Homeland Protection Currently: Leadership Profile: Mati Kochavi, Founder And CEO, AGT Worldwide
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012“
Read the digital edition of National Guard Today. A native of Haifa, Israel, and a graduate of its university, Kochavi was always interested in information and its uses.
Information and the ability to understand information is the key interest for me from a very young age, he recalled. My background in education is not in technology. It is in history and philosophy. Accordingly, Kochavi takes a very philosophical approach to security. He notes, for example that despite all the information that was publicly available, the revolutions that swept the Middle East in the Arab Spring took everyone by surprise.
When you look at all those events and you ask yourself: How come with all the intelligence that we have over there, all the relationships we have over there, with all the business the world is doing over there, how come we were quickly unable to predict such a dramatic historical change in the region while basically all the information was out there for us? He continued, If you cannot predict events then you cannot manage them properly.
Prediction is not only a question of looking, its a question of where to look, where to find information. It is understanding where the voices are and being able to bring those voices in the right way to the right people. This is the goal of Kochavis company, AGT International. A global company Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, AGT was founded by Kochavi in 2007.
From the beginning, it was conceived as a global company that would make the most of international connectivity and the Internet. Since its founding it has managed $8 billion in projects, and it has a backlog of $5 billion, according to Kochavi. As a private company AGT does not release its revenue, but Kochavi said it was over $1 billion.
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From: (Kochavi) http://www.hstoday.us/index.php?id=483&cHash=081010&tx_ttnewstt_news=19588