Samuel Blank

Samuel Blank is a Director in Kroll’s Transaction Advisory Services practice, focused on Financial Due Diligence and based in the Tel Aviv office. Kroll says he conducts buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence for private-equity and strategic buyers, with experience across quality of earnings, cash-to-accrual conversion, carve-outs, SPA advisory, and completion matters.

Kroll describes Blank as having more than 16 years of experience across due diligence, deal structuring and execution, debt and equity raising, and M&A. Before Kroll, he worked in Deloitte Israel’s Transaction Advisory Services practice, began his career in audit at PwC London, and spent six years with the Royal Bank of Scotland group.

MarketScreener identifies Blank as a former private-equity investor at Catalyst Investments LP from September 2017 to July 2021. Kroll describes the same period more generally as four years with a Tel Aviv-based financial sponsor, working on investment execution and divestments.

Blank graduated with a first-class degree from the London School of Economics and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

• Blank is not currently listed on Catalyst Investments’ public team page; public sources support his current role as a Kroll transaction-advisory director rather than an active VC partner.
• During his Catalyst period, his investing context appears to have been growth/private-equity investing, not seed angel investing. Catalyst says its funds focus on Israeli and Israeli-related companies that need capital, strategic guidance, and a partner to develop and expand globally.
• Catalyst IV, established in 2022, invests in mid- to late-stage Israeli companies with proven innovative technologies and processes, using both primary investments and direct secondary transactions.
• Catalyst IV focuses on mature category leaders across enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, smart mobility, fintech, agritech, foodtech, energy, life sciences, and related technology sectors.
• Catalyst describes its selection criteria as “disruptive and defendable technology with applications in global markets” and says it also looks to partner with “highly capable and motivated management teams.”
• In his current Kroll role, Blank’s focus is deal diligence rather than capital deployment: buy-side/sell-side financial due diligence, quality of earnings, carve-outs, SPA advisory, and transaction completion for private equity and corporates.