Laura Kam
Laura Kam founded Kam Global strategies after pioneering The Israel Project’s work for seven years in China, India, Russia, Europe and on the issue of Iran as Executive Director for Global Affairs. She has spent decades working with top press, politicians, diplomats and think-tanks from across the globe. READ MORE
Our U.S. Partner, BUREN RESEARCH & COMMUNICATIONS
Buren R&C is a full-service strategic communications firm working with corporate, non-profit, and political clients. The company takes a comprehensive approach, offering expertise ranging from public opinion research and strategy to coaching and media training. Identifying strategy and messaging alone are a beginning, not an end. Buren R&C ensures that clients can both amplify proven messages across communication channels and that messengers are well trained and confident in their delivery.
President and CEO, Meagan Buren is an accomplished senior communications professional. Buren has worked to establish messaging strategies for Fortune 100 companies and is a highly skilled moderator in both traditional focus groups and groups with live-dial technology. She has personally message and media trained ambassadors, politicians, business and community leaders, and publicly shared research findings with thousands.
Our German Partner, CWW Consulting
Christiane Weinberg has been working a strategic partner for all stakeholders in the healthcare sector for many years. Her work is always about economic value enhancement in line with ethical ideals.
The main focus is on the development of innovative business models for the benefit of pharmaceutical companies, physicians, and covering all aspects of patient support programs, digitization strategies and implementation of new technologies in healthcare. She trained thousands of doctors throughout Germany and Poland in medical cannabis and maintaining a robust database. She provides physicians and patients with easy access to the growing number of scientific findings in the field of medical cannabis.
Gil Kraiem
Gil Kraiem has more than 20 years of experience as a top consultant in public relations and media consulting in the private and public sectors in the Israeli market specializing in technology and high tech companies, financial services, digitalization and innovation. Sector: Financial Services, Digitization & Innovation. He lectures and mentors in many professional business forums about PR and Storytelling for high-ranking executives and start-up hubs such as StartTau, TechStars, The Junction and The Hive to name just a few.
Uwe Westphal
Uwe Westphal is an experienced journalist in public (ARD, ZDF, BBC) and private media institutions (CBS-NYC, PBS) and universities in Germany, Great Britain, and the USA. Uwe is a prolific author of communications, media, and management trainer for large international companies. His expertise is to develop meaningful and effective communication strategies and practices for industries around the globe. Uwe has creative teams to help with the realization and visualisation of organizational communication including storyboard development, editorial control, consulting, and technical support.
Lenea Markowitz
Lenea Markowitz is Kam Global Strategies Social Media Associate. She is an expert in getting out messages on all social
media platforms—Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc. She has managed and created multiple Pay Per Click (PPC) accounts on Google (AdWords), Bing, Yahoo (Gemini), Facebook, and AdRoll, managed and created multiple Pay Per Click (PPC) accounts on Google (AdWords), Bing, Yahoo (Gemini), Facebook, and AdRoll. Lenea created and ran performance reports on all company PPC accounts, created, managed, and analyzed Google Analytics accounts and Google Tag Manager Accounts and A/B tested website changes and performed QA on new websites for numerous private companies. Lenea has served as Director of Communications for the Med Insight research Institute where she managed and created content for multiple social media accounts and organized and executed crowdfunding campaigns. Lenea was the Market database Coordinator for the Israel Experience.
Alex Pevzner
Alex Pevzner was the founding Director for The Israel Project’s China Affairs department where he was responsible for establishing working relations with Chinese-speaking journalists and leaders. Previously, Pevzner spent nine years in Asia where he worked for more than five years as a staff reporter for Dow Jones Newswires’ Taipei Bureau. He covered the economy, financial markets and China-Taiwan relations for Dow Jones and articles that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Before that, he free lanced at the American Chamber of Commerce Taipei’s monthly journal, Taiwan Business Topics. Pevzner also worked as a research assistant at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem where he helped Ambassador Michael Oren prepare his book on Israel’s Six-Day War. Pevzner earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations and East Asian studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied modern Chinese at Tsinghua University in Beijing and classical Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University. He is fluent in Russian, Hebrew, English and Mandarin Chinese and is proficient in Japanese and Taiwanese.