Chairman

Edouard Cukierman

CEO

Greg Wolf

Investment banker for 23 years, advising on M&A, IPOs and private placements of companies across the technology, media/telecom sectors. Began his career in NY, serving as an officer in both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley’s investment banking divisions. 13 years ago, founded Widebridge Group.

Industry experience:

Information technology; Media, printing and publishing; Telecom.

Partner - New Mobility and AI

Alon Atsmon

Partner

Laurence Blazinau

Vice President

Pola Cejko

Pola joined Cukierman & Co. in 2021, bringing an international perspective from work and studies in Poland, Scotland, Brazil, and Germany. Responsible for deal execution and sourcing (M&A, equity raising, and secondary transactions).

Industry experience:

Business Services, Financial Services. Information Technology, Security, Transports & Logistics.

Managing Partner

Laurent Choppe

Laurent leads Cukierman & Co. Life Sciences since 2008 and has been involved in more than 100 Medtech and Biotech corporate finance transactions and advisory assignments for the Cukierman group. His team works worldwide with venture-backed and middle-market companies for fundraising, licensing deals and M&A transactions as well as strategic projects for key life sciences industry players.

Laurent brings extensive international life sciences experience in managing multifunctional teams and setting up new businesses in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, nutraceuticals, animal health and direct-to-consumer markets.

Member of Healthcare, Biotech & Pharma Industry Group

Partner

Daniel Cohen

Advisor France

Sara Elkayam

Partner

Fiona Magal

Member of the Agri, Food & Beverages Industry Group.

CFO

Shiran Mauda

Senior Advisor

Avi Mizrahi

Vice-Chairman

Luc Muller

Managing Partner - Cyber Security

Sean Muirhead

Marketing Manager

Aron Pacifi

Country Manager Germany

Efrat Pan

Efrat Pan is Project Consultant at SCMT, Steinbeis Center of Management and Technology, since 2014. Under this capacity, she is in charge of acquisition of students and partner companies in south Bavaria. She also engages in the development and exchange with international universities and companies for strengthening the relationship between Israel and Germany in the fields of applied research and business. Before relocating to Germany in 2009, Efrat Pan served as Marketing and Investor Relations Manager at VCON Telecommunications Ltd., an Israeli developer of video over IP conferencing systems, from 1997-2005. From 2005-2009, Mrs Pan was Fund-raising and later, served as Investor Relations Manager, at Catalyst Investments Fund II, an Israeli Private Equity focused on investments in late-stage Israeli technological companies. From 2010-2014, Mrs. Pan was teaching Hebrew and English at a local school in Memmingen and later opened a private lessons school, Horizons, for children of all ages. From 2013-2018, Mrs. Pan served as the chairperson of the German-Israeli Association (Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft) in Memmingen, Germany, of which she is still on the board. Efrat holds a BA in Social Science & Psychology and an MSc in Management & Innovation. Mrs. Pan teaches a seminar on Qualitative Research Methods on Steinbeis University and represents Catalyst and Cukierman activities in Germany.

Vice President

Sephora Sackmann

Associate

Julia Solomon

Managing Partner Singapore

Jason Tay

Mr. Jason Tay joined Cukierman & Co in Jun 2020, prior to Cukierman, Jason was a First Vice President with Singapore UOB Bank to facilitate foreign direct investment into ASEAN. Jason has worked for Temasek subsidiary, Singapore Technologies Engineering and Senior Manager based in Guangzhou with China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City as one of the pioneer staff to spearhead foreign direct investment from Europe and USA into Guangzhou. Jason also have established Huawei Enterprise Business unit in Singapore and Nasdaq-listed technology companies as Regional Director for Asia Pacific.

Industry experience:

Beverages; Building & construction; Business services; Clean technology; Education and training; Energy & renewables; Financial services; Food; Healthcare; Hotels & restaurants; Information technology; Luxury goods; Media, printing and publishing; Real estate & facility management; Recycling; Retail and franchising; Telecom.

Partner

Shy Zymann

Shy is a senior experienced executive in the Medical and Hi-tech industry, with over 25 years of Business Development, Sales and Management for high technology companies.

Prior to joining Cukierman, he has been the CEO of PerfAction Technologies, the global SVP sales for Viora Technologies and former CEO of 2 other start-up companies. Shy specialized in Asian markets and have been the co-founder of Yoki-Kal, a leading BD company for the Japanese and Asian markets consulting numerous companies like Motorola, IAI, Orbit, SHL, STI, CTS and more. Very familiar with the Medical Devices market, mainly the emerging Medical Aesthetics arena. Studied Computer Science and Physics at the Technion Talented Youth program, Business Administration at TLV Business College & at the Wales University. Shy is also a retired Lieutenant Commander of the Israeli navy where he graduated the Naval Officers academy.

Managing Partner

Paolo Sabbadini

He was previously a Senior Adviser at the English investment bank Advicorp plc.
In this role, in the M&A division, he advised Israeli investors in the field such as defence security, renewable energy, food and real estate.

In 2008, he was a partner in MS Group, an Italian-Israeli business and commercial mediation firm, responsible for M&A activity in defence, security, and real estate.

In 2006, he was a financial agent at the bank Cassa dei Risparmi di Milano e della Lombardia.
In 2002 he was nominated Chief Operating Officer of a notable advertising and new media agency with offices in Turin, Rome, Milan and London.
In 1990 he managed the family business being the fourth generation of industrialists specialised in the printing industry.
He studied Industrial Engineering at the “Institute of Production Engineering” in Tel Aviv. He obtained a master’s in business management and control at the UIR and in marketing at the IED in Italy.

He is the founder and Vice President of the National Chamber for the Business of Italy and Israel.

He was a member of the boards in the Association of the Printing Industry in Rome, and in the Italian Association of The Young Industrial Entrepreneurs and he was a member in the Commission of the International Relations of Confindustria, the Italian entrepreneurs association.