Edna Pasher earned her Ph.D at New York University in Communication Arts and Sciences and has served as faculty member at Adelphi University, the City University of New York, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Tel-Aviv University. Edna Pasher founded EPA as an international strategic management consulting firm in 1978. The firm rovides customized consulting services to organizations both in the private and the public sectors. Edna has been a pioneer and leader of the innovation and knowledge management movement in Israel and an active member of the international community of the KM pioneers. She has over 30 years of experience in regional and international IS projects using a variety of evaluation methodologies, modelling techniques, quantitative and analysis. Edna is the Founding partner (1991) and chief editor of "Status - the Management Thinking Journal".

Yossi Pasher is well known in Israel and abroad as a leading expert in O.D and training. Through more than thirty years of experience he has planed and implemented various projects in the areas of HRD, Knowledge Management and team development on a large scale as well as leadership in various organizations in the private business, industrial and public sectors. Yossi is the Principle of Yossi Pasher & Associates - a management training and consulting firm. Yossi coordinated and trained the teams which negotiated the Gaza and Jericho accord as part of the Oslo agreement: sea, air and land as well as ample training experience with airline companies throughout their global system such as EL-AL and North-West in the realm of cross cultural issues. He also designed and implemented various programs for the IDF and Police academy for senior officers in Israel. Yossi has experience in conducting seminars in the field of private banking in the US, Canada, Mexico and South America. He served as the executive director of the Jerusalem YMHA and the associate executive director of the New York Brooklyn YMHA community centers.Yossi holds a Masters degree in the field of adult education from Wayne State University Detroit Michigan, a Bachelors degree in History and Biblical Studies as well as a teaching certificate from Tel-Aviv University. He has published two books under the title of "Effective Presentation" and "Effective Negotiations" as well as various articles on leadership and Management issues.

Roni Porat conducts orchestras in Israel and around the world, and he composes music for chamber ensembles and for orchestras. Roni is regularly invited to perform concerts and create programs that combine music with the Performing Arts, youth-oriented programs and programs for adults, as well as programs for children with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Rison le Zion Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his extensive musical work, Roni Porat is active as a lecturer on the subject of leadership, conducting and running workshops on personal and business development. Porat cooperates with private sector organizations and managers. Roni Porat has created and maintains the leadership workshop "Conducting Success" that allows managers to go through transformation and personal growth, giving them a real life experience of conducting a chamber ensemble. Another workshop Roni has created, titled "Master Class", brings insights from the music world into one's own life and vice versa.

Zvika is a researcher and consultant at Edna Pasher PhD & Associates. He is in charge of our Sustainable Development department, which comprises of: Sustainable management strategies, Green building, the Israeli future center, corporate social responsibility strategies and reporting and leading relevant standardization process (ISO 14001, IS 10,000 etc.). He is also in charge of our activities in EU-funded R&D projects focusing on both Environmental and Social aspects. Zvika has an experience in the fields of social and environmental responsibilities and he is also acting as a researcher in the field of Global warming, Greenhouse Gases and public health. Zvika holds a B.Sc in Environmental health sciences and is currently studying for his Master's degree at the Porter school of Environment.

Hadas Raz is a management consultant at Edna Pasher PhD & Associates. Hadas is engaged in managing clients and projects while adapting the advisory nature to the organization and its employers, in a verity of areas: Organizational change, Organizational development, Knowledge management and Training. She is also acting as a practicing and teaching assistant in the field of Research Methods at the University Of Haifa, Israel. Hadas has a B.A. in Social science from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. She is about to graduate her M.A. studies in Organizational and occupational psychology in Haifa University. Hadas has vast experience as a trainer in a verity of special groups with focus on developing training plans. She was a research assistant at the Israeli Democracy Institute, in the field of integration the civil society and the Defense.

Orna has an expertise of about 30 years in process improvement in organizations, in the areas of management, development, quality, sales and marketing. Orna holds a Six-Sigma Black-Belt. She led 10s of process improvement teams in a variety of subjects. Among others, she established and later managed a Program Management Office (PMO) in Motoroa since the year 2000. She has lots of experience in implementing process improvement initiatives based on CMMI model, in the areas of management, software and hardware development. She participated in many CMMI assessments around the globe. Orna is the newsletter editor of the Israeli chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI). Orna got a prime-minister award in software engineering for development of a process that reduces product development cycle time thanks to reusing software components. She led an organization towards winning the national quality award, which is based on the Malcolm Baldrige model. Orna Holds a MBA in Business Administration from Tel Aviv University and Bsc in Computer Science from the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology.

Yaron is EPA’s marketing manager. Yaron’s research experience spans over more than ten years at distinguished academic institutions across Israel, Britain and Germany. He Holds an M.A magna cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University and is in the process of accomplishing his PhD dissertation in Military Logistics of the German army in a co-supervision of the University of Oxford, University of North Carolina and Tel-Aviv University. Over the years Yaron has developed a unique Knowledge and practice of Marketing and research techniques in a global network environment and is in charge of EPA's Strategic partnerships. He has a regular column in the leading national Business and Management magazine in Israel “Status” and is the co-editor of the "Me-Zavit Acheret” management magazine.

Mr. Abraham (Avi) Guy is a true veteran in the flight’s service management. Joined ELAL almost 44 years ago, back in 1968 as a steward and serving ELAL until today as a senior Service Manager (Purser). A major part of his position on-board is managing the duty free sales on all its aspects. 20 years ago Abraham have established ISAG, a company specializing within the duty free items for on-board sales . ISAG has generated strong business connections and represented companies in the Duty Free world . ISAG sold its products to several Airlines. Abraham brings his experience to its fully by comprehending the customers’ need for the right duty free product both from his position as a senior flight manager and prime supplier of duty free items.

Mr. Rafael (Rafi) Noifeld has retired recently from ELAL ISRAEL AIRLINES after long and dedicated 44 years of service as a senior purser and the Duty Free Department product manager. For the past 21 years Rafi has been involved in the entire ELAL Duty Free services from commercial aspects such as purchasing and marketing, operation, on-board sales program, training, warehouse services and the monthly duty free catalogue. Rafi’s in-depth and lifelong knowledge of managing the entire duty free cycle from back-office through marketing to frontal on-board sales is priceless and a genuine asset to this company.

Izzat holds a B.A. in economy and accounting from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an Internal Comptroller certificate, a Mediator certificate and a real-estate agent certificate. Izzat has a vast experience in various financial positions in public organizations and local authorities and in financial crisis management, strategic recovery plans and in building a strategic marketing and business entrepreneurial scheme.

Dr. Messinas is an architect and a consultant in ‘green’ projects. He is an expert in ‘green’ Architecture and ecological building in Greece, Cyprus and Israel. Dr. Messinas has established the environmental NGO ECOWEEK which is active in Greece, Israel and Cyprus and soon also in the US, with the mission to raise awareness on the environment and climate change. Among others, Dr. Messinas invited Al Gore to give his slide show in Athens, Greece in June 2007. He is a graduate of Bezalel Enviornmental Design, he holds an M.Arch. from Yale, a Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens (on Greek synagogues – world expert), completed a post-doc at the Technion (Kaufmann Fellowship) and attended a Master in Environment and Development. He completed research at the Desert Architecture Unit of Ben Gurion University (with a scholarship of the Ministry of Foreign Affaris) and attended the prestigious Ford Motor Company International Fellowship for Community Leadership at Columbia University and 92stY in New York. Dr. Messinas practices ‘green’ Architecture in Greece, Cyprus and Israel, and cooperates with companies in the activity of ECOWEEK on environmental awareness. Dr. Messinas is a consultant to the Pasher Group on ‘green’ Architecture and sustainable building.

Verna, a noted author, is an expert and pioneer in value networks, intangibles, knowledge management, and new business models. She is the leading provider of value network visualization and analysis applications at EPA. Verna is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, advisor to the European commission, and was a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on Intangibles in the late 1990s. She is on a number of Advisory and Editorial Boards including Hazel Henderson’s Ethical Markets television series, Inside Knowledge, and IC (Intellectual Capital) Magazine. She also is a founding sponsor of the Value Networks Consortium (http://www.value-networks.com). Ms. Allee has been a visiting lecturer at many universities around the world, most notably at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), Greenwich University (London), Hanken Swedish School of Business (Helsinki), University of Waikato (New Zealand), and Cortrugli Business Academy (Croatia). Her publications include numerous articles and books, including The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks (2003), The Knowledge Evolution (1997).

Dr. William Cohen, is a Major General, USAFR, Ret. and president of the Institute of Leader Arts (www.stuffofheroes.com). Executives and managers from more than fifty countries have heard him speak. He is the author of more than 50 books on leadership and management which have been published in 22 languages including both Hebrew and Arabic. These include Drucker on Leadership, A Class with Drucker, The New Art of the Leader, The Stuff of Heroes: The Eight Universal Laws of Leadership, and The Art of the Strategist. Dr. Cohen is one of only two living American general officers who served and fought in foreign air forces. Dr. Cohen was a rav seren in the Israeli Air Force in squadron 120 and flew in the Yom Kippur War. He has spoken previously in Israel at the University of Haifa and for the IDF/Navy. Cohen has taught the graduate schools of California State University Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, TUI University, and the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and UCLA. He has also conducted leadership seminars or spoken on leadership for all four U.S. military services: the Air Force, Navy, Army, and Marine Corps as well as speaking at the Air War College, Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Canadian Armed Forces College and many corporations and trade associations. He has held executive positions in several companies and was president of two private universities. In addition to his B.S. in engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D. in management from Claremont Graduate University and is a distinguished graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington, D.C. Cohen has served on various city, state, national, corporate, and trade boards and boards of directors. About him, his professor, Peter F. Drucker, “The Father of Modern Management” wrote:"Bill Cohen was a singularly stimulating and attractive student from whom my colleagues on the faculty and I learned at least as much as we could teach him."

Leif Edvinsson, is the world's leading expert on Intellectual Capital (IC). As former vice president and the worlds first corporate director of Intellectual Capital at Skandia of Stockholm, Sweden, Edvinsson has been a key contributor to the theory of IC and oversaw the creation of the world's first corporate Intellectual Capital Annual Report. During 1996 he has been awarded both by American Productivity and Quality center, USA as well as Business Intelligence, UK, for his pioneering work on IC. Mr. Edvinsson is a well- recognized keynote speaker in the most influential global seminars and conferences at Harvard Business School, Stanford, London School of Economics, INSEAD. He initiated a Coalition of Service Industries, Sweden. He has served as Special Advisor to the Swedish Cabinet on Service Trade, as well as Impact on Digital Economy. He produced the first national Intellectual Capital (IC) Report for Sweden and has helped advise similar projects in other countries, such as Israel and Denmark. He is the author of several articles and books and is well known and cited in the knowledge literature for his ground-breaking series of Intellectual Capital Supplements to the Annual Reports

After many years in banking in Switzerland and in the United States, Betty Zucker was for 10 years a Director of the Board of Management of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Rüschlikon Switzerland, focusing on research projects and publications about questions concerning future oriented management and organization development. With her professional expertise in Change & Knowledge Management as well as in the management of family businesses she has advised management in change processes for the past 20 years. Her ability to read both faces and balance sheets, coupled with her future oriented perspectives allows her to reduce complex issues to the essentials. Fresh solutions are reviewed. Specific methods and strategic paths, together with a careful assessment of their consequences for Management and the Organization can then be implemented. Betty is the author of a number of titles published in the field of Knowledge Management and well received internationally.

Orit is a strategic consultant carrying out complexity- based strategy development projects with special emphasis on foreign policy, conflict resolution and economic development. Orit holds a PhD in International Relations (Political Economy) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an MA, Magna Cum Laude in Political Science from Tel Aviv University. Here professional career includes research experience in several institutions such as a senior researcher for the Operational Research Institute of the IDF (OTRI) Tel-Aviv and a Project Director at The Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF) Tel-Aviv. Orit is the Author of several academic publications on International Affairs and served as a Board member of the Delek Energy Systems Company Ltd.

Oliver is one of the premier consulants in Europe specializing in online support, learning, organization design and leadership. He, leads an extensive executive leadership, coaching, and seminar program and has extensive experience in knowledge management, e-business, organizational development creating sustainable successful strategies based on the principles of the knowledge economy. Oliver has a doctorate in Business Administration and is a faculty adjunct to UNDP Virtual Development Academy, Capella University, Open University Business School and Jones International University. He is affiliated with the Entovation Group Alliance and Sveiby Knowledge Associates.