The Digital Eve Israel steering committee are volunteers appointed by existing committee members based on their accomplishments as career women in Israel and their contributions to the Digital Eve Israel community. Their role is to ensure that the daily focus of the dynamic online forum as well as the live events remain relevant to professional issues and opportunities for women in Israel. Their daily involvement in guiding the organization fosters positive collaboration, strengthens the value for all members, and preserves the high quality of this growing professional community.

ABOUT THE CO-CHAIRWOMEN

Susan Fisher

I am delighted to have become the co-chairwoman of Digital Eve, an organisation which is dynamic and growing. I believe passionately that women can do anything and that everything should be open to us.

I am the Managing Director of First Class Training which I founded in 1991 and which has grown to become a leading vendor of personal effectiveness, communication & cross-cultural training to Israeli high-tech. We make people sound, look & communicate better.

As well as managing the company, I coach at a senior level in management communication specializing in strategic messaging & presentation. I was born & educated in England and have been in Israel for 19 years. I set up my own company for the classic reasons that women do that – because they have a passion and so that I could be the boss of my own time. Some of that time has been spent raising my five sons (Digital Adam?) who make me proud to be their working mother.

Leemor Machnai

Bringing 15 years of experience in international business management roles and in Human resources management, I feel being part of DEI is a natural networking platform for women, such as myself, whom are in the perpetual balancing act of career and personal life. Providing as well as learning from fellow professional women tools and advice as to how to do things better, stronger, smarter – is something we all share and is in my agenda as Co-Chairwomen to promote.

I don’t believe in glass ceilings. I believe in constantly striving up and forward and challenging ourselves. As a true believer in finding your core value and skill and focusing on it, I am the CEO of Machnai Weiss & Partners Ltd., an Executive Search and Business Coaching firm, founded a few years ago, based upon over 15 years experience gained in and with global companies, supporting their growth across Israel, APAC, Europe and the US.

Proud mom of two amazing girls, Eden and Lear.

Other Steering Board Members

Jo Friedman (also daily digest moderator)

Since beginning my career in hi-tech in the mid-1990s I’ve had the great privilege of working with a long line of top-notch women at companies in Israel, the U.S. and Australia. These women have been my bosses, colleagues, friends, and mentors, and I’m proud to say that I’ve learned a lot from each of them along the way. These experiences have made me a better manager, product designer, and mother to my four boys.

Aside from moderating Digital Eve, I am Product Design Manager at IBM –Jerusalem. I joined the team before the IBM acquisition when it was still a small Jerusalem start-up called Unicorn that created metadata solutions for international banking, insurance and government institutions. Prior to this job, I have designed and managed award-winning products for platforms as diverse as broadband Internet, web-TV, mobile phones and automotive telematics.

I have been a member of Digital Eve since the early days. What attracts me most about DEI are the same two characteristics I have always found distinctive about women in the workplace – that we are able to combine smart with nice. Smart makes the companies we lead successful, creative and visionary; Nice makes those companies responsible, open-minded and great places to work.

Stacy Fassberg

Having moved to Israel at a major milestone in my career, joining DEI was both an honour and a necessity. Starting over again here in Israel, I know first hand of the need for a well established network of like-minded professionals who can provide information and resources to help meet our short- and long term business objectives.

I started out in advertising. Based in New York, I lucked out and worked for such big named agencies as Grey and Young and Rubicam. These experiences afforded me the opportunity to shift over to the client side, and my last position in New York was Vice President, Marketing Strategy for one of the largest publishers in the US.

After landing in Israel, I changed directions again, moving from low tech to high tech. I enjoyed over 10 years at Comverse and AxisMobile. And now I am the Vice President of Marketing for Celltick .

I love working, but love my kids even more. Eytan and Adam are the lights of my life. And their dad, my husband Amit, ain’t too shabby either.

Rashi Elmaliah

Coming Soon

Miriam Schwab

Coming Soon

Apply here to be considered as a steering committee member.