MINDOJO - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Architect
• Member of the Board of Directors

Danny Glushenkov is a venture architect with over a decade of experience in directing organizations, both in the public and private sectors. Danny is an expert in transforming ideas into products and products into companies, advising and leading the implementation of new venture projects centered on product innovation, ideation, acceleration, and strategy design. While working with Elbit Systems' incubator he incubated 11 companies in various sectors. Presently he is working with startups on product road maps, pitch decks, agile management and fundraising.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Israeli Business Leader

Gideon Erhard is an Israeli business leader and a former Senior Manager and Director at Discount Investment Corporation, formerly Israel's largest equity holding company. For nearly four decades, he has led and monitored investments across many sectors of the economy. Since 1999, he has represented notable foreign investors in Israel. Gideon has served as a director, and in many cases the chairman, in numerous public and private Israeli enterprises, including, till recently, as the Active Chairman of Yehuda Steel. He holds an MBA from Columbia University, New York, and is an avid investor in various start-up companies.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors

Former President of Tel Aviv University and one of Israel's most distinguished scientists and academic leaders. He served as the Chair of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the main institution supporting scientific research in Israel. Professor Klafter holds the Heinemann Chair of Physical Chemistry at Tel Aviv University, and has published close to 400 scientific articles. Among his recognitions, he is a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the 2020 Israel Prize in Chemistry and Physics.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Expert in Cognitive Developmental Psychology

Professor Sidney Strauss is an expert in Cognitive Developmental Psychology and Curriculum Development. He has taught at the Tel Aviv University's School of Education and Department of Psychology for nearly four decades and was the first incumbent of the Branco Weiss Chair of Research in Child Development and Education. Professor Strauss was the first Israeli to be elected as a foreign affiliate of the United States National Academy of Education, and is a former Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry of Education.