Yaniv Bresler, Advocate
Founder & Chief Operating Officer (AGS Israel)
 
Yaniv is one of the founders and the COO of Athlone Global Security in Israel, an investment company, focusing on the homeland security (HLS) venture market.

Yaniv is responsible for leading our team in Israel (AGS Israel), which includes investment activities, monitoring the portfolio companies, finance, joint ventures, co-investments and business development initiatives.

Yaniv serves as a Director in a number of Athlone's group companies. Yaniv brings with him corporate experience in VC funds, investment transactions in startups, corporate strategy, investment management and corporate strategy.

Yaniv holds an LL.B in law from the University of Manchester for the Israeli Centre for Academic Centre



Tal Dekel
CTO
Tal Dekel joined AGS in 2007 as the group's CTO. He is in charge of evaluating and validating new companies as well as promoting the portfolio companies on the technological level.

Previously, he has led R&D efforts in the field of electro-optics in various positions. These positions were part of his service in the IDF intelligence technological branch and Israeli special operations units. Tal left the army ranked as major, with 3 years of experience as a systems engineer as his last position.

He was recruited in 1995 to the IDF's prestigious three-year program "Talpiyot" that includes academic studies, military training, R&D studies and an Officers Course.

Tal holds a B.Sc in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel and an M.Sc in Electro-Optical Engineering from the Tel Aviv University, Israel. His research dealt with Improvised explosive detection using IR spectroscopy.



Yaniv Lubinski, CPA, MBA
VP finance
Mr. Lubinski brings to AGS vast experience and knowledge in the finance, accounting and taxation areas.

Formerly, Mr. Lubinski served as the CFO of a global software company and as the controller of a communication company.
In his former duties he was in charge of multinational reporting, international taxation strategy and played an important role in the business development, financial performance improvement and fund raising efforts.

Mr. Lubinski accomplished his interim period in Ernst & Young, Tel Aviv and he holds a B.A. degree, majored in Accountancy and Politics and an M.B.A. degree majored in financial management, both from Tel Aviv University.

Mr. Lubinski is a chartered accounted (ISR) and a member of the Israeli CPA council since 2001.

Aviv Lotan, Advocate
Legal Counsel
Aviv has been Athlone’s legal counsel since inception, commencing on October 2005. Aviv has handled most of Athlone’s investment transaction and has dealt or assisted the managements of AGS's portfolio companies in a broad variety of legal issues.

Aviv brings with him substantial corporate legal experience in VC funds, investment transactions in early-stage startups, corporate strategy and M&A transactions.  

Prior to joining Athlone, Aviv has practiced law in three small boutique law firms, serving a broad spectrum of clients from the hi-tech industry and handling a wide range of legal issue and transactions.  

Aviv holds an LL.B in law. a B.A. in Economics & Business Management (Marketing) and an LL.M graduate degree in International Commercial Law (Cum Laude) all from Herzlia’s Inter Disciplinary Center. Aviv was admitted to the Israeli Bar Association in 2004.