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.

I have started, built and managed tech, food and consulting businesses, accelerator/incubator and most recently a venture building studio in Bangkok. Currently, I am excited to work with multinational organisations and their corporate venturing strategies to successfully invest in and build a new generation of deep-tech startups.

I value creativity and out of the box thinking, I prefer taking a unique and authentic approach to technology investment. My core competencies are startups, creative problem solving, leadership, business ideation and deep-tech and research commercialisation, venture capital, business modelling, monetisation and development. Other than business venturing, my passion is filmmaking and storytelling.

Bart is the CEO at Xpdite Capital Partners, an Asian travel tech focused investment and advisory firm which purpose is to expedite the growth of early stage startups, accelerate the market entry of international growth companies into Asia and industrialize corporate innovation in the travel industry. Bart brings together 20+ years’ international experience in innovation, travel technology and e-commerce with senior executive roles at Amadeus IT group, one of the world’s leading travel technology companies. As the architect behind the largest travel tech community in APAC, he built up strong relations in the regional and global startup ecosystems. Before, he founded an innovation consultancy firm, led several e-business projects at the leading edge of technology and founded a startup that transformed the way companies moved online. Pragmatic and result oriented, with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, open mindset and technology background, Bart is committed to take startups to the next level, expedite the returns for investors and industrialize corporate innovation. "THINK DIFFERENT & JUST DO IT", is what he believes in.