Israeli Innovation Shines at Conexx Gala
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Israeli Innovation Shines at Conexx Gala

Seventy years of Israeli ingenuity were on display at the 2018 Conexx Gala at the Atlanta History Center on March 22, 2018.

By AJT Staff January 3, 2019, 3:31 pm Edit
Jeff Goldberg of Amaryllis, Conexx President Guy Tessler and Tarianna Stewart of the Smith Temple Law Firm network before the program.
Jeff Goldberg of Amaryllis, Conexx President Guy Tessler and Tarianna Stewart of the Smith Temple Law Firm network before the program.

Seventy years of Israeli ingenuity were on display at the 2018 Conexx Gala at the Atlanta History Center on March 22, 2018. The event highlighted partnerships throughout the Southeast and recognized deals and the dealmakers who orchestrated them.

Conexx: American Israel Business Connector’s dinner served as a celebration of seven decades of history, but also as an opportunity for new connections to be made, as Atlanta-area businesspeople schmoozed with Israeli counterparts.

Ambassador Judith Varnai Shorer, Israel’s consul general to the Southeast, bragged that Israel has the third most companies on the NASDAQ, behind only the U.S. and China. Then-new Conexx chairman Randall Foster added that Israel is home to 7,000 startups, 1,000 of which were less than a year old.

Gene Gurevich, Mobileye’s director of government affairs and public policy, took home the deal of the year award for the largest acquisition in Israel’s history, Intel’s $15.3 billion purchase of the automobile collision avoidance company.

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