Management Team
Management Team
Professor Ron S. Kenett is Chairman of the KPA Group, Israel, Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion, Haifa, Israel. and Research Professor at the University of Turing, Italy. He is an applied statistician combining expertise in academic, consulting and business domains. He developed, with colleagues an approach to assess conceptual understanding of students based on meaning equivalence reusable learning objects. Ron is Past President of the Israel Statistical Association (ISA) and of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS). He authored and co-authored over 250 papers and 14 books on topics such as data science, industrial statistics, biostatistics, healthcare, customer surveys, multivariate quality control, risk management and information quality. He is member of the Israeli national council for statistics overseeing the work of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. The KPA Group he founded in 1994, is a leading Israeli firm focused on generating insights through analytics. He is editor in chief of Wiley’s StatsRef, serves on the editorial board of several international journals and was awarded the 2013 Greenfield Medal by the Royal Statistical Society and, in 2018, the Box Medal by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics. Ron holds a BSc in Mathematics (with first class honors) from Imperial College, London University and a PhD in Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. For videos and recorded interviews with Ron click here.
Ariel Kenett is a CEO of KPA with internal responsibility for operations, business development, human resources and knowledge management. He has a B.A. in economics.
Yossi Shuchmacher, Ph.D. is a KPA Senior Consultant and member of the KPA Organizational Development and Change Management team. Former VP Human Resources in global companies such as EDS and National Semiconductors and Organizational Development and Training Manager of Teva Pharmaceuticals. Yossi is an experienced and highly reputable management coach, Human Resources Management expert and Organizational Development consultant to companies and organizations in the private and public sector.
Yossi Raanan, Ph.D. is a KPA Senior Consultant and member of the KPA Strategic Planning team. Former dean of the business management school of the academic course of the College of Management. PhD in operations research from Cornell University. Senior Lecturer in the College of Management. Chairman of Tadmor - The Central School for Hoteliers. Director and Chairman of the Lahak Investment Committee - Management of Trust Funds Ltd. and consultant to companies and organizations in the business sector.