Allan Barkat is the Founder and CEO of Dualis, Israel Social Venture Fund. Prior to Dualis he was with Apax Partners, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups. Allan joined Apax in 1995 and headed the office in Israel until 2005. His investments varied from early stage high tech companies such as Commtouch (Nasdaq: CTCH) and Ceragon Networks (Nasdaq: CRNT) to Private Equity transactions, mainly the acquisition of the controlling interest in Bezeq (TLV: BEZQ.TA), Israel’s leading full-service telecommunications provider, a transaction which Apax closed with the Saban Capital Group Arkin Communications. In the period between Apax and Dualis Allan became involved in many social projects, combining his business experience with social entrepreneurship. These included Chairing the Ness Foundation for loans for businesses in the Negev, Board member for several non profits, business mentor for businesses in the North of Israel etc. These activities led him to the belief that there is an opportunity to encourage social entrepreneurs to build social businesses on a for-profit basis. Prior to joining Apax Partners, he was Vice-President of Marketing and Sales at DSP Communications which was acquired by Intel and Managing Director of DSP Group's (Nasdaq: DSPG) subsidiary in Japan. Allan holds an MBA from the Kellogg-Recanati Executive Management Program as well as a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa.

Eden has been involved over the past five years in entrepreneurship, leadership, and Organizational Learning consultancy—mainly in social and welfare organizations and movements in Israel, spanning from governmental organizations, through Civil Society (NGO and Philanthropy) enterprises and movements, to grassroots groups of social change. One main field which he has been researching and implementing is leveraging social change through the use of the Internet and, in particular, Web 2.0 infrastructures.

His previous career included a BSc in Physics and 20+ years of scientific and technologic R&D commanding positions in the IDF. He has also co-founded the Institute for Intelligence Studies—an advanced research institute using systems and learning theories approaches along with novel practices, for holding and promoting knowledge-development processes in the Israeli Intelligence Community.

Gilad is an Attorney at Harish Law Firm in Israel. He is also the Chairman and Founder of Kadima (http://www.lasova.org.il). Kadima operates a network of youth clubs in poor neighborhoods. The centers operate five days a week from 12:00 to 19:00, with longer hours during vacations. Each center accepts about 50 children, based on referrals from the city’s welfare and/or education departments, and is run by one paid counselor together with many volunteers who provide the children with help in their studies as well as other supplemental educational programming. The children also receive lunch and dinner there. At the end of 2005, Kadima was operating fifteen such centers and was investigating additional potential locations.

Roi has been using the Web, particularly email, since he was 8 years old in 1984. This has lead him to develop a unique perspective of the Internet’s many sides, from Product Development to UI, from Marketing to the Blogosphere. Currently, he is the Product Launch Consultant at Carthy Consulting. In the past, he was a MarCom Manager at Zend Technologies, a MarCom Manager at CubeEffect, a MarCom Freelancer (Self-employed), a Project & Content Manager at Random-Logic (888.com), a Business Development Assistant at 3Dion, and an Associate at Amlev Dershowitz Communications, Inc. Roi is also involved with Beta and General Availability Launch Programs and Community Marketing.

He attended Olivet College from 1994-1999, Institute for Conflict Resolution Studies Summer Symposium in 1998, and International Mediation and Conflict Resolution Summer Seminar in 1997.

Sanford ("Sandy") R. Cardin is the president of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the Center for Leadership Initiatives, and the Schusterman Foundation - Israel. He is also the chair of the Westbury Group, an informal association of more than 25 Jewishly-oriented foundations that fund internationally. Among the boards on which Sandy has served are the Council on Foundations, the Jewish Funders Network and the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. He is also a past president of Grantmakers of Oklahoma and Mizel Academy, the Jewish community day school in Tulsa. Sandy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1978 and was elected to the Order of the Coif upon the receipt of his juris doctor degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1981. He is licensed to practice law in Florida, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.

View Sandy's 2009 Summer Speakers Series talk on the future of philanthropy, here.

Dr. Tal Schwartz is Chairman and CEO of ClickTale. He founded ClickTale with Arik Yavilevich in 2006 with the vision of making the web a better place by revolutionizing web analytics and providing deep insights into customer behavior. The insights are generated by an innovative technology called In-Page Analytics that shows what customers are doing inside the web page and fills a gap left by traditional web analytics that only measure activity in between pages.

Under Tal and Arik's leadership, ClickTale has grown from a groundbreaking idea into the worldwide leader of In-Page Analytics serving tens of thousands of customers from around the globe. For its revolutionary approach, ClickTale has been lauded as one of Red Herring's Top 100 Most Promising Companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa in 2008 as well as one of the 15 Hottest Israeli Internet Startups in 2008 by the California Israel Chamber of Commerce.

Throughout his career, Tal has also been committed to using technology to produce positive social change. In 2004, he co-founded the Bronica Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at the Technion, as well as the Technion Entrepreneurship Club which helps student-based technology startups become successful. In 2000, he founded Expand Beyond Corporation which developed software that allowed IT Professionals the freedom to work wirelessly, and was later acquired by Semotus Corporation.

Tal has been a lecturer and Visiting Professor at numerous universities, including Caltech, the Technion, Tel-Aviv University, the University of Haifa, and DePaul University. Tal holds bachelors degrees in Engineering and Applied Science and in Economics from the California Institute of Technology and a Doctorate in Finance from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.

Yossi Klein Halevi is a Senior Fellow in the Shalem Center's Institute for Zionist History and Thought and the Israel correspondent of the New Republic. Halevi is the author of Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (1995) and At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land (2001). He has been a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, a regular contributor on Israeli affairs to the Los Angeles Times, and a frequent guest on CNN and other national and international broadcast media. The 1983 documentary film, "Kaddish," directed by Steve Brand, focuses on Halevi's relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, and was named by the New York-based Village Voice as one of the ten best films of the year. Halevi is currently writing a book about the Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem in 1967.