CURRICULUM VITAE
Micha Reisel

Personal:		Born: Amsterdam, Holland, June 1947,
		Israeli, Norwegian and Dutch citizenships

Address:		38 Alexander Penn St., Hod HaSharon 45212, Israel
 		09 - 745-1390  / 0544 - 788-218   michareisel@gmail.com

Languages:	Dutch - Mother Tongue; Norwegian - like Mother Tongue;
	 	English - like Mother Tongue; German - Fluent, read, write
	 	French - Speak, read, write; Swedish, Danish - speak, read;
		Hebrew - Proficient
 
Education:
1965 - 1972  	MA, Political and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Holland, 
		with Mass Communication, Economics and Sociology as majors.
 
Experience:
= 1998 - present	Founder - Principal
		Israel-Europe Projects, Hod Hasharon
Consultancy for European Union research projects and Joint Ventures, assisting Israeli municipalities, 
companies and organizations.
Translation to and from Norwegian of legal documents, manuals, online training lessons, 
subtitles, genealogical records etc.

= 2000   		Vice President, Scandinavian Operations  
		Goldnames Ltd., Jerusalem
I was employed as Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Goldnames, an Internet start-up company with 
a unique niche in the Domain Name Investing Business. 
The company folded after 9 months due to financial difficulties.

 = 1989 - 1998 	Managing Director
		The Municipal Reporter, Oslo, Norway.
"The Municipal Reporter" is a weekly newspaper owned by the Norwegian Association of Local Authorities. 
As Managing Director, I successfully reorganized the production, subscription and advertisement 
departments, so that the newspaper now is a widely respected and financially successful operation. 
The newspaper targets municipal politicians and officials and was the first online newspaper in Norway (1994).

= 1987 - 1989 	Founder - Principal
		Publishing Management Software Inc, New York, USA and Oslo, Norway.
I started my own company, designing and marketing a decision-support software package for 
book publishers. Simon & Schuster and Harper & Row were among the US customers.

= 1984 - 1987 	Managing Director: Mortensen Book Publishers, Oslo.
= 1976 - 1984 	Acquisition Editor: Oslo University Press, Oslo.
= 1974 - 1976 	Researcher: The Norwegian Council for Innovation in Education, Oslo.
= 1973 - 1974 	Foreign Exchange Trader: Den norske Creditbank, Oslo.
= 1972 - 1973 	Research assistant: Norwegian Council for Social Research, Oslo.


Professional Memberships:

= 1990-98	Norwegian Association of Periodical Publishers:
  Member of the Board of Directors and President of the Publisher's Forum, 
  and member of the Board of Directors of the Publisher's Fund 
= 1994-98	Norwegian Copyright Clearance Center: 
  Member of the Board of Representatives   
= 1994 - 2001	Orion Publishers, inc, Oslo:
  Chairman of the Board of Directors
= 1995-98	Internet Society Norway: 
  Co-founder and member of the Board of Directors
= 1995-98	Norwegian Net for Municipalities:
  Domain Name Authority and advisor
= 1995-97	Selvig Publishing, inc, Oslo:
  Member of the Board of Directors
= 1999-2001	Registered Expert-evaluator for IST projects in the 5th Framework 
  of the European Union 's R&D program on "Social and Business Models for 
  Multi-Media Content: Personalization of Content", Administrations and e-Content.
= 2000-  2004	Euronetrade, Tel Aviv:
  Member of Board of Advisors for a multilingual e-commerce startup company.
= 2003- today	NewGlobalMarkets, Tel Aviv
  Member of planning team for a financial trading start-up
= 2003- 2005	Politech Institute, Brussels, Belgium
  Head of Publications department


Hobby: Genealogy: 

I am Vice-President of  JFRA, the Jewish Family Research Association of Israel. In addition I 
moderate the 350+ discussion list of JFRA. Frequent lecturer at meetings in the four branches 
of the organization. I teach online genealogy classes for Ancestry.com and have an 
online publishing venture www.toldot.net for genealogy printing and genealogy web site building.

	Some of my translations, just to show the scope of my work:
Company Documents 	DUTCH-NORW
Dead Sea Product Marketing 	ENG-NORW
Distributor Contract 		SWE-ENG
Manual for car seat		FRENCH-NORW
Manuals (mostly technical)	ENG-NORW
Marketing Material for Oils 	ENG-NORW
Marketing Artificial Grass	DUTCH-NORW
Network Iinstaller Manual 	ENG-NORW
Online Games 		ENG-NORW
Online Training Courses 	ENG-NORW
QA for Programs  		DUTCH
QA for Program		NORW
Software Localization 	ENG-NORW
Subtitles TV Programmes 	ENG-NORW
Training for Technicians 	ENG-NORW
User Guide Furniture	DANISH-NORW
User Guides (consumer prod.)	ENG-NORW
Video Conferencing Marketing ENG-NORW
Websites (mostly marketing)	ENG-NORW
Web site medical tests	SWE-NORW
Oil Rig Safety Training	ENG-NORW

Activities as Project manager, Fact Checker, Prospect Researcher,  Content Developer 
and Search Engine Optimizer in the past few years: 

= Liveworld.com - online moderator for business forums
= CSSN-Europe Ltd. Tel Aviv/Los Angeles Strategic partnership search in Europe
= K.Martin, Portland, OR, due diligence research for minor league basketball team location
= Citizen's Accord Forum, Jerusalem, designed NGO web site, search engine optimized
= Unitlink, Bergen, Norway, revamped financial web site, search engine optimized
= Propertymall, London, UK, quality checked 34 web sites, made recommendations.
= Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development, Herzliya, redesigned NGO web site
= Enchanted Garden, CT, USA, researched franchising possibilities for musical kindergarten
= Oranit, Haifa, researched online competitors and procurement for wood roof company
= Norwegian Water Supply ASA, Oslo, Norway, consulting on business opportunities
= Maximal Innovative Intelligence, Tel Aviv, updated Executive Summary of Business Plan
= Enigma Software, Herzliya, submitted proposal for R&D project to EUs FP6 research
= Zippori of Galilee Cosmetics, Zippori, researched distributors in Europe
= Vitricom Group Ltd., Kfar Saba, found European investors for waste treament plant
= Haifa Municipality, Project manager financial report for EU project in waste management