Strategic Tech Advisor, Angel Investor, Startups’ Founder, Ecosystem Builder, Head Coach at SPARK & Corporate SPARK accelerators, Mentor in various accelerators and institutes, a Tech regional expert with a wide network and an entrepreneur at heart. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, traveled throughout the world’s continents, holds 3 degrees in Law, Business and Diplomacy and Security.

Served in the Israeli Air Force and years later in the Government of Israel as the Head of the Economic and Trade Mission at the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, covering Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia. Held various positions in the private sector, from strategic consultancy and investments in global markets, ICT and Medical technologies and IP, Antitrust and Commercial Agreements.

Barak has various interests from Innovation and Entrepreneurship to International Relations and Defense as well as extreme Sports.

Grace is an experienced Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. Started to work with AGW (Thailand) Co. Ltd in early 2017 as a project coordinator for SPARK Global Acceleration Program, which is a collaborative global acceleration program of National Innovation Agency (NIA) and Israel’s AGW group aimed at accelerating the potential in Thai start-ups and enhancing their competitiveness for global expansion.

Within a year, she was promoted as a project manager for SPARK Global Acceleration Program batch 2, which in charge of all aspects of project management, from setting timeline, workflow and KPIs of the project; detailed budget analyses, delegate suitable works for subordinates, performance reviews of startups in the program and media PR planning, to coordinating directly with partners and sponsors.