Yossie Hollander is a high-tech entrepreneur and investor and one of the pioneers of Israel’s software industry.

In the past 25 years, Mr. Hollander has devoted much of his time to public and philanthropic activity.

Mr. Hollander is the main supporter of Yad Vashem's project of collecting and recording the names and details of Holocaust victims and he initiated and has been supporting 'Echoes and Reflections' – the largest Holocaust education program in the US.

Mr. Hollander serves as a member of the International Leadership Council of Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Board of Councilors of USC Shoah Foundation and the board of Weizmann Institute of Science.

Hollander also supports various organizations in the Energy field, with an emphasis on ending the world's addiction to oil. Yossi is the founder and chairman of Our Energy Policy Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating an open dialogue and agreement on U.S. energy policy and the co-founder of the Fuel Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the US dependence on oil.

Yossie has been the IEP's Chairman since its establishment in 2006.