Jacob Ner-David

Jacob Ner-David is the managing partner of Jerusalem Capital, and has served as co-founder and member of senior management for several Jerusalem-based high-tech companies, most recently as acting CEO of the Jerusalem Business Development Corporation, a non-profit organziation he founded to help bring economic renewal to the city. Jacob has also served as a volunteer advisor on foreign relations to the mayor of Jerusalem. He is a senior consultant to JVP Studio, a technology incubator he co-founded. Prior to this he seved as Chairman and CEO of 2bAnywhere, a software company focused on wireless messaging. In 1996, he co-founded Delta Three, an internet telephony-based communications service, and served as executive chairman. He also co-founded Ambient Corporation and Nomad IQ and served as Chairman and CEO of both companies. A social activist, Jacob plays an active role as Chairman of Bayit Chadash, which he co-founded to bring about an Israeli revolution of community with Jewish values and identity. He also co-founded Rikma, a fellowship program to procude better trained and prepared leaders for the Jewish community in Israel. He serves on the audit committee of the Heschel Center for the Environment, the board of directors of JFL Media, and the Israel Steering Committee of One Voice. Published in many leading newspapers, Jacob has also authored several book chapters and currently serves as a volunteer lecturer on entrepreneurship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received a B.A. from City College of New York and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. In 1989 he was an Isaacs Scholar of English Literature at Mansfield College, Oxford. He and his family make their home in Jerusalem. Jacob is a member of the 2003 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.