Eddy Shalev

Who is Eddy Shalev?

Eddy

Shalev is the Founder and Managing Partner of Genesis Partners, a

leading Israel venture capital fund with more than $500 million under

management. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the business

community and is recognized as a pioneer of Israel’s investment banking

and venture capital industry. Eddy has been an active private-equity

investor since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program

that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies, and has

played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including

Fundtech, Paradigm Geophysical and Orbot Instruments. Beginning in

1985, he led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and

then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate

banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies

traded on NASDAQ. Eddy also co-founded the Mofet Israel Technology

Fund, one of Israel's first venture capital firms. Eddy began his

career with IBM, where he served as a Large Systems Expert and Account

Executive for IBM Israel and as a Large Accounts Strategic Planner for

IBM United Kingdom. Eddy holds an MSc in Information Systems and a BA

in Statistics, both from Tel Aviv University.