Boaz Gruener, MBA, brings over 20 years of hitech and business experience to Hitech Stragegies. He held several global senior executive positions at Optibase (Nasdaq:OBAS), CTI2 and Nice Systems (Nasdaq:NICE). Within these positions, Boaz was responsible for, and lead, the functions of business development, strategic alliances and channel partners, solution sales, marketing, product management, analysts and public relations. Boaz Gruener is a registered business coach and mentor under the Ministry of Industry & Commerce program and has mentored many CEOs and startups. He also served as a co-founder and advisory board member in several Internet and technology start-ups. Boaz lectures at the Lahav Executive Program at the Recanati business school of Tel Aviv University and has for the past 12 years served as project faculty of the Global Consulting Program of Wharton Business School in Pennsylvania. Boaz holds a B.Sc. in Computer Sciences from Louisiana State University, USA, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Recent Activity
I have been to the ITU Telecom Geneva 2009 Conference this week and wanted to share with you some of my observations.
Question: You are trying to raise funding for your new startup. What are most important and most common decision criteria of investors? Answer: The answer, if I can deduce from endless meetings with investors is: MT2 (squared) – i.e. Market, Team, and Technology, are the most important criteria.

