Program Administration   

The Zell Entrepreneurship Program team facilitates and manages the rigorous venture creation program from the summer induction program onward, offering administrative and academic support to the student teams throughout the program.

Adv. Liat Aaronson, is the executive director of the Zell Program. She has a B.A. in political economy of industrial societies (economics and political science, cum laude) from the University of California, Berkeley, an LL.B. and MBA from Tel Aviv University, and an LL.M. in European law from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands (cum laude). She has been a member of the Israel Bar Association since completing her internship at Kantor, Elhanani, Tal and Co. in 1999. She attained practical experience in M&A and venture capital as an associate attorney at Naschitz, Brandes and Co., a position she held until joining IDC Herzliya in 2005. She serves as a director of StartupSeeds, a youth technology entrepreneurship program. She was the co-organizer of the first TEDx event in Israel, TEDxTelAviv and of TEDxHolyland.

liat.aaronson@idc.ac.il