Field of Expertise
Advanced Technologies Scouting
Expertise
I am business technologist, ideally positioned to target required technologies on demand, including those that may be inferred from a patent application. I am offering opportunity identification and startups discovery capabilities, based on my quality business network, intelligence search methodologies , and years of significant business experience, in Europe and Israel. During the past two decades, I been intensively involved with several leading global corporations, in meaningful business leadership positions. These world leaders in innovation include 3M, Unilever & American Express GBT (where I served as part of the local management team in Israel). I helped propel groundbreaking startups such as Actelis Networks Inc., iSTAR UAV, & my own HLS venture. I am former business development manager for Israel-America Chamber of Commerce and also provides ongoing business technology scouting insights at Advisory Board capacity. My experience provides an opportunity to look around, learn and identify new and growing trends in the global business arena in general and the technological startups eco-system in particular. My collaborative, hands-on & professional attitude defines a management strategy to bring out the best for each project and situation. I am deeply connected with Israeli innovators, entrepreneurs and researchers who are building legions of new technologies and products that keep improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the globe. I have accepted an invitation to advise the Governor of Wyoming and his non-profit Jackson Hole Technology Partnership, as Innovation Advisor & Advanced Technology Scout. The mission of the JHTP is to find cutting-edge technologies relevant to rural peoples and accelerate their accessibility on a global scale. The JHTP’s Strategic Counsel recently asked me and GlobalStart also to help stand up the JHTP’s global Stone Soup Initiative. I have also accepted to serve as Expert Executive Evaluator - IoT Open Innovation Lab, for Northeastern University, advising on which projects to invest in, develop, and prototype. I have recently joined as a Global Challenge Curator for Hello Tomorrow, a global non-profit organization. HT is on a mission to unlock the potential of deep technologies to solve the world's toughest challenges, by highlighting, empowering and connecting the most promising deeptech entrepreneurs across the globe with the right enablers. I am holding an Executive Master in Public Administration (Management & Budgeting) from Tel Aviv University. I specializes in disruptive technologies, innovation leadership, global business development, and technology scouting.