Tal is Director of Business Development, and Cyber and Homeland Security Lead, at The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation. BIRD provides conditional grants of up to 50% of a joint U.S.-Israeli project development, up to $1.5M per project. Tal leads the BIRD Cyber program, that was initiated in 2022 by the Israel National Cyber Directorate, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, and is managed by the BIRD Foundation. Tal explores for new technologies and companies and tries to match U.S. and Israeli companies for joint projects.
Tal brings 35 years of entrepreneurship and high-level management experience. Prior to BIRD he was the founder and director of the TheHive Ashdod accelerator in Israel (among the top 5 accelerators in Israel for 2016), an economic diplomat in Beijing and Taipei, Sales director for Asia at Comverse, the biggest Telecom company in Israel at the time, VP Marketing in a prominent NGO, and the founder and CEO of the most successful magazine ever published in Israel – “Massa Acher”.
