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Gadi Aner

 Gadi Aner, Chairman & CEO
Mr. Aner has founded and managed several high-profile hi-tech companies, including Symposia (Israel) Ltd., Verdant Biotechnologies and Pharmore Therapeutics Ltd.

He has a wealth of experience in various sectors of the hi-tech industry. His achievements include the development and implementation of software and online applications for events organization; the improvement of agricultural biotechnologies to enhance crop resistance; and the advancement of reduced-toxicity compounds for the treatment of cancer in collaboration with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Ehud Keinan Professor Ehud Keinan
Professor Keinan was until recently the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, holder of the Benno Gitter and Ilana Ben-Ami Chair of Biotechnology, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and the Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology at the Scripps research Institute in La Jolla, California. His impressive academic achievements, along with his extensive experience in scientific research and application has made him a highly-respected and sought-after expert in the upper echelons of academia, in Israel and worldwide.

He has published 150 scientific papers, edited 3 books and 3 special issues of the Israel Journal of Chemistry, and has over 20 patents to his name. His latest book, Catalytic Antibodies is the first and most comprehensive volume in its field. Prof. Keinan is considered one of the world’s foremost experts in the science of Improvised Explosives.

He has been awarded:
  • The Mifal Hapais Prize
  • The New England Award for Academic Excellence
  • The Shannon Award of NIH
  • The CapCure Award
  • The Herschel-Rich Award for Scientific Excellence
  • The Technion Prize for Security Technologies
  • The Henry Taub Prize for Exellence in Research

He was also bestowed the Joseph and Madeleine Nash Career Development Chair, was a visiting Professor at the University of Paris VI, and is a member of both the editorial board of the Israel Journal of Chemistry and the international advisory board of Enzyme and Microbial Technology.

Professor Keinan’s academic milestones include:

  • B.Sc. from Tel-Aviv University (1970).
  • M.Sc. from Ben-Gurion University (1971) with Prof. L. H. Zalkow (natural product chemistry).
  • Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1977) with Prof. Y. Mazur (dry ozonation chemistry).
  • Post-doctoral research (1977-1980) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison with Prof. B. M. Trost (synthetic applications of organopalladium chemistry).
  • Establishment of a research lab in the Weizmann Institute of Science, focusing on organometallic chemistry, organic synthesis and applied enzymology.
  • Establishment of a research lab in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, focusing on drug discovery, organometallic chemistry, organic synthesis, biomolecular computing, biocatalysis, and improvised explosives.
  • Establishment of a research lab in The Scripps Research Institute, focusing on anti-cancer agents, catalytic antibodies, synthetic enzymes, molecular machines, and molecular containers.
In addition, Professor Keinan is:
  • President of the International Forum of Bio-Inspired Engineering (IFBIE)
  • Founder and first Head of the Institute of Catalysis Science and Technology (ICST, Technion Israel).
  • Former President of the Israel Chemical Society.
Dan Elnathan Dan Elnathan
Mr. Elnathan holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2002, he has served as chairman of the Accounting Department at the College of Management in Israel, and was previously a professor of Clinical Accounting at the University of Southern California. Mr. Elnathan has also served as a member of the Board of Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Israeli public company Vita Pri Hagalil since 2004.
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