Board of Directors
Dr. Astorre Modena
Italian-Israeli Entrepreneur
Dr. Astorre Modena is the Founder and General Partner of Terra Venture Partners, leading early-stage Cleantech VC in Israel. Astorre has seeded and sits on the board of some of the most promising clean tech companies in Israel such as Phoebus, Wi-Charge, PVNanocell and others.
Before founding Terra, Astorre was a Principal at Israel Seed Partners, a leading seed-stage venture capital in Israel with more than $260 million under management. Prior to Israel Seed, Astorre was with McKinsey & Co., based in Paris, where he consulted to leading Italian, French and Israeli manufacturing and financial corporations. Prior to this Astorre was a Physics Researcher at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
Astorre holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from Imperial College in London.
Astorre is fluent in English, French, Italian and Hebrew.
Astorre is the chairman of Machshava Tova board of directors since 2003.
Mr. Moshe Ferber
Moshe Ferber is an entrepreneur, private investor and cloud computing evangelist. During his 20 years’ experience in the IT space he served as founder, partner and advisor for a variety of startups and industry initiatives. Mr. Ferber holds an MBA degree from IDC Herzelia. Moshe is a board member of Machshava Tova since 2012.
Ayelet Torem, Adv.
Adv. Torem has a LLB degree from Bar Ilan University. She is a Partner in the Amit, Pollak and Matalon Law Firm, and works in the Hi-Tech industry. Adv. Torem specializes in foundation and representation of funds, and consults venture funds, private equity funds, and others in strategic fundraising from institutions in Israel and in tracking down investment opportunities. Additionally, Adv. Torem accompanies business accelerators and technological hubs, startups and angel investors. Ayelet is a board member of Machshava Tova since 2013.
Mr. Andrew Goldman
Born in UK 1966, grew up in the North of England and supporter of Newcastle United. Masters in Software Engineering from Imperial College 1990. Made aliyah in 1993, worked in hi tech in Israel since 1994. Since 2009 founder and CEO of Tsemed, a small software development company focussed mainly on apps for Smartphones. Andrew is a board member of Machshava Tova since 2008.
Mr. Neil Corney
Neil Corney has been the Citi Country Officer for Citibank N.A, Israel since 2013. He has been at Citibank since 2004, helping to set up Citibank’s Innovation Lab and Fin-Tech accelerator in 2011. Prior to Citibank Mr. Corney was the Head of the Trading Department at Bank Hapoalim. Mr. Corney graduated with Honors in the field of economics and statistics from Manchester University in England. Neil is a board member of Machshava Tova since 2019.