Title Founder and Editor-in-Chief Company TheMarker Bio Guy Rolnik (born September 1968) is the Founder, creator and Founding Editor of TheMarker – one of Israel's most influential media organization in the last decade. Rolnik is also the Deputy Publisher of the Haaretz Group. Rolnik is considered one of Israel's top journalists and editors. He is recognized by the organizations who gave him awards, as well as other journalists, as having a unique, independent and defiant voice in the Israeli press, standing up to Israel's most powerful business people, politicians and media. Rolnik, a free market advocate is known for pointing out the many market failures in the Israeli economic system, both in the private and public sector, and the need to create values and a culture that promote productivity, effectiveness and equal opportunities. In the last few years, Rolnik led a few journalistic campaigns that changed Israeli public discourse and the Israeli government's economic policies in many areas, mainly regarding structural reforms in the business and capital sectors. Beginning in 2005, Rolnik set out on a campaign that included hundreds of columns, stories and features regarding the perils of the concentration of economic power in few hands in the Israeli economy and the danger is posed to competitiveness, prices, innovation and democracy. Pursuant to this campaign, in October 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bank of Israel's Governor Prof. Stanley Fischer set up a committee tasked with formulating recommendations for increasing competitiveness and decreasing concentration in the Israeli business sector. Its final recommendations were published on February 22nd 2012. In 2009 Rolnik initiated a campaign advocating the introduction of competition in the cellular market, which was an important hub of profitability and power of Israel's biggest business conglomerates. Following this campaign, Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon decided to open the market for competition. Following this decision, and after three years of the journalistic campaign, Israel's cellular bills dropped by fifty to ninety percent. At the beginning of 2009, Rolnik warned against a plan that would help then-stressed Israeli tycoons bail out of their debts using tax payers' money. Following his commentary, the government decided not to cave in to the tycoons' demands and the pressures they generated using other newspapers. On January 2011 Rolnik launched the "Israel 2021 Initiative", aimed at changing the Israeli public discourse, which was dominated by political and security issues. Rolnik called for more emphasis on economic issues and on long term planning. The two-day launch event was attended by 3,000 guests and hosted Prime Minister Netanyahu. The event's main feature was 175 roundtable discussions on 7 economic and social issues. Later in the year, on July, the 2011 Israeli social justice protests broke out and the public discourse began to change. Many of the protesters used roundtables to have their discussions. Following the protests, Rolnik's ideas started to seep through to larger parts of the Israeli public. In the period since its launch, the Israel 2021 Initiative helped change the Israeli public discourse to the point that the 2013 Israeli general election campaigns focused more on economic issues. In April 2012, Mako, a news website owned by Israel's leading television broadcaster Keshet wrote that Guy has "sprouting [...] – and most keenly relevant - pair of fangs in Israeli journalism" and added that "In these times, as it turns out how tycoons exploit us and pyramidal business conglomerates gobble our assets, and how government officials stand by them and not by us, Rolnik and his team are a courageous beacon of light in a media world bent by vested interests and their controlling shareholders. Well before the social-justice protests gained momentum, TheMarker had formulated its principles. When the masses took to the streets, Rolnik could fairly write to his readers, 'I told you so'.