Team

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FAM - Furman Asset Management was founded in 2011 by Ilan Furman. in 2024

Ameritree was founded as a subsidiary of FAM.

Before founding FAM, in 2011, Ilan was an investment manager within the Global

Emerging Markets team and a lead portfolio manager of Threadneedle Latin America

fund. The team managed $10 billion in top Morningstar-ranked funds, while the house

managed $ 700 billion.

During his time in CTI, Ilan was also a regular contributor to asset allocation meetings

and a member of the leadership and innovation committees.

Before joining the company, he worked as an investment manager at Pictet. He has

also been employed at Deloitte as a consultant and at Oscar Gruss as a junior analyst.

Ilan has an Economics degree from Ben Gurion University in Israel and an MBA from

Imperial College, London. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

designation.

FAM is associated with ARBA Finance, a Tel Aviv based investment banking boutique

founded in 1978. FAM manages ARBA’s nostro and benefits from its long-standing

relationships with global financial institutions.

FAM works closely with Bridgewise, a fintech company that conducts equity research

by deploying AI algorithms to analyze more than 44,000 public companies worldwide,

generating research reports and detailed buy/sell/hold recommendations. Ilan acts as

Bridgewise CIO, working closely with Bridgewise’s research teams.

Daniel Furman is the founder and Managing Director of Arba Finance CompanyLtd, a Tel Aviv based merchant banking boutique. Prior to founding ARBA in 1978, Daniel served as the Finance Manager of AircraftTrading and Services Inc., an international company specializing in trading andleasing commercial aircraft. He was a Senior Consultant for National Consultants(Israel); a member of the Corporate Finance Department of Eurofinance in Paris,specializing in cross-border M&A; and an assistant to the Vice President ofCorporate Planning at Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd.Daniel was a director of the First International Bank of Israel (2004-2010 and2014-2020); of Orad Hi-Tec Systems (2005-2015), listed in Frankfurt, of Pricer AB(2004-2010), listed in Stockholm. Between 1993 and 2000, Daniel served as aDirector and Member of the Investment Committee of Ilanot-Batucha, then oneof Israel's leading mutual fund management companies. Daniel holds a B.A.in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University inJerusalem and an M.B.A. from INSEAD. 

Nili Kronfeld has 17 years of experience in the global capital markets,especially in foreign debt.Nili joined Ameritree Capital as its COO, overseeing operations andinvestment management. Before joining Ameritree, Nili served as Head of the Fixed Incomedesk at Psagot Securities. Her functions included trading withinstitutions and foreign banks in bonds denominated in foreigncurrencies and in debt products; P&L management in the REVENUESHARING model with the investment house; and investor relationsmanagement. She interacted with over 100 international entities andbanks, supervised trading entities under local and internationalregulations, including KYC processes. She also participated in companydebt analysis and in managing the desk’s nostro account. She was alsoin charge of writing work procedures.Prior to that, Nili was a foreign bond trader at Migdal Capital Marketsand, prior to that, a foreign and local securities trader at QuattroInvestment House mutual funds