Calanit Bar Am has over 20 years of global commercial experience including international marketing, business development and finance. Her professional achievements include building commercial teams, successful M&A, establishment of JVs and collaboration agreements with third parties as well as establishment of operations in new markets.
Calanit has strong academic and research skills, focus on climate change, environment, water and sustainable development. Her academic research concentrates on the agricultural sector, climate change, adoption of innovations and sustainable development.

For over twenty years, Eitan has lead research teams in the IDF, at IBM and startups, leveraging his expertise in operational research, machine learning and business optimization. He is the former head of operational research for the Israeli Air Force (rank: Colonel). Eitan is a graduate of “Talpiot” and earned his PhD in operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School in California.

Ilay is a seasoned tech entrepreneur. He founded Trellis to bring a new level of efficiency and sustainability to global food systems. An awarded officer at IDF’s elite 8200 intelligence unit, Ilay also lead complex R&D and product innovation of Big-data/AI platforms at Microsoft and start-ups.

Formerly co-founder and chief scientist at Yadata (acquired by Microsoft), Ishai has over 25 years’ experience in machine learning and statistical modelling. He served as an advisor to the IDF in cryptography, and is recipient of the Israel National Security Award. He earned his PhD in mathematics at Stanford University.

For nearly two decades, Uri has been leading complex R&D and applied research. A graduate of Talpiot, Uri earned his PhD at the Weizmann Institute in the use of AI for the analysis of cell economics. A passionate instructor, Uri is a lecturer and trains physics teachers. Before earning his PhD, he completed his BSc in math, physics, and computer science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.