Ilan Feldman, Managing Partner - Sherpa Innoventures.

Ilan Feldman is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Sherpa InnoVentures, a unique innovation-focused investment fund, based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Ilan has extensive experience in the VC and PE industry; he co-founded and managed the Sherpa Group, a New York Based venture capital platform, which was the main investor in Exalink Ltd., eventually acquired by Comverse Technology for the amount of 550 million US$. Following that, Ilan was a co-founder and CEO of Shalom.com and Shalom Equity Fund. Ilan’s position at the above funds, entailed daily involvement in portfolio companies such as: Visionsense, Exalink, Mazor Robotics (TASE: MZOR) and Speech Modules. He has served as an active director of the Technion Entrepreneurial Incubator (TEIC), Israel’s leading technological incubator and mentored and lead startup companies from the concept stage to maturity, including GeneGrafts Ltd., Regentis Ltd. and Argo Medical. Ilan earned his B.A. degree in Industrial Management at the Shenkar institute.