Arie Brish

Arie Brish serves his global clients as a ground-breaker in growth strategies, commercialization of new paradigms, change leadership and turn-around. He is also a best seller author of “Lay an Egg and Make Chicken Soup”. Mr. Brish brings to the table lessons learned and best practices gained from a wide variety of assignments in different industries and across business disciplines. His business acumen includes CEO & GM roles, Board of Directors, M&A, business development, turnarounds and change leadership, working with Fortune 500 corporations, entrepreneurial initiatives, consulting engagements, and non-profits. Career Highlights: Growth strategies: Arie scaled business unit revenue from $288M to $710M in four years propelling market share from #4 to #1. Change Leadership and turnaround: Mr. Brish has executed multiple turnarounds. He led a major profit improvement project of a $200M business unit that achieved a 24% gross margin improvement in two years. He also led a quality improvement effort that resulted a 90% failures reduction in a $1B deployed equipment. Investments and M&A: Over the years Arie raised more than $100M from corporate sources, private equity investments, VCs, and government grants. Provided due diligence services. Participated in several M&A transactions. Commercialization and entrepreneurship: Launched over ten start-up businesses. Three exits. Over half a dozen still in business. While in the Fortune 500 world, he initiated an innovation process that resulted over 40 successful products. Mentor in two accelerators. Limited Partner in OurCrowd. Board of Directors and Advisory work: Tehuti Networks, Binalgo, NV Earth, Deverus, Sensuron, Almon Alexander, Corner Stone, X2X, Austin Marathon, Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce. Memberships and Pro Bono: Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce. Co-Founder, interim CEO and Executive-Board member. Austin Marathon. Board member and elite-runners liaison. Ran the event multiple times. JCC. Financial Committee. Judge & mentor for Wharton Business School, International Accelerator, Capital Factory. Frequent guest speaker at U.T. Austin on Global Entrepreneurship. National Association of Corporate Directors. (NACD) Author: Lay an Egg and Make Chicken Soup. #1 New Release. Top Ten Best Seller. Blogger. Education: Arie holds a BSEE from Ben Gurion University, an MBA from Recanati School of Business, Tel-Aviv University, Energy Technology certificate from University of Texas, numerous executive training programs at Motorola University, and Continuous Education with National Association of Corporate Directors..