Yair Tauman

Yair Tauman (Hebrew: יאיר טאומן; born January 20, 1948) is a professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and the Director of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory.

Tauman has been the organizer of the International Summer Conferences in Game Theory for over 30 years,[2] and has been on the faculty at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and served as the dean of the business school at the Interdisciplinary Center in Hertzliya, Israel.

Since 2009 he has served as the academic director of the Zell entrepreneurship program in the Interdisciplinary Center in Hertzliya.

In 2005, Tauman led a small group of Israeli investors to interfere with a takeover of online auction company QXL[3] which was then sold for $1.9 billion.

[4] Tauman co-founded Bidorbuy.com and has served as a member of the board of directors for the following companies: ADFVN,[5] Digi-block, Radware, and Expo-bee.