Mrs Yael ARAD

Expertise in Entrepreneurship, Business Development & Marketing Strategy; Managing Director, Consumer Products, Paramount Israel;

Senior advisor to global companies and member of Boards of Start-Up companies.

Judo

European Champion (1993); European Championship, Bronze Medal (1989, 1991); World Championship, Bronze Medal (1991), Silver Medal (1993); Olympic Games Barcelona 1992, Silver Medal (first-ever Olympic medallist for State of Isreal); Champion at Paris Tournament (1992)

President of the Israeli NOC (November 2021); Member of the Board of the Israeli NOC and Chair of the Elite Sport Committee (2013-2021); Chair of the first Athletes’ Commission of Israel (1996-2000)

Member of the “Israeli Friends” of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Lecturer for large organisations on excellence in sport and its analogy to the world of business; and for global organisations abroad (in Hebrew and English)

Member of the following Commissions: Marketing (2012-2021); Revenues and Commercial Partnerships (2022-); Digital and Technology (2018-2021); Technology and Technical Innovation (2022-); Esports (2023-)

Traditional National Torch-lighting Ceremony for the Independence Day of Israel (2004); Awards Honorary Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship Award of the Reichman University (2018); Honorary Doctorate of the Bar Ilan University (2022)