Profile

Director Industry Partnerships & Academic Relations


Served for decades as CEO, Executive Director, and Board Member at several firms, such as the giant Bidvest/Bidcorp Multinational Group.
Nowadays Expert Consultant at AlphaSights (London-Shanghai-Dubai-New York) mainly related to Corporate Strategy and at Sefarad Consulting (Israel) as Advisor on entrepreneurship matters.
Appointed June 2022 as Board Member by the Israeli Government Companies Authority

B.A. in Social Sciences from Tel Aviv University, M.B.A. (honors & highest) from Universidad de S. de Chile, Ph.D. in Business Management granted by The University of Bolton (United Kingdom), and Postdoctoral Research Award by The Ben-Gurion University.

Worked as Researcher/Lecturer at the University of Haifa´s School of Business Administration, whilst preparing research papers related to entrepreneurship and giving Seminars at The Technion, Pompeu Fabra University, Santander Bank Entrepreneur Center, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (among many others), focused not just on his extended professional experience but on his research papers published in indexed double-blind peers review Journals mostly from the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Preface of his last book, recently published in The United States, was made by the former President of Uruguay, Dr. Julio Maria Sanguinetti.

Currently, Senior Associate Professor at the XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang) appointed Director MSc Business pathway.

Researchgate's 2021 top-read author. Member of the A. of Corporate Advisors & Executives, AACB, Business Education Alliance, International Alliance of M&A Advisors, and Editorial Board at Elsevier and the Journal of Economics and Management Sciences (United States).