Sherwin B. Pomerantz

Sherwin Pomerantz is President, Atid E.D.I. Ltd. He is a former Vice-President of Luz Industries Israel Ltd. with senior management responsibilities in policy development, public relations, administration, international relations and operations. Formerly President of Controls for Industry Inc. in Chicago, he graduated with engineering degrees from NYU and the University of Illinois and received advanced MBA education at Northwestern University.

Mr. Pomerantz founded E.D.I. seven years ago along with three other partners and they have been involved in economic development work ever since. The company functions as consultants to Israel's Ministry of Industry & Trade's Investment Promotion Center, and is responsible for the conception and preparation of all of their English language publicity material. E.D.I. also represents the trade interests, in Israel, of a number of U.S. states, including California, Delaware, Georgia, Oklahoma, Iowa, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and maintains an office in Amman, Jordan as well. They also operate a local office on behalf o f both the Florida-Israel Chamber of Commerce and the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce/Chicago.

A 16 year resident of Israel, Mr. Pomerantz has been both Jerusalem Regional Chairperson and National president of the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel. HE is a founding director and now Chairperson of the American State Offices Association, the umbrella group for the 16 US state offices in Israel. He is also a founder and General Secretary of the newly-established Visit USA Committee (VUSACom) in Israel, a group which encompasses a number of tourism service providers encouraging additional tourism to the US. In addition, he has been involved in a leadership position in many other community activities in Israel.

During his 20 years in Chicago prior to moving to Israel, he served as President of the Board of Jewish education, Regional President of the United Synagogue of America and in other community leadership positions.

An interesting point, the only country that Mr. Pomerantz will wear a kippah is Israel. Once, he covered his head in Istanbul, but never in America.

Mr. Pomerantz is married and is the father of one daughter, Debi, aged 32, living in Los Angles.