Gil Meron
Chief startup officer
Gil Meron is the Chief Startup Officer at Sprout Agritech.
Previously, Gil has been managing Yarden Group, an investment and advisory firm, where he deployed >$50M in Israeli agri- and clean-tech companies and advised international investors such as the International Finance Corporation on agritech investments. Prior to that, Gil was a consultant with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in London and Tel Aviv and an R&D group manager in IBM’s labs in Israel. Before that, Gil was an officer in one of the IDF’s elite technological units. Gil serves on the Advisory board for FoodHQ, a company that offers food companies and innovators access to one of the world's leading clusters of food science expertise and facilities.
Gil has a BSc in Computer Science and in Electronics Engineering from Tel-Aviv University (Israel) where he graduated magna cum laude and an MBA from the London Business School (UK) where he graduated as a member of the Dean’s excellence list.