Bio
Mr Barkat, chairman and co-founder of BRM Group, is a recognized figure in the Israeli business community, with more than 20 years of entrepreneurial, investment and business management experience. Mr Barkat excels at growing companies - providing hands-on strategic and management guidance from founding to exit. In 1988, Mr Barkat co-founded BRM Technologies, an anti-virus software startup sold to Symantec. Leveraging early-on experience and accumulated self-capital, Mr Barkat led the transformation of BRM into a reputable private Israeli investment group, later expanding its initial technology focus to include non hi-tech industries as well. Under Mr Barkat's leadership, the Group has been involved, either directly or via venture capital funds under its control, in some of the most prominent exits in the industry. These include Checkpoint (NASDAQ: CHKP); Backweb (NASDAQ: BWEB); Passave (sold to PMC-Sierra); Oplus Technologies (sold to Intel); Whale Communications (sold to Microsoft) and Fraud Sciences (sold to eBay). These successes have reinforced both BRM’s and Mr Barkat's status as a leading and important investment player in the Israeli business arena. Mr Barkat currently sits on the board of Eyeblaster, GigaSpaces, SupportSpace, PuddingMedia and Pando Networks. Together with his wife, Alona, he founded the BRM Institute of Technology and Society at Tel Aviv University, and serves on the University’s Board of Governors. Mr Barkat holds a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Career
BRM Group - founderThe private investment fund of the Barkat and Rakavy families.Email: [email protected] |