Start-up Nation

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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