Yale School of Management - Ron Lubash '86

"Yale SOM was a turning point in my career (and life), providing me with the opportunity to access Wall street and the business world with a set of tools acquired at Yale SOM, giving me the ability to make a switch from my engineering background into the heart of the finance world."

Ron Lubash is co-founder and managing director of Markstone Capital, a $780 million private equity fund formed to invest in Israel. Markstone Capital is Israel’s largest and first 'old economy’ value-investing private equity fund. Markstone Capital in backed by the New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYCRF), CalPERS, and other major U.S. pension funds as well as U.S., European and Israeli institutions, and private investors.

Prior to establishing the Fund, Ron Lubash was a managing director of Lehman Brothers as well as CEO of Lehman Brothers (Israel) Ltd. and Lehman Brothers’ Israel Country head. He was with Lehman Brothers since 1993 and opened the firm’s Tel-Aviv office in 1994.

Prior to Lehman Brothers, he was at First Boston and Credit Suisse First Boston for almost eight years as a cross-border M&A specialist. During that period, he initiated First Boston’s Israel Desk (which later became a Group). After moving to London, he established CSFB’s Central /Eastern European M&A activities.

He has served as a trusted advisor to many of Israel’s leading corporations, including technology and telecommunications companies, financial institutions and industrial enterprises, as well as to the government of Israel on various financings and privatizations. Additionally, he served on Lehman Brothers’ European Investment Banking Operating Committee (EIBOC).

Over the last ten years, Ron Lubash has managed a team that has executed over $25 billion of equity, debt, and cross-border and domestic M&A transactions for Israeli firms, including offerings for Israel’s most notable technology companies, as well as the major bank privatizations, and government and Israel Electric debt offerings.

Ron Lubash holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BS in civil engineering from the University of Southern California. He is also the chairman of the Israeli Board of the Youth Renewal Fund (YRF), a nonprofit dedicated to the education of over 9000 economically underprivileged children.