Elie brings over twenty-five years of cross-asset investing and relationship management to his leadership role at the firm. He directs the firm’s investment focus and corporate strategy based on primary macro-drivers, investment themes and values. Elie began his career by obtaining his SEC/NASD Series 7, 63, 55 securities licenses at the age of only 18. In 1999, Elie was recruited by JP Morgan Chase and completed the Global Markets Training and Trading Program which gave him a comprehensive background in “global macro” and thereafter joined the Spot-FX trading desk. In 2002, Elie expanded his experience into other primary asset classes by joining a boutique investment firm focused on commercial real estate where he was responsible for portfolio underwriting and loan origination.

Soon after moving to Israel in 2007 Elie teamed up with his co-founder Eric Davis to start Exigent where he managed a number of credit arbitrage funds that returned in excess of 30% IRR’s by taking advantage of opportunities following the credit crisis (including TALF 1.0, a progra that has become a hallmark of successful Western-government intervention in capital markets), led private investments in banking and financial companies (including the early-stage investment in Cross River Bank), the restructuring of Insightec a global leader in non-invasive surgery that has achieved significant clinical and commercial milestones and the firm’s recent partnership with the Bezos and Moross families in their newly launched asset management firm HighPost Capital.

Being mission-driven and dedicated to purpose that is beyond financial gain, Elie is involved in a number of leadership initiatives focused on advancing Israel and humanity, including a keen focus on strong bilateral relations with Abraham Accords countries. At the time of his appointment, Elie was the youngest appointee to the Board of Governors, the Executive Committee, and Investment Committees at Shalem College, an institution emerging as Israel's leading institution of higher education focused on advancing the next generation of political and social leaders, promoting universal principals of democracy and economic freedom and employing a rigorous study of history and philosophy.

Elie serves as Advisory Board member of the Friedberg Economic Institute, which aims to reorient Israel’s post-graduate education model to a free-market perspective from its socialist roots, by bringing leading figures including central bankers to Israel for week-long seminars. Elie is an auto-didact in history, science, and economics. Elie attended Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business.

Eric brings over twenty-five years of experience and oversees all day-to-day operations as well as legal, structuring and compliance at Exigent.

Eric began his career in 1994 as an attorney at the multinational law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in New York, where he focused on transactional and commercial law. In 2000 Eric moved to Israel and became in-house counsel for an international technology company. In 2004 Eric co-founded Outside Counsel Solutions, a firm dedicated to providing outsourced legal services from Israel to large and small multinational companies.

In 2008 Eric co-founded Exigent with Elie and has served as Chief Operating Officer ever since. During his time at Exigent Eric has led the development of the Firm’s multi-asset platform, including negotiating and structuring investments and relationships, which began with obtaining the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s approval for participation in the TALF program. Eric oversees all Firm operations, including its compliance responsibilities and processes, and relationships that include service providers, investors, and business partners. Eric was born in New York and attended Yeshiva University and earned his JD from Rutgers University. In 2017 Eric won a Gold Medal in basketball and lifted the trophy at the Maccabiah Games.

Sim brings over twenty years of investment experience with a specialty and track-record executing landmark investments in Israel. Sim began his career in 1999 in the emerging high-tech sector where he worked for a number of internet start-ups. In 2007, Sim joined the Tel Aviv office of York Capital Management.

From 2007-2010 Sim was part of a two-person team based in Tel Aviv that combined with an emerging operation in London to focus on making York’s first distressed debt investments in Europe in the energy, large-scale infrastructure and real estate sectors. Within Israel, he worked on York’s post-acquisition restructure of Psagot, turning it into Israel's largest asset manager at the time and selling it to Apax Partners in 2010 for a 2.8x MOIC, as well as on investments in Bank Hapoalim (TASE: POLI), Zim Shipping (NYSE: ZIM), Africa Israel and IDB Development. These transactions marked the beginning of York’s activist distressed investing strategy in Israel - a hallmark moment that forced the State of Israel to upgrade its investor protection and bankruptcy code and that opened the door to a wave of significant future reforms in the corporate and financial sectors. In 2013, Sim led and managed York’s investment into Elbit Imaging (TASE: EMITF), an investment that led to Israel's largest debt-for-equity swap. In 2015, Sim led York’s first medical technology investment into Insightec, a primary subsidiary of Elbit Imaging.

After leaving York to join Exigent, Sim led a side-by-side investment by Exigent. From that point Sim was instrumental in re-directing Insightec’ s corporate strategy having directly recruited CEO Maurice Ferre and new strategic board members. In 2018, Sim facilitated the $100M investment by Koch Disruptive Technologies into Insightec in what became KDT’s first investment in Israel and the largest investment in a private Israeli healthcare company at that time. Sim is involved in several leadership initiatives including serving on the board of Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Sim attended Baruch College in New York.

Michelle is Head of the Investment Team at Exigent and brings over 25 years of investment experience to the firm. She is responsible for leading the due diligence and asset monitoring functions that support the firm’s diverse investments. In addition to managing the investment team, Michelle also manages the firm's strategic relationships with investment counterparties and institutional investors.

Michelle began her career in 1995 as a CPA at Deloitte. In 1997 she pivoted to capital markets after joining Barclays Capital in Foreign Exchange. In 2000 Michelle immigrated to Israel and took a position at Bank Leumi, one of Israel’s largest banks. For more than 18 years, Michelle was instrumental in the establishment and growth of capital markets activities for the bank. In 2002 she commenced the build out of the first actively traded FX forwards business and in 2005 she developed the Shekel denominated interest rate derivatives business of Leumi, driving adoption across the institutional market. In 2007, as the bond market in Israel grew with multi-currency issuances, Michelle developed and managed the bank's trading business in Cross Currency Interest Rate Derivatives & Interest Rate Options. From 2011 to 2016 she developed and managed the creation and expansion of the bank’s cross-asset trading business to include equity derivatives, commodity derivatives, credit derivatives and structured products. In 2016 Michelle was promoted to Head of Global Markets Investing, where she was responsible for the bank’s $10 billion portfolio in FX, government bonds, MBS, ABS, Repo, global equities, high yield bonds and loans, and built out a multi-asset alternatives portfolio that included investment in best-of-breed hedge funds.

Michelle was born and raised in Texas, where she was recognized as a standout student-athlete in high school, as well as a young scholar attending the Texas Academy of Math & Science at the University of North Texas for early college admission. She went on to earn a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas and an MBA in Finance & Strategy from Southern Methodist University. She has been a guest lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center/Reichman University and is a graduate of the Director's Course at Tel Aviv University.

Kory is Head of Investor Relations at Exigent and brings over 30 years of multi-disciplinary experience to the firm. He is responsible for leading the communication strategy that support the firm’s diverse investments. In his role, Kory interacts with the firm’s investors and investment counterparties.

Kory began his career in 1989 at Edmund Safra's Republic National Bank of NY, where he was responsible for developing tailored investment strategies for high-net worth individuals and families. In 1998, he moved to Israel and joined the top-ranked equity research team at Goldman Sachs, where he covered the emerging technology sector. Kory has also held positions in a multi-national technology company as Vice President of Business Development and Operations and Chief of Staff of the CEO of an international investment company with activities in real estate, financial services, and resource infrastructure. Most recently, Kory worked at a multi-billion-dollar family-office in Tel Aviv, where he managed global investment portfolios covering traded securities and alternative investments.

Kory was born and raised in New Jersey and earned a degree from Yeshiva University. He and his wife founded ATARA, an organization devoted to ensuring the successful integration into society of at-risk young women who have grown up in the foster-care system.

Elias is a Managing Director at Exigent and brings over 18 years of operational experience to the firm. He is responsible for deepening and broadening relationships with our strategic partners on a global basis, including business development. Additionally, he serves as a deputy to the CEO where he is involved in strategy execution across numerous verticals.

After completing his bachelor's degree with honors in Economics and Statistics from Mumbai University in mid 2000's, Elias began his career at Arthur Andersen, where he joined their Banking and Financial Services Group. After a 2-year stint at Andersen he went on to earn his MBA from The International Management Institute, with dual specialization in Finance and Marketing. Elias was recruited by BNP Paribas, where he had a decade-long career spread across multiple global locations. At BNP, Elias was identified as a global top talent and nominated to join the elite Centrale Inspection Générale based in the Paris HQ. In his last position at the bank, Elias served as the Head of Business Development and Strategy for the India operations reporting directly to the Head of Territory.

Most recently, Elias headed the Corporate Development and Institutional Business verticals at Our Crowd, where he successfully helped the company raise investments from marquee global institutional investors and established over a dozen institutional partnerships.

Elias was born and raised in India.

Nili is a Director at Exigent and brings over 20 years of buy-side investment management experience to the firm. She is responsible for underwriting and managing Exigent's alternative and direct investments.

Nili began her career in 2000 as a financial analyst at an Israel-based technology company. In 2001, she moved to New York to join a multi-strategy hedge fund where she was responsible for research and asset-monitoring. In 2006, she joined Lehman Brothers as a senior associate in their structured investment division, where she managed over $1bn of CLOs and structured credit investments. Following the credit crisis, Nili was retained as part of a small team to oversee the bank's balance sheet, where she was directly responsible for unwinding over 150 complex CLO and international derivatives transactions. In 2014, she was promoted to Senior Vice President and oversaw the unwind of an additional $3bn in complex illiquid investments.  

Nili was born and raised in Israel and earned a degree from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York.

Eric is a Director at Exigent and brings over 25 years of financial management and reporting to the firm. He is responsible for accounting and reporting of Exigent’s investments, and in that role manages relationships with third-party service providers and supports investor relations.

Eric began his career in 1995 as an accountant at Deloitte. In 1999, he became a senior financial consultant at MetLife, where he gained experience in a number of departments. In 2003, he joined Deutsche Bank as an Associate Vice President where he worked on financial forecasting for the bank’s infrastructure technology business. Between 2005-2014 Eric held a variety of senior positions, including Chief Financial Officer, at a number of boutique investment firms and family-offices focused in the real estate sector. In those positions he was responsible for annual reporting, budgeting and forecasting, treasury and balance sheet management and corporate strategy. In 2014, Eric became Deputy CFO of ION Asset Management, a large multi-strategy hedge-fund in Israel, where he led reporting, audit, regulatory and tax matters. 

Eric was born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida and earned a degree from Yeshiva University in Accounting and Art.

Elisha is a Director at Exigent and brings over 20 years of technology management experience to the firm. He is responsible for technology stack solutions that support the firm’s investment activities, as well as data integrity and cybersecurity.

Elisha began his career as a content creator and technology solutions provider for a leading center of Jewish education. In 2013, he joined a leading research institute to lead website development, data conversion, and content translation under the auspices of an innovative digitization project. He has also worked at a technology solutions provider where he operated in multiple areas of technical support and customization including front-end programming and design, database optimization, and network troubleshooting and maintenance. In 2017, he became a full-stack web developer for a number of local not-for-profits.

Elisha was born and raised in California and earned a degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and a Masters in Slavic Literatures and Languages from Stanford University.

Dana is the Office Manager at Exigent and brings over 25 years of experience to the firm. In addition to managing the office she provides administrative and technical support to the firm’s senior executives.

Dana began her career in 1998 working at a boutique pharmacy in the UK. In 2001, she joined a leading retailer with over 700 stores where she was responsible for supporting a variety of front and back-office functions including in technology and finance. In 2004, she joined The General Pharmaceutical Council where she led efforts in quality assurance, staff recruitment and training, publishing trade materials, curating events, and supporting primary business functions. In 2015, Dana joined a leading technology solutions provider in Israel, where she supported all major business functions including accounting and customer support. 

Dana was born and raised in the UK and earned a degree in Sociology and Psychology from the City University of London and a Professional Diploma in Management from the Open University.

Mendel is a Research Analyst at Exigent. He is responsible for sector research, as well as quantitative analytics and risk-assessment modeling across our investment portfolio.

Mendel, who was born in the United States and raised in Israel, graduated at the top of his class from the Jerusalem Institute of Technology with a degree in Business Administration. He recently completed the CFA Level II.