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Jonathan Barsade is a licensed attorney in California (Bar #141921, active) and a serial entrepreneur specializing in technology startups, with expertise in transforming concepts into viable businesses; he co-founded and served as CEO of Exactor (accounting services company founded 2008) and sold his last startup to Intuit. He is a prominent Jewish communal leader and non-profit executive, serving as Treasurer/Director of IsraAID (US) and Member of the Israeli Board of IsraAID, President and Board Member of the America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL), and Founder and President of the AID Coalition (America-Israel Democracy Coalition, launched in 2023 to support Israeli democracy during protests). Additionally, he is an executive producer of the 2025 documentary The Children of October 7 about young survivors of the October 7, 2023 attacks. He resides in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, is the husband of the late Sigal Barsade (Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), and father to at least one daughter, Sivahn Barsade.