Editor’s Note: This is a series by Genesis Business Humanity spotlighting the people behind Genesis. Those who make us who we are and are instrumental to all our successes and the impact we have made.
Amiel D. Aviman graduated from Ben Gurion University at the age of fifteen with dual degrees in Sciences and Business and Marketing. That detail tells you most of what you need to know about the kind of person who would go on to co-found Genesis Business Humanity. He was never going to do one thing at a time, and he was never going to wait for the conventional timeline to tell him when he was ready.
Over the three decades that followed, Amiel built and sold companies across telecom, wireless networking, cloud infrastructure, SaaS, fintech, digital media, semiconductors, and precision agriculture. As a founder, investor, CEO, Chairman, and advisor, he drove more than $2 billion in cumulative sales. For twenty of those years, he was a pioneer in the global telecom market, building businesses in a sector where the technology moved fast and the relationships moved faster. The common thread across all of it was the same: find a market that matters, build something real inside it, and bring the right people together to make it work.
Genesis came from a realization that the most valuable thing Amiel had built over those thirty years was not any single company. It was the network around it. The investors, the founders, the operators, the advisors, the people who had been in enough rooms together to trust each other when it mattered. He saw that network as something worth formalizing, not as a Rolodex but as a living community where business relationships and a shared sense of purpose could exist in the same room. That is what Genesis became.
Today, alongside co-founder and Managing Partner Ranny Yarom, Amiel leads every layer of the Genesis operation. He oversees the Star of Genesis investment platform, where Israeli-founded companies present directly to the membership. He runs due diligence sessions with portfolio companies. He personally connects founders with the American investors, distribution partners, and advisors they need to enter the U.S. market. He helped launch Genesis MedTech to give Israeli medical device companies a structured commercial pathway into American healthcare. He helped build Genesis Digital to provide AI-powered marketing and branding to companies that need to reposition for an American audience. When a portfolio company needs an introduction, a strategic conversation, or a direct line to someone who can move things forward, that call usually goes through Amiel.
But if you ask the people closest to Genesis what defines Amiel, the business record is usually not the first thing they mention. What comes up is the philanthropy. Amiel co-founded Genesis Friends for Life, the organization’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and later established Genesis Friends for Life Israel to provide direct support to orphans, widows, and families affected by the conflict. He and his wife Natasha host Shabbat dinners for Genesis members during the annual meeting. He leads the Genesis Gala, where the membership comes together to raise funds for soldiers and victims of war. These are not side projects or obligations. They are, by his own account, the reason Genesis exists at all. The name of the organization is Genesis Business Humanity, and Amiel has always insisted that the last word carries as much weight as the middle one.
One longtime colleague put it simply: Amiel is a leader who figured out earlier than most that business grows faster and lasts longer when it is focused on something beyond itself. That conviction is not something he arrived at after success. It is something he built Genesis around from the beginning, and it shapes every relationship, every investment, and every decision the organization makes today.
For prospective members and partners meeting Genesis for the first time, it helps to know who is on the other side of the table. Now you do.
Genesis is an invitation-only investment and social club with chapters in Miami and New York/New Jersey. For Israeli startups interested in the U.S. market, contact info@genesisbh.net.