Michael Federmann

Owner of Israeli conglomerate Federmann Enterprises, started by late father and uncle. Chairs boards of its two biggest publicly traded holdings: defense elctronics maker Elbit Systems and luxury hotel operator Dan Hotels Corp. The hotel group has been enjoying growth thanks to booming tourism and business in the country. It began as a boarding house on the Tel Aviv seafront; now expanding into India. Also deputy chairman of the board of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a board member of Weizmann Institute of Science.