About Me

I am a lateral thinker with 15 years of experience. I am a business intelligence and competitive intelligence professional. I specialize in the applied overview of a business environment’s lateral context in which the firm operates and accordingly to which it must correspond. My educational background is in MIS, finance and marketing management.

2009 to Present: Cofounder and CEO FocalPursuit ltd
In partnership with the University of Haifa, FocalPursuit is a seed stage startup the field of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). FocalPursuit is pioneering the field of “Commercial” Open Source Intelligence (CoSINTtm), a form of Open Source Intelligence designed to address critical business and industry requirements by classifying associative relationships among disparate sources of data located in the public domain. The company is cofounded with Dr. Tsvi Kuflik, Chief Scientist. The research and development team is comprised of two software engineers and one project manager.

“Investment panel” member for Technion’s MBA program UTOPIA project - 2009

2007 to Present: Business and Competitive Intelligence Professional (Self employed):
Providing hands-on assistance to hitech and biotech firms in the lateral planning & execution of business and market development operations – clients include Panaya, Xoreax & VoiceSense

Collaborations and Partnerships:

E&G Public Relations in New Hampshire, marketplace exposure solutions for the purpose of developing company credibility by expediting word-of-mouth peer influence and key opinion leader (KOL) influence. www.egpublicrelations.com

Vendisys Inc., a Boston-based marketing firm specializing in the deployment and execution marketing campaigns for hi-tech ventures seeking to generate and expand their sales activities to gain market share in the United States www.vendisys.com

Moresatile Inc, a California based firm specializing in sales opportunity qualification www.moresatile.com

2006 through 2007: VP of marketing and sales at RDV-Systems, a startup in the field of innovative 3D modeling and simulation solutions for the CAD industry. I established and directed every single aspect of the company’s business activities in the United States. Prior to RDV Systems, I provided Fortissimo Capital with consulting services for Telrad Networks via the chairman of the board. Stints at start-ups include the positions of marketing manager at Hi-G-Tek, a developer of active RFID solutions (2005), Director of Marketing and Sales at TeraSync, a developer of advanced synchronization modules for SONET and SDH based equipment (2002-2004), and ITS/CTWare, a developer of CTI applications (2001). From 1997-2001, sales manager of the computer technologies division at Contahal; prior to Contahal, I held marketing positions at Microsoft and Lotus in Israel.

Educational background: Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the School of Business Management, College of Management, Tel-Aviv; Ben Gurion University’s preparatory and matriculations program; MIT Forum/Tel Aviv University’s Recanati entrepreneurship workshop (2008)