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יזם · חוקר ומהנדס רב־תחומי
Founder & CEO · Bansky_

Entrepreneur, researcher and multidisciplinary engineer operating at the intersection of autonomous systems, defense technology and digital infrastructure — from tactical drone interception at the national level to productized blockchain advisory. Today I run two active ventures in parallel: Bansky, my current flagship fintech startup, and Metatron. This is a curated record of what I've actually built, prepared specifically for Trapex.

9
Leadership Roles
5
Core Domains
4
Ventures Founded
3+
Advisory Seats
// Priority Window

The Last 5 Years

Where my recent work has concentrated — national-scale autonomy and counter-drone R&D, hands-on innovation leadership, and building ventures from zero. These are the engagements most relevant to an advisory mandate.

Active · 5yr

Founder & CEO

Bansky

My current flagship startup — a vertical-fintech company turning illiquid real-world assets (starting with investment-grade whisky) into liquid, bankable, tradable products on regulated institutional rails. Architect of the spec, demo, architecture and regulatory map.

Founder · Flagship · Active
Explore Bansky
Active · 5yr

Founder & CEO

Metatron Digital Infrastructure

Active venture — a productized blockchain advisory infrastructure with a live AI launch agent, now anchoring a strategic platform partnership with NXT Horizon.

Founder · Active
See the full venture
Active · 5yr

Head of Tactical Drones & Enemy Technologies Division

Ministry of Defense · DDR&D (MAFAT)

Leading the Department of Autonomy & AI and the CTO Department in parallel — directing national-level counter-drone, tactical autonomy and enemy-technology programs.

National · Current
Active · 5yr

Advisory Board & Head of Interception R&D

Strix Drones USA

Shaping interception R&D strategy and advising the board on counter-UAS architecture and autonomous interception technology.

USA · Advisory
Active · 5yr

VP R&D

AlgoLight Ltd

Heading research & development — translating advanced concepts into engineered, deployable systems.

R&D Leadership
Active · 5yr

Co-Founder & Director of Innovation

Tehiru Aerial Systems

Co-founded an aerial-systems company and led its innovation agenda across autonomous flight and mission technology.

Co-Founder
// Field Record · Publication-Cleared

Defense & Research Projects

A selection of publication-cleared projects from my work in academia — Ariel University, K&CG Lab — and at Israel's DDR&D (MAFAT). Each card opens a full brief: my role, what the project included, and the collaborating bodies.

Only publication-approved material is shown here.
Counter-Drone

Rapid-Interception Drone

A complete ground-to-air system, built from zero, to intercept threats such as anti-tank missiles, hostile drones and …
Open brief
EW

Red Team — Electronic Warfare

A dedicated red team that reconstructs adversary EW and communications infrastructure — frequencies, protocols and met…
Open brief
Sensing

Sub-Pixel Drone Detection

A novel technology to detect drones and EW systems at long range at sub-pixel resolution, fusing visual signal process…
Open brief
Comms

Resilient Tactical Comms & Telemetry

A new tactical communications system based on LoRa and a re-engineered civilian ELRS protocol, adapted for military ne…
Open brief
Autonomy

RXI — Pathfinder Breach Drone

A lightweight autonomous "first-in" drone that breaches and scans buildings and closed areas ahead of troops, providin…
Open brief
Autonomy

Civilian Drone Militarization

A methodology to convert civilian and industrial drones (DJI, Autel and others) for IDF use, hardening navigation and …
Open brief
Autonomy

Mothership for Attack Drones

A heavy-lift carrier drone ("mothership") that carries attack drones; on threat identification it autonomously launche…
Open brief
Sensing

"Xray" System

Development and operational integration of the "Xray" system, field-tested successfully during live operational trials…
Open brief
★ 1ST
Autonomy

MosAIc Competition — 1st Place

A global competition run by the US DoD (IWTSD) and Israel's MoD (DDR&D) tackling a hard gap: autonomous robotic maneuv…
Open brief
★ 1ST
Counter-Drone

RONEN — Multi-Drone C2

A unified command & control system that operates several different drone types in parallel and in real time for operat…
Open brief
Autonomy

Autonomous Recon Vehicle

A small autonomous ground platform for quiet patrols in hard-to-reach areas — borders, closed compounds, complex terra…
Open brief
Counter-Drone

Mini-Nova — Indoor Strike Drone

A dedicated indoor-strike FPV drone that advances the operational use of recon drones (DJI Avata-class): scan a struct…
Open brief
Autonomy

"Tangled Pearls"

An aerial capability to place a payload or operational object along a complex motion path in tangled terrain — without…
Open brief
Navigation

GPS-Resilient Navigation Suite

A family of navigation solutions that keep platforms accurate and operational under GPS-denied conditions, each using …
Open brief
Comms

FSO & Long-Range Comms

Free-Space Optical (FSO) bidirectional communications for long ranges, plus an operational cellular (LTE/5G) communica…
Open brief
Research

Cognitive Compression

A dynamic algorithm for compressing data in real time while preserving the mission-critical information that counter-d…
Open brief
Autonomy

Autonomous Vehicle — Level 4

Development of a Level-4 autonomous-driving module, delivered as part of the multi-company "Avatar" autonomous-vehicle…
Open brief
Research

Autonomy R&D Stack

A cluster of enabling research that underpins autonomous drones — from vision-based landing to edge compute and stabil…
Open brief
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Roles & Ventures

Filter the complete record by domain. Each card is a real position — engineering, command, founding, or advisory.

Active · 5yr

Founder & CEO

Bansky

My current flagship startup — a vertical-fintech company turning illiquid real-world assets (starting with investment-grade whisky) into liquid, bankable, tradable products on regulated institutional rails. Architect of the spec, demo, architecture and regulatory map.

Founder · Flagship · Active
Explore Bansky
Active · 5yr

Founder & CEO

Metatron Digital Infrastructure

Active venture — a productized blockchain advisory infrastructure with a live AI launch agent, now anchoring a strategic platform partnership with NXT Horizon.

Founder · Active
See the full venture
Active · 5yr

Head of Tactical Drones & Enemy Technologies Division

Ministry of Defense · DDR&D (MAFAT)

Leading the Department of Autonomy & AI and the CTO Department in parallel — directing national-level counter-drone, tactical autonomy and enemy-technology programs.

National · Current
Active · 5yr

Advisory Board & Head of Interception R&D

Strix Drones USA

Shaping interception R&D strategy and advising the board on counter-UAS architecture and autonomous interception technology.

USA · Advisory
Active · 5yr

VP R&D

AlgoLight Ltd

Heading research & development — translating advanced concepts into engineered, deployable systems.

R&D Leadership
Active · 5yr

Co-Founder & Director of Innovation

Tehiru Aerial Systems

Co-founded an aerial-systems company and led its innovation agenda across autonomous flight and mission technology.

Co-Founder
Research

Autonomous Systems Senior Researcher

K&CG Lab · Ariel University

Senior research in autonomous systems — bridging academic robotics research and field-grade application.

Academia · Research
Impact

Director

"Hagim" Association

Director of a nonprofit driving Jewish impact in Israel in service of the defense establishment.

Nonprofit · Impact
Blockchain

Advisory Board

Woozy AI · LumiShare

Advisory board member guiding product and technology direction at the intersection of AI and Web3.

Advisory
lumishare.io/woozyai
● Current Flagship Startup · Pre-Seed · Active Today

Bansky

Founder & CEO — the financial system for the world's real assets

Bansky is a vertical-fintech company using blockchain and real-world-asset (RWA) technology to make illiquid physical assets liquid, bankable and tradable — starting with investment-grade whisky, a class that returned +322% over the last decade yet has no real financial system underneath it. To the member it feels like a beautiful finance app; underneath it runs on regulated, institutional rails (Canton + EVM) with a ring-fenced SPV, independent custody and proof-of-reserve, so the asset survives even if the operator doesn't. I'm the architect of Bansky — I built the spec, demo, architecture and the two-phase regulatory map.

Trade · The Exchange
Fractional, fully-custodied, insured ownership of casks & fine wine — AI-curated, settled in seconds.
Bank · The Private Bank
Borrow against your portfolio, earn from index funds, spend with an asset-backed card.
Belong · The Members' Club
Allocations, distillery experiences, events & concierge — retention and referrals.
Regulation as the Moat
Compliance-first across FCA, MiCA, VARA & SEC — the hardest barrier competitors can't cross.
MARKET
$1.4T by 2030
Whisky is the wedge; the same rails extend to wine, watches, art, metals & beyond.
MODEL
8 ways / member
Earns continuously across exchange, bank & club — ~40× LTV/CAC target at scale.
TRACTION
Company in motion
Investor-grade demo, Canton architecture, regulatory map & distillery design-partner talks underway.
◆ Active Venture · Live Product

Metatron Digital Infrastructure

Founder & CEO — the engine behind enterprise blockchain entry

Metatron is a complete, execution-led blockchain advisory infrastructure. Most enterprises know they need a digital-asset strategy but fail on architecture, governance and execution — Metatron closes that gap with a proven methodology, a vendor-neutral service stack, and a productized AI launch agent that takes a company from "we want in" to a fully staged, executable blockchain program. It currently anchors a strategic partnership proposal to build a full Blockchain Entry Platform division with NXT Horizon.

Payment Infrastructure
Institutional-grade rails for digital-asset acceptance and settlement.
Entry Strategy
The right blockchain approach per business model and regulatory environment.
Tokenization Readiness
Architecting tokenization across assets, securities and real-world value.
AI Launch Agent
The moat: a working product that frames scope, maps every stage and bakes in governance.
PHASE 1 · 0–3 MO
Launch
Stand up the platform, integrate the AI agent, land lighthouse engagements.
PHASE 2 · 3–12 MO
Scale
Run blockchain GTM across industries; build a repeatable, AI-powered sales motion.
PHASE 3 · 12 MO+
Merge
End-to-end integration — one platform, blockchain woven into the whole GTM.
// Operating Domains

Where I Build

Defense & Security
Autonomy & Drones
Blockchain & Digital
Applied Research
Impact & Nonprofit

Let's design this properly. Together.

I don't send people a flat résumé. If Trapex is evaluating me for the advisory board, this dossier is the start of the conversation — happy to go deeper on any program here.