September 29, 2020: Arie Brish

Arie Brish

Best-Selling Author and Commercialization Expert

Arie Brish is a cross-functional expert in growth strategies, commercializing innovation, change leadership, and turn-around. He is also the best-selling author of Lay an Egg and Make Chicken Soup and frequent speaker.

Mr. Brish brings to the table lessons learned and best practices on a wide variety of projects in different industries and across diverse business disciplines. His business acumen includes serving on boards of directors and advisory boards; leading as CEO and general management roles; overseeing M&As, business development, turnarounds, and leadership changes; and working with Fortune 500 corporations, start-ups, venture capitalists, private equity firms, consulting groups, and non-profits.

Career Highlights:

  • Growth strategies: Arie scaled business unit revenue from $288M to $710M in four years propelling market share from #4 to #1.
  • Change leadership and turnaround: Mr. Brish has executed multiple turnarounds. He led a major profit improvement project of a $200M business unit that achieved a 24% gross margin improvement in two years. He also led a quality improvement effort that resulted a 90% failures reduction in a $1B deployed equipment.
  •  Investments and M&A: Over the years, Arie raised more than $100M from corporate sources, private equity investments, VCs, and government grants. Provided due diligence services. Participated in several M&A transactions.
  • Commercialization and entrepreneurship: Launched over ten start-up businesses. Three exits. Over half-a-dozen are still in business. While in the Fortune 500 world, he initiated an innovation process that resulted over 40 successful products. Mentor in several accelerators. Limited Partner in OurCrowd.

Board of Directors and Advisory Work:

Tehuti Networks, Binalgo, NV Earth, Deverus, Sensuron, Almon Alexander, Corner Stone, X2X, Austin Marathon, Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce.

Memberships and Pro Bono:

  • Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce. Co-Founder, interim CEO and Executive-Board member.
  • Austin Marathon. Board member and elite-runners liaison. Ran the event multiple times.
  • JCC. Financial Committee. Member of the BlueKnot Committee.
  • Judge & mentor for Wharton Business School, International Accelerator, Capital Factory.
  • Frequent guest speaker at UT Austin on Global Entrepreneurship and for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Author:

  • Lay an Egg and Make Chicken Soup. #1 New Release. Best Seller in multiple business genres.
  • Blogger.

Education:

Arie holds a BSEE from Ben Gurion University, an MBA from Recanati School of Business, Tel-Aviv University, Energy Technology certificate from University of Texas, numerous executive training programs at Motorola University, and Continuous Education with National Association of Corporate Directors.