TAMID Israel Investment Group

TAMID Fellows Featured in Jerusalem Post!

7/20/2010

TAMID has 5 Fellows in Israel this summer interning at Israeli businesses, meeting with and presenting to successful business people and immersing in Israeli culture. Read more about the program as featured in today’s Jerusalem post article here. http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=181980 Read about their impressions and experiences in their up-to-date blogs at http://www.tamidgroup.org/index.php?content=fellowship Thanks for your continued [...]

TAMID Fellowship is Launched and Thriving!	6/27/2010
The TAMID Fellowship Program currently has 5 fully-funded Fellows interning, living in and connecting to Israel for the Summer! We have worked for the past year to plan for the program and it has come to fruition! All 5 fellows are placed in incredible companies that will advance their professional skills and develop their depth [...]

CEO of Detroit Federation Delivers TAMID Seminar	3/15/2010
TAMID returned from spring break with a bang, welcoming CEO of the Detroit Jewish Federation Scott Kaufman to deliver a seminar. Mr. Kaufman is an accomplished leader in the worlds of business and Jewish community work. Before taking the helm at the Detroit Federation, Mr. Kaufman was a real estate developer and founding partner of [...]

TAMID Presents Weight Watchers COO, Hannan Lis	3/10/2010
Hannan Lis gave a great seminar and for the first time ever TAMID streamed it live! In case you missed it, catch the recorded seminar by clicking here!

Video Conference With Venture Capitalist Connects TAMID to Israeli High-Tech	11/24/2009
TAMID hosted a video conference with Israeli venture capitalist, Nir Elperin, who delivered a stimulating seminar on venture capital and the high-technology sector in Israel. Nir Elperin is Vice President of Arba Finance, an Israeli venture capital fund in Tel Aviv, where TAMID’s co-director Garrett Levenbrook interned over the summer. TAMID’s Bet Class (27 students) [...]

Joel Tauber Back to U of M to Deliver TAMID Seminar	11/15/2009
Tonight, TAMID played host to a seminar by Joel Tauber, a great business success story and life-long committed Wolverine. Mr. Tauber earned his degree in business administration in 1956, his law degree in 1959 and his MBA in 1963, all at U of M. The seminar was divided into two parts. The first was a [...]

TAMID Brings in Rick Zitelman to Deliver Poignant Seminar	11/8/2009
TAMID was fortunate enough to fly in Rick Zitelman, President and Founder of The Zitelman Group, a private equity firm with early stage investments in emerging Israeli companies. Rick’s seminar topics were twofold: Part 1: Early Stage Life Sciences and Technology Investment in Israel Part 2: Business Ethics from a Jewish Perspective In the first [...]

Investment Seminar #2	10/13/2009
Tonight’s investment seminar focused on how to pick equities. We discussed two popular methods of stock picking: the “bottom up” method or the “top down” method. The bottom up method consists of locating a fundamentally strong company without first considering the sector the company belongs to. On the other side, top down investing takes a [...]

A Great Start to the Fall 2009 TAMID Education Series	10/10/2009
For the inaugural seminar of the Fall 2009 TAMID Education Series, we heard Professor Zvi Gitelman speak about how the history and political framework of the State of Israel contributed to the formation of the country’s current economic policy. This is closely aligned with Dr. Gitelman’s background, as he is a professor of Political Science [...]

First Bet Huddle Session!	10/7/2009
Tuesday’s Huddle began with the Bet class meeting Alana, who will serve as the point of contact between the Bet Class and the Executive Board. She will meet weekly with the Class Coordinators to track the progress and satisfaction within the class. Following this introduction, we moved directly into project pitches for the semester. Under [...]