Mr. HABIB is the Founder of Matar Capital Advisors. He is also a Venture Partner with Agate Medical Investments LP. Mr. Habib serves as observer on the boards of Brainsgate Ltd. and Sensimed AG and as advisory board member of Sixx Partners. Prior to founding Matar Capital Advisors, Michel worked for close to 4 years as Elron Electronic Industries' Business Development Director.
At Elron Mr. Habib implemented more than a dozen investments, M&A’s and represented the company on numerous Boards. Prior to Elron, he established and managed the investment banking activity of ING Barings in Israel and served as Vice President Investment Banking at Cukierman & Co.. During the 90's Mr. Habib served as diplomat in Israel's foreign service, as the Economic Consul to New England in Boston, and earlier as Commercial Attaché to South Korea in Seoul. As Captain (Res.) in the IDF Navy he was involved in the development of advanced Naval systems for the Navy's elite unit. Mr. Habib holds an Aeronautical Engineering degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is a graduate from the foreign service cadet school, and member of the Technion Alumni "100 Club".