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For the second year the Herzliya Conference, the most prestigious Israeli conference traditionally focused on Defense and Diplomatic affairs held together with the Connecting leaders Club a special event focusing on Economic issues. The Israeli echo system, start up’s and universities are internationally renown for it’s innovation spirit and the market place for investor and companies that want to upgrade their internal innovation.
Honored by the exceptional presence of Dr. Henry Kissinger and President Shimon Peres, the event will hosted more than 2500 participants from all around the world for inspiring exchanges and effective networking.
Publications
Dr. Kissinger’s Legacy to Israel, introduction speech by Valérie Hoffenberg
VIDEOS
GALLERY
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger was sworn in on September 22, 1973, as the 56th Secretary of State, a position he held until January 20, 1977. He also served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1969, until November 3, 1975. In July 1983 he was appointed by President Reagan to chair the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America until it ceased operation in January 1985, and from 1984-1990 he served as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. From 1986-1988 he was a member of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy of the National Security Council and Defense Department. He has served as a member of the Defense Policy Board since 2001.
At present, Dr. Kissinger is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. He is also a member of the International Council of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; a Counselor to and Trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; an Honorary Governor of the Foreign Policy Association; and an Honor Member of the International Olympic Committee. Among his other activities, Dr. Kissinger served as a member of the Board of Directors of ContiGroup Companies, Inc. from 1988-2014 and remains an Advisor to the Board, a position he also holds at American Express Company since 2005, after serving on the Board from 1984. He is also a Trustee Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a Director Emeritus of Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.; and a Director of the International Rescue Committee.
Among the awards Dr. Kissinger has received have been a Bronze Star from the U.S. Army in 1945; the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973; the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation’s highest civilian award) in 1977; and the Medal of Liberty (given one time to ten foreign-born American leaders) in 1986.
Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, came to the United States in 1938 and was naturalized a United States citizen in 1943. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1950 and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1952 and 1954.
From 1954 until 1969 he was a member of the faculty of Harvard University, in both the Department of Government and the Center for International Affairs. He was Director of the Harvard International Seminar from 1952 to 1969.
Dr. Kissinger is the author of:
A World Restored: Castlereagh, Metternich and the Restoration of Peace, 1812-1822 (1957);
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957);
The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy (1961);
The Troubled Partnership: A Reappraisal of the Atlantic Alliance (1965);
Problems of National Strategy: A Book of Readings (ed.) (1965);
American Foreign Policy, Three Essays (1969);
White House Years (1979);
For the Record: Selected Statements, 1977-1980 (1981);
Years of Upheaval (1982);
Observations: Selected Speeches and Essays, 1982-1984 (1985);
Diplomacy (1994)
Years of Renewal (1999);
Does America Need a Foreign Policy?: Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century (2001);
Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War (2003);
Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises (2003);and
On China (May 2011);
World Order (September 2014).
He has also published numerous articles on United States foreign policy, international affairs and diplomatic history. His column, syndicated by Tribune Media Services International, appears in leading U.S. and international newspapers.
Dr. Kissinger is married to the former Nancy Maginnes and is the father of two children by a previous marriage.
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President Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres, (born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923) is a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and he was a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President.
He held several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after Israel’s War of Independence. His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952, and Director-General from 1953 until 1959. During his career, he has represented five political parties in the Knesset: Mapai, Rafi, the Alignment, Labor and Kadima, and has led Alignment and Labor. Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that he participated in as Israeli Foreign Minister, producing the Oslo Accords.
Peres was nominated in early 2007 by Kadima to run in that year’s presidential election, and was elected by the Knesset to the presidency on 13 June 2007 and sworn into office on 15 July 2007 for a seven-year term. He is the first former Prime Minister to be elected President of Israel. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he was the world’s oldest head of state.
In 2008, Peres was honorarily appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.
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Iris Beck-Codner - Corporate Marketing & Communications at TEVA
Iris Beck-Codner, is Group Executive Vice President Corporate Marketing & Communications in Teva since April 2013. Iris is a member of Teva’s global leadership team. Her group is responsible for Teva’s global corporate marketing and communications strategy and the company’s CSR activities. The core focus of her group is around planning and implementing the company’s transformation and adapting it to the present and future challenges, to include the shaping and launch of Teva’s global brand.
Prior to joining Teva, Mrs. Beck-Codner served as Group CEO, McCann Erickson Israel, where she was responsible for overseeing the Media, Digital and Creative Advertising business. Prior to that, Mr. Beck-Codner served as Chief Marketing Officer at Orange Telecommunications in Israel, overseeing Brand Proposition, Product & Services, Customer Retention & Acquisition, and Content Generation. Between 1996 and 2002 she held various executive positions with Unilever Israel, the last being General Manager of the Home & Personal Care business. Mrs. Beck-Codner has a Master’s degree in Marketing & Business Administration from the University of Bar Ilan, Israel and a BA in Economics, from the University of Haifa, Israel. She is also a Graduate of THNK, Amsterdam, the School of Creative Leadership and social entrepreneurship.
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Gerald ``Jerry`` Sanders - Chairman and CEO of SkyTran Inc.
Gerald Jay (“Jerry”) Sanders is the Chairman and CEO of SkyTran Inc., a NASA Space Act company. He is the subject of a popular Harvard Business School case study on entrepreneurship and serves as an Associate Fellow and guest lecturer at Oxford University’s Saïd Graduate School of Business. Sanders is also the founder of San Francisco Science™, a storied technology group, and of The Triana Group™, an EU/US technology accelerator. Sanders serves as US State Department accredited Honorary Consul for The Republic of Haiti, as a Director of the French American School of San Francisco, and as an advisor to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI).
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Gil Golan - General Motors Advanced Technical Center Israel
Gil Golan leads General Motors’ (GM) Advanced Technical Center Israel. Gil joined GM in 1999 and has severed in several leading management positions in the corporation including: Managing Director of the GM-UMIT JV and Director of Global Strategy for R&D Labs based in Michigan. In 2008, Gil returned to Israel and established Advanced Technical Center Israel (ATCI) as a new GM entity. The ATCI site incorporates some of the world’s best talent (scientists and engineers) who lead work on cutting edge non-traditional automotive technologies such as: Autonomous Vehicles, Connectivity, Infotainment, User Experience and Cybersecurity. Gil is also a member of GM Ventures team, with oversight responsibilities for investment opportunities in the Israeli ecosystem. Additionally, the Israeli site also takes part in supporting GM’s procurement from an Israeli supply base (local portfolio size ~ $100M/yr).
Golan received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School - executive education as well as GM-Stanford University, Graduate Business School program.
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René Pierre Azria - Senior Partner at LionTree Advisors
Mr. Azria, an investment banker in Manhattan for the past 30 years, specializes in financial and strategic transactions in the US, Europe and Asia. He started his banking career in 1981 in Tokyo, Japan and has accumulated over $200 billion of successful advisory assignments throughout his career.
Mr. Azria is a Senior Partner at LionTree Advisors, a fast-growing investment bank based in New York City and focused on the Technology, Media, Communications and Consumer sectors. Prior to joining LionTree, Mr. Azria founded and managed a financial advisory boutique for 7 years after spending 11 years as a Worldwide Partner with Rothschild and 8 years as a Managing Director of Blackstone-Indosuez.
Mr. Azria is a director of Phoenix Group plc, a listed UK life insurer, and of Abrams Books and La Martiniere-Le Seuil, two privately owned book publishers.
Mr. Azria holds an MSc. from the HEC School of Management in France, a Trium degree from the London Business School and the NYU Stern Graduate School of Business, as well as a BS in Mathematics. He is conversant in several languages.
Currently, Mr. Azria is a member of the Board of Governors and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee, and chairs the Paris office of the AJC. He also supports and advises a number of other charitable organizations.
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Israel Katz - Minister of Transportation and Road Safety
Yisrael Katz was born in 1955 in Kfar Ahim. He holds a B.A. degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is A resident of Moshav Kfar Ahim, he is married to Ronit with two children.
Yisrael Katz has been a Member of Knesset since 1998, serving as a member of the Knesset Finance, House, Constitution, Law & Justice, Internal Affairs and Environment, and Foreign Affairs & Defense Committees. He has also been a member of the Committee for Public Petitions, the Joint Committee for the Defense Budget, and the Special Committee for Discussion of the Security Service Law.He has also served as President of the Likud Party Convention.
Yisrael Katz served as Minsiter of Agriculture and Rural Development from February 2003 until his resignation in January 2006. In March 2009 he was appointed Minister of Transportation and Road Safety, and reappointed in March 2013.
In May 2015, Yisrael Katz was appointed Minister of Transportation and Road Safety and Minister of Intelligence and a member of the Security Cabinet.
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Dr. Benny Zeevi - Managing General Partner Tel Aviv Venture Partners
Dr. Benny Zeevi is a Managing General Partner at Tel Aviv Venture Partners and leads the fund Life Science investments.
In 2012-15 Dr, Zeevi was the Co-Chairman of the IATI - Israel’s largest non-profit umbrella organization for the High-Tech and Life Science sectors (https://www.iati.co.il ) and Co-Chairman of the IATI Biomed Conference and is deeply involved in the Israeli life sciences and digital health industries.
Dr. Zeevi is a certified Pediatric Cardiologist. From 1990-1998 he was Director of Pediatric Catheterization Unit, Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Israel. Dr. Zeevi was a fellow and a visiting Professor and part-time clinical staff at the Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Dr. Zeevi holds a M.D. degree (Magna Cum Laude) from the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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Guido Pardo-Roques - President & CEO of Royal Philips Israel
Guido Pardo Roques is President and CEO of Philips Israel. Guido also serves as director of business development at Philips global CT business unite. Philips Israel has about 1,000 employees in the areas of Healthcare and wellbeing and focuses on the research, development, production, marketing, sales and service.
Guido studied, first and second degrees in engineering at the Technion and also holds an MBA from the University of Haifa.
Public functions:
Chairman of the healthcare forum of the Israeli Association of Electronics and SW industries (IAESI)
Member of council of the Israeli Association of Electronics and SW industries (IAESI)
Member of council of Israeli Advanced Technologies Industries Association (IATI)
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Yossi Daskal - CEO of Bombardier Israel
After 26 years of military service as an intelligence officer in the IDF, Daskal knew he wanted to keep serving his country and decided to dedicate his life to the development of the Israeli public transportation in general and specifically the rail transportation for the mass.
In 2003, Daskal founded BT’s subsidiary in Israel and to this day he is president of Bombardier Israel, projects manager and the organization’s coordinator of the railway and aviation sectors in Israel and the Middle East.
Bombardier won its first Israeli tender in 2000 and became a pioneer and a co-partner in the tremendous changes in the Israeli Railways and the way the rail transport has been perceived by the government.
Thanks to great government support, Israel enjoys a real rail revolution with a yearly increase of approximately 10% - 15% in the number of train passengers and the numbers keeps rising.
Daskal now aspires to continue the process and fill the existing gaps between the Israeli public transportation and the Western world.
Daskal is married, father of four children and has a Master Degree in Political Science from Haifa University.
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Dan Koller - Head of Financial Markets and International Banking BANK HAPOALIM
Mr. Koller joined Bank Hapoalim in 1999 and was appointed to the Board of Management in 2008. He was appointed Head of Financial Markets in December 2013 and as of February 2016 his responsibilities also include International Banking. Prior to his current positin, Mr. Koller served as Chief Risk Officer (2008-2012) and Head of International Banking (2012-2013). Before joining the Board, he served as ALM Division Manager (2003-2007).
Board Memberships
- Bank Hapoalim (Switzerland) Ltd. – Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Poalim Capital Markets-– Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mr. Koller has BA and Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Prof. Peter J. Fitzgerald - Director, Center for Cardiovascular Technology Stanford University
Prof. Peter Fitzgerald is the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology and Director of the Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL) at Stanford University Medical School. He is an Interventional Cardiologist and has a PhD in Engineering. He is Professor in both the Departments of Medicine and Engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford. Presently, Prof. Fitzgerald’s laboratory includes 17 postdoctoral fellows and graduate engineering students focusing on state-of-the-art technologies in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has led or participated in over 175 clinical trials, published over 550 manuscripts/chapters, and lectures worldwide. He has trained over 150 post-docs in Engineering and Medicine in the past decade. In addition, he heads the Stanford/Asia MedTech innovation program.
Peter has been principle/founder of twenty-one medical device companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has transitioned fourteen of these start-ups to large medical device companies. He serves on several boards of directors, advised dozens of medical device startups as well as multinational healthcare companies in the design and development of new diagnostic and therapeutic devices in the cardiovascular arena. In 2001, Peter was on the founding team of LVP Capital, a venture firm, focused on medical device and biotechnology start-ups in San Francisco. In 2009, he co-founded TriVentures in Israel, which is a venture fund focused on early-mid stage medical technology and digital healthcare.
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Galit Zuckerman - Founder & CEO of Medasense
Galit Zuckerman is the founder and CEO of Medasense, a medical device company specializing in innovative pain monitoring solutions. Galit founded Medasense upon discovering that while advanced algorithms are used frequently in many different industries such as semiconductors, communication, and many others, the discipline of medicine and specifically pain is still left behind. Currently pain is primarily determined by the patients self-reporting and a review of their basic vital signs by medical professionals. This year Medasense will start commercializing its first flagship product PMD200 following seven years of research, publications in the most important scientific journals, and strategic investments from leading global medical technology corporations.
Galit brings over fifteen years of experience in management and R&D, in both startups and large corporations such as Medasense, Applied Material, Seabridge and Nice Systems. In addition, Galit has been a technology consultant for several startup companies in the field of signal and image processing, including BoneTone Communications which was successfully acquired by DSPG Inc in 2011. Galit holds an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (cum laude, Engineering Faculty Excellence Program) and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (cum laude, Adi Lautman special program for outstanding students TAU) from Tel-Aviv University. She is also a graduate of the elite Israeli Defense Forces Haman Talpiot program.
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Moshe Bar-Siman-Tov - Israeli Ministry of Health
Moshe Bar-Siman-Tov is the director general of the Israeli ministry of health.
Prior to the current position, he served as Israel’s Economic Attache to the United States, Based in Washington, DC.
Mr. Bar-Siman-Tov served 11 years in the Budget-Division at the Israeli Ministry of Finance. In his last role at the budget division, Mr. Bar-Siman-Tov was the senior Deputy Director at the Budget Division, Responsible for the social expenditure in the Israeli national budget, including healthcare, education, employment & the welfare system. The role consisted of building the national budget, as long as promoting reforms and structural changes in these fields.
Moshe has both a master’s and bachelor’s degrees in economics and business administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Moshe is married, has four children and lives in Jerusalem.
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Philippe Guez - Managing Director at Rothschild
Philippe Guez was born in Tunisia in 1960. He then moved to France in 1967. He obtained his Baccalaureate in 1979 from the Lycée Carnot in Paris.
Philippe lived in Israel between 1979 to 1986 and graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with a degree in Economics, Accounting and Finance. He also attained an MBA in Finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prior to joining Rothschild in 2011, Philippe worked for Warburg and Deutsche Bank for more than 15 years. He held different management responsibilities in equity, equity capital markets and corporate finance. During his last 5 years at Deutsche Bank, Philippe was the Head of Investment Banking in Paris.
Additionally, Philippe is active in the Jewish community in France with several positions.
He is a member of the Executive Committee of AUJF (the Keren Hayesod arm in France) and is a Board Member at the CCFI (France – Israel Chamber of Commerce).
He was appointed at the head of the council of business leaders France-Israel at Medef International.
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Jambu Palaniappan - Regional General Manager at Uber
Jambu Palaniappan is the Regional General Manager for Uber in the Middle East, Africa and Central Eastern Europe. In this role, Jambu oversees market strategy, expansion and operations for over 25 cities in the region. He joined Uber in the summer of 2012 and has been a key part of Uber’s growth into more than 400 cities across 70+ countries worldwide. Jambu grew up in Silicon Valley and studied Public Policy and Economics at Vanderbilt University.
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YOAV TZRUYA - Partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
Yoav Tzruya brings to Jerusalem Venture Partners over 20 years of experience in Enterprise Software, including C5I and Cyber Security, as well as Digital Media, Content and Telecom VAS. He serves on the board of several JVP companies including ThetaRay, Morphisec, Coro.Net, SCADAfence and Secret Double Octopus. Tzruya also led JVP’s investment in CyActive, the 1st exit out of Beer-Sheva, which today serves as Paypal’s global cyber R&D center. Tzruya holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, as well as an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management’s international program in collaboration with Tel Aviv University.
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Nicolas Moreau - Chairman & CEO at AXA France
Nicolas Moreau is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and has an actuarial degree from the Centre d’Etudes Actuarielles.
From 1988 to 1991, he was an auditor with Arthur Andersen in Paris. In 1991, he joined AXA as Vice-President of the Finance Department and was appointed Senior Vice-President of the AXA Group Finance Department in 1994. In 1997, Nicolas Moreau joined AXA Investment Managers and became Chief Executive Officer of AXA Rosenberg in 1999. In March 2000, he became Chief Operating Officer of AXA Investment Managers. He was appointed Vice-Chairman of AXA Rosenberg in January 2001. Nicolas Moreau also coordinated the private equity business as well as the relationship between AXA Investment Managers and the insurance companies of the AXA Group. In April 2002, Nicolas Moreau was promoted as Chief Executive Officer of AXA Investment Managers and, following his appointment as Group Chief Executive Officer of AXA UK, he became non-executive Chairman of the Board of AXA Investment Managers. Nicolas Moreau was appointed to the Board of AXA UK plc in July 2006. From 2006 to 2010, he was Group Chief Executive of AXA UK.
Since 2003, he has been a member of the AXA Executive Committee and since April 2010, a member of the AXA Management Committee. On October 2010, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of AXA France and Chairman & Chief Executive Officer on March 2012. On January, 2012 Nicolas Moreau took on the additional responsibility of overseeing the worldwide operations of AXA Assistance and AXA Global Direct. Since September 2015, he is also in charge of overseeing AXA Partners, a dedicated unit to develop partnership business globally.
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GADI TIROSH - Managing Partner Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
Gadi Tirosh is managing partner of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) as well as chairman of the board of CyberArk and AnyClip Media. Tirosh also serves on the board of directors of ThetaRay, HexaTier, ComQi and Gamefly. Before joining JVP, he served as corporate vice president of product marketing and member of the executive committee at NDS, a leader in digital pay-TV systems. Prior to NDS, Gadi held a variety of positions in software and Internet-based R&D organizations. Tirosh holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics and an Executive MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Eytan Avriel - Founder of The Marker
Eytan Avriel is a founder of TheMarker, a leading and influential business media provider in Israel. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of TheMarker Magazine and as one of the group’s leading op-ed columnist. Eytan is a frequent guest at many of Israel’s TV and Radio news programs where he comments on business, economic and social issues. Eytan led or co-led the launches of TheMarker website in 2000, TheMarker Finance trading information system (2000), TheMarker Magazine (2001), TheMarker Daily Newspaper (2005), TheMarkerCafé Social Network (2006), TheMarker TV, and numerous other products.
Eytan was business editor and business manager at Reuters Plc, a leading international news and financial data provider. He consulted clients on investment banking, financial IR/PR, and managed a financial information platform that he developed and launched and later sold. Eytan holds a BSc in business and Biology and an MBA, both from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2004, Eytan initiated and led a SEC-sponsored commission to set an ethical code for financial websites. In 2015 he attended the Singularity University. He occasionally lectures at the Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University, the IDC center in Hertzelia and other forums.
Eytan writes on financial markets, macroeconomics and broad socio-economic issues. Some of his columns can be found at https://www.themarker.com/misc/writers/1.436 )in Hebrew) and https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/eytan-avriel-1.392 (in English). He is an IDF Navy underwater expert, and he likes diving, sailing and all matters of off-road activities. His other hobbies include reading economic books, SEC filings, academic research and IMF/OECD reports. Eytan speaks English, French and Hebrew.
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Uri Pasovsky, Senior writer, Calcalist financial newspaper
Uri Pasovsky is a senior writer and columnist for Calcalist, Israel’s leading financial daily, where he been a staff writer since 2012. Uri covers topics at the intersection of economics, finance and innovation, and holds an MBA from Tel Aviv university.
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Yoram Tietz, Managing Partner, EY Israel
Yoram is the Managing partner of EY Israel, the largest accounting firm in Israel. Yoram has been spending most of my career helping the high tech sector globally and in Israel in particular.
With background deeply rooted in the research and development Yoram manage to weave together his knowledge and desire with his job. Yoram has been working with some of the best entrepreneurs and the best developments there is. Fascinated by the way technology enables a profound change in our life and the way we live, combined with healthy curios nature Yoram has been able to use his experience to take part of their journey and help many entrepreneurs achieve their dreams and goals.
Yoram has a vast experience working with entrepreneurs and startups on strategy, finance, growth and fulfillment and with big corporation on similar issues.
With over 30 years of experience Yoram has participated in many M&A’s and IPO’s on NASDAQ and the European and Tel Aviv Public Capital Markets. Yoram has helped many clients in a multitude of issues advising management on strategy, growth and Innovation.
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Nir Erez - Co-Founder & CEO, Moovit
Nir Erez is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience creating and leading technology startups. Nir is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Moovit. He is also a Co-founder and Co-owner of Eyron, a holding group of software companies and a seed investment group. Nir founded and was CEO of ActionBase Corporation, a U.S.based enterprise software company acquired in 2003. He also founded and was COO of Optimal+, a leading software company that revolutionized testing of semiconductors. Prior to founding Moovit in 2011, Nir led the investment arm of Eyron Group focused on early stage software companies. Nir holds a B.Sc. in Physics from Bar Ilan University and is a graduate of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Computer Science Academy.
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AGENDA
THE ECONOMIC EVENT - JUNE 15TH
“The future of insurance, digital banking, media and telecom”
2:10 pm - 3:30 pm Moderator: Mr. Yoram Tietz, Managing Partner, Ernst & Young
Confirmed speakers
- Mr. Nicolas Moreau, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer - AXA France
- Mr. Philippe Guez, Managing Director - Rothschild Group
- Mr. Rene-Pierre Azria, Senior Partner - LionTree
- Mr. Dan Koller, Member of the Board of Management, Head of Financial Markets - Bank Hapoalim
- Prof. Jerry Wind, Lauder Professor; Academic Director, The Wharton Fellows Program; Director, SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management Professor of Marketing - Wharton University
- Mr. Gadi Tirosh, Managing Partner - JVP
“The Mobility Revolution”
4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Moderators: Mr. Eytan Avriel, co-founder of TheMarker and Editor of TheMarker Magazine
Confirmed speakers
- Mr. Jambu Palaniappan, General Manager EMEA - UBER
- Mr. Yossi Daskal, CEO - Bombardier Israel
- Mr. Nir Erez, Co-Founder & CEO - Moovit
- Mr. Jerry Sanders, Chairman and CEO - SkyTran (NASA Space Act Company)
- Mr. Boaz Tzafrir, CEO - Israel Railway
- Mr. Gil Golan, Country Manager - General Motors Advanced Technical Center Israel; GM Corporate Venture Capital
“The Future of Med-Tech”
5:40 pm - 7:00 pm Moderators: Mr. Uri Pasovsky, Senior writer and columnist, Calcalist financial newspaper
Confirmed speakers
- Mr. Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, Director General - Ministry of Health, Israel
- Mrs. Iris Beck-Codner, Group EVP; Corporate Marketing & Communications - TEVA
- Dr. Benny Zeevi, Managing General Partner - Tel Aviv Venture Partners
- Prof. Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD, FACC; Managing Partner, Triventures; Director, Center for Cardiovascular Technology - Stanford University
- Mr. Guido Pardo Roques, President & CEO - Philips Israel
- Mrs. Galit Zuckerman, CEO - Medasense Biometrics Ltd.
- Mr. Yoav Tzruya, Partner - JVP Cyber Labs
“A need for vision and leadership - The world challenges”
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Confirmed speakers
In the presence of :
- Amb. Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC)
- President Shimon Peres : The legacy of Dr Henry Kissinger
Closing speech by Dr. Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of States
MEDIA COVERAGE
Foreign media coverage
i24news; Reuters; Reuters Financial; New York Times; Wall St. Journal; Washington Post; LA Times; Chicago Tribune; US News & World Report; Bloomberg; AFP; Daily Beast; Fox; Times of London; Le Figaro; the Independent; Daily Telegraph; the Guardian; Financial Times; Associated Press.
Local media coverage
Channel 2; Channel 1; Channel 10; Yediot Aharonot; Haaretz; Jerusalem post; Calcalist financial newspaper; Globes financial newspaper; TheMarker financial newspaper; Israel Hayom.
ORGANIZATION
Valérie Hoffenberg
President & Founder
valerie@connectingleadersclub.com
+ 33 (0)6 73 02 07 40
Ayelet Gurman
Co-Founder & GM Israel
ayelet@connectingleadersclub.com
+972-50-7372135
PARTNERS
PARTNERS OF HERZLIYA 2015
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Valérie Hoffenberg - President & Founder
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