 | | |  | | Eitan Battat is a co-founder of Kiwi Publishing and the company’s CEO. Eitan arrived in the United States in 1976, in pursuit of an outlet for his entrepreneurial spirit. Within a few short years, he had initiated and partnered in several successful business ventures, including promotional products for the satellite communications industry, corporate and leisure travel, wholesale tour operation, conference planning and real estate development in the US and the Caribbean. His vision, attitude, and vast experience in start-up enterprise provided him with remarkable management, people, and communication skills. These aptitudes are the platform for his unique ability to build an organization and bring products to market. As a textbook entrepreneur-CEO, Eitan is the driving force behind the company’s success. He is the “brains” behind the “Thin Threads” book series and its offshoot businesses. Eitan is also an amateur photographer. He turned this passion into philanthropy when he published a series greeting cards representing his 2005 climb to (photograph) the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, Africa. These cards raised funds to benefit the children of the Tella Primary School, part of the Tella Jerusalem Project. He lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut, where he pursues his greatest love - raising his three children with his best friend and partner, his wife Stacey.  .Stacey is a co-founder of Kiwi Publishing. She is the company President, and Editor-in-Chief of the Thin Threads book series. A former broadcast journalist, Stacey has also worked in educational, marketing, and business development for corporate and nonprofit organizations in New York and New Haven, CT.
Through her varied background and strong ability to engage and inspire people, Stacey brings a unique interpersonal talent to the team. She has been a public speaker for 15 years and continues to capture the passion in many people’s life stories through the Thin Threads book series. Stacey won a number of story awards from the Cable TV Magazine show “Hello Jerusalem.” Stacey earned her BS degree from the University of Florida School of Journalism, and is currently completing an MA in Education based on her studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in the departments of Counseling and Education at Southern Connecticut State University. Her favorite things to do are to travel, read, sing, dance and walk on the beach with her kids or closest friends or sit by the fire with her family. Stacey and Eitan have three children (ages 12, 17, and 19) and live in New Haven, CT.
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