OUR ISRAEL TEAM

Email: elie@benchmark.com     Assistant: Yael Kimelman yael@benchmark.com
                                                          

Elie Wurtman is a venture investor, technology-company executive and serial entrepreneur, who has founded six companies over the last decade. Previously, he served as chief executive officer of JVP Studio, an Israel-based venture capital firm, where he focused on early-stage consumer and media investments. He also served as interim CEO at several of the firm’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining the venture capital community, he co-founded and took public deltathree.com, a leader in IP telephony, Ambient, a data communications company, and TTR Technologies, a software security company. He also co-founded and sold NomadIQ, a leader in wireless data applications, to Omnisky, and co-founded Drive Diagnostics, an innovator in real time drivers’ safety monitoring.

Board Seats:  Double Fusion (Former Chairman of the Board), Game Array, Gizmoz, GreenRoad Technologies, Funtactix, and Sports Game Studios.

Other Affiliations: Elie is active in several non-profit organizations in Jerusalem. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Schechter Institute for Graduate Studies, and he is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Rikma, an organization that enriches communal life in Israel.

Education: BA from Columbia University; BA from the Jewish Theological Seminary.