Amir Eldad

Amir is a Global Ecosystem Partner at Switzerland Innovation Park Innovaare, a Deep-Tech Innovation Hub / Incubator / Maker space at the campus of its key founding partner, the Paul Scherrer Institute. The park has multiple Deep-Tech competence centers, among them Quantum Technology as well as Metrology and Chip Inspection.

Amir is an entrepreneurial ecosystem builder: helping regional governments, large corporations, universities and other organizations to achieve their growth objectives through internationally connected entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Earlier in his career, Amir led Global Go-to-Market for Israeli startups that aspired for global leadership, while bridging the multi-national cultural gap. Starting in 2010, Amir took an active role in multiple Boston-based community initiatives, with a global touch, which led to a high-impact role at MassChallenge: Director of Global Partnerships. Amir co-founded MassChallenge Israel, MassChallenge Switzerland and a partnership with the region of Lyon, France.

After leaving MassChallenge Amir re-activated A2E Partners, a boutique consulting firm, providing entrepreneurial ecosystem services to large corporations, universities and governments. Amir is a speaker and/or panelist in conferences and round tables focusing on innovation-driven economic development and corporate innovation.

A computer science graduate at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Amir’s domain focus is Deep-Tech, and global ecosystem focus is Switzerland, Israel, US/Boston, Melbourne (AUS) and Korea.