About EFPC

EFPConsulting staff has participated in most major conferences and courses relating to financial and technical aspects of proposal preparation and project reporting. They have been the leaders of international workshop, as will as invited presenters at various events.

EFPConsulting has a large network of contacts with the major players in most fields. We pride ourselves in being able to produce and manage consortia with these companies, and offer to assist yours.

 

Management:
Myer W. Morron
Graham (Gershon) Feldman
Michael Remes
Yoav Brukner

Dana Remes

 

Myer W. Morron

Mr Morron is a graduate of the University of Glasgow where he studied Pure Science as well as Computer Science from 1960 - 1965. He has a broad technical background but specialised in software engineering, especially operating systems and supercomputer architectures. He has worked in these fields in the US, UK and Israel.

 

Until recently Myer was IST Director at ISERD, the Israeli body responsible for managing the Association Agreement with the EU on behalf of the Israeli government. He represented the State of Israel on the IST Management Committee for the duration of FP5 and continued this role in FP6. He also represented the State of Israel on the Research Infrastructures Committee. As part of his job he coordinated all Israeli activity in the IST and RI parts of the Framework Program including the NCP activity in those areas. He was part of the team that negotiated the FP5 Association Agreement and then a member of the EC-Israel Research Committee that oversaw the operation of that Agreement. Mr Morron has been involved with IST and its predecessor programs from their inception in 1984 and has acted both as a project manager in many key projects as well as an evaluator and an external expert.

 

Prior to joining ISERD, Mr. Morron held various Senior Technical and Management positions for Computer and Telecommunications Manufacturers. The main companies he has worked for include Control Data (US and Israel), ICL, STC and Nortel (UK) and Elbit (Israel). He was involved in setting up of the ESPRIT program in 1984 and has been involved directly in projects in all Framework Programs since then. He has also been a proposal evaluator for the European Commission on twelve occasions as well as an external expert.

 

During the past twenty five years his work has concerned the development and successful market exploitation of new and emerging technologies and standards with an emphasis on Open Standards and joint collaborative projects. He has consulted and presented extensively in IT related issues, including for the CEC, US DoD, UK MoD, NATO and Standards Bodies ECMA, ISO, CEN, NIST and ETSI.

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Graham (Gershon) Feldman:

Qualifications – FCA (UK Chartered Accountant, from 1969) and CPA(Isr.) (Israeli Certified Public Accountant, from 1985).

 

Among his extensive financial/accounting experience he deals with the following matters:

·        Giving Financial advice to various organisations (companies, universities and government bodies) concerning project proposals and reporting under FP4, FP5 and FP6..

·        Preparation of audit certificates for projects under FP5.

·        Lecturer on financial regulations under FP4, FP5 and FP6 in public seminars organised by Israeli NCP and privately.

·        Management accounting advisor to SMEs in Israel and London

·        Auditor of SMEs, charities and other organisations

·        Taxation advisor on Israeli Corporate, Charity and Individuals taxes

·        Trustee of UK Pension Fund and UK Charity

 

Graham is:

Director, of EFPConsulting Ltd – consultants on all Administrative and financial aspects of project proposals and management under FP6.

Director FB Consultants Ltd. – Financial and Taxation advisors to SMEs in Israel

Partner in office of Certified Public Accountants in Jerusalem, (part of international association of accountants “INPACT” with over 150 offices worldwide and in over 50 countries) specialising in SMEs financial reporting, management advice, applications to Government authorities for grants, taxation and audits.

Prior to taking up his existing positions above, Graham was chief   management accountant in international  pharmaceuticals division of Beecham Group (now Glaxo Smithcline Group - UK.) (1967-69), partner in a London West End practice of chartered accountants (1969-1981), and chief accountant in Israeli Construction company (SME) (1982-1984)

Graham is the Financial Scientific Director of the Finance-NMS-IST project which runs the Finance Helpdesk and Helpline www.finance-helpdesk.org .

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Dana Remes:

Dana is experienced in International Project Management ,is an Evaluator for the Commission and a member of the Europeans Commission’s Ethical Review Board. Most recently, she is the Project Manager for the Finance-NMS-IST project which runs the Finance Helpdesk and Helpline www.finance-helpdesk.org . To date, the project has held 20 Financial Workshops across the 10 New Member States.

With Euroconsultants (Israel), she was the Scientific Director of IST Mentor, IST Mentor+ and Tristan-East. These three projects targeted the NMAS and NIS.

From a technical perspective, Dana has a background in Mathematics, Computational Biology (e.g. Imaging), Statistics (e.g. Quantitative market Analysis), and Website creation and maintenance.

Dana enjoys being involved in innovation.  Having worked with Remes Biomedical and Remes Computing she has learned the processes from the first concept to the Licensing of Patents.

Dana has been involved in many framework proposals; thus, she is familiar with the processes and workings of the Commission and has attended related events in Brussels and elsewhere from the third framework program. She has first hand experience with high tech SMEs and is experienced in the exploitation of innovation.

Professional Experience:

2002 – Present: Director, EFPConsulting Ltd.

2000 –2004:  EuroConsultants (Israel) - Senior Project Manager.

1997 – 2004:  Remes Consulting - provided services related to the European Union Framework Program both to UK and Israeli organisations. Remes Consulting had particular experience and expertise in `Information Society Technologies` and `INCO`, International Cooperation.

1996 - 2000  Remes Group - Remes Computing and Remes Biomedical Ltd.

As well as being a shareholder, Dana was responsible for preparing Remes Biomedical for ISO 9001 certification and had ongoing responsibility for the operational aspects of the company. She also developed the image processing algorithms that were key to its technology. Dana also was active on behalf of Remes Biomedical in successful execution of an Exploratory Award from the EU Biomedical Program - she also was involved in several successful Fifth framework proposals and projects. 

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Yoav Brukner:

Yoav Brukner, CPA, LLM

 Qualified CPA, Graduate of Tel Aviv University in Economics and Accounting, Master’s degree in Law (LLM) at Bar-Ilan University. Established the firm Brukner Ingber C.P.A in 1986. Acknowledged as an expert in financial management of consortium projects in the area of High-tech, particularly where funding has been granted by the Office of the Chief scientist in Israel.

Previously he was responsible for the financial management of the Marketing Encouragement Fund of the Israel Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Through his accounting and auditing practice in Tel Aviv established with his partner in the 1990’s, he serves as the financial and business manager of 11 Corporations pursuant to the Chief Scientist’s MAGNET program in the fields of communication, multimedia, microelectronics, Video streaming. He also acts as a qualified financial evaluator for projects receiving grants from the Chief Scientist’s Office and from the Investment Centre within the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Yoav has lectured on financial regulations under FP4, FP5 and FP6 in public seminars organized by Israeli NCP and privately. He advised SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises), higher education bodies, and publicly quoted companies in preparation of proposals under the 4th, 5th and 6th Framework Programs, as well as advising during the contract negotiation period and preparing cost statements and financial data for submission with periodic and final reports to the European Commission.

He has also prepared audit certificates for projects under FP5 and FP6.

Yoav is particularly experienced in the OCS funding scheme and can assist with EUREKA.

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Michael Remes:

Michael has a B.Sc. in Computing science and 20 years of postgraduate experience in the areas of software development, project management and business development within the European and U.S. marketplaces. He also started up and ran a Biomedical company specialising in providing image analysis solutions to pharmaceutical companies. This company took part in several successful EU RTD proposals. Michael re-located to Israel in May 2000 and has been employed in a number of project management and consultancy capacities working with International pharmaceutical companies and telecommunication companies in the areas of e-commerce and interactive television. He has been involved in EU framework programmes since the 4th framework programme and has much experience in assisting companies with all aspects of developing and writing project proposals involving innovative technologies.

 

Michael is one of the founders of EFPConsulting and a director of the company. Roles include Business development, Project Management, EU consultancy.

In addition, Michael is a Member of European Subcommittee of the Israel Grid Association (http://www.grid.org.il)

 

1994 - 2000 Remes Biomedical Ltd, Scotland - Joint Founder

An innovative start-up company that used novel scientific techniques and computer algorithms to solve scientific problems for pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

·          Account/Project Management - Managing budget, timeline and liasing with clients;

·          European Fifth Framework Project Exploratory Award and full partner in other projects.

·          QA Procedures and Methodology Used - ISO9001 Manuals Produced

·          Using Image Analysis to quantify cellular response to biomaterials - Contracts were gained from pharmaceutical companies to test the behaviour of novel materials and medication.

Marketing and Sales - Contracts brought in from Europe and USA.

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Myer Morron (CEO)

Graham Feldman

Dana Remes

Yoav Brukner

Michael Remes

Paul Morron MBE

Victoria Hart

Lisa Seeman