Nechemia (Chemi) J. Peres, chairman of the advisory committee at Impact First Investments, is a Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango Venture Capital. In 1992, Chemi founded the Mofet Israel Technology Fund, an Israeli venture capital fund publicly traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Chemi has served on the boards of several NASDAQ companies such as AudioCodes, BackWeb, Magic Software Enterprises, Aladdin, VocalTec, Orckit Communications and Koor Industries, among others. Chemi currently serves on the boards of numerous Pitango portfolio companies and also for several non-profit organizations. He is chairman of the Peres Center for Peace, board member at Social Finance Israel, and serves on the board of Governors of the Caesarea Foundation. Chemi holds a BSc. degree in Industrial Engineering and MBA from Tel Aviv University. Chemi served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force for 10 years.

Mr. Yuval Ben Sadeh is working in China for the past 15 years. During this time he have established the activity of YAMIT Filtration in China as a REP office as an employee and AST clean water technologies a registered company in china. As it’s founder and one of the investors.

Yuval have experience as a Senior marketing and sales manager in a global work environment, United States, Australia, Far East, East Africa, Europe and Eastern Europe. Particular expertise in water treatment systems, a business and technical combination.

Tehila Levi Lati is a partner and heads the firm’s China practice, managing the long-term cooperation with leading Chinese law firms.
Tehila has a deep knowledge and vast experience in relation to Chinese and Israeli law, as well as a deep understanding of the Chinese language and culture. Tehila has over 10 years’ experience in the Chinese market, managing the legal services provided to both Israeli companies doing business in China, and Chinese companies doing business in Israel.

Mr. Dymant has over 20 years’ experience in China in venture capital and private equity. Career highlights include senior-level management at Merrill Lynch and Managing Director of Far East Investment Ltd., a VC fund specializing in later-stage investments. He is the Co-founder of Zero2IPO, a leading service provider for the Chinese VC and PE industry, and a founder of Sino Outbound, a leading cross border real estate investment platform, and a founder of Wow Fresh, the first dead sea salt therapy company in China.

Mr. Dymant has invested in more than 20 companies in China, and in the last five years, he is an active angel investor in Israel.

Mr. Dymant is a Chairman of Asia Direct Capital group, and a representative partner in Pitango venture capital in China. Asia Direct is the leading company in bringing Israeli technologies into the Chinese market. The company is responsible for successfully bringing more than 100 Israeli companies into the Chinese market. In addition, Asia Direct has raised more than $300 M USD from China into Israeli Hi Tech companies in the recent years. Gal holds an MBA from New York University.

Tal Badt served as the Direction of Business Development for Tsinghua x-lab for 5 years, and was part of the founding team to set up China’s top university incubator. In 5 years the x-lab platform has exploded, with over 1,400 startups across all sectors, 530 companies generated, and 160 raising +420 million USD in investment. Tal set up strategic international partnerships including the 2018 Ignite Health initiative between Tsinghua University, Peking University and Merck, led negotiations, and headed new cross-border collaborations, working with corporations, investors, academics, students and the like. Tal also joined the judging panel at the 2018 Future Planet Awards in London.
A licensed lawyer specializing in IP, Tal got her MBA from the MIT Sloane – Tsinghua program and personally counseled over 300 startups on strategy and IP matters. Having lived in Beijing for 7 years, Tal is back full time in Israel, and is currently consulting and delving deeper into the healthcare world.

Zvi Shalgo is an entrepreneur, manager and investor working in China for over 20 years, he is the Founder and Chairman of PTL Group. He served as Chairman of the Israeli Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai between 2010-2013.

Easy Business Solutions was founded in 2010 by Sarah Qin, and was the first private company who offers full business solutions to foreign enterprises in China, now EBS has branches in Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hk.

Awards:
Best Service provider by Expat in Beijing in 2017
Voted as “most wanted visa agency in Beijing in 2016

Yaniv is working 8 years at Netafim and 7 years as Director of Finance, in the last 6 months as CFO of APAC division and Managing the Israeli Chinese protocol aspects in the company. He has worked in the past in the High Tech Industry (VeriFone and Medtronic) and in local industrial companies (Tambour, Wisotskey, Rav- Bariah). Mr. Rosenweig holds a BA in economics and MBA in marketing, Bar Ilan University.

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Lee Abramovitz joined the news company in 2006. In 2007 she was appointed system coordinator of the weekend news edition. In 2009, she coordinated the election broadcast of that year. In 2013, she was appointed to the consumer and tourism section of the main edition. In 2016, Keshet broadcasted her film.