Start-up Nation

Vieux, Alex, CEO, Red Herring; May 2009.

Vilenski, Dan, former chairman of the board, Applied Materials Israel, Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative (INNI); July 2008.

Vilpponen, Antti, founder, ArcticStartup; January 2009.

Vise, David A., coauthor of The Google Story; January 2009.

Vitman, Assaf, economic attache, Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.; January 2009.

Wertheimer, Eitan, chairman of the board, Iscar; January 2009.

Whitman, Meg, former president and CEO, eBay; September 2008.

Wolfe, Josh, cofounder and managing partner, Lux Capital; December 2008.

Wood, Doug, head of creative affairs, Animation Lab; May 2008.

Yaalon, Lieutenant General Moshe (res.), Likud member of Knesset; IDF chief of staff in 2002–05; May 2008.

Zeevi-Farkash, Major General Aharon (res.), former head of Intelligence Unit 8200, IDF; May 2008.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dan Senor, adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, has been involved in policy, politics, and business in the Middle East. As a senior foreign policy adviser to the U.S. government, he was one of the longest-serving civilian officials in Iraq, for which he was awarded the highest civilian honor by the Pentagon. He also served as a Pentagon adviser to Central Command in Qatar and as a foreign policy and communications adviser in the U.S. Senate. He has studied in Israel and at Harvard Business School and has traveled extensively throughout the Arab world. In his business career, he has invested in a number of Israeli and American start-ups, and today is with a New York–based global investment fund. Senor’s analytical pieces are frequently published by the Wall Street Journal; he has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, and Time. Mr. Senor lives in New York City with his wife and two sons.

Saul Singer is a columnist and former editorial page editor at the Jerusalem Post. Historian Michael Oren called his book Confronting Jihad: Israel’s Struggle and the World After 9/11 “mandatory reading for anyone, layman or expert, interested in the Middle East.” He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Moment, the New Leader, bitterlemons (an Israeli/Palestinian e-zine), and the Washington Post’s international blog, PostGlobal. Before moving to Israel in 1994, he served as an adviser in the United States Congress to the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Banking Committees. Mr. Singer lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three daughters.

You can visit the authors’ website at www.startupnationbook.com.

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