Business development that moves from strategy to market.

Itamar represents Professor Padwa and Padwa Design Studio, an award-winning industrial design studio working across medical technology, robotics, defense, consumer products, vehicles, and complex hardware. He designed and operates an AI-powered business development system that functions as a scalable digital BD department.

• Built a multi-agent system that discovers target companies, researches markets and decision-makers, qualifies opportunities, and prepares evidence-based outreach.
• Connected personalized outreach, follow-up, reply detection, CRM coordination, meeting preparation, and reporting into one managed commercial workflow.
• Combined automated scale with human approval for positioning, sensitive communications, relationship management, negotiation, and closing.
• Turned system-generated opportunities into senior-level meetings and advanced a major group-wide strategic partnership toward an initial product pilot.

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   Discover

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   Research

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   Engage

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   Meet

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   Partner

Active partnership development · Commercial scope still in progress

Itamar led a broad transformation for a New York City grocery and prepared-food retailer. He built the retailer's own Shopify delivery website, upgraded daily operations, managed expansion across grocery and restaurant delivery channels, and developed AI invoice automation to reduce repetitive back-office work.

• Owned Shopify website: built the complete online store and local-delivery ordering experience from the ground up.
• Marketplace expansion: managed Instacart, separate restaurant and grocery workstreams for Uber Eats and DoorDash, plus Mercato and Grubhub.
• Operational improvement: connected catalog accuracy, inventory availability, pricing, store processes, and platform coordination.
• AI invoice automation: developed a workflow to extract, validate, and prepare supplier-invoice data for the retailer's POS.

Primal Soles is an award-winning European Certified B Corporation creating premium circular footwear and insoles from cork-based materials, made in Portugal. Itamar leads business development across Israel and Gulf markets.

• Developed a focused market-entry strategy across distribution, retail, luxury hospitality, corporate gifting, outdoor, surf, wellness, and lifestyle channels.
• Introduced Primal Soles to some of the largest distribution and retail groups across target Middle Eastern markets.
• Advanced opportunities from initial outreach to samples, meetings, commercial discussions, and partner evaluation.
• Built an active opportunity pipeline with potential value in the multi-million-euro range in less than two months.

Active opportunities under development · Potential pipeline, not booked revenue

SHATZ was a proptech venture designed to solve a persistent rental-market problem: gaining reliable access to occupied apartments before the current tenant moves out. The model turned outgoing tenants into an incentivized local network that could host viewings for prospective renters and support faster, better-coordinated handoffs.

• Identified occupied-unit access as a major bottleneck for renters, landlords, property managers, and leasing teams.
• Designed a marketplace model connecting outgoing tenants, incoming renters, and property operators through incentives, scheduling, verification, and reputation.
• Developed the commercial model, partner strategy, operating concept, and pilot plan for entry into the Boston rental market.
• Secured pre-seed funding and advanced the venture to pilot preparation.

COVID-19 changed the operating environment before the pilot could proceed, and the venture remains a clear example of Itamar's ability to identify a structural market problem, build a new business model, secure early funding, and prepare an international pilot.