The alumni conference of the “School of Future CEOs”, the flagship program of the Supersons project, was supposed to be purely professional but became the focus of discussions about the situation of women in the business world – which is no better than their situation in the emerging coalition.
“In the previous government, the business world was lagging behind politics. Now there is an opportunity for the business world to show politics how to make a change,” said Hanna Redo, founder and president of Supersons and chairman of the Tishtana Group at the event, which was held at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
“At TA 125 there are still only four female CEOs, but this room is full of women who are going to change the face of the business sector in Israel. This is a reality. We must all work together to prevent a social disaster in Israel. With the new coalition, no girl in Israel will be able to To find a model for inspiration. This is the time for business companies to take responsibility and change the situation.”
Her words were joined by Orly Greenfeld, senior vice president and manager of the stock exchange’s clearing department, who stated that “the stock exchange’s management understands that 60% women in its management is excellent, but it really does not represent the economy. We understand that we have the responsibility to change the reality in Israel together with Supersons.”
The School for CEOs of the Future is designed to promote and train female executives for senior management positions, and to help them break the ceiling on the way to the position of CEO. So far, about 300 senior managers have been trained in the program, and soon the third cycle will open in partnership with the stock exchange. The current event was attended by, among others, Tali Shalit, CEO of Phoenix Advanced Investments, Shelli Lanzman, former CEO of Microsoft Israel, Moran Atar, CFO of WILK, Esti Hadar, senior partner at Herzog Fox Naman, Stella Solomonovitch, Vice President of Engineering at Elbit, and Diti Shani, manager of the Shamir Eyal plant.
Industrial Zone
The pharmaceutical company Vidac, which develops drugs for the treatment of cancer, won third place in the competition of the European HealthTech For Care Foundation held in Paris.
Vidac was established in 2012 by the biomed entrepreneur Prof. Max Herzberg, who founded and sold the Organics company in the 1990s. The company develops cancer drugs based on interfering with the energy utilization mechanism of the cancer cell, and a few months ago announced its intention to register for trading on the Hamburg Stock Exchange, but the process has not yet been implemented.
Healthtech for Cold was established by the association of French biotech companies, with the aim of bringing new health technologies to the French market, and to all markets in Europe. The fund held an event with 800 participants from the French life sciences industry, including 300 investors, in which the innovation competition took place. 25 selected companies in the field of life sciences from seven European countries (and Israel) presented their developments and inventions, and three of them won prizes.
First place was won by the Belgian company MRM, which develops drugs for inflammatory diseases based on the human microbiome, and second place was won by FluoSphera, which develops predictive tools for drug discovery, while reducing the use of laboratory animals.
Weinerb waves
the golden parachute
Lior Lazer, 48, the VP of trade and sales of the Beldi meat products company, crosses the lines and will be appointed deputy CEO of the food products importer Vilipod. This is a new standard that was opened after the food importer was looking for a reinforcement player who would be responsible for trade and marketing issues, under CEO Erez Viner. (Shira Sapir)
Stella Krioff, 54, was appointed head of the Northern District at Maccabi Health Services. In the last 3.5 years she served as CEO of Sodastream Israel.
Stella Karioff / Photo: Avishag Shaar Yeshav
Shlomi Koertler, former co-CEO of Dell EMC Israel, has been appointed CEO of Hadar Goldman’s renewable energy company HaMaor HaGadol.
Menashe Dellal was appointed CEO of the Financial Insurance Agency of Capital TLV and the Financial Group. Previously, he served as the CEO of the Kal Auto Group insurance agency and as the Chief Business Manager of the Paz Group.
Prof. Neely Cohen will serve as the chairman of the executive committee of the Israel Opera.
good news
Bank Leumi will invest approximately NIS 400,000 in the “Big Men in Uniform” program, which enables the integration of young people with disabilities at IDF bases, for their future integration into society and employment.