MAX DAVID ZAHAVI
BUSINESS ADVISOR
SME Business Advisor – Financial management consulting individuals and businesses, business and strategic planning, assistance and ongoing support with decision-making, cash flow management, cost analysis and pricing policy, staffing and financing, budgeting and budget control, working with the banks. Recognized by The Ministry of Economy, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Ministry of Agriculture and The Ministry of Absorption. Recognized by the Ministry of the Economy also as a consultant for social enterprises.
Advice on business entrepreneurship, business planning and creation – vision, strategic planning, examination of feasibility of investment, preparation of business plans for fundraising and financing by banks. Assistance in the formulation of business ideas, creating partnerships and terminating partnerships, linking the family budget with the business budget.
Social Enterprise Consulting – Consultant and promoter of social enterprises, coaching businesses that employ special populations, seeking help with distinct populations and in peripheral areas – including award-winning companies and crowdfunding – HeadStart. Consultant for new immigrants and consultant in the Business IL project which helps to prepare the establishment of businesses in Israel, business planning for immigrants and returning residents from abroad.
LECTURER
The Open University - MBA Finance Course – in collaboration with Prof. Roni Manos, financial support course for small businesses and non-profit organizations. The course won the Innovation in Teaching Award.
The College of Management Academic Studies - B.A, Department of Marketing – Establishing and Managing a Small Business`.
Conferences for entrepreneurs and business owners – workshops, courses and conferences at various venues including: MATI (nationwide), MAOF, Keren Shemesh, The College of Management, Business Management, Business Entrepreneurship, Finance and Financial Management. Workshops for Organizations on Business Planning, Budgeting and Strategic Planning (SMART and SWOT templates)
Green and Social Enterprise Speaker – Lectures on Community Center management, (including training of community center managers across the country), Green Entrepreneurship, with a focus on the CANVAS model (approved by the European Union SwitchMed Program).
Lectures in conferences in preparation for immigration – Europe (France, the United Kingdom and Belgium) and the United States (N.Y. & LA) on behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, AMI, The World Zionist Organization. Lectures to potential immigrants on the topics of job interviews, cultural change and business environment in Israel.
Lectures to students from around the world in English and French – on behalf of The Carmel Institute, Sinadco, in the field of agricultural entrepreneurship, (formerly on agriculture for agricultural studies), and Galilee College - on business management, entrepreneurship, finance and financial management.
Lectures on behalf of MASHAV (Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation) in French and in English – mobile classes and training around the world with a focus on entrepreneurship and sustainable social activity. Among other sites: Senegal (Ecole Nationale d`Economie Appliquée (ENEA) in Dakar), Togo, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, South Sudan, Kenya (in collaboration with the U.N Women's Organization, ACTIL Kenyatta University Nairobi), The Solomon Islands, Thailand (Khon Kaen University), Haiti, Guyana.
STUDIES
MBA Summa Cum Laude – with Dean's Honors, (Focus on Organizational Consulting)
Ruppin Academic Center.
Bank Hapoalim – Management Training Course graduate.
B.A. Economics, Sociology and Anthropology - Tel Aviv University.
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE
(Before January, 2000)
MATI Hadera – Founder and CEO of Management
Entrepreneurship and S.M.E Consulting Center Association (a non-profit organization)
PEILIM – Asset Management Company of the Bank Hapoalim Group.
Portfolio Manager – Stock market and Investments
Bank Massad – Tel Aviv
Senior Consultant in Investments
Bank Massad - Jerusalem
Director of the Business Department
Languages: Hebrew, English, French