A serial entrepreneur, investor, and technology leader with more than 25 years of experience building and scaling companies. He is the founder and General Partner of Next Gear Ventures and co-founder of Drive TLV and Drive Europe. Previously, he served as an adjunct associate professor in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Georgia Tech.

A physicist and national-security executive who served as Israel’s National Security Advisor and Head of the National Security Council from 2021 to 2023. He previously held senior national-security and technology roles for more than two decades and holds a PhD in physics and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.

A plasma physicist whose research at Rafael Plasma Laboratory and the Technion has focused on magnetic-mirror confinement, pulsed-power systems, and the active stabilization of plasma instabilities. His work also explores advanced multi-mirror methods for reducing particle losses in fusion-relevant plasmas.

Founder, President and CEO of e-solutions, Inc., a Japanese strategic consulting and business development company. Before founding e-solutions in 1999, he held positions at NKK, Booz & Company, and SoftBank. His work spans carbon neutrality, smart cities, regional development, and long-term public-private initiatives.

An experimental plasma physicist with extensive expertise in high-energy-density plasmas, pulsed-power experiments, magnetic-field diagnostics, and high-power microwave interactions.

He is a consultant with the Weizmann Institute of Science and has also conducted research at the Technion.

An energy-sector strategist and former Senior Vice President of Strategy, Innovation and Structural Change at the Israel Electric Corporation. During more than two decades at IEC, he helped lead corporate strategy, business development, innovation, and major reforms within Israel’s electricity sector.