Adam Ben Yehuda

Master’s in Finance (ESPC Europe), +16 years’ experience in managing large working teams and initiating new yielding business opportunities; I have filled positions in Israel and abroad in Société Générale, WestLB, Dexia and the rating agency Midroog (Moody’s) and currently at Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, as the Project Finance Department Manager. Under my management at Mizrahi Tefahot, the Bank has arranged lines of credit for project finance transactions in the vicinity of NIS 40 billion and participated in these transactions in substantial amounts. Such transactions include above 5,000 megawatts in power projects, underlined by a variety of technologies including: conventional, co-generation, pumped-storage and solar projects with storage; of which stand out the financing of Ramat Hovav (Orot Yosef) and Eshkol power plant –Israel’s largest energy transactions. The Bank has arranged the Ashdod Desalination refinance transaction, the privatization of Haifa Port Company, taken part in the arranging and financing of data centers (7 data center in Israel and in the USA with underlined capacity of around 650 megawatts), as well as reached financial close for two of Israel’s largest transportation projects: (1) the Path to the City of Tel-Aviv; (2) the Light Train of Tel-Aviv Green Line and (3) the Light Train of Jerusalem Blue Line. A leader in arranging and financing baskets of PV plus storage systems, which are selling electricity to private consumers, Mizrahi Tefahot has arranged and financed credit lines estimated at around NIS 4 billion in Israel and in the USA. My goals are to retain the bank’s position as a leading player in the project finance field in Israel and enlarge market share, and in