Itzhak Fisher ( he, איציק פישר), is an Israeli businessman who served as the Founder and General Partner of Pereg Ventures. He was previously Executive Vice President, Global Business Development at

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. His responsibilities included strategic business development initiatives as well as all Mergers & Acquisitions and overseeing the Sports Practice. He was co-founder and chairman of Trendum, before selling the new entity to the Nielsen company. In the 1990s, Fisher co-founded and was the

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of RSL Communications, a Telco company which raised more than $1.7 billion dollars in capital. At the end of 2000, Fisher left the company, it was de-listed from

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, and was dissolved shortly thereafter. He formerly also served as

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's campaign official. He was Treasurer of the

Likud party Likud ( he, הַלִּיכּוּד, HaLikud, The Consolidation), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement, is a major centre-right to right-wing political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon ...

, in Israel, from 1992 to 1994. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the

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