Shmuel Kedmi
A serial entrepreneur and technology executive with more than 30 years of experience, Avinoam has founded, led, and successfully exited multiple deep-tech ventures across telecommunications, AI, enterprise networking, energy, and thermal management. He has worked closely with leading venture capital firms including Benchmark, Accel, Sequoia, and Norwest. Most recently, Avinoam served as CEO of Carrar and advisor to ZutaCore. Previously, he founded and led Atrica, a pioneer in Carrier Ethernet solutions that raised over $200 million and was acquired by Nokia Siemens Networks. Earlier, he served as Vice President and General Manager at 3Com, leading businesses with annual revenues exceeding $200 million. Avinoam also co-founded my6sense, an AI-driven media technology company, and NiceCom, one of Israel’s early startup success stories. He previously served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion and an Executive MBA from Tel Aviv University.
Sarit Soccary Ben Yochanan
Sarit is Advisor to NetZero Tech Ventures. She is also Chairperson of Unic Venture Studio and Innegev, and the former Managing Partner of DK Innovation, Delek US’ corporate venture capital fund.
Dr. Eveline Steinberger-Kern
Dr. Eveline Steinberger-Kern is the Founder & Executive Director at The Blue Minds Company. Eveline Steinberger-Kern holds Supervisory Board mandates with Unicredit Bank Austria AG (Austria/Italy), BayWa re AG (Germany) as well as the Evergreen Private Foundation (Austria/Canada).
Yonatan Shek
Yonatan Shek is Executive Vice President in charge of mergers and acquisitions and corporate development at Total Eren. A graduate of Hebrew University and Harvard Business School, he began his career in the financial and strategic consulting entity TASC (energy sector) before joining Total Eren to coordinate M&A and fundraising activities.
Dr. Barak Ben-Avinoam
Dr. Barak Ben-Avinoam is a Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital fund since 2014, and the General Partner at Climatech Global Ventures (CGV), a specialized ClimaTech fund, since 2023. Barak served as the Founding CEO of NetZero for its first year of operations, and currently serves a Board Member and an Investment Committee Member. Prior to BGV Barak held several C-Level positions in pre-seed investment platforms and technology startup companies in Israel. Barak holds an MBA and a Doctorate of Business Administration, with honors, from the International School of Management, in Paris, France.
Ido Biger
Ido is a board member at NetZero Tech Ventures. He serves as CEO of DK Innovation, Delek US’ corporate venture capital fund, and Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Data Officer at Delek US Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DK), a Fortune 500 downstream energy company.
Renaud Maillard
Leads Research & Technology on CO2 activities
Asi Shalgi
Asi’s 25+ years of experience extends to both the public and private energy sectors. Asi was the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Energy, and today he is the Managing Partner at OSEG, in addition to serving as President of NetZero Tech Ventures.
Raviv Zoller
Raviv served as President and CEO of ICL (NYSE) from 2018-2025. From 2008-2017, he served as the CEO of I.D.I. Insurance Company (Bituach Yashir), the pioneer in Israel of Direct Insurance, which was listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2011. In 1999, he founded Ness Technologies, Israel’s largest IT services company, which began trading on NASDAQ in 2004. Raviv served as its President and CEO until 2007.