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Yossi Vardi    

Internet Entrepreneur

One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs, Yossi Vardi Co-Founded, led, funded and helped build more than 80 high-tech, energy, natural resources, and clean-tech companies. Many of them went public, including Tekem, Alon Energy, Granite Hacarmel, Answers.com, Scopus, International Laser Technologies, ePals, Tucows, Brightcove, and others.

As the founding investor of Mirabilis Ltd, -the creator of iCQ – Vardi Co-Pioneered instant messaging. ICQ was one of the internet’s earliest successes, later sold to AOL.

Vardi was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Jerusalem Foundation, serves on the board of Trustees of the Technion and served on those of Weitzman Institute, Hebrew University, and Open University. He was advisor to the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, CEO’s of Amazon, AOL, Siemens Albis, and Allied–signal. Member of the World Economic Forum, and Co-Chairman of the EU-Israel business dialogue.

Vardi had an extensive government and public career, he was the Director General of Ministry of Development and Ministry of Energy. He was Chairman of Israel National Oil Company, and Israel Chemicals. Vardi has also participated in the peace talks with Egypt, Palestinians, Jordan and Syria.

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