Yifat Oron is the CEO of LeumiTech, Leumi Group’s high tech subsidiary. In her role, Yifat is responsible to leverage Leumi Group’s capabilities and offerings to cater to high technology companies financing needs.

Yifat combines close to twenty years experience working with Technology companies, through her experience at Venture Capital, banking, and consulting.

Yifat spent most of her career as a Partner at Vertex Venture Capital (Israeli based Venture fund with AUS of over $650m), where she invested and served as a board member on the boards of early stage technology companies, in the Semiconductors, Enterprise IT and Cleantech sectors.

Prior to joining Vertex, Yifat was a technology investment banking associate at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York where she analyzed mergers and acquisitions, equity offerings, fixed income and syndicated financings. Previously, she spent three years at the Directorate of R&D of the Israeli Ministry of Defense where she achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the Economics, Budget & Control Department.

Yifat holds an M.B.A. from Tel-Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Economics and Management from the Technion. Yifat is married with two children. She enjoys reading, and travel.