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Professional experience: Maisam
began her professional experience
as an associate in a private law firm in
Haifa. In the past two years she worked
for Adalah (“Justice” in Arabic), a human
rights organization that provides
legal consultation and advocates for
litigation to protect human rights in
general, and the rights of the Arab minority
in Israel in particular. Maisam is
interested in working for an organization,
in which she can combine her
business studies with her legal background.
In addition, she is interested in
projects aiming to promote the economic
and social rights of the Arab
minority in Israel.
Tony Rantissi
project management
Jaffa, Age 33
Education: Tony has a Bachelors
degree in Business Management and
has recently concluded his MBA at the
University of Haifa.
Professional experience: Mr.
Tony Rantissi has around 14 years of
senior management level experience in
public agencies during which he served
eight years in the American Embassy as
the Deputy Chief of Section for Consular
Affairs, and in the past 6 years serves
in the development and management of
multi-million dollar projects in the West
Bank and Gaza, specializing in development
strategy, project management
programs, humanitarian assistance efforts,
and emergency relief initiatives at
the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Additionally, Tony recently
concluded a duty assignment under the
Director of the Global Development
Alliance Secretariat in Washington,
D.C. to mobilize parallel financing from
a variety of private institutional partners
in order to secure additional resources
for development assistance initiatives.
Itamar Feigenbaum
high tech
Tiv’on, Age 34
Professional experience: Itamar
has eight years of experience working
in Research & Development (R&D)
in the high-tech field, specializing in
communications and signal processing.
Now at the age of 34 he is spending
some time with his family planning his
next career move, utilizing the knowledge
he gained in his MBA studies at
the Haifa University. Itamar founded
and is co-directing the Ein-Bustan
Arab-Jewish kindergarten, where his
daughter is learning. He lives in Kiryat
Tivon in northern Israel with his partner
and two children.
email: itamar@feigenbaum.biz
Liora R. Asa
resource development
Har Halutz, Age 40
Education: B.A U.C. Berkeley
(Middle Eastern Studies), M.A George
Washington University (International
Relations), MBA from the University of
Haifa
Professional experience: Since
moving to Israel in 1996, Liora has
worked as a fundraising consultant for
several non-profit organizations and for
Shatil as a Resource Development
Consultant providing support to over 40
NGOs in the North and facilitating
training on a broad array of resource
development topics. She began her career
in the U.S., in the Washington, DC
office of the New Israel Fund, and then
was responsible for writing large multiyear
grants to the United States Agency
for International Development
(USAID) and for a US government contractor,
Chemonics International.
Abdallah Salameh
telecommunications
Jerusalem
Education: BS in Management of
Information Technology Systems from
Jerusalem University, Jerusalem and an
MBA from Haifa University.
Professional experience: Mr
Salameh is the VP of Marketing &
Business Development at Dominion
after serving as Executive Manager of
Business Technology Machines, a software
development house in Jerusalem
and Acting Managing Director with
Mustasharoun, a Management Consulting
firm in Jerusalem since 2003. In
addition, his term with ASAL Technologies
of Ramallah (2000-2003) as
Business Development Manager
equipped him with project management
experience in the field of software development
and outsourcing locally, regionally
and the Gulf area. Mr. Salameh
holds a Microsoft certified system
engineer MSCE certification.
Bashar Maddah
advertising
Tel Aviv
Education: Engineering degree
from Bezeq College, focusing on telecommunications.
Bezeq Management
Training program from Bar-Ilan University,
Tel Aviv and MBA from the
University of Haifa.
Professional experience: Mr.
Maddah has 9 years experience in the
Telecommunications industry working
with Bezeq of Israel. He is VP of Technical
and Business Operations at Bezeq.
Mr. Maddeh began his association with
Bezeq as a member of their Technical
Staff, having completed an engineering
degree from Bezeq College, focused on
Telecommunications. His work with
Bezeq took a turn toward Management
and Business Development. In 2003,
on graduation from the Bezeq Management
Training program through
Bar-Ilan University he took a position
as Manager of Marketing and Business
Development for the IP (Internet Protocol)
Business Unit, which includes the
following services IP-VPN, ADSL, prepaid
Internet service as well as content
and customer care for each service.
Ibrahim Agha
business development
Jerusalem, Age 36
Education : BS in Business Administration
from the Louisiana Tech
University , USA and an MBA from the
University of Haifa. Mr Agha was also
sponsored by USAID/AMIDEAST on
a business internship in the US.
Professional experience: Mr
Agha is currently the General Manager
at Haifa Express Ltd based in Jerusalem.
Prior to that he was on senior
management in several companies in
the Jerusalem & the West Bank in the
fields of sales and business development.
Mr Agha is one of the founding
members of Young Entrepreneurs Palestine
(YEP) and a member of the Arab
Forum of Young Entrepreneurs. Future