Yifat Oron

Yifat Oron is a Senior Managing Director in Blackstone N1 (BXN1), Blackstone’s unified platform for growth, hybrid, and perpetual private equity investing across the AI ecosystem and the next generation of high growth companies. She is also the head of Blackstone’s office in Tel Aviv, Israel and assists with other investing and fundraising efforts across the firm. Since joining Blackstone in 2021, Ms. Oron has been been involved in the execution of the firm's investments in Priority Software and Stampli.

Prior to joining Blackstone, Ms. Oron was the CEO of LeumiTech, a leading Israeli technology banking platform, servicing and financing several thousand technology companies and supporting their global expansion via LeumiTech’s global footprint. She spent most of her career as a Partner at Vertex Venture Capital (an Israel-based venture fund), where she invested in and served as a board member of companies across the tech ecosystem. Before joining Vertex, Ms. Oron was a technology investment banking associate at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York. Previously, she spent three years at the Directorate of R&D of the Israeli Ministry of Defense where she achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the Economics, Budget & Control Department.

Ms. Oron holds an M.B.A. from Tel-Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Economics and Management from the Technion, also known as the Israel Institute of Technology.