Worth exploring this venture lending model, a hybrid between venture capital and traditional lending
Team
The Plenus team prides itself on its dynamic make up of operational and financial experts from the technology industry. Their combined expertise strengthens the team's ability to identify successful businesses and work fast to deliver the optimal financing solution for its customers.
INVESTMENT PROFESSIONALS:
Moti Weiss Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Ruthi Simha Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Shlomo Karako General Partner
Lee-Bath Nelson General Partner
Timor Arbel-Sadras Senior Principal
Guy Altberg Principal
OTHER PROFESSIONALS:
Ziv Ben-Barouch Chief Financial Officer
Orit Yeffet Controller
Elana H. Barzilay Legal Counsel
Yael Paz Director of Marketing and IR
Iris Orlovsky Office Manager
INVESTMENT PROFESSIONALS:
Moti Weiss Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Moti founded Plenus in 2000, bringing with him over 25 years of experience in high tech corporate and financial management. Previously, Moti was instrumental in turning around Sapiens International (NASDAQ:SPNS), a global software company. Under his leadership, annual sales doubled to approximately $100 million while the company achieved high profitability. As COO, and CFO of Oshap Technologies, a software product developer for engineering and financial services, Moti oversaw the IPO's of Oshap and its subsidiary, Tecnomatix Technologies. SunGard Data Systems acquired Oshap for $220 million. Moti previously served as Chief Economist and CFO of Teus Ltd., a holding company engaged in mergers and acquisitions. In 2000 Moti co-founded Plenus, Israel's pioneer venture lending fund. Under his leadership, Plenus has raised four different funds, saw 9 significant exits and extended its offerings to Mezzanine loans.
Moti holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Tel-Aviv Business School
Email: motiw@plenus.co.il
Ruthi Simha Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Ruthi Simha is a veteran of venture lending in Israel with approximately 20 years of experience in high technology investing. Previously, Ruthi was the Manager of Bank Hapoalim's high tech finance division where she established the banks venture lending activities, making Hapoalim the first Israeli bank to take such an initiative. During her tenure at the Bank, accumulated a portfolio of over 60 startups and a credit portfolio of over $1billion servicing large Israeli enterprises. In 2000 Ruthi co-founded Plenus, Israel's pioneer venture lending fund. Under her leadership, Plenus has raised four different funds, saw 9 significant exits and extended its offerings to Mezzanine loans.
Ruthi holds a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Tel-Aviv University
Email: ruths@plenus.co.il
Shlomo Karako General Partner
Shlomo brings to Plenus 20 years of financial experience. Previously Shlomo was with Sapiens (NASDAQ:SPNS) holding positions of Corporate Controller, Finance Director and Vice President of Sapiens' activities in Israel. Prior to Sapiens he was an auditor at Porat & Co., a leading Israeli accounting firm.
Shlomo holds a BA in Economics and Accounting from Tel-Aviv University as well as a Masters Degree in Science and Management from the Polytechnic University in New York. Shlomo is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel.
Email: momik@plenus.co.il
Lee-Bath Nelson General Partner
Lee-Bath brings to Plenus over 15 years of hi-tech and business experience. Lee-Bath has been a venture capitalist for the past 4 years, including managing TDA Capital Partners' Israel-focused venture capital fund, and close involvement with TDA's India-focused venture capital fund. She is an active board member of several private hi-tech companies. Previously, Lee-Bath was a consultant to BRM and a Professor of Corporate Finance at NYU's Stern School. Prior to that she held various R&D positions at IBM and Intel in Israel.
Lee-Bath holds a BA (summa cum laude) and an MSc in Computer Science from the Technion, as well as a PhD in Business from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Email: lnelson@plenus.co.il
Timor Arbel-Sadras Senior Principal
Timor has 10 years of hi-tech and business experience. Previously, Timor worked as a strategy and marketing consultant both as a freelancer in Israel and at Valoris Consulting in Spain. Timor consulted to some of Europe's leading telecom, media and technology firms on projects ranging from growth strategy to market entry and distribution channels. Prior to that, Timor worked for Intel in various project leader and project analyst positions, including overseeing the launch readiness of the Centrino chipset in the Mobile Processors Division.
Timor holds a BSc (Cum Laude) in Industrial Engineering from the Technion, and an MBA from ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.
Email: timora@plenus.co.il
Guy Altberg Principal
Guy has 10 years of hi-tech and business experience. Prior to joining Plenus, Guy held several positions at Comverse (Nasdaq: CMVT) in development, marketing, and sales culminating in a Sales Manager position. In this capacity, Guy managed EMEA high-end product sales and handled deals ranging from $0.5-10mm in countries such as Italy, Holland, and France. In addition, as a project manager, Guy worked with Vodafone (CZ), Optimus (PT) and other Telcom operators.
Guy holds a BSc (Cum Laude) in Computer Science from CUNY Queens College in NY, and an MBA from Ben Gurion University.
Email: guya@plenus.co.il
OTHER PROFESSIONALS:
Ziv Ben-Barouch Chief Financial Officer
Ziv brings to Plenus over 15 years of financial and hi-tech experience. Prior to joining Plenus, Ziv served as Chief Financial Officer for Spacenet Inc., a leading US-based provider of wireless and hybrid broadband services. Prior to that, Ziv was the lead Financial Officer at ClearForest, a Plenus portfolio company specializing in text-mining software (acquired by Reuters Nasdaq:RTRSY). Ziv also spent 6 years in a senior management capacity with The Kibbutzim Creditor Arrangement Ltd an Israeli banking and government consortium managing over $1bb of distress debt.
Ziv holds a BA in Economics and Accounting from Tel- Aviv University and an MBA in finance from the City University of New York. He is certified as an Israeli CPA.
Email: ZivB@plenus.co.il
Orit Yeffet Controller
Orit brings to Plenus over 15 years of financial experience. Previously, Orit served as the Sapiens foreign Holding Companies' Accountant (NASDAQ: SPNS).
Orit holds a degree in Sociology and International relations from Bar-Ilan University and a second degree in Accounting and Economics from the Open University of Tel-Aviv
Email: ority@plenus.co.il
Elana H. Barzilay Legal Counsel
Elana has over 10 years of legal counseling experience in the Israeli hi-tech market. Before joining Plenus as the firm’s Legal Counsel, Elana worked as an Associate at Naschitz, Brandes & Co, one of Israel's leading law firms. During her 10 years at Naschitz, Brandes & Co., Elana specialized in commercial law, and had been involved in many high-tech transactions including: M&A, venture capital, venture lending as well as mezzanine transactions. Prior to her full-time position at Plenus, Elana served as one of Plenus' external legal counsels in the majority of the funds’ transactions, beginning with Plenus’ first venture lending fund in 2000.
Elana holds an LL.B from The Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and a BA in Philosophy and Jewish Studies from Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Email: elanab@plenus.co.il
Yael Paz Director of Marketing and IR
Yael brings to Plenus over a decade of marketing and investor relations experience in the Israeli hi-tech market. Before joining Plenus, she was Director of Investor Relations at ECI Telecom (previously NASDAQ: ECIL), one of Israel's largest hi-tech tech firms, and prior to that, Director of Corporate Communications at Optibase (NASDAQ:OBAS) where she was responsible for the company’s marketing communications and investor relations activities worldwide.
Yael holds a BA in Economics from the Tel Aviv University.
Email: yaelp@plenus.co.il
Iris Orlovsky Office Manager
Iris brings to Plenus over 20 years of experience. Previously, Iris worked at Tadiran in various positions specializing in the fields of advertising, public relations, and HR. During this time, she led a number of employee training and recruiting programs, as well as special event planning and co-ordination.
Iris holds a BA in Economics and International Relations from Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Email: iriso@plenus.co.il
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