The Forum Group′s Professional Team
Most members of the Forum Group management team draw on more than 20 years of multidisciplinary expertise. The team combines strong academic backgrounds from the world's leading universities, achievements with the most sophisticated technologies evolved in places like 8200, with extensive successful experience in entrepreneurship, management, consulting, investment banking & underwriting, together with hands-on years of investment management of Billions of USD.
This experience covers all necessary disciplines, including macroeconomics, investments, international management, marketing and business law, capital financing of private and public companies, and more.
The teamwork of this talented lineup creates a synergy that benefits both institutional and individual clients
Ami Segal
President
Ami has degrees in Management, Economics and Business Administration, from the Tel-Aviv University and New York University, with majors in Finance and International Business. He was an Analyst at Dun & Bradstreet, Tel Aviv in 1983 and then a Management consultant in the New York office of Grant Thornton.
From 1986 to date Ami has been an investor, entrepreneur, executive and consultant for over 200 Israeli companies through Biderman & Co. Ltd., and Forum Consulting and Business Development Ltd.
Ami has accumulated work experience in Israel, USA and the Far East and speaks Hebrew, English and French. He is the co-founder of Forum-Group USA Inc. and Forum Telecom Inc.
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Shai Bar-Lavi
CEO, ForumTel
Shai has a vast experience in investment banking focusing in technology and marketing companies – both US and Israeli companies. In addition, Shai served in various senior management positions (including, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer) in public and private companies, in the telecommunication, internet, marketing and media sectors.
He is the co-founder of Forum-Group USA Inc. and Forum Telecom Inc.
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Yaron Pitaru
CIO-Alfa, CEO - Quantecom
Founding Principal and CEO of Quantecom, Yaron Pitaru is responsible for all of Quantecom investment models. Prior to founding Quantecom Capital, Yaron worked at Prisma Investment house as a CIO. He was in charge of research, investment and risk management for all the Prisma activity (around $12bn). Prior to joining Prisma, Yaron worked at Bank Leumi, the biggest Israeli Bank, where he managed all the investment activity (CIO) of Leumi provident fund (around $9bn AUM). Before that Yaron worked in leading investment companies in Israel. He was CIO at Kahal ($3bn AUM) and Head of Research at Ofek. During the last 20 years, Yaron has developed several investment decision models based on both macroeconomics and technical analysis. He holds an MBA, specialized in Finance and a BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University. Yaron holds a portfolio manager license from the Israel Security Authority (ISA)
Benny Yehezkel
Executive VP, Forum Mobile, Inc.
Benny Yehezkel has over 20 years experience in executive management and telecommunications. Benny serves in a number of executive leadership roles ranging from start ups to publicly traded companies. Prior to Forum Tel Benny served as EVP of Ectel Ltd. (ECTX), CEO of Elron Telesoft, various executive positions in the Elron Electronic Industries Group (ELRN) - VP of Bus Dev of Elbit Ltd., CEO of Dealigence Inc and previously as CEO of Sintec Call Centers. Mr. Yehezkel holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology.
Email: benny@forum-group.com
Ron Belkine
General Legal Counsel, Forum Mobile
Ron is a member of both the UK and Israeli bars. From November 2006, Ron served as general counsel of a telecommunications infrastructure company operating in more than 25 countries. Ron was a senior associate in the legal department of a leading cellular operator in Israel, listed on NASDAQ. He served as in-house counsel at a leading software company and at Israel Aircraft Industries. Ron was also an associate at an Israeli boutique law firm.
Ronreceived his LLB in Law from Tel Aviv University and holds an MBA from Bradford University’s Management Centre.
Email : ronb@forum-mobile.com
Dr. Daniel Baraz
Head of Research. Real Estate Fund Manager
Daniel Specializes in International Management, with a focus on global real-estate markets. He serves as the Executive Director of the Fishman-J.E.C. Real Estate Center at the Hebrew University Business School. He also teaches on global real-estate markets at the Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzliya. Daniel is co-founder of Bregman-Baraz Real Estate, a consulting company that specializes in real estate investments and research. Formerly he served as a Consultant for the IBI investment house. Daniel received his Ph.D. degree in Medieval History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and subsequently was a post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania (2000-2001). He received his M.B.A. degree summa cum laude from the Hebrew University in 2006.
Email: daniel@forum-group.com
Nirit Bergman
CPA (Isr.), LL.M.: Senior Researcher, Real Estate Fund Manager
Consultant to Forum Real Estate Funds
Nirit is the Director of Investor Relations at “REIT 1”, the first Israeli public REIT. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Executive MBA program at the Hebrew University. Nirit is a financial analyst by training.
In her previous positions she was a Senior analyst at Maalot S&P, Head of Research at Discount Capital Markets and the CEO of National Consultants, an affiliate of Bank Leumi.
Ezra Attar
Forum Finance – Chairman
Ezra Attar is co-founder and Chairman of Forum Finance (subsidiary of Forum Group), which provides public offerings, investment banking and securities distribution services.
Ezra is also Chairman and shareholder (25%) in Sigma Group, a private owned investment house, established by Prof. Dan Galai (Dean, Business Administration School, the Hebrew University), specializing in portfolio and mutual-funds management.
With over 30 years experience, Ezra held various key positions in the Israeli capital markets, such as CEO of Prisma Provident-Funds, Founder & CEO of Solomon Capital Market Group, which specialized in portfolio management, and mutual & provident funds management. In addition, Ezra operated a Seat in Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange, acted as Chairman of Solomon Underwriting Company and was responsible for the Group’s Investment Banking activities.
Ezra held various senior positions at Bank Hapoalim and inter alia headed the mutual funds activities of the bank.
Email: ezra.attar@for-finance.com
Ilia Maly, Adv
Forum Finance – Deputy General Manager
Ilia Maly is co-founder and deputy general manager of Forum Finance (subsidiary of Forum Group), which provides public offerings, investment banking and securities distribution services.
In his last position Ilia was a Deputy Manager of Analyst Underwriting and Issuing Ltd. In Analyst Underwriting Ilia structured, managed and marketed numerous public and private offerings, was responsible for private-equity marketing and international collaboration (Knight-Capital and others) in fund raising, private placements, APO and PIPEs.
Prior to his activity in the Capital Market, Ilia specialized as a lawyer in corporate law, real-estate and litigation.
Ilia has degrees in Law and Economics (LL.B, BA) from Tel Aviv University and is currently completing his MBA studies (finance specialization) at Bar Ilan University.
Email: ilia@for-finance.com
Orly Brown
F.A.M Forum Asset Management - CEO
Orly Brown is a co-founder and the CEO of F.A.M. Forum Asset Management (subsidiary of Forum Group). Orly has over 25 years of professional wide ranging experience both in wealth creation and wealth preservation, with the banking and the financial industry, Specializing in asset management, and financial structuring consulting.
Orly has been with the banking system in Israel and abroad providing domestic and international financial solutions to high net individuals. He also served as the Chief Representative of a bank for Australia, as well as Canada for over 10 years in total, as well as holding various senior positions at Bank Hapoalim.
Orly received a Bachelor degree in Economics and Business Administration from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Email: orly@forum-group.com
Ruthy Waxman
F.A.M Forum Asset Management - First VP
Ruthy Waxman is a co-founder and the First Vice President of F.A.M. Ruthy has over 30 years experience in Bank Hapoalim, one of Israel's leading banks. She served as the Head of the International Business Department and later the Head of the Anglo-Saxons desk and served as First Vice President at Bank Hapoalim.
Ruthy specializes in International Banking, as well as Global Wealth Management. Ruthy has experience in dealing with international conglomerates, banks, high network individuals, off-shore companies and representative offices all over the world. She holds a B.A. in Business Administration.
Email: ruthy@forum-group.com