Dan Singer - Start-up Nation

Erlich, Yigal, founder, chairman, and managing partner, Yozma Group; May 2008.

Farhi, Major Gilad, commander in the Kfir infantry unit, IDF; November 2008.

Fick, Nathaniel, chief operating officer, Center for a New American Security; author, One Bullet Away ; March 2008.

Friedman, Thomas, columnist, New York Times ; April 2009.

Galil, Uzia, chairman and CEO, Uzia Initiatives & Management Ltd; July 2008.

Gerson, Mark, executive chairman, Gerson Lehrman Group; January 2009.

Gidron, Rafi, and Orni Petruschka, cofounders, Precede Technologies, Chromatis Networks, and Scorpio Communications; December 2008.

Giladi, Brigadier General Eival (res.), CEO, Portland Trust; March 2009.

Goren, Amos, venture partner, Apax Partners; January 2009.

Grinstein, Gidi, founder and president, Reut Institute; May and August 2008.

Gross, Yossi, director and cofounder, TransPharma Medical; founder of many medical-device start-ups; December 2008.

Hamed, Colonel Ramiz, head of the Minorities Unit, Human Resources Branch, IDF; November 2008.

Harris, Clinton P., founder and managing partner, Grove Street Advisors; founder and former managing director, Advent International; January 2009.

Haug, Laurent, founder and CEO, Lift Conference; May 2009.

Hausmann, Ricardo, former Venezuelan minister of state and current director of the Harvard Center for International Development; February 2009.

Ivri, David, former ambassador to the United States and former chief commander of the Israeli Air Force; December 2008.

Kagan, Frederick W., military historian; resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI); December 2008.

Kaplinsky, Major General Moshe (res.), CEO, Better Place Israel; November 2008.

Kaufmann, Yadin, founding partner, Veritas Venture Partners; December 2008.

Keinan, Tal, cofounder, KCPS; May and December 2008.

Kerbs, Gil, venture capitalist and contributor to Forbes ; January 2009.

Ketels, Christian H. M., economist, member of the Harvard Business School faculty and of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness; March 2009.

Kohlberg, Isaac T., senior associate provost and chief technology development officer, Harvard University; January 2009.

Kranz, Eugene (Gene) F., former flight director and manager, NASA; May 2009.

Laor, Michael, founder of Cisco Systems Development Center in Israel; February 2009.

Lipow, Jonathan, Department of Economics, Oberlin University; May 2008.

Lipsky, David, author, Absolutely American ; March 2009.

Lowry, Colonel John (res.), general manager, Harley-Davidson Motor Company; November 2008.

Luttwak, Edward, senior associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); December 2008.

Luttwak, Yael, former commander in tank gunnery course, IDF; documentary filmmaker; August 2008.

Maarek, Yoelle, former director, Google’s R&D Center in Haifa, Israel; January 2009.

Maoz, Darya, anthropologist, the Hebrew University; June 2009.

Margalit, Erel, founder of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP); May 2008.

Matanya, Aviatar, senior officer, Talpiot program; December 2008.

Matias, Yossi, director, Google’s R&D Center in Tel Aviv, Israel; January 2009.

McLaughlin, Andrew, director, public policy and government affairs for Google; January 2009.

McMaster, Brigadier General H. R., U.S. Army; May 2009.

McWilliams, David, Irish economist; July 2009.

Medved, Jon, CEO and board member, Vringo; May 2008.

Messer-Yaron, Hagit, president, Open University; January 2009.

Mitchell, Lesa, vice president, Kauffman Foundation; March 2009.

Mlavsky, Ed, chairman and founding partner, Gemini Israel Funds; December 2008.

Molla, Shlomo (Neguse), member of Knesset, Kadima Party; March 2009.

Moralli, Dorit, owner, El Lobo restaurant and guesthouse in La Paz, Bolivia; March 2009.

Nagel, Brigadier General Jacob (res.), deputy director of Mafat, IDF; December 2008.

Netanyahu, Benjamin, prime minister of Israel; December 2008.

Newbold, General Gregory (ret.), former director of operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff; May 2009.

Ofer, Idan, chairman of the board, Better Place; December 2008.

Oren, Michael, senior fellow, Shalem Center; May 2008.

Peled, Dan, Department of Economics, University of Haifa; July 2008.

Peres, Chemi, cofounder and managing general, Pitango VC; December 2008.

Peres, Shimon, president of Israel; December 2008.

Peretz, Shay, CEO, DefenSoft Planning Systems; December 2008.

Perlmutter, David, executive vice president and general manager, Mobility Group, Intel Corporation; January 2009.

Petraeus, General David, commander, U.S. Central Command; May 2009.

Porter, Michael E., professor of economics, Harvard Business School; founder and chairman, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC); institute director, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness; cofounder, Monitor Group; March 2009.

Pulver, Jeff, founder and chief executive, Pulver.com; August 2008.

Rabinovich, Abraham, author of The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East ; May 2009.

Rezk, Amr, EFG-Hermes; March 2009.

Riesenfeld, Tal, IDF Special Forces (res.); cofounder, EyeView; December 2008.

Ron, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan (res.), IDF; attorney, Ron-Festinger Law Offices; December 2008.

Rosenberg, David, Bloomberg Jerusalem bureau; former business editor, Jerusalem Post ; former chief North American economist, Merrill Lynch; May 2008.

Samet, Yoav, corporate development manager for Israel, Central/Eastern Europe, and Russia/CIS, Cisco Systems Inc.; January 2009.

Schell, Jessica, vice president of NBC Universal, Inc.; April and June 2008.

Schmidt, Eric, chairman and CEO, Google; June 2009.

Schramm, Carl J., president and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; March 2009.

Schroeder, Alice, author of The Snowball ; January 2009.

Sela, Michael, Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science; December 2008.

Senior eBay executive, background interview; September 2008.

Shainberg, Gary, vice president for technology and innovation, British Telecom; May and August 2008.

Sharansky, Natan, chairman and distinguished fellow, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, Shalem Center; founder of Yisrael B’Aliya Party; May 2008.

Solomon, Ian, partner, Profile Group; vice president of business development, Aespironics; December 2008.

Swersky Sofer, Nava, former CEO, Yissum; December 2008.

Thompson, Scott, president, PayPal; October 6 and October 16, 2008; January 2009.

Tice, Captain Brian (res.), U.S. Marine Corps; February 2009.

Vardi, Yossi, Israeli Internet guru; founder of more than fifty high-tech companies; May 2008.

Vieux, Alex, CEO, Red Herring; May 2009.

Vilenski, Dan, former chairman of the board, Applied Materials Israel, Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative (INNI); July 2008.

Vilpponen, Antti, founder, ArcticStartup; January 2009.

Vise, David A., coauthor of The Google Story ; January 2009.

Vitman, Assaf, economic attaché, Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.; January 2009.

Wertheimer, Eitan, chairman of the board, Iscar; January 2009.

Whitman, Meg, former president and CEO, eBay; September 2008.

Wolfe, Josh, cofounder and managing partner, Lux Capital; December 2008.

Wood, Doug, head of creative affairs, Animation Lab; May 2008.

Yaalon, Lieutenant General Moshe (res.), Likud member of Knesset; IDF chief of staff in 2002–05; May 2008.

Zeevi-Farkash, Major General Aharon (res.), former head of Intelligence Unit 8200, IDF; May 2008.

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