aided her in leading teams to define and implement new mobility business models as well as how to scale those businesses.
Kristin spent over 20 years at Ford Motor Company. From 2012 – 2013 she was the dedicated global lead to define Ford’s overall vision on the future of mobility: determining how to address key macro societal and environmental issues such as “global gridlock” and outlining the fundamental near/mid and long-term technologies required to deliver the plan.

Samuel H. Solomon is a successful entrepreneur and business executive with over 30 years’ experience in the legal, financial and information technology industries. Sam’s unique perspective, eclectic education and varied experience makes him a much sought-after speaker and business consultant. Mr. Solomon founded and led his company, www.doar.com, ultimately generating two capital transactions for the firm and retiring in August 2009.



Today, Sam is Chairman of www.mobideo.com, an Industry 4.0 software platform to optimize complex workflows in the oil and gas/petrochemical industry – with customers including Dow Chemical worldwide and Kock Industries, and recently founded two pro-Israel NGOs www.thehetz.org and www.returnoisrael.org. Sam has an MBA, with distinction, from New York University in Finance; a MS from Bernard Revel Graduate School in Philosophy; Rabbinic Ordination from
Yeshiva University; and a BA from Yeshiva University in Mathematics.



Sam and his wife, Meryl, made Aliyah in 2010 and have two children and a bevy of grandchildren living in Israel. They live in Beit Zayit just outside of Jerusalem.

Evdokia Stavraki-Stephanou joined Alter Domus in April 2015. In her role as a Director of Alter Domus Cyprus, she leads a dedicated team of fund administration and corporate services professionals, servicing high profile clients which include private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private debt managers. Her areas of expertise covers the full breadth of administration and accounting services to these clients. In her role Evdokia has oversight of, and direct involvement in, client relationships. Evdokia is also experienced in being appointed to the board of client entities, discussing new client opportunities and structures, and the subsequent take-on and regulatory processes.
Prior to joining Alter Domus, Evdokia spent 16 years with PwC in Auditing and Corporate Compliance Services departments, 10 of which were achieved as a dedicated auditing professional. In her previous position within Corporate Compliance, Evdokia was a business Senior Manager of international clients covering multiple projects including financial accounting and company administration.
Evdokia’s responsibilities included developing strong relationships whilst managing the affairs of high profile international clients. Prior to that whilst working in the Audit department, Evdokia carried out audits for private holding, trading and financial companies as well as public companies, trusts and provident funds at a local and international level.
Evdokia is a fellow member of ACCA and a member of The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC).

Jonathan is the Technology Strategy and Innovation Director for Centrica Innovations the investment and technology business development team for the group. Centrica is a global energy company based in the UK with operations in Europe and North America. In his role Jonathan defines the future technologies and markets of interest for the business. He brings more than 20 years of experience in Strategic business development and venture capital investment across Europe, Israel and the US. He was previously managing director of BP Ventures focusing on mobility following similar roles at QinetiQ and Carl Zeiss in Germany. Jonathan holds a D.Phil. In Chemistry from Oxford Univesity following undergraduates studies in Chemistry and German.

Jérôme is Founding Partner of Expon Capital : Investor in big ideas with the potential for positive impact & exponential growth. He has been active both as an investor and as an entrepreneur in the technology, telecom and Internet spaces for 25 years. His latest investments include revolutionary big data company Spire Global (space constellation that will save lives, crops and billions in GDP), super fast growing Catalyte, a software development company using predictive analytics to advance human potential in poor neighbourhoods. Jerome likes genius founders embracing highly complex problems to make a positive impact on the world. These crazy people rarely have any competition and end up building highly valuable companies. What keeps him awake at night is finding those unique founders with the combination of intellect, unparalleled insights, grit and courage with the strong conviction that these need to be applied to solving problems that matter for the greater good of mankind.

Emily, who serves as the firm's Los Angeles Office Managing Partner, counsels small to mid-sized businesses in a variety of industries including technology, consumer products, manufacturing, food and beverage, construction and professional services industries on a variety of complex transactional matters. She handles business formation, planning and restructuring and works with startups on strategy and early-stage funding as well as with existing companies on growth and acquisition financing. Emily also handles mergers, acquisitions and other general commercial transactions and provides advice on corporate governance matters. She serves as outside general counsel to a number of clients, advising on day-to-day legal matters.

Additionally, Emily advises venture and angel capital investors on due diligence, negotiation of investment documents and other matters.

Naomi supports the Israel Practice Group. She is responsible for proactively generating new business opportunities with Israeli companies and investors who are doing business around the world. She meets regularly with clients/prospective clients, plans and hosts events, coordinates visits and meetings for our various DLA Piper colleagues who regularly come to Israel, and keeps clients informed on ways DLA Piper can help them meet their legal needs. Naomi assists our international attorneys with obtaining and refining proposals; attends conferences and events to support brand enhancement in the region; and facilitates new client generation through intelligence gathering and networking. She is also responsible for post-event follow up and action items. She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University.

Jack is a founding partner at ICV where he leads the fund’s activities in technologies related to agriculture, food, water and sustainable materials. Jack sits on the board of Groundwork BioAg and as an observer to the boards of Prospera, FRX Polymers, Aqwise and Scodix. Jack also served on the board of Emefcy (ASX:FLC) until its IPO (2016) and Weissbeerger until it was acquired by AB InBev (2018).

Jack brings to his work at ICV over 20 years’ experience in counseling and leading high-growth companies. Prior to establishing ICV, Jack was Vice President and General Counsel of Register.com, guiding the firm as it grew to over $100M in revenues, expanded operations into five countries and completed a successful NASDAQ IPO. Jack began his career as a corporate attorney with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

Jack is active in his community serving as Chairman of the Meitarim School in Ra’anana, on the board of ITIM and as little league coach.

Jack holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.A. in Government from Harvard College, magna cum laude.