Michal Vakrat Wolkin is a Managing Director at Lear Innovation Ventures (LIV) in Israel.   She is an applied physicist and executive business leader with broad exposure and passion to deep technologies with a focus on mobility.

Prior to joining Lear, Michal was a technical director at NASA’s Night Rover Challenge, a Member of Research Staff at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), a Director of EV battery technologies at Better Place, and 3M head of R&D in Israel.

Michal has a PhD from the University of Rochester and a post doc from Xerox PARC.  She has over 10 patents and numerous publications with thousands of citations. 

LIV Possibilities is the framework underlying Lear's focus on product, process, and business model innovation in autonomous, connected, electrified and shared mobility trends. LIV possibilities is investing in advanced development teams, partnerships, and early stage technologies, working with venture capital firms, accelerators, and incubators;  providing direct capital to start-ups and internal innovation initiatives.