Eival GiladyChairman of the board
Brigadier General (Res.) Eival Gilady is the Chairman and the co-founder of the Israeli-Palestinian Chamber of Commerce (IPCC). The IPCC was established to promote trade and commerce between Israelis and Palestinians, to create business opportunities and to improve the economic relations between the two peoples.
Gilady is also the CEO of the Portland Trust in Israel, a British foundation established to foster peace and stability in the Middle East through the use of bespoke economic tools and mobilization of international resources.
He is also the Chairman of the Koret Israel Economic Development Fund (KIEDF) , which uses philanthropy to stimulate private sector economic expansion, and he is also the Chairman of the Western Galilee College , providing higher academic education in Israel's periphery.
Gilady is the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovenia in Tel Aviv.
Gilady earned his Bachelor’s and three Master’s degrees from Haifa University, National Defense University and George Washington University, in the areas of Resources Management, Policy Analysis, National Security Strategy, and Public Finance. From 1999 to 2001 he was assigned as a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Dr. Ron PundakDeputy Chairman of the board Dr. Ron Pundak is Director General of the Peres Center for Peace, a non-profit non-government organization, established in 1996, dedicated to the promotion of peaceful relations between Arabs and Israelis. The Peres Center’s mission is to build an infrastructure for peace, by and for the people of the Middle East, which promotes cooperation and mutual understanding.
In his current position, Dr. Pundak leads cooperation and coordination activities between Israel and its neighbors – mainly the Palestinians – through civil society dialogue, and people to people endeavors, in a wide range of fields such as economics, agriculture, health, sports, peace education, culture, youth, and city to city relations. Dr. Pundak played a decisive role in creating the secret track of unofficial negotiations in Oslo in 1993, alongside Dr. Yair Hirschfeld and Palestinian counterparts. He served as a member of the official Israeli negotiating team - guided by Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin, and later by Yitzhak Rabin - until the historic signing of the Declaration of Principles in Washington on September 13, 1993. Dr. Pundak has continued to be involved in various policy planning frameworks of ongoing and future negotiations on bi and multilateral levels. During 1994 and 1995, Dr. Pundak and Dr. Hirschfeld prepared with a Palestinian team the so-called 'Beilin-Abu Mazen Understanding', which provided a blue-print for negotiations and a detailed framework agreement for all Israeli-Palestinian Final Status issues. This document became the main point of reference during the Permanent Status negotiations in the Camp David Two and Taba negotiations. In recent times, Dr. Pundak has participated as a member of the core team of the Geneva Initiative. Dr. Pundak formerly held the position of Executive Director of the Economic Cooperation Foundation (a non-profit organization established in 1991 to break the deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian relations.) Dr. Pundak holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London, in the field of Middle Eastern political history. His book, “The Struggle for Sovereignty”, which deals with King Abdullah I and the history of Jordan during the years 1946-1951, was published in Britain in 1994. Dr. Pundak regularly contributes articles to the Israeli and international press. His publication “From Oslo to Taba: What Went Wrong?” features in Survival, The International Institute for Strategic Studies. His latest publication, "The Territorial Aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian Final Status Negotiation" , written together with Col (res.) Shaul Arieli, was published in Israel and drew the attention of many decision-makers and researchers. David Simha, Deputy Chairman of the boardCEO of RANEX, Ltd. Dan CatarivasDirector, Division of Foreign Trade & International RelationsManufacturers' Association of Israel
Dan Catarivas presently holds the position of Director of the Division of Foreign Trade and International Relations at the Manufacturers' Association of Israel; in his capacity he coordinates various activities between the Israel and the Palestinian private sector. Prior to this position he served for twenty five years with the Israel Government, his last position was Deputy Director General for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Catarivas graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science. He holds MSc degree in Economics from London School of Economics in the field of European Economic Integration and Diploma from College D'Europe in Bruges, Belgium, in the field of Advanced European Studies. Naava Mashiah 
Founder and CEO of M.E. Links [2003] which is a private company focused on nurturing business relations in industries between Israel and her neighboring countries. M.E. Links is a strong believer in regional economic cooperation and strives to connect businesses across geopolitical borders in transfer of technology in sectors such as logistics, renewable energies, plastic, agriculture and medical fields. The countries in focus are Jordan, Qatar, and UAE.
Ms. Mashiah began her career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, Israel [1994] where she served as a liaison to the foreign press. She was responsible for visiting delegations of the foreign media and likewise maintained contact with the large foreign press corps in the capital.
Ms. Mashiah is a member of the Center for Jewish Arab Economic Development [CJAED], Herzliya Pituach. CJAED is an NGO which attempts to economically link the Arab and Jewish sector within the state of Israel. She was an initiator of the "Palestinian–Israeli Business Forum" within CJAED. Ms. Mashiah has been active in coexistence activities in Israel such as the “Arab-Hebrew Theatre”; “MUSES” – an art school for Arab and Jewish children in Jaffa.
Ms. Mashiah initiated a Country Intelligence Team which comprises members of the security sector, National Security Advisor and Strategic Policy makers in Washington. The group analyzes and forecasts economic and political trends in the Middle East .
Member of the Israeli-Palestinian Business Council [IPBC] under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.
Founding Member and member of the executive board of the Israeli-Palestinian Chamber of Commerce.
Member of the Board of Mishkenot Shenanim International Cultural Cneter in Jerusalem.
Ms. Mashiah is a member of the International Women’s Forum. Ms. Mashiah acquired her university education in California majoring in Psychology at CSUN and studied International Relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.. She speaks Hebrew, English, fluently and Spanish and Arabic moderately. She was born in Israel in 1968 and was raised in the USA.
Gad Propper, CEO and owner of Ossem International
Felix Kipper, Executive Director, Israel-UK Chamber of Commerce
Amiram Shore, CEO of ENT Inc. and Deputy Chairman of the Palestinian International Business Forum (Sweden)
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The Israeli-Palestinian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IPCC) was officially launched on May 18th, 2009 at its first Gala Dinner, at the Dan Tel Aviv Hotel. The event was attended by Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Cooperation Mr. Silvan Shalom, the Quartet envoy to the Middle East the Right Honorable Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Danny Ayalon... 
