CBIS 2018
Speakers
Ron Margalit
FOUNDING PARTNER
VENTURE KINETICS
ABOUT RON
Ron is the Founding Partner of Venture Kinetics, an impact venture capital that invest exclusively in technology-led companies that address gaps in the delivery of primary products and services in Sub-
Saharan Africa. For the past 15 years, Ron became a
veteran principal investor and entrepreneur working
at the intersection of innovation, blended capital, and
impact. He is a frequent commentator on investing-related issues in impact technologies and has appeared in outlets such as Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the African Development Bank.
Ron was selected as a Rising Star Investor at the SuperReturn Series and was awarded permanent residency by the US State Department for his “extraordinary abilities in the field of
impact investing”.
Ron is also the Principal of Blended Impact Investments at Lumos Global, the world’s first distributed utility. His work on financing access to energy had received awards and recognitions from the Financial Times, World Bank, UK Department For International Development and Secretary of State John Kerry among others.
In his previous capacities, Ron served the first appointed economic representative to the Board of the World Bank Group by the Government of Israel. Ron was educated at Harvard Business School and focused on strategy in emerging markets. He earned his MBA from Georgetown University and his bachelor’s degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
