Dr. Amos Baranes earned his PhD from the University of Chicago, and is also a Certified Public Accountant in the United States. He worked at PWC as a Senior Economist in the field of Transfer Pricing. At Lexecon Inc., Dr. Baranes developed the practice of Corporate and Asset Valuation. He also founded the company AVNAT Ltd., which provides business intelligence services to financial institutions.  He is also the author of the book: “Business Intelligence for Business”.  Recently, Dr. Baranes established Africa Industrial Business Center (AIBC), which provides consulting services on behalf of the World Bank in the fields of Business Intelligence and Training for Financial Institutions. Currently, he lectures in advanced courses in Entrepreneurship, Finance and Information Technology at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, the University of Haifa, and Bar-Ilan University in Israel.