The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

IT TAKES A TRUE TEAM TO COMPLETE a project like this: partners, friends, mentors, teachers, and coworkers from several countries, companies, and schools past and present. We can only repay you all by paying it forward.

When we had the first inkling that our journey would take us through Israel, we had just two contacts: Joel Berkowitz of the American Technion Society and Robbie Greenblum, the Mayor of San Antonio’s Chief of Staff, who had set up delegations to the Middle East in the past. There is only one degree of separation when it comes to introductions from folks like these; they really do know everybody! Technion Society members Charley Housen and Ed Goldberg—along with friend and liaison to the Mayor’s Office, Roee Madai—also provided introductions that blossomed beyond any expectations. We want to thank (in the order of our meetings) Professor Dafna Schwartz, Chemi Peres, Yoram Yahav, Yadin Kaufmann, Yoni Shimshoni, Professor Zehev Tadmor, Todd Dollinger, Arie Ovadia, Dr. Orna Berry, Yair Shamir, and Yossi Vardi.

Through Yossi, we were honored to meet Avi Hasson, Israel’s Chief Scientist, and to take an unforgettable tour with Moshe Yanai. We want to thank Ya’acov Fried, who introduced us to Dr. Chaim Peri, founder of the Yemin Orde Youth Village, and to Col. Bentzi Gruber, director of the Ethics in the Field project. And we could never have accomplished our mission without being introduced to Yossef Idan, who guided us on pathways we never could have found, ...