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The Eagle Star Gala is AICC's community flagship event that honors the people and companies who have contributed most to the Southeast-Israel business relationship. It will be held this year on Wednesday, May 12th, 6:00-9:00 PM at Georgia-Pacific's headquarters in downtown Atlanta.

One of Israel's top business technology leaders, Dr. Yossi Vardi, will be the featured Israeli keynote speaker at the 9th annual Eagle Star Awards Gala. As an investor and advisor, Vardi has helped more than 60 startups, among them Mirabilis - creator of instant messaging ICQ. Mirabilis, which practically had no revenues, was sold to AOL just 19 months after it released its product for over $400 million. The sale inspired a whole generation of young Israelis to open start ups. According to Forbes, "Overnight a new phrase 'the Mirabilis Effect', became popular as young Israeli entrepreneurs yearned to copy the company's success." Yossi has been a strategic advisor to Amazon and AOL, and a venture partner and Pitango, Israel's largest VC fund. Vardi won the TechCrunch Europe 2009 award, received Honorary Doctorate from the Technion, and twice received the Prime Minister award for life achievements in high tech.

In addition to Georgia-Pacific as the Host, sponsors-to-date include Deutsche Bank Alex.Brown, The Coca-Cola Company, BDO, Given Imaging, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, Sutherland, Precision Components International, Grant Thornton, Government of Israel Economic Mission - Southern Region, Dale M. Schwartz & Associates, Veritas Venture Partners, Habif Arogeti & Wynne, The Miller Richmond Company, Ballard Spahr, Carr Riggs & Ingram, Georgia Power, Verint, SRI Travel / travelgirl magazine, Baran Americas and Jacada.

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Tickets: $85.00
For more information and to register: http://www.eaglestargala.com