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Inna Braverman is an Israeli entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is the Co-Founder of Eco Wave Power, a company which has developed a patented technology for the generation of clean energy from the waves.
Eco Wave Power received the Frost and Sullivan Award in 2012 and 2014 as well as the Erasmus Business Award in 2015 and the Energy Globe Award by UNEP and Unesco. In 2017, Braverman was featured in the January issue of Wired Magazine UK for her accomplishments and contributions in the wave technology field and was listed on Medium.com Website as one of the 100 makers and mavericks of 2016 and joined the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to his historical visit to Sydney, as part of the business delegation.
Biography
Braverman was born in Ukraine on April 11, 1986. Two weeks after her birth, the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor burst. When she was only few months old, she suffered from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
When Braverman was four years old, her family immigrated to Israel. They settled in Akko. After high school, she enrolled at the University of Haifa as a Political Science and English Language and Literature major. She graduated in 2010 from University of Haifa.
Career
Braverman met David Leb, a Canadian who had a surfing, scuba diving and fishing camp in Panama, while he was visiting Israel. The two shared their ideas of wave energy and co-founded Eco Wave Power in 2011.
Braverman travelled for the next one and a half year between Israel and Ukraine working on the design and development of the buoys and technology for generating energy from waves. In 2013, Eco Wave Power installed the first wave energy power plant in Jaffa Port, Israel. As a result, Braverman was shortlisted for the Business Green Leaders Award in 2013 in the category of Young Sustainability Executive of the Year. Eco Wave Power received the Frost and Sullivan Award in 2012 and 2013.
Braverman attended the Shell and CNBC Energy Challenge in 2013. She and her team won the event for their idea. In 2014, Braverman was invited by the United Nations to the Climate Summit in New York, where she presented her ideas on the use of wave energy as a resources to world leaders including François Hollande, Ollanta Humala Tasso, Shinzō Abe and Mark Rutte. Subsequently, in 2015, she also participated in 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference that was held in Paris. Eco Wave Power raised $2 million in fundraising the same year.
Braverman is the only women sitting on the TC114 Committee for Marine Energy in IEC, which sets international standards for all electric technologies. She is also a dominant contributor to different technological magazines and publications, such as Green Port Magazine.
In 2016, Braverman led the execution of the first wave energy array in Gibraltar in Europe. The official opening of the wave energy power station took place in May 2016, and Braverman and the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, along with John Cortes, the Minister of Health and Environment of Gibraltar, jointly “cut the green ribbon” to indicate the official opening of the new wave power station.
In July 2016, she gave a TED Talk and also won an award for Best Woman-Owned Renewable Energy Company in Israel by CV Magazine She was selected by Smithsonian Magazine as one of eight young innovators with ingenious ideas for the future of energy.
In 2017, Braverman was featured in the January issue of Wired Magazine UKfor her accomplishments and contributions in the wave technology field and was listed on Medium.com Website as one of the 100 makers and mavericks of 2016. Braverman is slated to speak at the Brain Bar Budapest in 2017.
Braverman was a speaker at the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament)in 2017 on the International Women's Day about her personal experience as a woman and an immigrant in business. She is slated to speak at Slush in Finland in December 2017.