Directors & senior management
Ben Sheizaf
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Ben Sheizaf is serving as a director and Chairman of the Board of Ellomay since November 2024. Mr. Sheizaf is the founder and CEO of B.P.O. Ltd., a consulting firm since 2019, and has held many senior positions in the Israeli finance and insurance sectors. Mr. Sheizaf currently serves as a member of the board and chairman of the risk management committee of Isracard Ltd. (TASE: ISCD) and as chairman of the board of Detelix Software Technologies Ltd. Between 2008-2019 he held several positions in Phoenix Financial Ltd. (TASE: PHOE), including Deputy CEO and Head of the Long-Term Savings Division, CEO of The Phoenix Pension and Provident Fund Ltd. and a board member of other companies in the group, chairman of Excellence Provident Fund Ltd. and a member of the board of Excellence Investments Ltd. (between 2018-2019), and chairman of Shekel Insurance Agency (2008) Ltd. (between 2012-2015). Mr. Sheizaf holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University and completed a supplemental year of accounting studies.
Ran Fridrich
Director and Chief Executive Officer
Ran Fridrich has served as a director of Ellomay since March 2008, as Ellomay’s interim chief executive officer since January 2009, and as Ellomay’s chief executive officer since December 2009. Mr. Fridrich is the co-founder and executive director of Oristan, Investment Manager, an investment manager of CDO Equity and Mezzanine Funds and a Distress Fund, established in June 2004. In January 2001 Mr. Fridrich founded the Proprietary Investment Advisory, an entity focused on fixed income securities, CDO investments and credit default swap transactions, and served as its investment advisor through January 2004. Prior to that, Mr. Fridrich served as the chief executive officer of two packaging and printing Israeli companies, Lito Ziv, a public company, from 1999 until 2001 and Mirkam Packaging Ltd. from 1983 until 1999. Mr. Fridrich also serves as a director of Cargal Ltd. since September 2002 and since 2007 as a director in Plastosac Ltd. Mr. Fridrich is a graduate of the Senior Executive Program of Tel Aviv University.
Anita Leviant
Director
Anita Leviant has served as a director of Ellomay since March 2008. Ms. Leviant heads LA Global Consulting, a practice specializing in representing and consulting global oriented companies in IPO process. LAGC represents and consults investors and corporations on business and regulatory issues, in Fintech and Cyber investments, in cross border and financial transactions, banking and capital markets. LAGC provides through its Tel Aviv head office and its London based subsidiary soft lending for overseas l business in Israel and in the UK. For a period of twenty years, until 2006, Ms. Leviant held several senior positions with Hapoalim Banking group including EVP Deputy Head of Hapoalim Europe and Global Private Banking and EVP General Global Counsel of the group, and served as a director in the overseas subsidiaries of Bank Hapoalim. Prior to that, Ms. Leviant was an associate in GAFNI & CO. Law Offices in Tel Aviv where she specialized in Liquidation, Receivership and Commercial Law and was also a Research Assistant to the Law School Dean in the Tel Aviv University specialized in Private International Law. Ms. Leviant holds a LL.B degree from Tel Aviv University Law School and is a member of both the Israeli and the New York State Bars. Ms. Leviant currently also serves as President of the Israel-British Chamber of Commerce, Council Member of the UK- Israel Tech Council, Board Member of the Federation of Bi-Lateral Chambers of Commerce and a Co-Founder of the Center for Arbitration and Dispute Resolutions Ltd. Ms. Leviant is a certified mediator.
Ehud Gil
Director
Ehud Gil has served as a director of Ellomay since November 12, 2020. Mr. Gil is an entrepreneur in the intersection of security and technology, a co-founder of Hystrix Technologies Ltd. and a consultant to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. In 2018, Mr. Gil retired from the Israeli Defense Forces, or the IDF, at the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Prior to his retirement from the IDF, Mr. Gil held various key managerial positions in the IDF and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, including Head of Planning and Control Branch, Head of Training Branch in the General Headquarters of the IDF, and Director of Projects for the IDF. Mr. Gil holds an M.Ed. (with honors) in Management and Organization of Education Systems from the University of Haifa and a B.Sc. in Materials Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Mr. Gil is the brother of Ms. Anat Raphael.
Daniel Vaknin
External Director
Daniel Vaknin has served as an external director of Ellomay since December 20, 2020. Mr. Vaknin is a financial consultant. Mr. Vaknin currently serves on the Board of Directors of Clal Insurance Company Ltd., Ilex Medical Ltd. (TASE: ILX), Arad Ltd. (TASE: ARD) and Kardan Israel Ltd. (TASE: KRDI) and served on the Board of Directors of Global Wings Leasing Ltd. (TASE: GKL) until 2020. From 2007 to 2011 Mr. Vaknin served as Chief Executive Officer of Israel Financial Levers Ltd. From 2005 to 2007 Mr. Vaknin served as the Chief Executive Officer of Phoenix Investments and Finance Ltd. From 2004 to 2005 Mr. Vaknin served as the Vice Chief Executive Officer of I.D.B Development Company Ltd. Prior to that Mr. Vaknin was a Senior Partner at Kesselman & Kesselman C.P.A.s, a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited. Mr. Vaknin is a CPA and holds a BA in Economics and Accounting from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Dorit Ben Simon
External Director
Dorit Ben Simon has served as an external director of Ellomay since December 2023. Ms. Ben Simon serves as the Founder & Managing Partner of BSS Capital and as a President of IFI, the primary educational entity for the local financial services industry and has previously served as a CFO and Group Chief Risk Officer (CRO) at Israel Discount Bank (2006-2011). Prior to Discount Bank, Ms. Ben Simon was CEO of Gmulot, the leading asset management company in Israel and a subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim (2001-2006). Ms. Ben Simon serves as an external director of Massivit 3D Printing Technologies Ltd. (TASE: MSVT) since 2021 and served as an independent director of Meshek Energy-Renewable Energies Ltd. (TASE: MSKE) from 2020 to 2022, Energix-Renewable Energies Ltd. (TASE: ENRG) from 2012 to 2018 and Knafaim Holdings Ltd. (TASE: KNFM) from 2012 to 2018. Ms. Ben Simon holds an M.B.A in Finance and Banking and a B.A in Economy and General Studies, both from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Kalia Rubenbach
Chief Financial Officer
Kalia Rubenbach has served as Ellomay’s chief financial officer since January 2009. Prior to her appointment as Ellomay’s chief financial officer, Ms. Weintraub served as Ellomay’s corporate controller from January 2007 and was responsible, among her other duties, for the preparation of all financial reports. Prior to joining Ellomay, she worked as a certified public accountant in the AABS High-Tech practice division of the Israeli accounting firm of Kost Forer Gabbay & Kasierer, an affiliate of the international public accounting firm Ernst & Young, from 2005 through 2007 and in the audit division of the Israeli accounting firm of Brightman Almagor Zohar, an affiliate of the international public accounting firm Deloitte, from 2003 to 2004. Ms. Weintraub holds a B.A. in Economics and Accounting and an M.B.A. from the Tel Aviv University and is licensed as a CPA in Israel.
