General Investing >> Analyst Interviews >> March 4, 2004
Richard Mashaal is Vice President of Senvest Capital Inc., President of
Senvest International LLC and President and Chief Investment Officer of
Senvest Fund Management, Inc. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of
Science in Economics from the Wharton School of Business in 1986 where
he majored in Finance. He worked at Dean Witter Reynolds in New York in
the Private Finance group from 1986 to 1987. He then attended the
University of Chicago, receiving a Master's in Business Administration
in Finance and a Master's of Arts in International Relations in 1989.
Since 1989, he has worked for Senvest Capital, and has been involved in
various businesses including electronic security, commercial printing,
real estate, venture capital and merchant banking. In 1994 he founded
Senvest International LLC in New York. In April 1997, he initiated
Senvest Partners, a small cap fund, and in April 2003, he started a
second fund ' Senvest Israel Partners. Profile
Mr. Mashaal: We have two funds that we manage. One, called Senvest
Partners, is a small and mid-cap fund. We've got about $50 million
