Leads business growth
Marketing, business development, and market entry
I build and grow business-growth activities, from defining the message to creating opportunities, marketing, and deals.
Itamar Assaf
Growth Architect
I never stayed in one box. I moved between founding a small business, high-tech, government, and community, and in every world I learned how decisions get made, how markets open, and how a deal gets closed differently. You know me from Lost in Y, the community I built from 3,500 real meetings. Being multidisciplinary isn't a compromise, it's the advantage.
In an era where knowledge and tools are available to everyone, the difference comes from the ability to think differently, identify the right solution, and drive it to execution. I build growth engines and action strategies for companies, organizations, and ventures, from diagnosis to results on the ground.
What sets me apart
From my experience, to your challenge
This range isn't theoretical. I've worked in varied roles and industries, from agriculture to high-tech companies in retail, health, and deep tech, to government companies and ministries, each time from a different angle: as an entrepreneur, an employee, a freelancer, an investor, and a board member.
Every world left me with a different understanding of how decisions get made, how trust is built, and how a deal gets closed. The ability that truly makes a difference is knowing how to create a win-win in the room, and to see trends before they become obvious.
Builds a network of trust
3,500+ executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals
My network and community were built over years of deep conversations, personal relationships, and joint work. I rely on them, on trust, on talent, and on the ability to make precise connections.
Connects across worlds
Business, government, community, and technology
I know the language, pace, community, and technology. This experience lets me open doors and advance collaborations that create complex value.
Turns connections into results
Hires, partnerships, deals, and ventures
I don't settle for a first introduction. I pinpoint the need, create the connection, and stay with it until it becomes a real result.
Work in the field
Global activity, personal relationships
Growth solutions for companies and organizations
From building new activity
to creating growth engines
01 / Growth & new activity
Building activity, market development, and business growth
I help companies build new activity, sharpen the business offering, generate demand, develop partnerships, and move toward first deals.
02 / Talent sourcing
The right people for your next growth phase
I source talent and domain leaders from a personal network of executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals. The goal is to find the person who brings ability, experience, and connections that match the organization's current stage.
03 / Strategic partnerships
Business connections across sectors and markets
I connect companies, entrepreneurs, corporations, public bodies, and investors, to advance partnerships, open markets, and create business opportunities.
My Squad
Growth architecture isn't built alone.
It's built with the right people.
Over the years I've built a professional network out of projects, challenges, and personal relationships with executives, entrepreneurs, and edge experts across fields and sectors. It's a network formed through shared work, deep conversations, tackling problems together, and trust built over time. When extra depth is needed, I know who to call and how to bring the exact right people around the challenge. Not to pile on stakeholders, but to bring relevant experience, another perspective, and the ability to actually solve problems.
Lost in Y Community
It all started as a search for "both/and" people.
Today it's a community that builds portfolio careers and opportunities.
It all started in Boston, in 2016. I joined an entrepreneurship program during a season of searching, wanting to meet people who didn't fit one professional definition. People who combine management, entrepreneurship, technology, creativity, and social action. "Both/and" people.
Out of those meetings, conversations, and relationships, Lost in Y was born. The community grew gradually, conversation after conversation, into a network of more than 3,500 executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals. People who, instead of leaning on a single role, build a portfolio career that combines roles, consulting, ventures, investments, and meaningful work.
It's a professional space built on trust, personal relationships, and mutual give. Members come to think, consult, share experience, make connections, and give and receive value. The goal isn't just finding the next opportunity, but building a meaningful network over time that advances people, ideas, and careers.
Boston, 2016The Announcements Channel
Insights and opportunities, no noise.
A quiet, focused channel where I share insights, business opportunities, senior roles, professional content, and tools for building a portfolio career.
The Business Arena & professional groups
Connections, consulting, and working together.
Active spaces built on trust and mutual value. Here, community members consult, share knowledge, find partners, build ventures, and advance professional and business opportunities.
2016Boston, the beginning
3,500+Community members
3,000+Deep conversations
Get in touch
The right connection is worth more than another year of trial and error.
Whether you're a company that needs its first deal, an organization looking for a board member, or an executive at a crossroads, let's talk.