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Building and advising startups in emerging technologies & researching intelligent systems has led Max to the pursuit of transforming the nation’s ability to adopt and deploy these technologies for critical national security challenges.

He questions the policies, assumptions, and failures that undermine our nation’s national security strategy, interrogates the lessons of the geopolitical past, and attempts to shape our understanding of the technological future.

He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Hatikvah Magazine.

 











He’s launched a plethora of digital products:





Enabling clinician independence at Joyful Health
Joined Joyful Health as founding designer to scope, design, and launch a financial operating system for healthcare practices, using AI to provide unparalleled visibility into finances and an automated revenue recovery agent.

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Making SaaS procurement 20% faster at Vendr
Joined Vendr as first designer to streamline software buying, launching V1 & V2 of Vendr’s flagship procurement solution — and improving a myriad of internal systems — with immediate success.

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Designing a new luxury experience at Authentic
Joined Authentic as founding designer, spearheading full-scale, cross-platform product design and product launch with partner brands.

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Streamlining laboratory efficiency at SciSquare
Joined SciSquare to lead design efforts for a streamlined laboratory management system that fused procurement, experiment and inventory management, and equipment scheduling.

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Research & Writing






A Poetic Revolt: The Oyneg Shabes and the Art of Written Resistance

As the Holocaust Legacy Foundation/Northeastern University Gideon Klein Scholar, Max is developing a digital exhibition that unearths how the Warsaw Ghetto’s underground preserved Jewish peoplehood and secured a distinctly Jewish vantage on the final chapter of Polish Jewry — a historic act of defiance.

Coming Spring 2025




The Bukharian Language: bringing an endangered language to modern consciousness using contemporary tools

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From the Silk Road to 108th Street: A visual essay on the immigration and integration of Bukharian Jews into 20th-century Queens, New York City


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Max has been grateful to assist research and development to the following initiatives:







Max’s writing:
Occasionally, he publishes on Substack.




Current Projects



Creating ecosystems, programs, tools, and resources for policy entrepreneurs, philanthropic donors, technologists, and philanthropic fund directors.
Building ecosystems of philanthropic funds. Growing a community of policy entrepreneurs.
Renaissance Philanthropy


Building the global Jewish consciousness
Max Berger founded Hatikvah Magazine to give a voice to emerging Jewish writers, artists, historians, and activists.
Hatikvah Magazine



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