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American-Israel Chamber
Leading
Business Mission to
Israel Oct. 27-Nov. 1
Courtesy: Global Atlanta
(www.globalatlanta.com)Trevor
Williams
- Reporter
Atlanta - 10.29.07
The
American-Israel Chamber
of Commerce, Southeast
Region is leading a
delegation from
Atlanta to Israel
Oct. 27-Nov. 1, where 10
representatives from
Georgia companies
will meet with business
and governmental leaders
crossing a variety of
sectors.
The
Business Mission to
Israel participants will
meet with investors in
the technology and life
sciences industries,
attend the prime
minister’s economic
conference, participate
in an environmental
technologies conference
and a seminar on real
estate investment as
well as visit technology
centers in five Israeli
cities.
“The new
technologies being
developed by Israeli
companies are
extraordinary, and this
business mission is sure
to create new
relationships between
U.S. and Israeli
companies as well as
promoting our region for
investment and economic
development,” Tom
Glaser, the
chamber’s president,
said in a press release.
The
chamber, which was
founded in 1992, has
begun to focus
strategically on real
estate, noting that the
sector could attract
strong interest in
Atlanta from Israeli
investors.
Mr.
Glaser said that one of
the chamber’s goals on
the trip will be to
boost awareness about
Atlanta’s real estate
opportunities, as
compared with
better-known cities like
New York.
“They
need to know that
Atlanta, the business
capital of the
Southeast, offers
its own spectacular
opportunities,” Mr.
Glaser said in the
release.
Participants in the
mission include Mr.
Glaser; Carol
Henderson, director
of innovation and
technology, Georgia
Department of Economic
Development; Mark
Weiss, president,
Renaissance
Communications Group
Inc.; Laurence
Olivier, board
member at the chamber
and partner, Veritas
Venture Partners;
Barry Sobel, vice
president, Deutsche
Bank Securities Inc.;
Alek Szlam, CEO,
Szlam Enterprises
Inc.; Joshua
Pursell, vice
president, Legends
Land Development Group;
Richard Foisy,
chief financial officer
at Legends; Firooz
Israel, president,
Zagros Solutions Inc.
and Ilan Friedman,
Israel director at the
chamber.
To learn
more about the chamber’s
real estate focus, visit
the online version of
its new publication,
Atlanta ROI (Real Estate
Opportunities and
Investments), at
www.atlantaroi.com.
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