Efrat Kasznik

As Foresight’s President, Efrat is in charge of the firm’s business development, thought leadership and professional services activities. She brings over 25 years of diversified experience as an IP valuation and strategy expert, having assisted companies of all sizes and across a range of industries with valuing, commercializing and monetizing their innovation. Efrat has been a Lecturer on IP management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2011. She has been listed on the IAM 300 list of Leading IP Strategists every year since 2013. She is a member of the LES USA-Canada Board of Trustees, as well as a member of the LES Silicon Valley Chapter Board. Prior to starting Foresight, Efrat was a practice leader with two leading IP and litigation consulting firms, where she established the IP Valuation and Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) practices. Efrat has also been a co-founder and CFO at several Silicon Valley Startups, as well as an advisor and mentor to hundreds of startups in the US, Europe and Israel. She holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and a BA in Accounting & Economics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel). In the early mornings you will often find her hiking the Stanford Dish, where she finds inspiration for great ideas.