Elad Barak

Elad Barak

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, DJOT

Elad is a visionary and innovator with exceptional abilities to lead teams and implement complex strategies, combining business and technology. After his military service as Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Force, Elad served two and a half years as an Israeli diplomatic Attaché in Mexico, and in Ukraine. Back in Israel, Elad joined the Israeli Aerospace Industry where he worked for five years and was part of the system-engineering team developing the AMOS-6 satellite. Pursuing his passion for the startup culture, Elad moved to a tech venture where he helped develop and manufacture robots for the US Military. After obtaining his M.B.A in Canada in 2016, he joined a clean-tech company as VP Business Development, and successfully secured a $17MM project with the Government of Canada, and Leclanché. Elad then joined Province Brands, a cannabis company, as Director of Business Development and Investors Relations in 2018, where he raised $11+ M. He then co-founded Djot in January 2019. Elad holds a B.Sc. in Management of Technology, an M.Sc. in System Engineering from HIT, and an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.