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.

Country Manager Mexico

David Alerland

David is currently a Managing Partner of Goldberg Alerhand & Asociados, S.C. – an M&A boutique in Mexico established in 2004.

From 2000 to 2003, David was Director of Deutsche Bank Mexico where he was responsible for developing the investment banking practice of the bank in the region.

Prior to that, from 1992 to 1999, he was Director in NM Rothschild & Sons (México), where he was responsible for origination and execution of a wide range of projects in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, privatizations, placements of private equity, and restructurings.

From 1989 to 1992, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.

David graduated summa cum laude from ITAM (México) with a degree in Economics, participated in an exchange program at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

David has taught courses in Economics and Corporate Finance as an invited Professor at ITAM (México) and at Universidad Anáhuac in México City.

He has served as a board member in various companies, financial entities and not-for-profit institutions.

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

Michael Coen

An investment banker with a deep passion for tech and Israeli start-ups. Advised some of the most exciting Israeli companies and unicorns for hundreds of millions of dollars in equity financing rounds and M&As across different industries such as Cyber, Fintech, Software, AI&ML, Retail-tech, Logistics-tech and many more.

Partner

Rodrigo Medina

Partner of Cukierman Investment House Mexico Office, Professional with 10 year business development experience, focused on strategy, profitability, efficiency, and execution. Areas of expertise include valuation, financial due dilligence, corporate finance, accounting and financial modeling.

Industry experience:

Automotive, Business services, Financial services, Information technology.

Country Manager CIH UK

Jacob Millet

Industry experience:

Building & construction; Energy & renewables; Financial services; Real estate & facility management.

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.

Managing Partner

Uri Shaham

Managing Partner Cukierman & Co., previously Head of Business Development Cukierman New Mobility.
Prior to that, Uri held various positions within the industry including the Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) program at Elbit Systems (Nasdaq ESLT)

Member of the Logistics & Transportation Industry Group.

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.

Country Manager China

Andrew Tsaran

Mr. Andrew Tsaran is a founder of Elysium Commercialization Services which provide business development services in the Asia Pacific. Andrew has over 20 years of hands-on experience in different hi-tech industries and the financial sector. In the past, Andrew has held executive management positions at several prominent companies such as Resmed (NYSE: RMD), Flight Medical (TLV:ILX), Curatia, Infinity Equity Funds, MobilEye (acquired by Intel) and Life Watch(SIX: LIFE). Lately, Andrew served as General Manager Asia Pacific of Shekel Brainweigh, leading the company through IPO process and turnover. Andrew earned B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Andrew attended the Business School of ECUST – the East China University of Technology, majoring in an MBA.

Country Manager China

Jack Xu

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.