An entrepreneur, with a record of 35 years, founded and led multiple businesses and was always involved in the forefront of development. Built several technology companies from startup to successful businesses which created offline and online tools and services, creating valuable brands and high revenues.
Over the years, and through projects with many investors’ groups of different investment trypes, Arnon has developed professional and personal relationships and created a broad network of hundreds of trusting investors, and high level executive in companies in different verticals, which he utilizes to promote startups’ interests in North America.
Arnon Scheflan takes the risk out of startups by providing insight and experience, contacts, and knowledge, and closed many investment deals for businesses of any level. As serial entrepreneur he knows everything needed to know when it comes to approaching an investor with an idea or a product and a request for funds.
Since 1982, Irit has founded, managed and worked in her privately owned companies and has Proven top performer with start-up and Fortune 500 experience. Unique blend of managerial and operational expertise with advanced skills in strategic planning, international negotiations, product development and resource allocation.
Innovative inspirational leader of development and operations with a proven ability to drive business growth through market trend analysis, and market penetration. Produce highly profitable product lines targeted to niche markets, which delivered high profitability.
Irit has been personally responsible for creating hundreds online platforms and applications. Successfully led teams of producers, programmers and graphic designers in a multi-national environments to produce some of the most successful, award winning software products, many of which quickly became best-selling industry favorites. Irit has always been at the forefront of developing multimedia, education and business software for Internet applications, and in 1996 she received the Jan Amos Comenius Medal by UNESCO in support of The Agam Project for Visual Education for Young Children. Irit holds a degree in computer science management.
Over 15 years of professional experience, leading consumer products divisions in Latin America, China, US and Canada; Enterprise and Manufacturing Systems for discrete and continuous processes; Sales and Marketing and all the interactive activities of several large Media Corporations with Newspapers, Broadcast, Radio and Digital operations. Among them Unisys, Timon, Polaroid, CanWest in Canada, Impremedia, Hispanic News & Information Media company. CoAuthor of the DIGITAL FIRST strategy implemented at Journal Register, considered the most advanced Newspaper Company in the Digital Conversion process. At Digital First Media (Media News Group & JRC), Chief Digital Officer and recently named Chief Innovation Officer with a focus on the Investment side of the company, Digital First Ventures.