60 Minute Harvard MBA: 15 Key Business Lessons - Part 2

SPEAKER:

Itamar Frankenthal is the owner and CEO of Rose Batteries (www.rosebatteries.com), Silicon Valley’s largest manufacturer of custom industrial battery packs servicing IoT, instrumentation, communication, smart grid, UPS and medical industries. At Rose, Itamar provides Silicon Valley’s most exciting companies with expert battery engineering advice and custom battery pack manufacturing at Rose’s San Jose manufacturing facility. Recently, Itamar lead Rose in the acquisition of Energy Sales (www.energy-sales.com), an industry leader in batteries for oceanographic, aerospace, military and government applications. Combined, the businesses ship over half a million batteries a year. Itamar is also the Managing Director of New Concord Capital, a private investment fund that specializes in helping baby boomers sell their business and transition to retirement. Itamar’s family has a fourth generation cheese manufacturing company where Itamar led operations and sales of mozzarella, cheddar, smoked gouda and other fine cheeses. Itamar also spent half a decade as a quantitative analyst and financial engineer at Sanford Bernstein Alliance Capital where he developed stochastic financial models to facilitate over $50B of global investments. Prior to Bernstein, Itamar was a systems and software engineer at BAE Systems where he developed algorithms for the F-15 radar system. Of all his experiences, Itamar is most proud of his work at Match.com where he developed love algorithms to help the lone-hearted find their perfect mate. Besides leading Rose Batteries, Itamar is also a professor at San Jose State University’s Masters of Engineering in Batteries Technology program. Itamar holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York and a M.B.A from Harvard Business School.