Professor Eli Talmor,
Chair of Private Equity Institute
London Business School
Eli Talmor is a professor at London Business School and founding Academic Director of its Private Equity Institute. He was previously a professor of finance at the University of California (Irvine and UCLA), the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), Tel Aviv University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Professor Talmor has extensively consulted to corporations internationally, and has been a director of European, and American publicly traded corporations. From 1994 to 1999 he was a director with executive duties of New Dimension Software (a NASDAQ corporation) and was instrumental in the company’s major turnaround, which resulted in the largest sale of an Israeli company to a foreign entity to that date. He has since co-founded a holding that owns and operates two technological incubators with over 40 start ups.
Professor Talmor serves on the advisory boards of the African Venture Capital Association, and ETV a leading European venture lender. He is currently on the International Scientific Board of the Asset Management Research Programme at the University of Vienna and was on the Board of Governors of London Business School. He has been frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches to business executives worldwide. In 1998, Business Week listed him among the Outstanding Professors in its ´´Guide to the Best Business Schools.´´
Professor Talmor holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.Sc. (Cum Laude) from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
