Steering Committee members

The Steering Committee brings together a committed team of professionals to create a local engine of innovation, helping the entrepreneurs grow their world-changing ideas to create massive impact.

Paz Brant
Paz, Director Customer Portfolios at "Policy" previously was an advisor to three Ministers of Justice (Sheetrit, Lapid, and Livni). He brings with him extensive experience in the field of regulation, familiarity and understanding of the public sector and familiarity with the business sector and the third sector in Israel. Paz is a graduate of the Honors Program and the Department of Political Science at Haifa University, and graduated cum laude with an LLB degree from Shaarei Mishpat College. Paz is the chairman of the steering committee of A3i.

Ziv Azmanov
Ziv Azmanov is an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of a start-up company. He has extensive experience in product innovation, marketing, business development, and general management roles in Fortune 500 and start-up companies.
Ziv graduated magna cum laude from the University of Tel Aviv in Israel with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and has a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from San Jose State University in California.

Guy Spigelman
Guy Spigelman is the CEO of PresenTense Israel, where he heads up the Israeli and European arm of PresenTense, a global organization harnessing the power of entrepreneurship to grow local economies, enrich community life and solve core problems faced by society at large. Guy also advises the Israeli government and local authorities on building ecosystems of entrepreneurship.
Prior to PresenTense, Guy held executive roles at medical device and software companies, including XMPie, Alongside his business career, Guy served for 5 years as Board Chairman of Merchavim, the Institute for the Advancement of Shared Citizenship in Israel. 

Lili Levinton
Lili is the Deputy Director for Professional Services at Beit Issie Shapiro,  manages the professional units, day care centers, school and out-patient unit, leads the field of assistive technology for children with disabilities, and leads the Cerebral Palsy Center for Excellence. For over 30 years she has worked in the field of disabilities, developing a unique model for early intervention services for children with disabilities and their families; training managers, professionals, and parents; and leading a multidisciplinary team. Lili has an MA in Developmental Psychology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  She is a member of professional advisory, "Allot" - for children and adults with Autism, a Board Member, "Guardian" - association for people with Autism.

Amir Nathan
Amir Nathan is a business entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of "Social value makers - business success with social impact," with experience in the establishment and management of ground-breaking initiatives that create change in the business and social world. He believes that all of us work to create positive economic, social and environmental changes. This concept encourages decision-makers in the business, social and public works sectors to create partnerships to foster socio-economic impact. He is an indefatigable optimist and believes in the people.

Galia Granot
Galia is Program Officer at the Ruderman Family Foundation. She has over 15 years of experience initiating, developing and running social impact programs with NGO’s and philanthropic foundations.  She specializes in building effective models and developing programs to encourage and enable higher education and employment for underprivileged and marginalized populations. Previously, Galia worked as program officer for the Rothschild Caesarea Foundation and the Israel Women’s Network. 
Galia has a Master’s Degree in Labor Studies from Tel Aviv University where she graduated with honors. She also has a B.A. in Communications from the College of Management and completed a two year program in Group Facilitation and Dynamics at Bar Ilan University. Galia lives in Israel with her husband and four children.

Jackie Goren
Jackie is a Director at IVN, and is responsible for the investment management of social businesses. Jackie is also a lecturer and head of the department of strategic consulting at the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University. She also serves on several boards of public companies in Israel and abroad. Previously Jackie served as VP of business development at Koor Industries Ltd., and directed its venture capital investing department. Jackie has a BA degree in medical science from the Hebrew University, a BA in Law from Tel Aviv University, and MBA from the Kellogg-Recanati program of Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University.

Chaim Bendelac
Chaim is a VP product with SAP, focusing on cloud development strategies. He has over 30 years of experience in technology leadership positions.
Prior to SAP, Chaim managed several teams as Engineering Director and as Director of Product Management at Cisco Systems.  Chaim was founder, General Manager and VP Engineering of InfoGear Technologies, a startup that was acquired by Cisco. 
Chaim is an active mentor to several Israeli startups at various stages of development and in various technical domains, and he serves on the board of AppleSeeds Academy, a technology-focused NGO.
Chaim has a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and an executive MBA from the Kellogg Recanati business schools.