The founding team

Boaz Benrush

Finance executive and technology entrepreneur, 25 years in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate strategy.

Formerly

Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, KPMG Corporate Finance

Head of Strategy, Papaya Gaming

Companies

EMM Investments — co-founder and board member

Green Swan Labs — founder

MusicBull — founder

Education

MBA in Finance, Tel Aviv University

BA in Economics and Accounting, University of Haifa

Licensed

Certified public accountant, Israel

Certified public accountant, United States

Patent

US12361212B2, co-inventor — extracting reliable structured data from machine-learning model outputs

Declared interests Green Swan Labs · EMM Investments · MusicBull

Oren Bar-Nir

Finance executive and investment professional, more than 25 years across corporate finance, investment management, strategy and operations.

Career

Began at KPMG

Senior roles in complex corporate transactions, strategic advisory and corporate restructuring

Advised on the privatisation of the Port of Haifa

Companies

EMM Investments — co-founder and board member. A New York private credit investment firm.

Papaya Gaming, Green Swan Labs and MusicBull — financial and strategic leadership

Education

BA and MBA

Licensed

Certified public accountant, Israel

CFA Program — Level III completed

Builds the financial controls, reporting discipline and donor accountability a public-benefit body has to be able to survive.

Declared interests EMM Investments · Green Swan Labs · MusicBull

Uriel (Ari) Naor

Senior full-stack engineer specialising in applied large-language-model and agentic systems.

Experience

Five years building large-language-model and agentic applications

Seven years leading full-stack delivery

Companies

NUscale Tech — founder. An engineering practice working across seventeen countries on agentic orchestration, multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation and workflow automation.

Built

OmniLaw.ai — legal research platform running retrieval-augmented generation over more than 500,000 documents

Savera Intelligence — an AI system for child-safety detection

Education

MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Leads architecture, capture and the evidence vault.

Declared interests NUscale Tech Ltd

Itamar Raz

Trust and Safety specialist and cultural entrepreneur, six years in platform policy enforcement.

Trust and Safety

Six years at one of the world’s leading social media platforms

Member of its original Hebrew-language moderation team — one of the platform’s most complex and highest-risk language markets

Policy enforcement, and the assessment of terrorism, hate speech and violent extremism

Research

Since October 2023, documenting and preserving evidence of online antisemitism, extremist networks and coordinated influence campaigns

Combines Trust and Safety practice with open-source research and cultural analysis

Cultural work

Cultural entrepreneur and multidisciplinary artist

More than twenty years building independent cultural initiatives and creative communities

Including the gatherings that became the Midburn community

Leads research design and the classification taxonomy.

Maya Beer

Neuroscientist and researcher, working in neuroimaging and cognition.

Education

BA in Neuroscience and Behavior, Columbia University

Graduate training in neuroscience, Sorbonne

Graduate training in neuroscience, Tel Aviv University

Research

Neuroscience, clinical research and neuroimaging at Columbia University and Tel Aviv University

Current work focused on imaging and cognition

Brings the discipline of a research environment — protocol, measurement and the handling of evidence — to how the organisation is run.