Advisory Board

 

Joshua S. Treviño

Joshua S. Treviño is a media-savvy communication strategist. His record of accomplishment in the political arena extends from heads-of-state to mass-appeal media. Joshua is deeply engaged in American politics and policy, and has contributed the same in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and East Asia. His experience encompasses government, military, nonprofit, campaign, and private-sector affairs. Most recently, Joshua served as the Communications Director for the Chuck DeVore campaign for the United States Senate based in Sacramento, California.

In 2008, Joshua founded and served as president of Treviño Strategies and Media (now Rogue Strategic Services) where he assisted clients wishing to engage in strategic planning, organizational conversations, political outreach, communications, and new media. Prior to founding his own firm, Joshua served as Vice President of Public Policy for Pacific Research Institute.

Appointed by US President George W. Bush, Joshua supported HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson in 2001, and by 2003 rose to manage all of his international communications. The media frequently courts Joshua’s views on political candidates and strategies employed by world governments. His roles have taken him to most corners of the world to encourage productive dialogue. Through it all, he has proved to be a staunch digital advocate of Israel supporting the Jewish State online. Currently, Joshua is a partner of Rogue Strategic Services.

Kimberly Ray

Kimberly Ray is one of the country’s top democratic fundraising consultants. She is highly sought-after in the political arena, and served as finance director in numerous state and national campaigns including President Clinton’s successful reelection in 1996. She has served in every presidential election since in some capacity and most recently served as Vice President Biden’s western regional finance director. 

Kimberly is a longstanding pro-Israel advocate. She has visited Israel twice and has strong ties to the Jewish community. 

 

 

Josh Nanberg

Josh Nanberg is a Washington, D.C. based communications and political consultant. His extensive expertise in strategic messaging, issue advocacy and grassroots campaigns helps corporations, government agencies, non-profits and political candidates gain customers, pass legislation, and win elections.

In the late 1990s, Nanberg developed notable communications strategies that connected U.S. Military personnel serving abroad with hometown radio outlets. He also devised radio outreach strategies for some of the nation’s most prominent companies and newest startups at the dawn of the dot-com era.  

After leading a radio outreach campaign for then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2000 Senate race that reached nearly 17 million listeners and drove turnout in targeted areas of New York, Nanberg joined one of the nation’s leading technology-focused PR firms. He designed and implemented an online security company’s first government affairs strategy. Nanberg also hailed on the award-winning team that introduced “.tv” domain names with a campaign that highlighted not only the client, but also featured Tuvalu’s entry into the United Nations resulting from the .tv domain sale.

Returning to the political scene, Nanberg has energized several senior campaign roles as Regional Political Director for AIPAC. He managed the campaign of former California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, as well as the 2006 primary campaign for Pennsylvania Congressman Patrick J. Murphy.

Nanberg holds Bachelors’ degrees in Communications and Public Policy from Syracuse University and a Masters in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Daniel Beaudoin

Daniel Beaudoin has 15 years of experience in the design, facilitation, planning and implementation of donor funded infrastructure and humanitarian projects. He also has extensive media experience, having headed the foreign correspondents desk for the Israeli military spokesperson’s office.

Daniel has been involved in military and civilian affairs, in particular as the principal point man (Col.) for coordinating and facilitating international humanitarian aid operations and economic development programs in the Palestinian territories with the UN agencies, the World Bank, the International Committee of the Red Cross, USAID, the European Union, international NGO’s as well as with Embassies and Consulates.

Daniel was born in the Belgian Congo, the son of an UN official, and has lived in Pakistan, Kashmir and Austria, before immigrating to Israel. He is fluent in English, French, German and Hebrew. Daniel will begin his PhD research, focusing on political accountability in aid networks.
                                            
Daniel is VP Business Development for Strategic Expansion Partners in Israel, and has also served as Senior Consultant to the World Bank in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Daniel is a member of the Tel Aviv Entrepreneur Hub.

 

Dan Goldman

Dan Goldman has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry building compelling consumer sites, services and products. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of WorldLive Mobile, a startup building cutting-edge mobile applications for fans and brands. Dan has served as CTO at Zedge – the leading mobile social network – that has grown to over 18 million registered users – and earlier for several major Internet brands including iVillage and drspock.com, where he built and launched multiple online properties. Previously he was CIO for Perot Systems, and a manager at NeXT Computer.

 

 

 

 

Aaron Eitan Meyer

Aaron Eitan Meyer is Research Director of the Lawfare Project, Director of Research for the Children's Rights Institute, and Legal Correspondent for the Terror Finance Blog. He received his B.A. from New School University, and his J.D. from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.

Mr. Meyer’s work has appeared in the Terror Finance Blog, Covenant, Washington Post Online, Washington Times, American Spectator, Counter Terrorist magazine, ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law, Big Peace, the Legal Project of the Middle East Forum's blog, Islamist Watch, and the Lawfare Project’s blog. Along with Brooke Goldstein, Aaron is coauthor of "Know Your Rights: A Guide for Journalists Publishing in an Age of Islamist Lawfare,” which is due out in 2011.

Mr. Meyer’s current areas of research include lawfare, terror finance, child suicide bombers, and Major General Orde Charles Wingate.

 

 

Roy Arad

The modern economy has been drastically reshaped by two main forces, technology and internationalization—two dynamics that Roy Arad knows intimately well.  A business development executive and entrepreneurial advisor, Arad is an expert at evaluating market opportunities and putting the plans, resources, and people together to capitalize on these windows of economic potential.  Drawing upon dual degrees from New York Institute of Technology and Israel’s Ruppin Academy, he currently serves on the executive committee of Act for Israel with responsibility for leading the organization’s activities in the areas of Development and Investor Relations in the East coast and Israel.

Arad’s corporate background began on the technical side, working as a Systems Administrator and Information Technology Manager for a key Computer Division of the Israeli Defense Force.  His leadership and communication skills, however, quickly drew him into the entrepreneurial world, where he co-founded Tigon Software in 2003 and helped grow the company through successful deals with Match.com, Yahoo.com, and Spark.com.  This entrepreneurial acumen is also the trademark of his current role as Vice President of Business Development for Arocon Consulting, where he helps international companies make the right connections to raise funding, gain a foothold in the U.S. market, and localize their products effectively for American consumers.

In addition to the above roles, Arad was also honored with an appointment as Treasury Manager and Procurement Manager for the Government of Israel, where he spent four years overseeing billions of dollars in trade activity between the Israeli and U.S. governments.  In this capacity, he worked closely with senior U.S. government officials and Fortune 500 executives from companies such as Boeing, Dell, Lockheed Martin, and IBM, gaining an in-depth understanding of the federal contracting process and the way business is done on a global, government-to-government scale.  He also serves as an Advisory Board Member with New York Institute of Technology’s School of Business, where he mentors aspiring young entrepreneurs and plays a role in helping the school deliver cutting-edge business curriculum.

 

Nuke Goldstein

Nuke spent the last 20 years as a developer and innovator of cutting-edge software technologies in the fields of image processing, artificial intelligence, war games, and location-based information. He is the founder of several startups specializing in location-based technologies, including The Carbon Project; a solutions provider to customers in defense, intelligence, and civilian US agencies. He is the chief developer of acclaimed products used by thousands of professionals around the world. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Nuke worked in Rafael (Israeli Armament Development Authority) as the developer of command-and-control training systems. Early in 2011 Nuke and his family moved back to Israel after spending over a decade in Boston, Massachusetts. Nuke holds a B.Sc. in Computer Sciences from the Technion.

 

 

 

 

Andre Oboler, Ph.D.

Dr Andre Oboler is Director of the Community Internet Engagement Project and Editor of Zionism On The Web. Dr Oboler is an expert in social media, online public diplomacy and internet racism. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Capital Jewish Forum, Chair of the IEEE Computer Society (Victorian Section) and is co-chair of the Online Antisemitism Working Group of the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism. He has been a Legacy Heritage Fellow, National Secretary of the Union of Jewish Students (UK), Secretary of a Zionist Youth Movement (Australia), Deputy on the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and Officer of the National Postgraduate Committee (UK). He served for two years with the Board of Directors of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (UK), is a graduate of the MFA's Young Diplomatic Jewish Leadership Seminar and is a member of the ROI Community.  He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University (UK) and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Political Science department at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). Dr Oboler has lived in South Africa, Australia, the UK and Israel.