The ICV Team consists of three full time General Partners, Glen Schwaber, Jack Levy, and Meir Ukeles, CFO Lila Frenkel, and four Venture Partners, Arnon Goldfarb, Israel Kroizer, Eytan Levy and Yigal Stav. Additionally, the team's efforts are supported by an advisory board composed of industry, technology and regulatory experts.

Jack S. Levy, General Partner, 37, is a corporate lawyer and executive with experience in building high-growth companies and leading management teams through successful capital raising, international expansion and acquisition processes. From 1999 through 2003, Jack was Vice President and General Counsel of Register.com where he helped build the company from $9m to over $100m in revenues, guiding the firm as it expanded operations into five countries and multiple business lines and successfully grew to become a leader in its market. Jack played a central role in the company’s successful initial public offering, in its three acquisitions and multiple investments and joint ventures and in its successful defense of a threatened hostile takeover attempt.

Previously, Jack served as a corporate attorney for New York firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, serving top-tier clients including Teva Pharmaceuticals and Warburg Pincus. Prior to this, Jack served as a corporate attorney at Tulchinsky Stern in Tel Aviv. In this capacity, Jack represented prominent Israeli investors Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), Bank Hapoalim and Clal, as well as a number of start-up companies.

Jack routinely speaks at cleantech forums and conferences in Israel and around the globe.

Jack holds a B.A., magna cum laude from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Stone Scholar.

Glen I.A. Schwaber, General Partner, 38 is a seasoned venture capitalist, having spent 8 ½ years at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), one of Israel’s largest and most successful venture capital funds, with $680M under management. Glen joined JVP as an Associate in early 1998, and was promoted to General Partner in 2000. While at JVP, Glen led and co-led deals in some of JVP’s most successful portfolio companies, focusing particularly on components and innovative material investments. During his tenure, Glen held Board positions with a myriad of companies, such as Altair, Cyoptics, EPOS, Horizon, Kodeos, InPlane, Mempile, PowerDsine (Nasdaq: PDSN), Sheer (acquired by Cisco), and XmPie (acquired by Xerox).

In 2000, Glen moved to the US to establish and lead JVP's New York office, where he cultivated relationships for the firm on both the East and West coasts with venture capital funds and strategic partners. Upon returning to Israel in 2002, Glen led the creation of JVP Studio, JVP’s seed stage incubator investment vehicle. Glen led the negotiations with Israel’s Office of the Chief Scientist to acquire the license to privatize the former Jerusalem Software Incubator, while simultaneously recruiting a new management team for the incubator. Today, JVP Studio is home to exceptional seed stage companies that focus on the enterprise software and new media markets. It provides a suite of critical services including seed financing, management guidance, infrastructure and strategic direction to outstanding entrepreneurs, and is recognized across the industry in Israel as a model for successful seed-stage technology investing.

Prior to JVP, Glen was Director of Consulting at Jerusalem Global Ltd. from 1994-1997, where he garnered extensive experience in cultivating and growing young startup companies. While at Jerusalem Global, Glen created and managed a team of consultants that developed business plans and conducted market research for some of Israel's leading communications and software start-ups. In addition, he consulted to several well-established Israeli companies including ECI Telecom, Tadiran Telecommunications and Israel Aircraft Industries.

Glen sits on several Boards of Directors including Metrolight, an ICV portfolio company, Cyoptics, Horizon Semiconductors and Natan, and Jewish non-profit organization.

Glen holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College.

Meir Ukeles, General Partner, 35, brings extensive financial, market and strategic analysis, public and private equity deal execution and technology understanding to ICV. From 2000 to 2004, Meir worked at SG Cowen, a leading technology and healthcare investment bank, leading M&A and public equity transactions for Israeli and US companies that raised in excess of $300 million. As a research analyst, Meir covered the defense technology and services sector, making recommendations regarding investment that generated substantial returns to investors (including Veridian, Titan, SRA International, MTC Technologies, and Anteon). Following his return to Israel in 2004, Meir served as CFO of Sentry Technology Group Inc., an Israeli-US defense startup led by a former commander of the Israeli Air Force, the former CEO of Elbit Ltd. Prior to this, Meir served for two years as an officer in one of the Israeli Defense Forces technology unit.

Meir began his career working together with Glen Schwaber at Jerusalem Global Ltd., an Israeli merchant bank that was a leading source of private equity funding for Israeli tech companies during the 1990s. At Jerusalem Global, Meir led the angel financing of QXL Ltd., an investment which generated the highest IRR in the firm’s history. He also worked together with Glen on the initiation and structuring of a joint venture between Jerusalem Global and CDC, Taiwan’s largest investment bank.

Meir is regularly invited to speak at cleantech and venture capital conferences around Israel and the world.

Meir holds a B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia College in Political Science and East Asian Studies, and speaks Mandarin.

Lila Frenkel, Chief Financial Officer, is a financial executive with extensive experience in the Israel start-up and VC sector. Prior to joining ICV, Lila was CFO of AxisMobile (AIM:AXIS). In addition to managing the daily financial operations and financial reporting of the company, Lila prepared for and took the company public on the AIM exchange in the United Kingdom. From 1999-2006, Lila was controller at Concord Ventures, a well known Israeli VC. There she was responsible for financial reporting within the company, as well as working with potential investors and potential portfolio companies to conduct due diligence. Prior to this, Lila managed an audit team at KPMG.

Lila is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the Tel Aviv College of Business Management.

Melanie Braunold, Director of Investor Relations, is responsible for investor relations, marketing and PR at Israel Cleantech Ventures, and brings a wealth of experience in these fields – both in Israel and internationally.

Prior to joining ICV, Melanie held the position of Investor Relations Manager at BRM Capital and at Concord Ventures, both well established venture capital funds. Before entering the venture capital arena, she worked as Marketing Manager at Emblaze Systems, a publicly traded company. While living in the US, Melanie held the position of Director of Public Relations at the Consulate General of Israel in Boston.

Melanie holds a LLB in Business Law from City of London University, England and is a certified solicitor in the UK.

Arnon Goldfarb, Venture Partner, 56 is the CEO of TMB Water, a water project company active in desalination, aquaculture and water treatment efforts in Israel and abroad. Prior to establishing TMB in 2001, Arnon spent 17 years with Israel Chemicals Ltd., where he served as Corporate VP for Business Development and Chairman of the R&D, Fertilizers and Chemicals, and Ceramics units and was a director at ICL's Israel Desalination Engineering (IDE) subsidiary as well as its potash, phosphate, and bromine subsidiaries. Prior to joining ICL, Arnon worked in the oil and gas industry in Israel and the US as a production and facilities engineer with Superior oil and Israel national oil co., and as a production and field manager for Israel's Sadot natural gas field.

Arnon sits on 2 boards of directors, Gadot Biochemical, and Gadot Terminals.

Arnon holds a B.Sc. in chemistry from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and an M.Sc. in Ocean Engineering from University of Rhode Island, USA.

Israel Kroizer, Venture Partner, 53 is the President of LUZ II, a developer of utility scale solar thermal electric power plants. Between 1994 and 2006, he was the owner of Israel Kroizer Ltd, which developed energy and water projects for municipalities, major industrial clients and banks. From 1980-1991, Israel served as a key member of Luz Industries, the pioneer and global leader of utility-scale solar thermal energy production, joining Luz as its first engineer in 1980 and rising to become its Senior VP . There he was responsible for the original Luz International thermal design and for the management of more than 500 R&D staff. Mr. Kroizer is a world renowned expert in power generation technology.

Israel holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in energy, from the Technion.

Eytan Levy, Venture Partner, 43 is a successful serial entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Efemcy, a microbial fuel cell company. He is also the founder and former CEO of AqWise - Wise Water Technologies Ltd. Under his leadership, the company became a star of Israel’s emerging clean tech sector. AqWise, a provider of augmentation technology for municipal and industrial waste water treatment systems, is regularly noted as an emerging leader in water technology and was recently cited in The Cleantech Revolution as one of the top 10 water companies. Eytan has over fifteen years experience in management and sales in energy, water and waste treatment sectors including positions at Ormat, a leader in geothermal power, and Delta, a provider of infrastructure equipment to the Israeli power industry.

Eytan was the founder and the first chairman of the Israeli waste water treatment forum. He is a co-founder of Waterfronts – Israel Water Alliance and a member of the Israel Water Association.

Eytan holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Bar Ilan University.

Yigal Stav, Venture Partner, 64 is the former CEO of Netafim Ltd., the pioneer and global leader of modern agriculture and drip irrigation market. During Yigal’s 23 year tenure at Netafim, including 12 years as its CEO, Netafim grew from sales of $50 million to over $230 million in sales, and built a global presence as the world’s leading in the said business segment. Since 2002, Yigal has been an active director and manager of startup companies in the biotechnology and water technology sectors, and has served on the boards of several chemical and materials companies.

Yigal holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from Hebrew University, an M.Sc. in Physics from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev and an MBA degree from Boston University’s branch in Israel.

Advisory Board:

Dr. Joseph Romm is a leading expert on clean energy, advanced vehicles, energy security, and greenhouse gas mitigation. Dr. Romm served as Acting Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (“EERE”) in 1997, and as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from 1995 though 1998. As head of technology and market analysis for the OEERE, he helped manage a fund of over $1 billion (the largest of its kind in the world) aimed at encouraging businesses to develop and use clean energy technologies and innovative transportation concepts, specifically in the areas of hybrid vehicles, electric batteries, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, renewable energy, distributed generation, energy efficiency and biofuels. Dr. Romm is a principal with the Capital E Group which provides strategic consulting, technology assessment and sustainable design services to the clean energy industry, and quoted regularly in the media and technical/policy journals.

Dr. Romm is also a founder and Executive Director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions which assists businesses and states in adopting high-leverage strategies for saving energy and cutting pollution. The Center is a division of the Global Environment & Technology Foundation.

Dr. Romm holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T, and has written and lectured widely on advanced transportation technologies, clean energy and environment issues.