Our Story & Why Israel?
In 2007, Jolene Risch founded Risch Results to enable organizations to grow by building world-class teams, intentional leadership, and people strategies that support long-term results. In 2025, her son Eli made Aliyah (immigrating to Israel and becoming a citizen), and thus Risch Results Israel was born.
As Eli began building his life in Israel, Jolene committed herself to learning about the country’s tech ecosystem and building relationships with the people driving it. She came to appreciate the Israeli pace, directness, and ability to turn complex problems into practical solutions.
Israeli founders operate with urgency, resilience, and global ambition. That ambition brings real challenges as companies expand beyond Israel, particularly into the U.S. The friction is rarely about product or vision. More often, it shows up in hiring the right leaders, building customer-facing teams, aligning expectations across cultures, and putting structure in place early enough to support scale.
Risch Results Israel was created to address that need.
Today, Risch Results partners with Israeli startups and scaleups to build teams and leadership structures that support international growth. The firm works closely with founders and executives to hire with intention, develop leaders, and design organizations that can operate effectively between Israel and the US.
The outcome is not just expansion, but sustainable growth: teams that execute, leaders who are aligned, and companies built to compete and succeed in the US market.
Our team

Jolene Risch
President & Founder

Shira Hovav
Israel Country Manager

Nicole Stasick
Senior Director of Recruiting

Viri Feldman
Director of Business Development and Recruiting

Kristen Graves
TALENT MANAGER

Alexis Dowell
Recruiting Manager

Dave Robles
Senior Sourcing Manager

Christopher Diaz
Senior Sourcing Manager

Sam De Vera
Senior Sourcing Managers