Yair Safrai

Overview

Yair Safrai, chairman at Impact First Investments, is an experienced veteran of Israel’s high tech and venture capital industries. In the last few years, Yair has served as an Active Chairman, board member, private investor, and Acting CEO in several high tech companies and investment funds. In the middle of the 1990’s, Yair co-founded Concord Ventures, a $270m group of funds and is still active in this group today. Prior to that, at the very beginning of Israel’s VC industry, Yair served as VP of the Nitzanim Venture Fund, one of Israel’s first and most successful VC funds. Before joining Nitzanim, Yair was in charge of business development at BVR Technologies, and held key consulting, marketing, and business development positions at IGS Inc. and at P.O.C. Yair holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Management from Tel Aviv University, an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Wharton Business School. Yair served as jet fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force.