Evans & Partners chairman David Evans will this week lead the firm’s maiden client visit to Israel as his wealth management business looks to more than treble the size of its new disruption fund before the end of the year.
Mr Evans is leading a 35-strong delegation of clients and members of Evans & Partner’s advisory board, including former Macquarie Group and Origin Energy chairman Kevin McCann and company director Sally Herman.
Also on the delegation are a number of accounting and legal industry partners as well as Wingate Group managing director Farrel Meltzer and Winslow Construction chief Dino Strano.
During the six-day Israel visit the delegation will meet a number of local firms as well as the local-based partners of venture capital firm Square Peg, in which Mr Evans is an investor.
Mr Evans made his first visit to Israel in June 2015, when Square Peg took a delegation of 40 leading Australian technology entrepreneurs, investors and executives, together representing more than $US150 billion in value, to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to learn about the Israeli hi-tech industry.
“This trip is designed to expose many of our clients to Israel and the impact it is having on the way we live … You need to stay at the cutting edge of technology,’’ Mr Evans said.
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