IBF Past Event

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Shlomo Kalish is widely recognized as one of Israel's leading technology investors. In 2007 he was named No. 1 investor in Israel by Forbes Magazine.

In 1994, Shlomo founded The Jerusalem Global Group, a technology focused investment house. In 1999 he founded Jerusalem Global Ventures, a venture capital firm managing $120M in JGV Fund I. This Fund invested in seed and early-stage communications, information technology and life sciences companies. From 1997 to 1999, Shlomo served as a General Partner of Concord (K.T.) Ventures I, LP, a leading Israeli venture capital fund, where he was responsible for the investments in Saifun Semiconductors, Oridion Medical and Oren Semiconductors.

Shlomo frequently appears in the media and has been featured on the cover of Forbes (Israel) and Upside Magazine. He has also been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Business Week and other business publications.

Shlomo holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, a M.Sc. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University.
From 1970 to 1975 Shlomo served in the Israeli Air Force as a major and fighter pilot.

Shlomo is active on the boards of many non-profit organizations and academic institutions, including Shalom Beineinu, a charitable organization of which he is Chairman; the Board of Governors of Bar Ilan University; the Board of Governors of the Technion and The Jerusalem College of Technology.

Shlomo has been the lead investor in a number of well-known Israeli start-ups. Shlomo serves on the board of a number of JGV's portfolio companies.