Yair Shamir

Chairman, Israeli National Road Safety Authority

Yair’s established career in Israel’s public sector includes Israel’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, member of Israel’s government and Parliament and chairman of four government companies: EL AL, IAI, National Road Company of Israel and Metropolitan Mass Transit System. Prior to entering public service, Yair served for 25 years as a pilot and an engineer in the Israeli Air Force. Mr Shamir is currently board director and chairman of a number of public companies in Israel and abroad as well as an array of public institutions including The Shalem Academic Center, Gvahim, and Ohalo College.

Ehud Levy

General Partner, Canaan Partners

Ehud gained more than two decades of expertise in the high-tech industry as an entrepreneur, investor and operator. Prior to co-founding Canaan Partners Israel, Ehud lead the first investment round of WAZE, co-founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Ki-Bi Mobile Technologies, served as COO and CFO of Telegate, and was a private equity investor and investment banker in New York and Tel Aviv. Ehud holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion (Israel), and an MBA from Columbia Business School (New York).

Mor Assia

Founding Partner, iAngels

Mor has an extensive technological and business experience. Prior to iAngels, she held several corporate positions including Corporate Strategy Associate at Amdocs, Business Development Associate at SAP and Strategy Associate at IBM Global Business Services. She holds an MBA from Columbia University (New York) and BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Technion (Israel).

Eli Nir

Senior Investment Partner, OurCrowd

Prior to OurCrowd, Eli was partner and investment committee member at Amiti Venture Capital, an early stage Israel-based fund focusing on deep intellectual property multi-disciplinary technologies and teams. Prior to Amiti, Eli was VP of Research and Development at AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC), and a senior officer in one of the elite intelligence technological units of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).

Roy Oron

Managing Partner, O.G. Tech Ventures

Roy has more than 15 years of international business development experience with international public companies and venture capital investments. Before joining OG Tech Ventures, Roy held the position of CEO with SOSA, a global network of innovators, Head of Investments at Plus Ventures, one of the leading early stage investors in Israel, and was VP Business Development and Israel Country Manager at AOL Inc.

François Tison

General Partner, 360 Capital Partners

François’s experience spans over 20 investments in 6 countries. His career began at France Telecom where he held a number of strategy and business development positions over a 7 year tenure in Paris and New York. He then discovered Venture Capital as an Associate Director at Nomura then as SVP at Europ@web before joining the team in 2001. François holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the ENST (Brest) and an MBA from Columbia University (New York). 

YangYang Liu

Founder, MissionBlue Capital Partners

Founder of MissionBlue Capital Partners. Managed a $10Bn global portfolio for CIC, China’s sovereign wealth fund; led CIC’s investment into the energy sector, including upstream Oil & Gas; power and energy infrastructure; managed direct investment, co-investment and fund investment. Previously head of Asia at EIG Global Partners, responsible for investments, portfolio management and capital raising for the region.

Jacky Long Ke

Vice President, BAIC Group Industrial Investment Co., LTD

Mr. Long Ke is currently the Vice President of BAIC Group Industrial Investment Co., Ltd. Before joining BAIC group, he was engaged in equity investment in China South Industries Group Corporation, which is the parent company of China Changan Automobile Group. Mr. Long Ke has more than ten years of working experience in equity investment with focus on manufacturing industry chain. He is well experienced in automotive intelligence, post market, high-end equipment manufacturing, logistics, AI and other related fields investments.

Shengyan Fan

Managing Director, M&A Department of China Everbright Limited

In addition to Managing Director of the Merger & Acquisition Department, Ms Shengyan Fan also serves as a Managing Partner of the CEL Catalyst China Israel Fund, CEL Global Investment Fund investment committee member, and the CEL Catalyst China Israel Fund.

Ms. Fan has over 21 years’ experience in direct investment, capital raising and investment banking serving corporate clients in Greater China region as well as multinationals.  Prior to joining CEL, Ms. Fan has held various positions with increasing responsibility at multinational investment banks.

James Bates

Senior VP and GM, NXP (Freescale)

James has founded and successfully executed high-growth plans for a number of technology companies. Presently, James is CEO and Founder of AdviNow Medical, the world’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) driven automated medical visit system. Previously, James led the turnaround of a $1B revenue group at Freescale/NXP where he led the company to leadership in ADAS systems.  Previous to NXP, James drove the sensor interface group at Maxim and founded the pacific operation for Silicon Labs.

Kyeongsoon Choi

Director of Principal Investment and M&A at Hanwha Asset Management

Mr. Kyeongsoon Choi is a Director of Principal Investment and M&A at Hanwha Asset Management and oversees investments of AI Alliance, a joint investment fund established by Hanwha, SK Telecom, and Hyundai Motors three of Korea’s largest conglomerates. Prior to his role at Hanhwa, he worked developing global business and investment opportunities in Daelim Energy and STX Group. Mr. Kyeongsoon Choi has a LLB in Law from Seoul National University.