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The Olive Tree group consists of Olive Tree Capital and Olive Tree Solutions, both specializing in assisting International companies enter the US market. Olive Tree Capital is a full-service investment management and advisory services firm. Olive Tree Solutions specializes in developing channel distribution solutions for foreign companies. Olive Tree Capital services include: strategic planning, business development, sales and investment banking for the high technology and life sciences sectors. Olive Tree has strong ties to the Israeli market and is certified by the Israeli Ministry of Trade and Industry, Office of the Chief Scientist to provide marketing and business development services to its technological incubators.

Nathan Guedalia is an experienced technology executive with over 20 years of experience in the defense, telecommunications and IT software industries. Prior to joining Olive Tree Capital, Mr. Guedalia served as the Director of product Marketing at Ariel Corporation, a company specialized in DSP and Dialup solutions, where he lead the product marketing activities of Ariel’s system products which included an SS7 based softswitch based dialup solution and variety of management platforms.

Previously, Mr. Guedalia was in various senior product management positions in Racal Datacom and Trendium, a startup developing a quality of service Operations Support System (OSS) for ATM and IP. Mr. Guedalia was an executive at NCC, a software development and consulting firm in numerous capacities over a 10-year period. He served for several; years as senior consultant to the Israel Communications Company Bezeq, performing strategic planning for advanced telecommunications technologies. In addition Mr. Guedalia was Bezeq liaison to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Switzerland for 6 years where he authored one International Standard and also served as chairman of a study question. Mr. Guedalia while at NCC was responsible for acquisitions of large systems for Telecom carriers. Mr. Guedalia was the chief scientist in NCC where he started the company export business. Previous to NCC Mr. Guedalia was involved for 10 years in the defense sector with specialty in operations research and system engineering for Electronic Warfare and Command Control Communications and Intelligence (C3I) systems.

Mr. Guedalia was the co-founder of a private company exporting goods to French Provinces.

Mr. Guedalia holds two master degrees in Information and Communications theory from The University of Illinois and Northeaster University.

Nuriel Guedalia - has 15 years experience as a principal and advisor to several startup companies. He was actively involved in building those businesses. Mr. Guedalia is a general partner of Olive Tree Partners, LP, as well as a Principal in Olive Tree Solutions, where he holds the position of head trader, technical analyst, and strategist. He has managed the sales and operations of several entities concurrently. At The Bigger Picture and Copy Centre a Photo finishing enterprise as an entrepreneur he held the position of founder responsible for business development, sales and administrative management. The business was built to $1 million in sales and sold. Additionally, he has launched, managed and developed 324 East Associates a Real Estate Venture where he developed and managed a portfolio of commercial properties. Recognizing the emerging trend of purified bottled water delivery to homes Mr. Guedalia founded Fresh and Cool Inc.
Mr. Guedalia is an independent thinker with relevant management experience that translates into development of strategic plans for clients in need of guidance in the areas of short-term, intermediate, and long-term goals, with a focus on what they need to do to achieve them. His skill set is key in development of new business plans and in revision of existing ones in light of changing market conditions.

Mr. Guedalia holds a BFA and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC and excels at "Bridging the Gap" when it comes to cultural issues between Middle Eastern cultures and the rest of the world. As such he is able to manage through communications issues that would otherwise undo business dealings.