Ami Samuels

Directeur/Membre du Conseil chez Shamir Optical Industry Ltd.

Profil

Ami is a Partner and plays a key role in transaction origination, execution, marketing and portfolio management.
Prior to joining Gatewood, Ami was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Private Equity Group at Poalim Capital Markets, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim, a leading financial institutional in Israel.
Ami led investments and monitoring of the PE portfolio, and managed new business development activities.
Ami was responsible for several investments in China, including a joint venture with a local advisory and investment firm based in Beijing and Hong Kong.
Prior to that, Ami was a Partner and Investment Manager at Star Ventures, an international venture capital firm, where he focused on fundraising and the communications sector.
Prior to Star Ventures, Ami was a Co-Founder, CFO and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Satlynx SA of Luxembourg, a provider of satellite-based communications services, and Vice President at Gilat Satellite Networks.
Ami has 10 years of investment banking experience with Lehman Brothers in New York and Tel Aviv, where he worked on corporate finance and M&A transactions for U.S.
and Israeli companies and for the Government of Israel.
Ami graduated from the Yale School of Management with a Masters in Public and Private Management, from the University of Haifa (in Israel) with a B.A.
and participated in the University of Michigan’s Executive Management Program.

Postes actifs de Ami Samuels

Sociétés	Poste	Début
Shamir Optical Industry Ltd.	Directeur/Membre du Conseil	01/03/2005
Gatewood Capital Partners LLC	Private Equity Investor	01/01/2015

Anciens postes connus de Ami Samuels

Sociétés	Poste	Fin
Poalim Ventures Ltd.	Directeur/Membre du Conseil	01/01/2011
Star Ventures	Private Equity Investor	30/04/2006
Satlynx GmbH	Fondateur	31/07/2004

Formation de Ami Samuels

University of Haifa	Undergraduate Degree
Yale School of Management	Masters Business Admin