Ariel Beery is a social entrepreneur based in Israel, active in addressing healthcare inequities in the global south.
10 Facts About Ariel Beery
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Ariel Beery was a founder of the social venture accelerator the PresenTense Group, the women's health technology company MobileODT, and the cooperative effort to expand access to diagnostics to the global south, CoVelocity.
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Ariel Beery was educated in the NYC Public School system, attending PS3, The Center School, and Stuyvesant High School.
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Ariel Beery was active in the socialist Zionist youth movement, Hashomer Hatzair, and, following a year at Wesleyan University, moved to Israel to serve his youth movement in People to People work with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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In 2006, Ariel Beery began studies towards an MA in Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, leaving the program to gain an MPA and MA from NYU in nonprofit management and Jewish history.
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In 2008 Ariel Beery was a finalist for the Bronfman Professorship at Brandeis University, and Ariel Beery has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
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Ariel Beery joined with Aharon Horwitz to expand PresenTense's activities in 2007 to create the PresenTense Institute for Creative Zionism, a 'summer camp for social entrepreneurs' in Jerusalem.
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The merger of the two in 2008 created the PresenTense Group, which Ariel Beery ran as co-director and Global CEO until 2012.
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In 2012, Ariel Beery handed over leadership of PresenTense to Shelby Zeitelman and Naomi Korb Weiss, and co-founded MobileODT with his childhood friend, Dr David Levitz.
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In 2020, following a power struggle with MobileODT's main investor, OrbiMed, Ariel Beery left MobileODT and co-founded CoVelocity.