Tal Kelem ^{Ultimate Decision-Maker}

Director of Business Development, BIRD Cyber and BIRD HLS Lead at BIRD Foundation

Current Job Duration: 8 yrs 6 mos (until March 2026)

HEADLINE:
Director of Business Development at BIRD Foundation

PERSONAL SUMMARY:
Tal Kelem is Director of Business Development at the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation. BIRD provides conditional grants of up to 50% of a joint U.S.-Israeli project development, up to $1.5M per project. Tal explores for new technologies and companies and tries to match U.S. and Israeli companies for joint projects.
Tal brings 30 years of entrepreneurship and high level management experience. Prior to BIRD he was the founder and director of the TheHive Ashdod accelerator (among the top 5 accelerators in Israel for 2016, just before he moved to BIRD), an economic diplomat in Beijing and Taipei, VP Marketing in a prominent NGO, Sales director for Asia at Comverse, and the founder and CEO of the most successful magazine ever published in Israel – "Massa Acher".
Tal had mountaineered the Swiss Alps and the Himalaya, cycled the 1100 KM Israel National Trail and published in 2018 his book, "Wives of Confucius", which throws light on his own experience and life over the years in Asia.

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EDUCATION:
School: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Degree: Earth Sciences
Activities: None

School: Tel Aviv University
Degree: None
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