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Nadav Zafrir

Board of Governors

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Team8

Mr. Zafrir is a leading think tank and company builder. Prior to founding Team8, Nadav was the founder of the Israel Defense Forces’ Cyber Command, and the Commander of “Unit 8200”- an elite military technology unit that has become an incubator for Israel’s renowned high-tech sector. Team8 uses its collective cybersecurity and data science expertise and leverages its vast international network to identify the right problems that can then be developed into innovative, category-leading and category-inventing companies. Team8 is backed by some of the world’s most renowned businesses including Cisco, Microsoft, AT&T, Walmart, Airbus, Softbank, Accenture, Qualcomm, Moody’s, Munich-Re, Dimension Data, Nokia and Scotiabank.

Nadav holds an LL.B from the Interdisciplinary Centre and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.