Lior is an investor, entrepreneur, and the Founder and Managing Partner of Eclipse, a venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs rearchitecting the industries that are critical to people’s lives and national economies. He is passionate about building groundbreaking technology companies. During his time at Flex, a multinational manufacturing leader — where he led the hardware investment platform, Lab IX — Lior witnessed firsthand the headwinds physical industries were facing, in addition to inefficiencies and eroding of competitive advantage these negative forces were causing. Convinced that digital transformation would strengthen physical industries and support both economic and national security, Lior began to build Eclipse in late 2014. An unlikely venture capitalist, Lior grew up on a kibbutz and spent many years in the Special Forces of the Israeli military. A relentless optimist with a passion for company building, Lior believes that the world needs a New Economy and wants to help the best entrepreneurs build it.

Thomas Storch has held prominent roles at the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy, including Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. In this capacity, his portfolio focused on economic and national security policy, particularly in areas such as international trade, energy, and U.S. economic competitiveness. Storch served as the United States’ lead negotiator at the G20 and led the coordination of the G7 during the United States’ host year in 2020. At the White House, he co-led the development of the economic framework for the Peace to Prosperity plan for the Middle East and was part of the team that negotiated the Abraham Accords normalization Agreements.

He also served as Senior Director for Global Economics, Finance, and Development at the National Security Council (NSC) and as a senior official for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. After his tenure in the White House, Storch became a Managing Director at Affinity Partners, focusing on energy and commodities.

Storch holds an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College and an M.A. from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he was awarded the Lawrence Freedman Prize for his dissertation on the key drivers and characteristics of a potential Japanese nuclear weapons program.