Unreasonable Fellows
Ory Zik
CEO at Qnergy
Ory is an Unreasonable Fellow. Ory has participated in 3 programs, including Unreasonable Wellbeing 2024.
Ory Zik is a cleantech entrepreneur with more than two decades of executive leadership. Currently, he’s the CEO of Qnergy, a developer of maintenance-free generators based on Stirling Technology. Previously, Ory was the founding CEO of analytics company Energy Points, a developer of a unified metric for energy, carbon and water (acquired by Lux Research). He was the co-founder and CEO of HelioFocus, a solar-thermal company that used concentrated solar power to replace fuel in conventional power plants. He was also the founding CEO of QuantomiX, the first company to image live cells in an electron microscope. QuantomiX products are used by researchers around the world for better imaging results. Ory holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, in addition to a number of worldwide patents. He’s perhaps best known as an environmental activist for founding and leading the Israeli branch of Greenpeace and for being the Scientific Director of Israel's National Museum of Science.