Entrepreneur and investor with extensive international management and business development experience, specializing in growing start-ups into profitable ventures/ IPO, predominantly in the areas of on-line marketing, digital media/advertising and global financial processing. For over a decade I have been actively involved in the strategic development and management of my portfolio companies such as Kontera, Amadesa, Payoneer, Taptica, BlueSnap. I am a Fellow of the third class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Specialties: Management, strategic development of start-up companies leading and growing them into profitable ventures in the fields of digital media, online marketing, global financial processing.

CEO @ Taptica is a global end-to-end mobile advertising platform that helps the world’s top brands reach their most valuable users with the widest range of traffic sources available today, including social. Our proprietary technology leverages big data, and combined with state-of-the-art machine learning, enables quality media targeting at scale. Taptica creates a single arena in which brands can scale and engage more relevantly with mobile audiences, staying ahead of the competition. We work with more than 450 advertisers including Amazon, Disney, Facebook, Twitter, OpenTable, Expedia, Lyft and Zynga. Taptica is headquartered in Israel with offices in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Beijing. Taptica Ltd. is traded on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: TAP). From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Partner, Manager @ Israeli Internet Private Equity company Offices: Tel Aviv, San Francisco IPE’s focus is investing in early revenue generating companies and bringing our own expertise to bear with hands-on management that enables the business to develop and grow. Some of IPE’s Portfolio: Taptica.com – Technology mobile advertising platform loveandPride.com – E-commerce platform for LGB community OneHourTranslation.com – Professional translation service Trendit.net – Crowd trend analytics TravelersBox.com – Deposit kiosks in airports for e-wallet transactions TrvlWith.com - Coming soon Personal investments - Kontera, Payoneer, Amadesa, Rayv, crossrider From August 2010 to Present (5 years 5 months) CEO @ As CEO of BlueSnap (formerly Plimus, sold under my leadership), I leveraged my strengths as a highly-networked and influential Internet business leader with a track record of success in predicting and leveraging future Internet trends. My focus for Plimus, now BlueSnap, was building a strong management team and a corporation focused on a clear and profitable business strategy and creating added value for BlueSnap, our investors, customers and partners. Our track record of 40- 50% profitable growth is proof of this success. From March 2008 to August 2012 (4 years 6 months) Vice President Marketing @ I was an early member of Spark Networks (owner of JDate.com, AmericanSingles.com and over 25 other dating sites), responsible for business development, marketing and M&A growth strategies that built Spark Networks into one of the world's top online organizations. From January 2002 to April 2005 (3 years 4 months) Vice President - Marketing @ I was at the forefront of Israel’s on-line media and digital advertising industry spearheading the development and implementation of the on-line strategy of Israel’s largest English-language newspaper, The Jerusalem Post (at the time part of Hollinger Holdings). From 1999 to 2002 (3 years)

Masters, Management Information Technology @ University of Sunderland - UK From 1995 to 1996