When security becomes
an investment thesis
Government demand is drawing capital and talent toward defense technology. What kind of economy will grow around it?
Read the essayFinance · Strategy · Company Building
Dov
Fettman.
Partner & Group CFO
RAKIA Group
Building the financial, governance and institutional foundations that enable ambitious technology companies to scale.
Executive profile
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Executive profile
A finance and strategy executive who helps complex technology businesses become disciplined, financeable and institutionally ready.
Dov Fettman (דב פטמן) has built a career spanning aerospace, autonomous robotics and mission-critical technology. He has held senior financial leadership roles at Israel Aerospace Industries and Tevel Aerobotics Technologies, and currently serves as Partner & Group CFO of RAKIA Group.
Across these environments, his work has focused on capital formation, governance, international expansion and the financial discipline required to turn technological ambition into durable growth.
Selected perspectives
Where capital meets
a changing world.
On security, innovation and the choices that shape global companies.
When security becomes
Can Israel become a defense-tech powerhouse without becoming a “super-Sparta”?
The Israeli question behind the global thesis: building security while keeping the economy open, diverse and connected.
Read in HebrewA working principle
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A working principle
Technology can improve the material. Trust is still built in the room.
In fundraising, partnerships and major commercial decisions, polished information is only the beginning. The decisive questions are usually human: judgment, clarity, alignment and whether the people around the table believe they can build together.
A visual thesis
From information
to conviction.
Tools can sharpen the analysis. Progress begins when people trust the judgment, align around a direction and decide to act.
Across markets
Global work is built through local trust.
Cross-border execution has been a recurring part of Dov's work, from aerospace and autonomous robotics to mission-critical technology. Markets and structures differ; progress still depends on understanding local context, aligning stakeholders and building trust.
World Knowledge Forum · South Korea
International speaking
Ideas that travel
across markets.
Dov spoke at two consecutive editions of the World Knowledge Forum in South Korea, exploring the practical intersection of AI, robotics and global food systems.
2023
Robots, the Future Leaders of Agriculture
↗2024Labor scarcity, autonomous technologies, sustainable agriculture and food security.
Digital Transformation of Agriculture
↗Moving AI and robotics from technological promise to commercial adoption.
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Selected experience
Current
Partner & Group CFO
RAKIA Group
Financial strategy, capital planning, governance and institutional readiness for a global technology group operating in mission-critical environments.
Previously
Chief Financial Officer
Tevel Aerobotics Technologies
Financial leadership through scale-up, capital formation and international growth in autonomous robotics and artificial intelligence.
Earlier career
Senior financial leadership
Israel Aerospace Industries
Finance and management experience within large-scale aerospace and defense-related operations.
A selected operating chapter
Turning technological ambition into an investable company.
At Tevel, Dov worked at the intersection of deep technology, global expansion and capital formation. The experience reinforced a view that runs through his work today: strong technology creates potential; institutional discipline makes that potential scalable.
Read the CTech coverageAreas of focus
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Areas of focus
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Strategic finance and capital planning
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Capital formation and investor readiness
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Corporate governance and board effectiveness
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Cross-border expansion and structuring
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Institutional company building
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Operating discipline in complex environments
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Public record
Selected evidence,
not a catalogue.
A concise set of independent references documenting selected roles, industry perspectives and public appearances.
Current roleRAKIA Group appoints Dov Fettman as Group CFORAKIA GroupInternational speakingOfficial speaker, World Knowledge Forum 2024World Knowledge ForumInternational speakingOfficial speaker, World Knowledge Forum 2023World Knowledge ForumProfile interviewAI robotics, global deployment and collaboration in KoreaMaeil Business NewspaperExecutive interviewAI-enabled robotics, international commercialization and collaboration with KoreaNews1 KoreaConferenceRobotic fruit-pickers to save the supply chainCTech by CalcalistInternational conferenceTransforming agriculture through innovationAgriNext 2025