Shai Agassi

Who is Shai Agassi?

Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur. He was the founder and former CEO of Better Place, which had developed a model and infrastructure for employing electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology and which declared bankruptcy in May 2013 after going through USD $850 Million in capital. Agassi was President of the Products and Technology Group at SAP AG. In 2003, at the age of 36, Agassi was named one of the top 20 'Global Influentials for 2003' by CNN-Time magazine. In 2009, Agassi was included in TIME magazine's 100 most influential people list. In 2010, Foreign Policy magazine included Agassi on its annual list of the 100 most influential global thinkers.