Our Team.
PLANETech is a joint venture of the Israeli Innovation Institute and Consensus Business Group, leading the Israeli and global climate tech ecosystem to tackle the most prominent global challenge - climate change.
Noam Sonennberg
Director
Gal Sharon
Head of Operations
& Ecosystem Development
Yaroslav Efimov, PhD
Head of Climate Programs
Deborah Kreis
Global Partnerships Manager
Steering Committee.
Shani Zanescu
Investments & Portfolio Management Advisor
Consensus Business Group
Dr. Jonathan Menuhin
CEO
Israel Innovation Institute
Hadas Geyer Shafrir
COO
Israel Innovation Institute
Our Partners.
Consensus Business Group
Consensus Business Group is a leading UK-based investment group, led by Mr. Vincent Tchenguiz, with investments of over $700M in Israeli technologies, funds, incubators, and other initiatives. Experts in structuring unique and strategic financial models, the group’s key areas of investments in Israel are in the healthtech, life science, planetech (climate change technologies), and HLS sectors. Its diversified portfolio has been meticulously built along the years as an elaborated platform for corporates, countries, and other public and private key players to engage with. Consensus Business Group is also believed to be the largest owner and asset manager of residential freehold interests in the UK, representing in excess of 1% of the housing stock in England and 1.2% in Greater London.
Israel Innovation Institute
The Israel innovation institute is a non profit “think and do tank” bringing innovative technology and knowledge into real-world settings. The institute enables and facilitates the development, testing, and the demonstration of scalable, innovative solutions to global challenges—in indispensable fields such as Digital Health, Precision Agriculture, Smart mobility, desertech and Climate Change technologies.