Launching dreams through RocketHub
His name is Alon Hillel-Tuch (‘03), and he is the CFO and co-founder of RocketHub, one of the world’s largest crowdfunding movements. RocketHub provides a web-based means for budding innovators and business people to raise money for their projects and to promote their work to potential investors. According to Hillel-Tuch, the RocketHub platform is one of the largest in the world, and they are continuing to expand. In 2014, RocketHub partnered with A&E’s Project Startup to fuel innovative projects and provide “the funding to propel your next idea to the next level.” Hillel-Tuch has always aimed high. While at ISA, his course load included advanced economics, physics, Dutch, and English. Just to round things out, he also
A Crowdfunding Movement He has been featured in the likes of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and on National Public Radio (NPR). He has testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, regarding the effects of the implementation of the JOBS Act on the rights of small businesses and entrepreneurs, and he has a delivered a TEDxNavesink talk on the technology cycle in society and how the world of crowdfunding is changing the status quo.
took advantage of courses in music composition and theory and, naturally, information technology. After graduating from ISA, Hillel-Tuch attended Hamilton College, a small and highly regarded liberal arts school in the United States, where he studied economics and Chinese. After a post-graduation stint in finance, he found his way to RocketHub. He now is a regular on the speaker circuit, and we hope he will come back to ISA one day soon in order to share his remarkable story in person.
Continuing Excellence When Leor Zmigrod graduated from ISA in 2013, she left an indelible mark on the school and a lasting lega-
tal awards for best performance and first-place rankings in her final exams. In addition to her continuing
cy, after receiving the Director’s Award for completing
academic success, Leor is busy in a wide range of ex-
the IB Diploma programme with a grade-point average
tracurricular leadership roles in a number of student
of 7 out of 7 and exemplifying the values and mission
societies as well as contributing to research at Cam-
of ISA and earned a perfect score on the IB diploma.
bridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. She garnered tremendous admiration from fellow
A year later, Leor is continuing on her path to excellence at Cambridge University, where she now studies Psychological and Behavioural Sciences and has been awarded prestigious university-wide and departmen46
students and faculty while at ISA, and it seems that she is continuing along this path at Cambridge as well. We can’t wait to see what the next years bring!