Company-founder Chief Executive Officer of Clarity Capital
Keinan was born in Miami, Florida in 1969 and studied at Philips Exeter Academy and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service before immigrating to Israel in 1990 and enlisting in the Israeli Air Force (Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik).
Following his military service, Keinan received an Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and then returned to Israel, serving in the early 2000s as a partner at Giza, a leading Israeli venture capital firm.
He is a leading proponent of the vision of Israel as a major exporter of financial services, and has served in numerous policy forums in pursuit of this goal, including the 2007 Ariav Commission, a Bank of Israel-Finance Ministry task force on creating a global financial center in Israel. Keinan was recognized as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2010. Foreign much of the decade, Keinan served as a fighter pilot, becoming the only new immigrant in recent history to have joined the ranks of the Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik Air Crew, a small and private community.
He now serves in the Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik reserves with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Keinan is one of the founders and the Chief Executive Officer of Israel"s first full-spectrum asset-management firm,, whose mission is to play a leading role in forging an Israeli financial services industry of global standing, comparable to that of the Israeli technology industry. The firm was established by Keinan in 2005 with David Steinhardt and Jay Pomrenze to embrace the opportunities unlocked by capital market reforms introduced by then finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Keinan is a sought after speaker and writer on the Israeli and global economy and is a central figure in the bestselling book about Israel"s economic growth, Start-up Nation. Keinan is a social activist in areas of education, economic development and conflict resolution.
He is the Chairman of Koret Israel Economic Development Funds, a not-for-profit organization providing cr to small and micro-businesses.
Koret has facilitated over $300,000,000 in loans to date. Keinan serves on the Boards of Directors of the Steinhardt Foundation, Heseg Fund, and Reut Institute. He is also linked to the ongoing effort by Doctor Eugene Kandel, chairman of the Israeli Prime Minister"s Council of Economic Advisors, to launch a world-class graduate school of finance in Israel.
Keinan is among the few Israeli investors active in the Palestinian Authority.
television interviews: Fox Business Network: Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik Pilot Tal Keinan on the Impact of Iran Deal on Israel, Israel as Financial Center, Ethics of Gaza Airstrike (Ch 10, Hebrew), Market Turmoil in October 2014, Economic cost of the Gaza conflict, Nuclear Iran & Global Energy Markets, IPOs versus Exits for Israeli Start-ups, Big Data & the Finance Sector, Risk/Reward of the European Bond Market
Radio interviews: Tal Keinan: Financier & Former Air Force Pilot, Tal Keinan on the Price of Israel"s Regional Economic Isolation, Analysis of Netanyahu Victory (This Morning with Gordon Deal)
Huffington Post: Obama"s Legacy: Arab-Israeli Peace, The Next Gaza War: Your Role
Tablet: Foreign Jews in France, 2015 isn"t the 1930s
Jerusalem Post: Will Israel be the Next Financial Hub? The Marker: How to Build a Truly Global Team of Investment Professionals
Ynet: Exclusive: Israeli Air Force Pilots on the Morality of Airstrikes
Jerusalem Post: Hamas"s Useful Idiots, Op-Editor by Tal Keinan
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel"s Economic Miracle by Saul Singer and Dan Senor,
Profile on website
Profile in English-language Media TLV1
Profiles in Hebrew-language Media: Haaretz, Globes, Atmosphere El-First Rate (at Lloyd's) Magazine.
