Program Description
The Leadership Program for HLS Executives focuses on enhancing your and your company’s ability to operate in the United States and to succeed in the global marketplace.
The program is targeted towards Israeli startup companies, HLS-related industries including traffic & arms control, border security, personal safety, Cyber protection, law enforcement officers training equipment, Air & Environment safety & control, command & control systems, surveillance systems, protective equipment, military electronics, anti-terror systems, Non-lethal weapons, fire control, Energy Storage systems, range finders, optical equipment, UAV’s, UGV’s and related industries.
Program Modules
Professors

Alan B. Sellers
CEO
Precision Restaurant Group LLC

Amit Gavish
Executive Vice President- Americas
Voyager Labs

Bruce Money
Executive Director of Whitmore Global Management Center; Fred Meyer Professor of Marketing and International Business
Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business

Bryan Cunningham
Executive Director
UC Irvine Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute/ Cunningham Levy LLP

David Gorodetski
Co-Founder, COO and Executive Creative Director
Sage Communications

Douglas Harpel
Defense Market Expert
Aerospace Intelligence LLC

Gordon Kesting
Vice President
C4I Solutions, Elbit Systems of America, LLC

Imran Currim, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Professor / Associate Dean, Marketing & Student Relations for Executive MBA Programs
The Paul Merage School of Business / University of California, Irvine

Ira Hoffman
Shareholder
Butzel Long

JC Ruffalo
Director of LaunchPad SBDC and Investor Relations
OCTANe

Joel Calvo
Board of Director, Independent Trustee, C-Level Leader, Keynote Speaker

Kevin McDonald
COO and CISO
Alvaka Networks

Maya Vardi-Shoshani
Director of Business Development, West Coast
BIRD Foundation

Michael J. Swenson, PhD
Christensen Professor of Marketing

Paul Symczak
Vice-President-OCTANe, Executive Director of the LaunchPad
Entrepreneurship for OCTANe, LaunchPad

Sasha Strauss
Managing Director
Innovation Protocol, Strategic Brand Development

Shahar Abuhazira
CEO and Founder
Alpha Dawn

Steve Keefe
President and CEO
Patriot Technologies Inc.

Timothy Sullivan
Senior Partner
The Washington, D.C. office of Thompson Coburn LLP

Tracy Andrle
Participants / Fellows
Eyal Levy
Manager, Homeland Security & Aerospace
The Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute