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Vanessa Seyman
LLB, NEST Consulting
Head of Training and R&D
In addition to her work as a senior negotiator and executive at NEST, Vanessa Seyman, LLB, is a member of the faculty of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, and the "Betzefer", Israel's leading school of advertising.
She is accredited as a mediator by the Mediation Institute of Israel. Ms. Seyman received her law degree from the Israeli School of Management. earned a Masters Degree in Political Science and Diplomacy (with honors) from Tel Aviv University, and is a graduate of the professional negotiators program at the Harvard Negotiation. Program.
Born in France and raised in Israel, Vanessa Seyman is a frequent lecturer on negotiations and diplomacy at private, corporate and governmental forums internationally.
Moty Cristal
NEST Consulting
Founder & CEO
Following an illustrious career as one of the State of Israel's leading negotiation experts, Moty Cristal established NEST Consulting to bring his unique approach to negotiations to the private sector
Cristal earned an LLB at the School of Law at Bar-Ilan University and a Masters of Public Administration degree from The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He is currently completing his PhD at The London School of Economics, where he has developed the revolutionary Negosystem©, a breakthrough model for negotiation systems.
Moty Cristal, a Lieut. Colonel (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces, teaches International Negotiation and Crisis Management at Tel Aviv University and The Lauder School of Government at the Inter-Disciplinary Center (IDC), Herzlia.
Yaakov Ort
Yaakov Ort & Associates
Founder, Managing Director
Prior to making aliyah to Israel in 2009, Yaakov had a distinguished 35-year career as an editor and marketing executive at The New York Times, where he most recently served as Managing Director for Marketing and Creative Services.
Today he heads Yaakov Ort & Associates, with offices in New York and Jerusalem, a strategic communications firm devoted to increasing international investment in Israel's capital markets through enhanced marketing communication.
Yaakov has had a rich voluntary life as well, including recent service as vice-chair of the board marketing committee of the Jewish Board of Family and Childrens' Services of New York.
In Israel, Yaakov Ort serves as a senior advisor for marketing and communications to the Maccabi World Union's Maccabi Business Forum, the Jewish Agency's Spirit of Israel, and the Children's Museum of Tel Aviv.
Betty Herschman
Mediation Services
Founder and Partner
Betty Herschman specializes in non-profit negotiation and mediation in cross-cultural and multi-ethnic settings.
Ms. Herschman is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she received a Masters Degree in Public Administration with a focus on negotiation and adaptive leadership.
In addition, she holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Boston University. She made aliyah to Israel in 2009.
Over the past twenty years, Ms. Herschman has practiced individual negotiation as an advocate; utilized cross-sector negotiation to build model social service programs; and has negotiated tens of millions of dollars in corporate sponsorships and private donations on behalf of human service and healthcare organizations in the United States.
As an organizational development consultant, Berry Herschman increases productivity by mediating competing departmental goals to create cooperative inter-departmental programming.
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