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Prof. Varda Liberman
PhD in Mathematics, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Liberman, one of the founders of Reichman University, is the Provost and Head of this program, as well as the Head of the behavioral decision-making area and the Head of the mathematical and statistical studies at Reichman University.
Prof. Liberman served as the head of the mathematical education department at the Open University of Israel. She was an associate researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University and at Stanford University, where she continues to serve as a visiting researcher Prof. every summer. Her research interest deals with probabilistic judgments and Behavioral Decision Making which led her to co-author the book Critical Thinking with the late Amos Tversky. As an expert on Decision Making, Prof. Liberman acts as a consultant and gives lectures and executive training courses for Israeli organizations such as the healthcare system, the judicial system, investment companies, Hi-tech companies, and the Israeli Defense Forces.
Prof. Yitshak Kreiss
MD, Hebrew University MPH, Harvard
Prof. Kreiss is the Director General at Sheba Medical Center. Prior to that, Prof. Kreiss served in the IDF for 30 years where he ascended from serving as a front-line combat surgeon to assuming overall leadership of the Medical Corps as the IDF Surgeon General. Prof. Kreiss has extensive experience in delivering trauma medicine and humanitarian aid. He led Israeli aid delegations to disaster sites around the world including to Macedonia, Haiti, the Syrian border, and the Philippines.
Prof. Kreiss' research flows from his experiences and focuses on health management of field hospitals and medical care for disaster challenges. His research contributes significantly to the development of current approaches and is widely acknowledged as one of the most insightful publications on medical relief in disaster situations.
Prof. Eyal Zimlichman
MD, Technion Institute of Technology
Prof. Zimlichman is the Deputy Director General and Chief Medical and Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center, Israel's largest hospital.
Prof. Zimlichman is a physician, health care executive, and researcher focused on assessing and improving health care quality and value, patient engagement, and patient safety.
Prior to joining Sheba, Prof. Zimlichman was in Boston establishing a strategic care redesign initiative, a program which won international praise.
He holds an appointment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School affiliated Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, where he is conducting research on implementing technology to improve health care quality and patient safety. Prof. Zimlichman serves official capacities advising on and guiding policy in both Israel and the United States.
Prof. Arnon Afek
MD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem MHA ; Ben- Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. Afek is the Associate Director General of Sheba Medical Center and the acting Director of Sheba General Hospital.
Prof. Afek was the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health. He serves in several public capacities which require him to design health policies and improve quality of care. In 2015, Prof. Afek was personally appointed as a member of the Bureau of Governors of the OECD Health Committee. Since 2011, Prof. Afek also serves as the Director of the NY State/American MD Program at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Prof. Afek is a decorated director and professor, having been awarded for improving quality of care in neonatal units, reducing bureaucracy in physician licensing, and excellence in teaching.
Prof. Ran Elkon
PhD in Bioinformatics, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Elkon is the principal investigator at the bioinformatics research lab for gene regulation at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Elkon’s research focuses on understanding how genetic variants in the human genome affects individual predisposition to common diseases as a cornerstone of the vision of precision medicine. Dr. Elkon has published more than 50 research articles in leading biomedical journals including Nature Biotechnology, Genome Research, Genome Biology and Cell. Dr. Elkon teaches bioinformatics and genomics courses at the Medicine school at TAU and various statistics courses at IDC.
Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Bolless
PhD in Political Science, Northern Illinois University
Dr. Bolless has co-founded and guided numerous hi-tech companies from early-stage startups to successful public offerings on the NASDAQ and high value buyouts. He served a long career in the Israeli Air Force and is the Chairman of the Public Council of the Israeli Chamber of Information Systems.
Dr. Bolless teaches at the EMPH and EMPP programs at Tel Aviv University and the GMBA, OYMBA, & MBA programs at the the IDC. His areas of expertise include initiation and business management of High-Tech companies, international project management, technology commercialization, political economy and public policy.
Dr. Alan Tennenberg
MD, Chief Medical Officer of Global Public Health at Johnson & Johnson
Trained as an infectious diseases physician, Alan brings over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, clinical medicine, public health, and academia to the position of Chief Medical Officer, Global Public Health at Johnson & Johnson.
In this role he is responsible for building strategic relationships with key stakeholders and partners in government, academia, multi-lateral institutions, and non-governmental organizations around the world. He is a leading figure in facilitating private sector engagement to advance the Global Health Security Agenda, and is founder and co-chair of the Private Sector Round Table (PSRT), a coalition of companies dedicated to bringing private sector capabilities to the GHSA. Recently, Dr. Tennenberg was appointed to the US Dept of Health and Human Services National Biodefense Safety Board. The NBSB provides expert advice and guidance to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response on scientific, technical, and other matters related to public health emergency preparedness and response.
Prof. Dan Segal
PhD in Accounting, NYU’s Stern School of Business;
PhD, New York University Head; Accounting Group, Arison School of Business, IDC
Prof. Segal’s research interests are in empirical financial accounting and corporate finance topics. Over the years he developed expertise in several areas of research, such as corporate governance, credit default swaps, earnings management, conservatism, analysts’ skill, and strategic disclosure. His research appears in leading academic journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, and more. Prof. Segal, who has received several teaching awards, has taught in full-time MBA programs as well as non-degree executive programs. Before joining IDC Herzliya, he was a member of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. His courses mainly focus on financial statement analysis and financial accounting. Prof. Segal has a PhD in Accounting from NYU’s Stern School of Business and a BA in Economics and Business from Hebrew University.
Dr. Guy Lubitsh
PhD, University of East London
Prof. of Practice, Ashridge Executive Education, Hult
Dr. Lubitsh is a highly experienced Chartered Organizational Psychologist, leadership developer, facilitator, and executive coach. He has over 15 years' experience as an organization consultant at the highest levels of international companies in Europe and the Middle East, working in a range of sectors including healthcare, energy, media, and telecommunications. Some of his clients include; Novo Nordisk, Diabetes UK, GOSH, World Health Organisation (WHO), British National Health Service (NHS).
Dr. Lubitsh's interests include talent management, the turn-around of underperforming organizations, and conflict resolution. He has published articles in the areas of organizational consulting and the role of emotions at work, writes regularly for the Guardian healthcare column, and a member of the faculty at Ashridge Executive Education, Hult.
Dr. Amir Guttman
PhD in Business Administration, Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley)
Dr. Guttman teaches courses on the process of venture creation and new business models in the MBA programs of Arison School of Business at IDC and is very involved with the Incubator for Entrepreneurship at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Dr. Guttman has served as managing partner at Aviv Venture Capital since he founded it in 2001. Aviv is a venture capital fund focusing on Israel-related revenue stage technology companies. Prior to founding Aviv, Dr. Guttman served for 6 years as member of the senior management of Discount Investments Corp (DIC). He initiated and executed a wide variety of investments, business development, and M&A activities and served on the boards of various companies.
Doron Hacmon
MBA, Tel Aviv University
Commercial, stragegy, Product Dev. Executive; Investor & Innovator; Keynote Speaker; Adjunct Professor, University of Amsterdam MBA Program
Mr. Hacmon is an inspiring keynote speaker, an innovator, and a private investor, in addition to being an adjunct professor. Up until recently, Mr. Hacmon served as Chief Product and Innovation Officer of Liberty Global, an international telecommunication and Cable TV operator active in Europe and listed on the Nasdaq. In his last role he oversaw Product Development across television, broadband internet, fixed telephony, and mobile. Before joining Liberty Global, Mr. Hacmon was an active partner in a management consultancy firm specialized in high-tech investments, and before that, he headed a large software development team. Mr. Hacmon is currently an Adjunct Professor for Innovation Management for the University of Amsterdam’s MBA program. Previously, he was a parttime Professor at Webster University in Leiden, covering International and Strategic Marketing.
Dr. Roy Sasson
MBA, Tel Aviv University Head of GMBA Program Based on AI and Big Data
Dr. Roy Sasson seamlessly integrates academia with senior roles in the technology industry, boasting over 15 years of experience. He has a rich background in building and managing several large data science organizations that impact hundreds of millions of end users.Roy teaches courses in artificial intelligence and big data, emphasizing product applications for end users. Under his guidance, more than 5,000 graduates (including undergraduate and graduate students, MBA graduates, and senior executives) in Israel have completed their studies, with many now holding senior positions in both industry and academia.Roy has published academic papers in leading journals. Currently, he heads the Data Science organization at Waze and serves as the company’s Chief Scientist. Previously, he was the Chief Scientist at Outbrain.Roy holds a Ph.D. in Econometrics from Tel Aviv University and currently manages several academic programs in data and artificial intelligence.
Prof. Barak Libai
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prof. Barak Libai is a professor at the Arison School of Business at Reichman University. Previously was a faculty member in the Faculty of Management at Tel Aviv University, at the Industrial Engineering and Management faculty of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and a visiting Prof. at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research deals much with customer social effects such as word of mouth, and their effect on the profitability of new products and brands, factors that affect profitability in the growth of markets for new products and brands, customer retention, and the value of customers and brands. He has published in journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Service Research and the International Journal of Research in Marketing, among others. He has won several teaching awards, and numerous research prizes from organizations such as the Journal of Service Research, the Marketing Science Institute, The American Marketing Association, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Marketing, ICIS ,ESOMAR and the Interdisciplinary Center. He is on the editorial review board of several high-level academic journals and was on the academic advisory board of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association and the board of directors of a large retailer. He taught and teaches courses on customer value management, strategic customer management, social networks marketing and brand management.