Eddy SHALEV
Chairperson
Founder & managing partner of Genesis Partners, Shalev is a founding leader of Israel’s venture capital industry. He has played a key role in the high-tech sector, including in Fundtech, Paradigm Geophysical and Orbot Instruments, and is currently a director of Aternity, Profitect and WorkLight. Shalev is also chair of the Endowment Subcommittee at Beit Issie Shapiro. He holds an MSc in Information Systems and a BA in statistics and psychology from Tel Aviv University.
Sandrine BERNSTEIN
Founder of Better Investments SB Ltd., an independent investment advisory and solutions company, with a tier one track record in providing strategic international markets advice on asset allocation, risk management and portfolio construction. Bernstein’s primary experience is in private wealth management, having worked for RNB New York, UBS and JP Morgan in London. She then worked as financial advisor to Israel Corp. and XT Holdings, the largest holding company in Israel. Bernstein is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Investment Group Israel, at Reichman University. She has a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Caron BIELSKI
CEO and founder BSP Funds, a research and investment company providing advisory and marketing services of hedge fund portfolios and fund of funds. Previously co-founder and managing director of B.A.I.N., a software company specializing in product data management systems. Bielski currently serves as the chairperson of the board of Beit Issie Shapiro and board member of Women’s Voices Now. She earned her B.A. in Social Work from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and an Executive M.B.A from the Kellogg, Northwestern University / Recanati Program at Tel Aviv University.
Toby BERNSTEIN
Businessman in retail and manufacture, has specialized in the clothing and furniture industries across South Africa. He was a partner of Canvas and Tent, a world leader in the manufacture and trading of canvas-related products. Today Bernstein is involved with Walk-in-25, a community development company aiming to uplift and empower communities and revive local economies in townships as well as rural areas of South Africa.
Charles FREEDMAN
Adjunct research professor in the department of economics at Carleton University. Freedman worked for the Bank of Canada for 30 years, the last fifteen years of which he served as deputy governor. Subsequently, he was a consultant for the International Monetary Fund, served as director and chair of the audit committee of the Canadian Depository for Securities Limited and was a member of the Board of Governors of Carleton University. Freedman has a BCom from the University of Toronto, a B.A. (Hon.) and M.A. from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT
Michael LEVITT
Professor Levitt won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems, work he began as a visiting student to Israel in 1967. Educated in South Africa and UK, he has held tenured appointments in Structural Studies at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, in Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and in Structural Biology at Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Science
Sasha Weiss
Sasha has two decades of experience in both the business and non-profit sectors. She has a background in private equity, having worked as an investment analyst and strategist. Currently, Sasha is a social psychologist and coaches managers at all organizational levels. She is a founder and board member of several education-focused non-profits and currently serves as the Chairperson of Beit Issie Shapiro, a leading organization in the field of disabilities in Israel and worldwide. Sasha holds an MA in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Social Psychology from Reichman University.