Andy Behr Email & Phone Number

• MEROMIM (www.meromimisrael.com) - Residential Therapeutic Center (ASD Teens)Part of the management team that started Meromim.
• Recruited and built team.
• Initiated and managed all financial aspects of the center
• Managed marketing and advertising initiatives; including building the website, print advertising, social media
• Initiated and managed operational aspects of running the school.NITZANIM B'TEVA - Privatized Educational School Network
• Determined why institution had incurred massive financial losses

Ramat Gan/Jerusalem, Israel

• Weel is a factoring company based in Brazil
• Strategically and operationally set Weel up for growth and scalability
• Built Human Resources department from scratch - including policies, revamped contracts, adjusted salaries to be in line with market norms
• Established a Recruitment department that effectively doubled the company size in less than a year.
• Led year-end strategy planning session and budget creation, which resulted in a working break-even plan for the next year. RESULTS: International company growing by 30% per month - ready for scale and continued growth.

Jerusalem Area, Israel

• OurCrowd is a crowdfunding venture capital company
• Built, restructured and co-managed 30 sales and support staff located around the globe.
• Instituted KPI and quarterly bonus structure to maximize sales performance
• Streamlined processes to increase productivityRESULTS: Elevated brand, increased sales, and dramatically improved customer satisfaction – reducing frequency from multiple complaints per week to less than once a month.

South Africa

• Founded, scaled and monetized the Johannesburg Jewish Community Forum (JJCF)
• Grew community representing deep penetration into the market with approximately 90% of SA Jewish population as subscribers
• Monetized the forum by offering various advertising packages and revenue share options
• Built and managed operations to support and sustain the business RESULTS: JJCF operates profitably for 10+ years, with minimal daily input. It boasts approx 12,000 subscribers of which around 3,000 advertise on the.

• Senior manager of a business with 200 employees
• Turned around and managed a demotivated sales team, from complete non-performance to well-exceeding success metrics within a few months
• Streamlined operational processes to increase the billable time per hour of employees
• Moved billing function from USA to Israel, resulting in greater consistency between finance and operations
• Managed an IT migration plan to streamline operations and minimize downtime, communications delays and hence turnaround time
• Was part of a team that managed the set-up of internationally based businesses that wanted to have offices in Israel. Set-up included human resources, IT, operations, finance & legal functionsRESULTS: Today Citybook.

• Managed a small team of financial analysts
• Evaluated financial viability of all business
• Financially structured deals in a way that provided a win-win solution for all involved

• Took a marketing concept from “idea stage”, understood complex emerging technologies and “concretized” them into an operational reality with a financial win-win set-up for all involved.
• Did costing and price determination for new products launched.
• Tailored a complex VPN telephony package for one of South Africa’s largest banks with a win-win financial solution for all parties, worth millions of dollars.

Hdip Computer Science

Bsc, Chemistry, Applied Chemistry