Barak Strosberg

Barak Strosberg joined Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in 2018 as EVP of Human Capital.

He arrived at IAI from the Osem-Nestle Group, where he has served in a series of executive management roles from 2012 through 2018. Among others, he was VP HR (accountable to 5,000 employees) a position in which he had drafted, managed and developed the Group’s HR strategy. He also worked as the group’s VP of Business Excellence, where he led a global project that included the implementation of innovative management methodologies and technologies, including cross-organizational process simplification and streamlining.

From 2007 through 2013, Barak served as senior deputy of the wage commissioner at Israel's Finance Ministry. In that role, he drafted the negotiation policy on working relationship in State companies, statutory corporations and government ministries. During this tenure, he led the negotiations with Israel's largest labor's unions, while overseeing some 100 public entities.

Previously, between 2001 and 2007, he acted as a senior coordinator at the unit of Monopolies and Structural Changes in the State Companies Authority. In that capacity, he was responsible for the State’s defense industries (IAI, RAFAEL and IMI). He also sat as a director on behalf of the State on the boards of these companies. In that role too, he negotiated with the labor federation and unions as part of regulating structural chances, privatization and more.

Barak started his career at Deloitte Accountancy Firm, where he audited public and State companies, municipalities, companies undergoing disassembly and more. He worked there until 2001.

Barak has a first degree in political science and sociology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a first degree in accounting and business administration from the International School of Management. He is a graduate of the ALKA Program of Social Policy and Administration and has a master’s degree in public policy from the Executive Training Center at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Barak is married and a father of three. He lives in Modiin.