Lyon ("Lenny") Roth is Senior Vice President at UBS Financial Services in Aventura, Florida and a member of the Israeli Consulate’s Speakers Bureau.  He lectures frequently on topics relating to Israel, the political and economic climate in the Middle East, energy security and environmental sustainability.  

Lyon was born in Jerusalem, is a graduate of McGill University and Harvard Law School, where his thesis topic was “The Status of the Territories 

at International Law.” Following Harvard, Lyon clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and was a corporate attorney with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz in New York.  He then spent six years as a senior executive at Koor Industries in Tel Aviv in the 1990s, then Israel’s largest conglomerate with over 100 subsidiaries and 35,000 employees.

 He has served on several community and corporate boards in Israel and the US, including Blue Square Israel (NYSE:BSI), Makhteshim-Agan (TASE:MAIN), where he was chairman of the audit committee and Deltathree (NASDAQ:DDDC), where he was chairman of the board of directors. 

 Lyon is an adjunct professor of Business Law and Ethics at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale and at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.  He is also a governor of BGU and chairman of the university's investment committee in the US. He serves as chairman of Israel Bonds for Florida and Puerto Rico (except Palm Beach County), is chair of AJC's local Energy Security task force, vice chairman for media and communications at Project Interchange and is a member of the Miami Mayor's Green Commission.  He is also a member of AIPAC's Congressional Club and the Harvard Law School Alumni Association. Lyon is fluent in English, French and Hebrew.