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VIAB Business Mentor Program
The Business Mentor Program is a Free and Confidential Business Advicec to Israeli Executives
You decide what we can do to assist you.
And we will meet your special needs.
VIAB also offers consulting services provided by some of the top business experts in Virginia. A carefully selected group of business executives with 25 or more years’ practical business experience are ready to help Israeli companies locating to Virginia. The Mentoring Program offers free and confidential business advice and guidance to Israeli executives. Our Mentors volunteer to work with Israeli companies who want to enter the U.S. market and pursue business with the Federal government or commercial organizations. The Mentors are available to help you through every phase of market entry: generating and assessing ideas, giving pointers for preparing a business plan, making suggestions on raising capital, managing the operations and finances, and marketing the products and services of your growing company.
Some of our Mentors include:
Roderic Fleisher, is the Vice President of Business Development for Cougaar Software Inc. He is considered a serial entrepreneur for software, hardware, and service oriented companies. [Bio - PDF 40KB]
Marybeth G. Fraser, is the President of Fraser Consulting Inc., a group that works closely with the telecom, wireless and internet Industries. [Bio - PDF 28KB]
Arthur Rosenberg, Independent consultant providing expertise on financial, strategic, SEC regulatory, investment and operational matters to start-up, development stage, turn-around or other ongoing firms. [Bio - PDF 44KB]
John R. Miller, the Director for International Business Development for Raytheon Company in Washington, DC. He is responsible for programs in Southern and Central Europe, which also includes Turkey. He is also Country Manager for Israel. Mr. Miller joined Raytheon following a distinguished career in the United States Army. [Bio - PDF 20KB]
David Gorodetski, is the founder and Creative Director of Sage Communications, a full-service marketing, advertising and public relations firm. He has developed strategic marketing programs for technology companies ranging from start-ups to multinationals. David is highly regarded as one of the region's most experienced interactive marketing strategists having served as Vice President Interactive Worldwide for Ogilvy Public relations, one of world's largest PR firms. Prior to that, David was VP of Interactive for TMP Worldwide IMC. He has earned numerous awards for his work in interactive, print and broadcast. [Bio - PDF 20KB]
Andre A Muelenaer, Jr., M.D., has been working at Carilion Biomedical Institute for over 13 years and now serves as Medical Director. [Bio - PDF 28KB]
Howard S. Kossak, Independent consulting and investment banking services for smaller emerging software and technology-based companies in a broad array of industry sectors. [Bio - PDF 40KB]
Sherman L. Naidorf, working for Burroughs (now UNISYS), brings over 20 years of experience marketing, selling and supporting large-systems sales to government customers.[Bio - PDF 20KB]
Mel Chaskin, President and CEO of Vanguard Research, Inc. (VRI), a small business focused on system engineering/integration, technology transfer, information management and technology, system acquisition and issues dealing with communications, command and control. [Bio - PDF 32KB]
Joe W, Meredith, Ph.D., Dr. Meredith is currently the President of the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center (CRC) in Blacksburg, Virginia. The CRC consists of over 100 high-technology companies that employ over 1775 people. In 1997 the CRC was named, ÒBest Practice in Technology Transfer and Research CentersÓ in the eight-state, mid-Atlantic region. Recently, the park was selected to join an elite network of the best research parks in the world called it-parcs. Only one other U.S. park received this honor. [Bio - PDF 28KB]
Robert Greene, President of Product Resource Group, LLC.
Mr. Greene is instrumental in developing and launching new consumer products to market. [Bio - PDF 20KB]
To fill out an application to utilize the Business Mentor Program, click here
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