Propel Expert Circle
Senior experts and market voices brought into strategic questions that require domain depth, market judgment and focused access.
120+ experts, founders, investors, operators and researchers across Israel’s technology and innovation market.
Senior experts, founders, investors, operators and researchers for strategic questions that require domain depth and market judgment.
The Propel Expert Circle is a curated circle of senior voices across Israel’s technology and innovation market.
Built through nearly two decades of Propel’s work with founders, executives, investors, talent leaders and technology companies, the Circle gives clients access to people who bring real domain experience, market perspective and strategic judgment.
Experts may be engaged individually or assembled into focused teams around a specific question, initiative, market need or organizational challenge.
What the Circle Brings
Domain Depth
Senior expertise across technology, product, AI, cyber, health, enterprise, investment, commercialization and other innovation sectors.
Strategic Judgment
Experienced market voices who can help assess direction, opportunity, risk, capability, positioning and execution.
Focused Expert Teams
The ability to bring together several experts around one question when the need requires more than one perspective.
Market Reality
Conversations grounded in how technologies, companies, customers, investors and talent markets actually behave.
When the Circle Matters
The Expert Circle is relevant when a strategic question depends on knowledge that does not sit inside the organization.
Typical situations include:
Evaluating a new market, sector, technology direction or business opportunity
Understanding whether a product, capability or initiative is positioned correctly
Bringing senior domain expertise into a leadership or investment conversation
Supporting innovation, commercialization, market entry or strategic buildout
Creating a focused expert discussion around a question that requires several perspectives
Helping leadership teams pressure-test assumptions before moving forward
Selected Voices from the Circle
A selection of senior experts, founders, investors, researchers and technology-market voices connected to Propel’s broader expert network.
For questions that depend on the right people, knowledge and market judgment.
Dr. Eyal Felstaine
GenAI & Cybersecurity Strategy · Former CTO Office, Amdocs
GenAI · Cybersecurity · Telecom
Prof. Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University
Machine Learning, AI, Data Science
Dr. Jacob Mendel
Cybersecurity & Cryptography Executive · Tel Aviv University
Cybersecurity · Cryptography · Blockchain · Fintech
Dr. Miri Lapidot
Chief Scientific Officer · AgTech & Biotech
FoodTech · Plant Science · R&D
Yaron Rosen
a16z Scout · Former Chief of IDF Cyber Staff
Cyber · Defense Tech · Autonomous Systems
Ori Jacobowitz
VP BD & Marketing, Elbit Systems
Defense Tech · Cyber · HLS · Telecom
Ronen Shechter
Former CTO, Fluence · Water-Tech Executive
Water Treatment · Process Engineering · Climate Tech
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VADM David Ben-Bashat
Former Commander, Israeli Navy · Chairman, Cybring Labs
Maritime Security · Defense · Cyber · HLS
Prof. Anat Bremler-Barr
Professor, Tel Aviv University · Former Vice Dean, Reichman University
Network Security · Cybersecurity · Computer Networks