Eliezer Manor / Founder and CEO, Shirat Enterprises Israel

Eliezer is a physicist who graduated from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel He spent many years with the Israeli Defense Forces and the R&D Department of the Israeli Ministry of Defense in the field of Electro-Optics.

His past and present activities cover the entire “spectrum” and sequence of hi-tech related activities: Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship in Israel and in the US, Angel investments and founder of portfolio companies, Technological Incubation in Israel, Venture Capital in Israel and in the US, Corporate Venture Capital, joint programs with Multi-National Companies, joint programs with the Israeli and foreign governments, Investment Banking and Stock Markets of Hi-Tech/Hi-Growth companies.  He is presently a Board Member of private and public companies traded on NASDAQ and on TASE (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange).

These days he is engaged in a broad program with Israeli companies which establishes operations in China for business development, industrialization and commercialization of their products in the Chinese and worldwide markets.

Eliezer is also engaged in venture philanthropy.  He and his family established Schools-on-Line Israel, an NGO, active among high-school children and teachers.