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Shlomo is one of Israel's leading technology investors. In 1994, Shlomo founded The Jerusalem Global Group and in 1999 he founded Jerusalem Global Ventures. Shlomo frequently appears in the media and has been featured on the cover of Upside Magazine. He has also been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Business Week and other business publications. 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, Exent, Oridion Medical, Oren Semiconductors, and Optical Solutions.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. Shlomo served in the Israeli Air Force as a 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 - Israel's equivalent of MIT; The Jerusalem College of Technology, and High Tech Management School, a joint venture between Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University.Shlomo is currently Chairman of the Board of Chiasma serves on the Boards of Directors of LocatioNet Systems, Nano-Or Technologies, Saifun Semiconductors, and Valor and is an observer on the Boards of Mellanox Technologies and Notal Vision. | 