IHFA 2020

Since making Aliya in 2016, Sylvan has devoted himself to serving his adopted country, as his calling card reads: "Self-appointed Ambassador at large for the State of Israel".

Sylvan is the only Israeli member of the Giving Pledge, an organization begun by Warren Buffet together with Bill and Melinda Gates for billionaires committed, as signers of the “Pledge”, to giving away the majority of their wealth to philanthropic pursuits.

Sylvan’s philanthropic investments are focused on two themes:

1. Promotion of Israel both abroad and internally, through innovative, non- polemical means, such as sport and cultural activities.
2. Promotion of Jewish Identity in the diaspora, or as he likes to call it “ensuring Jewish grandchildren”.

Raanan Agus is global co-head and co-chief investment officer of the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) Group in the Consumer and Investment Management Division (CIMD).

The AIMS Group invests in leading private equity, hedge fund, real estate, ESG, credit and public market managers, investing as a limited partner, secondary-market investor, seed-capital provider, co-investor or management company partner.

Raanan also oversees the Acquisition Strategies team, as well as the Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) Energy and Infrastructure business. He is a senior sponsor of the CIMD Women’s Network. Previously, Raanan served as head of Direct Alternatives for GSAM and global co- head of Goldman Sachs Investment Partners within GSAM, a position he held since the group's inception in 2007.

Prior to that, he was co-head of the Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies Group beginning in 2003; he later became sole head of the group until 2007.

Raanan joined Goldman Sachs in 1993 as an associate in Equities Arbitrage. He was named managing director in 1999 and partner in 2000. Raanan earned an AB, summa cum laude, phi beta kappa, from Princeton University in 1989 and a JD/MBA, Stone scholar, beta gamma sigma, specializing in Finance from Columbia University in 1993.

Mr. Ittai Ben-Zeev is the TASE CEO since January 2017. Prior to joining TASE, Mr. Ben-Zeev served in a number of roles at Bank Leumi, including Executive Vice President, Head of Capital Markets Division, and as a member of the bank's management team (2013 - 2016).

Between the years 2010 - 2013 he was the Deputy Head of Capital Markets Division, and from 2007 to 2010 he managed the Forex and Derivatives dealing room of the bank.

Before Bank Leumi, Ben-Zeev served as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch Israel, as well as Merrill Lynch Technology Group in London.

Head of Global Asset Allocation, Societe Generale Cross Asset Research

Alain Bokobza is currently Head of Global Asset Allocation. Alain joined the bank in 1992 as Equity strategist and was appointed Head of cross asset strategy in 2005. Prior to joining Societe Generale, Alain spent eight years at Credit Lyonnais Asset Management as Manager of European equities and global commodity funds.

Alain and his team were ranked #1 on Cross Asset Research (Economics and Strategy category) in the Thomson Extel Survey each year since 2008. Alain obtained a degree in 1985 from the Rouen Business School (France) and graduated in 1997 from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Chicago, USA).

Mr. Goldman is the managing member, CIO and founder of Lanx Management, LLC. He has spent the past 25-plus years evaluating and investing in the alternative investment arena, and in particular, structuring hedge fund investment portfolios for multiple family office and institutional clients.

Prior to founding Lanx, Mr. Goldman served as a partner and managing director at C.E. Unterberg Towbin, where he co-founded the firm’s Alternative Investment Group.

He was responsible for conducting due diligence and allocating to hedge funds, private equity and other alternative investment managers on behalf of family offices, high net worth individuals and institutions. Previously, Mr. Goldman held senior investment consulting positions with Schroder Wertheim & Co. and Alex Brown & Sons. Mr. Goldman earned his Bachelor of Science in finance and marketing from Syracuse University.

He serves on the board of several philanthropic and community organizations and is on the investment committee of a private school endowment.

Lital Dagan is the CEO of the Israel Hedge Funds Association. The role of the IHFA is to represent and promote the common interests of the hedge fund industry with Governmental bodies in Israel and assist with regulatory reforms to provide recommendations for best practices of the industry in Israel; to provide access to professional information, and to broaden and deepen the market and public knowledge about Israel's hedge fund industry. The IHFA has members from 12 countries around the World.

Lital is an attorney by training, she was formerly the Founder and M.D. of L.A.D Capital. She served as Chief Legal Counsel of the New Horizon Group Ltd. (a listed company at the TASE). Serve as the Head of the FinTech Program of Merage Institute in California and a member of the Host Committee of the Sohn Conference Tel Aviv. Lital holds an Executive MBA from the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University.

Mr. Goldfarb joined Sphera Funds Management as CEO in 2015.
Between 2010-2014, Mr. Goldfarb served as CEO and Board member of Credit Suisse
Israel. Prior to Credit Suisse, Mr. Goldfarb served as Managing Partner at BLSH Value Fund.
Between 1998-2007, Mr. Goldfarb held senior positions with Merrill Lynch Private
Banking, in New York and Tel Aviv. Mr. Goldfarb holds an MBA in Finance and Investments
from The City University of New York, and Bachelor of Law (LL.B) from Israel's College of
Management

Phil Hermon serves as an Executive Director of FX Products at CME Group and is based out of London. He is responsible for the management, development and go to market initiatives of Listed FX
and OTC cleared FX products.
Before joining CME Group, Phil served in various roles across sales, client solutions, derivatives operations and relationship management at both Morgan Stanley and RBS.
Prior to his career in finance, Phil was a Captain in the Royal Tank Regiment within the British Army and holds a bachelor's degree in business studies from the University of Sheffield.

H.E. Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi is the Director General of the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO). He leads the organisation’s efforts to grow and diversify Abu Dhabi’s economy through private sector investment.

He also oversees strategic initiatives that support the emirate’s economic growth and reputation on the world stage. Prior to joining ADIO, His Excellency held leadership roles at various institutions including Emirates NBD, Mubadala and Citibank.

He also sits on a number of boards including AXA GCIC and EPG (Emirates Post Group)

His Excellency holds a PhD in Economics from the Imperial College London, and graduate degrees from Columbia University and London Business School.

Partner, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Member, Investment Management Group
Co-chair, Israel Practice
Co-chair, Family Office Practice

Max's practice focuses on the structuring and restructuring of investment
management businesses and advising family offices and private foundations. He
represents both established and startup investment managers in launching new
funds and in private equity investments, lending, mergers and acquisitions, investor
activism, and joint ventures, as well as issuers and underwriters in debt and equity
offerings. He negotiates seed deals, agreements with anchor investors, side letters
with institutional investors, and employment and consulting agreements, and he
provides advice on securities law and trading. Max also represents leading hedge
fund managers in establishing Insurance Dedicated Funds.
He serves as Co-chair of Lowenstein's Israel Practice, which represents corporations,
venture funds, hedge fund and private equity fund managers, and family offices in
cross-border matters involving Israel and the United States. Fluent in Hebrew, Max
has represented international clients making investments in Israel, and he has
worked with Israeli investment managers on structuring and launching funds that
are open to U.S. and international investors. He is the co-founder of Israel's first
industry association for hedge funds. Max is Co-chair of Lowenstein's Family Office
Practice. Before joining the firm, he served as Chief Operating Officer and in-house
counsel to a family office and foundation. Earlier in his career, Max was a partner at
a boutique law firm focused on the representation of investment managers, as well
as real estate developers, family offices, and high net worth individuals.

Harry is an Executive Director on the UBS Capital Introduction team, based in London. Harry and the global Capital Introduction team work with and assist hedge funds at all stages of their lifecycle from start-ups to the large established managers, while also fostering strategic relationships with 2000 hedge fund investors globally.

Harry has 18 years of experience in the hedge fund industry having started his career at UBS O’Connor in 2002 as an execution trader for the firm’s flagship macro strategy. He then moved to International Asset Management (IAM), one of the oldest fund of funds in Europe, in 2007 where he was Strategy Head for European and Asian hedge funds and sat on the firm’s Asset Allocation Committee. Harry joined the UBS Capital Introduction team in 2013.

Toby is the CIO and Managing Partner of Navat, a fundamental long short equity strategy with low net market exposure and a primary focus on small and mid-cap investments across the European, and opportunistically US, equity markets.

Before launching Navat in 2018, Toby Kram helped launch and spent 9 years at Dabroes Capital Management, a European focused hedge fund manager where Toby’s role began as a senior analyst covering a handful of sectors and later grew to him being appointed the role of sector head and a managing partner and executive committee member responsible for idea generation across a large number of the sectors in Europe.

Dabroes later re-branded and became Eisenstat Capital Partners (ECAP). Toby was with ECAP until the partners decided to wind down the firm and returned all outside capital in June of 2017. Before joining Dabroes Capital in 2008, Toby worked for 4 years for STG Capital Management, a technology-focused manager as a senior analyst responsible for covering U.S. technology hardware stocks, primarily focused on the semiconductor industry.

Previous to STG, Toby was a Research Analyst at LRL Capital Management, a U.S.-focused hedge fund manager, and was responsible for covering U.S. technology stocks. Toby started his career as an intern at SAC Capital in 2002 while completing his BS in Finance from Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business.

Prof. Leo Leiderman is the Chief Economic Advisor of Bank Hapoalim. He is also a Professor
of Economics at the Berglas School of Economics and the Coller School of Management at
Tel Aviv University. Among previous high-level positions, Leiderman was a Senior Director
and Head of Research at the Bank of Israel, and Managing Director of Emerging Market
Economies at Deutsche Bank in Wall Street. Prof. Leiderman has written and spoken
extensively on issues like: globalization, international finance, central bank policies,
economic crises, and the Israeli economy. Leiderman obtained his Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago.

Andrew has over 15 years of experience delivering exceptional business development and relationship management to hedge funds, asset managers and financial institutions. Prior to joining BCS Global Markets in July 2019, Andrew held various senior roles within the prime brokerage industry.

He was most recently Director of Origination for Global Security Finance, Synthetic Prime Brokerage at ING BANK in London. Andrew also served as Vice President, Prime Brokerage Relationship Manager for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London where he ran the Hedge Fund Account Management team.

BCS Global Markets is the Investment Banking division of BCS Financial Group. BCS Financial Group is a Russian financial service sector pioneer, launching operations in 1995. BCS has a broad client base of over 140,000 that are serviced through a branch network of roughly 100 offices with over 3,000 employees.

The Global Markets Investment Banking division was launched in early 2011 and is focused on the provision of market access, financing and advisory, securities lending and other ancillary prime brokerage and asset administration services

Edoardo is primarily responsible for directing cross-strategy research across the team's global investment team. His position also entails carrying out research and due-diligence on hedge funds as well as monitoring existing and prospective investments.

Before re-joining UBS in 2016, Edoardo was Head of Research at Falcon Money Management where he joined as partner in 2009.

Prior to that in 2008, he was a Director at UBS A&Q AIS, the predecessor unit of HFS, in London. Before that, Edoardo was a senior analyst at Tremont Capital Management in London in 2004, a multi-billion fund of funds. He started his career as an analyst in 2001 at Rasini & C, researching European and Asian hedge funds.

Dan Schatzman is director of hedge fund research at Wolfson Group, a New York single
family office that has been invested in hedge funds, PE and VC for more than thirty years. He
has held this role for a dozen years. Prior to family offices, he worked in MBS securitization
and research, and for several startups. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Mr. Segev has over 20 years of experience in M&A and alternative
investments (hedge funds and private equity). He is the founder and CEO of
Liquant Asset Management, a firm that specializes in hedge fund
investment strategies and in investing in technology companies. Prior to his
return to Israel in 2014, Lior was the COO and then CEO of Lyxor Asset
Management in New York, the alternative investment management arm of
Societe Generale. Mr. Segev also held the position of General Counsel at
Lyxor and prior to that at Societe Generale Asset Management. He
practiced law with the law firm of Sidely Austin in New York with focus on
mergers and acquisitions and alternative investments. Lior is a graduate of
NYU Law School (LL.M) and Cardiff Law School (LL.B, 1 st in Class) and the
Israeli Naval Academy (1 st in Class). Mr. Segev is an investor in and a board
member of several technology companies. He is also one of the founders
and is a board member of the Israeli Hedge Fund Association (IHFA) and a
board member of Migdalor, the association of the Israeli Naval officers.

Leor Shapiro is Managing Director and Global Head of Capital Intelligence
within the prime services division at Jefferies with oversight of Capital
Introductions, Strategic Content and Hedge Fund Consulting Services. Mr.
Shapiro is responsible for working with both existing and start-up hedge fund
managers to help them launch, grow and evolve their businesses as well as
help them develop and implement their marketing strategies. Prior to
Jefferies, Mr. Shapiro was the Americas Head of Business Consulting at UBS
Securities LLC and spent the early part of his career as an Operational Due
Diligence expert at two fund of fund firms.

Menashe Shemesh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Granite Alternative Group.

Throughout his career, Menashe established and managed several companies in numerous fields, and has over twenty years of trading experience in global financial markets. In 2003 Menashe established Granite Financial instruments Ltd, a proprietary trading firm, which became one of the leading participants in the Israeli options market. Along with Uri Geller, Menashe established in 2013 Granite Alphen Capital Fund, an award winning Relative Value Vol Fund. In 2020, Menashe and Uri established Granite Chameleon Fund, which is the fourth Hedge Fund in Granite Alternative Group.

Marius Vygantas is a 20 year veteran of the Middle East. Mr. Vygantas is a Principal with
Soling Partners, a specialist advisory firm that focuses on the GCC asset management
landscape. The firm tracks the investment trends of 80 principals across the region and
currently advises 11 global asset managers who look after $2.7 trillion USD in assets. Prior to
Soling, Mr. Vygantas spent a decade with the Mubadala Investment Company, an Abu
Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund tasked with the diversification of Abu Dhabi's economy,
and two years with the Dubai Development and Investment Authority in Dubai. Mr.
Vygantas has a first-hand understanding of the UAE's economic priorities, inter-regional
dynamics, how that impacts allocation and how international firms should build
partnerships.
Mr. Vygantas is a graduate of Northwestern University and the London School of Economics.
He started his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Goldman Sachs. He has
started advisory work with the Aspen Institute's Middle East Leadership Initiative and is an
active jiu jitsu practicioner, sailor and cellist.

Miray Zaki, MBA, CFA is the co-Managing Partner of Dismatrix which invests in sustainable yet financially plausible investments across Cc and PE predominantly within the US and Europe.

Prior to that, she managed over $17 billion for various government of Abu Dhabi groups - namely as the Chief Investment officer of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable & Humanitarian Foundation (2018-2019) and at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA, 2008-2018). Her prior experiences include: a VP at Endeavor Capital - a mid-market private equity firm in Chicago, Deutsche Bank in the UK, Orascom Telecom, and Schlumberger.

Miray is a twice-nominated Top 100 Most Influential Women in Finance by Dow Jones Financial News for both 2015 and 2016. She was an award-winning Fulbright Scholar and amongst the youngest nominated globally for the Aspen Institute.

She has an MBA in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science from the American University in Cairo, and she obtained her CFA Charter in 2010.

She sits on the boards of Mathew Kenney Cuisine (Vegan, US), The Vurger Co (Vegan, UK), and ZED Aerospace (airline, US).

Founding member of the IHFA. Tally started her career as a technology investment banker at Broadview (Jeffries) then went on to practice law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in NY and in-House for Dubai World in Dubai before practicing law in Tel Aviv.

Tally is an entrepreneur and works with innovative companies and technologies solving critical challenges in emerging markets. She is a founding member of the GCC-Israel Chamber of Commerce and the UAE -Israel Business Forum. Tally is a fellow of the Aspen Institute Global Leadership Network and holds a BA, JD and MPAID from Harvard University.