Dr. Ed Mlavsky

Ed is the Chairman Emeritus and Founding Partner of Gemini Israel Funds. Prior to founding Gemini, Ed served as Executive Director of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD). Ed has a First Class Honors B.Sc. degree in Chemistry (1950) and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (1953) from Queen Mary College, University of London. His publications include 53 scientific and technical papers, and 24 patents (plus many foreign applications). In February 1994, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate. In April 2003, Ed received the Israel High-Tech Award from the Israel Venture Association in recognition of his unique contribution to the development of the Israel high-tech industry. In 2009, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Management Center, High-tech Forum.
Ed is the Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel. He was recently recognized by the Israeli business press as one of the five most influential people in the Israeli hi-tech industry. He is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of Israeli high-tech and venture capital.