Gadi Maier, Chairman

Mr. Maier is a FinTech industry expert and technical innovator with many years of successful innovation and leadership under his belt, including at Currenex, which he founded and sold to State Street Bank for $564 million; FraudScience, acquired by eBay in 2008 for $169 million; and Finjan Software, a provider of enterprise web security systems that is now part of M86 Security. 

Avi Turgeman

Avi is a founder and CTO of BioCatch, and comes with over six years of experience in the military intelligence as a researcher, inventor and R&D team leader. During his military service Avi became well versed in white-hat hacking, system vulnerability management, network surveillance, data mining and electronic signatures. Prior to BioCatch Avi worked in the electro-optic industry as a senior researcher. He also was the Co-Founder of VocalZoom, as well as Co-Founder & CEO at Tapingo (formally Nsof Connect Ltd.)

Bruce Taragin

Bruce is a Managing Director at Blumberg Capital. He has 23 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney.  Prior to joining Blumberg Capital in 1998, Bruce co-founded and held several senior management positions within technology companies including Charles River Computers. Bruce also structured and managed early-stage technology transactions at Hambrecht & Quist, Mayer Brown & Platt and Bankers Trust Company. A native of New York, Bruce earned his BA in Finance and Communications, cum laude, from Yeshiva University, and his MBA and JD from Fordham University.

David Assia

David Assia is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, being one of the pioneers of the vibrant Israeli high tech software industry. David founded multiple global companies and listed them on either NASDAQ or TASE (Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange). Today, David is the Chairman of iAngels, a leading crowd funding platform and is actively involved as a lead angel and a director in multiple high tech companies. David runs his family's, privately held, investment company, Nadyr Investments Ltd. 

Felix Zilberstein

Felix is the co-founder and managing partner at JANVEST Capital Partners. 

Felix has spent the last three decades working in leadership roles in Israel’s Ministry of Defense, IBM, MIRS and Motorola; successfully commercializing technology-based products and services in various U.S., South American and East Asian markets. He has also been the proprietor of a management consulting practice advising technology industry CEOs in Israel, as well as investing in and managing emerging technology companies. As a member of JANVEST Technologies LLC, Felix oversees the firm’s due diligence operations, and in parallel provides portfolio company executives with management and business optimization support. Felix holds a computer science degree from MAMRAM and an MBA from Thames Valley University.

Howard Edelstein

Howard has served as Chairman of REDI Technologies since February 2014. REDI is focused on bringing a new level of efficiency, transparency and openness to the trading process by building a collaborative community of investors, brokers, technology firms and content providers.

Previously, Howard was Chairman and CEO of BondDesk Group, a leading electronic bond trading venue for retail investors that was acquired by TradeWeb in October 2013. Before that, he led a turnaround of NYFIX following its delisting by NASDAQ, ultimately resulting in the sale of the company to NYSE Euronext in 2009. Earlier, Howard was President and CEO of Radianz, which he helped grow into a leading market infrastructure provider that is now part of BT Group. In the late 1990s, as CEO of Thomson Financial ESG, Howard oversaw the creation of the first competitive market for U.S. trade confirmation services before merging the company with the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. (DTCC) to form Omgeo.

Pini Lozowick

Pini Lozowick is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist and currently a General Partner at OurCrowd. Previously Pini was a General Partner at the London based VC, Alta Berkeley and was one of the first employees of Broadcom (BRCM) and their first Director of Marketing. Pini served as Chairman of Provigent which was sold to Broadcom. Pini is also the founder and Chairman of Verisense, a Jerusalem based ASIC design company.