Career
Social entrepreneurship
Fuerst had over 12 years experience in strategic marketing and business development roles in Israel and the United States of America before changing her career path in 2003, to become a social entrepreneur. She spent the first six years in the non-profit sector, during which Fuerst founded several advocacy and social organizations for the Israeli-American community in New New York In 2014, the organization was acquired by the Israeli American Council (InterActiveCorp), making it part of a national movement.
In 2007 Fuerst, together with 92nd Street Y established Israeliness, a New York-based program helping expat children sustain their Jewish and Israeli heritage.
In 2013, Fuerst jointly announced the first commercial launch in a press conference in Rwanda alongside the Minister of Health, Doctor Agnes Binagwaho. The Executive Director of Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Michel Sidibe, mentioned PrePex as a revolution in the acceleration of Human Immunodeficiency Virus prevention, after visiting the Nyamata hospital in Rwanda, a site selected for a safety study of the circumcision device.
Fuerst’s experience in the nonprofit social entrepreneurial sector helped attract impact investors such as Acumen (in 2011), a nonprofit global venture fund and BTG Pactual, a Brazilian investment bank. Today, Tzameret Fuerst has become a global public speaker about innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy and social impact.
She presented the PrePex device at the opening plenary of the AIPAC Annual Policy Conference in Washington District of Columbia before an audience of 13’000 and was a TEDMED 2014 Jerusalem Live selected speaker.
She was also a TEDx2015 selected speaker, addressing the global social challenge of loneliness among the elderly.
