The people building here.
The people building here — across the programmes, the portfolio and the pilot sites.
Moshe Lev is a technology entrepreneur and inventor with a multidisciplinary background spanning engineering, field deployment, and product development. He specializes in translating practical agricultural challenges into scalable, field-ready solutions.
Roni Gorodetsky is a full-stack engineer with deep experience across hardware, firmware, mobile development, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and automation. With a multidisciplinary approach and global perspective, he specializes in taking complex systems from concept to fully operational products, combining hands-on engineering with scalable architecture.
Prof. Nadav Shashar is a Professor of Marine Biology at Ben-Gurion University in Eilat, specializing in marine ecology, reef restoration, and the interactions between the physical environment (light and currents) and animal behavior. He is the local coordinator of BGU’s Marine Biology and Biotechnology program. Nadav is a former Naval officer, and a current scuba diver, and is well known as a leader in the field of Marine Habitats Restoration.
Haim Rozenboim is an engineering entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building startups across medical technologies, agriculture, smart home systems, and industrial innovation. He is the owner of a design house, EMROZ Solutions Ltd.
Nir Menahem is an agri-tech entrepreneur and systems engineer focused on building intelligent, data-driven infrastructure for aquaculture. With over a decade of experience developing automation, sensing, control, and AI platforms, he specializes in turning complex farming operations into precise, adaptive systems.
Tomer Bahar, born and raised at Kibbutz Maanit, is an agro-entrepreneur working at the intersection of agriculture and renewable energy. With deep familiarity in rural systems, regulation, and land use, he focuses on building practical economic models that strengthen farmer income within evolving energy infrastructure.
Alexander Balabanov is an electrical engineer and systems developer specializing in energy optimization and control algorithms. With experience spanning military-grade system development, solar energy automation at SolarEdge, and advanced data-driven research at the Technion, he builds high-efficiency, scalable technologies.
Moti Harari is an agronomist and agricultural researcher with decades of experience in desert agriculture, crop breeding, and arid-zone farming systems. His work at the Arava Research Station and the Negev–Arava Research & Development Center has focused on developing crops and plant-based solutions adapted to extreme environments.
Nof Shelly is an entrepreneur operating at the intersection of food, technology, and operational systems. Trained at Le Cordon Bleu London and OCD Tel Aviv, he brings the precision and discipline of professional kitchens into scalable, data-driven business infrastructure. His leadership style combines high-pressure crisis management with a sharp focus on ROI and operational simplicity.
Avi Zioni is an entrepreneur and operational leader with broad experience in business development, construction, and project management. With expertise in agricultural and solar systems impacted by bird damage, he has led projects in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and public bodies, and is a co-founder of Kibbutz Neot Semadar.
Dr. Victor Rina is a data scientist and biophysicist specializing in advanced statistical modeling and machine learning applications in aquatic systems. With an academic background spanning fish ecology (M.A.), biophysics (PhD), and postdoctoral research in AI-driven image analysis of fish species, his work bridges biology and computational intelligence.
Dr. Na’ama Segal is a marine biotechnologist specializing in microalgae biotechnology, genetic engineering, and climate-resilient bio-systems. She heads the Microalgae Biotechnology Laboratory at the National Center for Mariculture (IOLR), leading multidisciplinary research spanning molecular biology, synthetic biology, large-scale cultivation, and environmental applications, translating advanced science into scalable solutions.
Prof. Roi Holzman is a Full Professor at the School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, and a researcher at the Inter-University Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat. An internationally recognized expert in fish larval biology, his research focuses on the functional mechanisms underlying feeding, growth, and survival in early life stages of marine organisms. Using advanced imaging, hydrodynamic modeling, and computational analysis, he has published groundbreaking studies on larval feeding behavior and performance.
PhD in electro-mechanically coupled materials, Technion (2010). CEO of SEAL — Hydrographic and Geophysical Survey since 2011; previously CEO of the Coastal & Marine Engineering Research Institute at the Technion (2013–2018) and technical manager at Oceana Marine Research (2009–2011).
BSc in oceanography, Hebrew University; Cat-B hydrographic surveyor; COO of SEAL since 2014, with prior roles in hydrographic survey management.
R&D and product manager in an IDF technology unit (2010–2016); co-founder and CEO of JEWELS (3D modelling and digital visualization, 2016–2017) and of Verto.AI (AI for 3D reconstruction, 2018–2025); since 2025 focused on grants and non-dilutive fundraising strategy for startups.
Dr. Igal Berenshtein leads the work at the University of Haifa’s Marine Ecology & Ocean Health Lab, in collaboration with CAMERI, the Coastal and Marine Engineering Research Institute.
Dr. Gil Wang is CEO of CAMERI, the Coastal and Marine Engineering Research Institute, and a researcher at the Leon Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa. The project is led together with Prof. Ezri Tarazi of the Design-Tech Lab at the Technion Faculty of Architecture, with Prof. Oren Levy of Bar-Ilan University as marine biology consultant.
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