Background
Shlomo Kalish was born in 1952 in Haifa, Israel to Issacher Dov and Haya Kalishboth Holocaust survivors.
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In 1977, Kalish received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University. He completed an Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Sloan School In 1981 he began teaching at the University of Rochester. In 1985 he joined the Management Faculty of Tel Aviv University, and established a hi-tech consulting business.
Career
He is known as one of the first and most successful hi-tech investors in Israel. Kalish served as a fighter pilot from 1971–1975, which included the Yom Kippur War. In 1999 Kalish founded Jerusalem Global Ventures, a Jerusalem-based Venture capital. Doctor Kalish led investments in Saifun Semiconductors, Oridion Medical, Oren Semiconductors, Creo, QXL, Mellanox Technologies, Picturevision and Galileo.
In 1999, Kalish also founded Yazam.com, one of the first accelerators aimed at internet projects in Israel.
Yazam was later sold to United States. Technologies. In 2007, Kalish was ranked number 39 on the Forbes Midas List, and first for the Israelis on the list by Forbes Magazine.
Kalish was a Managing Partner at Vaizra Israel from 2010-2016, a division of Vaizra Investments. Shlomo Kalish is a board member at the charity Shalom Beineinu, which he founded.
He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Jerusalem College of Technology and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
