Ari Jason

Ari is a British-Israeli transformation executive, who is passionate about personal growth and empathic leadership and merging the two and serves his clients as a strategic advisor and executive mentor and coach.

As a founding Partner at Mind Ventures, Ari guides C-level leaders to build high-performance organizations and cohesive leadership teams, with clarity and confidence, pre and post M&A, financing or succession.

Select Accomplishments:

- Managed global infrastructure transformation programs for: Bloomberg LP, CitiGroup Europe, Ford Motors Europe, and Vivendi Universal. Average 50% reduction in tech infrastructure spend.

- Member of global restructuring and transformation task force at Colt Telecom [LSE: COLT.L] resulting in 15% cost reduction across thirteen-country $2Bn business. Subsequent acquisition by majority shareholder - Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC). Role held: VP Operations, UK datacenter group, London.

- Led operations and corporate development for soft goods manufacturer from $5 million to $150 million. CAGR 29.90% ($5M to $150M over 14 yrs), revenue:employee ratio of $2.3M:1. London Luxury LLC, NY.

- Founded a mental fitness digital startup to tackle the $150Bn annual cost of disengaged workforce and underperforming organizational culture - (know as 'presenteeism') through aligning disruptive cognitive and behavioral models and frameworks with strategic outcomes, serving private industry and government agencies. Israel.

- Voluntary: Chaired the Israel Epilepsy Association from dormant to thriving in 18 months. Board restructure, added diverse income streams, educational and social programs in 5 languages nationwide. Israel