UNI Venture Group is a family-led enterprise network built on three generations of entrepreneurship, innovation, and service. The BenAmoz family has worked across industries — aerospace engineering, pharmacy, manufacturing, business transformation, nonprofit strategy, financial services, and technology — not as separate pursuits, but as expressions of a shared set of values: build things that matter, serve people well, and always bring the next generation along.
Our story begins with Dr. Meir BenAmoz, a soldier and scientist who immigrated to the United States and spent his career at the frontier of aerospace engineering — contributing to the lunar capsule heat shield program at General Electric’s Missile and Space Vehicle Department during the height of the Space Race. His commitment to his craft, his community, and his family set a standard that every generation since has tried to honor.
His children carried that spirit forward, each carving their own path. Dan became a pharmacist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who reshaped the independent pharmacy industry and gave back to the institution that trained him. Rafi brought the rigor of world-class manufacturing philosophy into business consulting, spending decades transforming operations across industries. Eileen built a career in nonprofit strategy and civic leadership, helping organizations raise capital and serve their communities with greater purpose.
Now the third generation is connecting those threads into something more intentional — a network of ventures and relationships designed to create meaningful impact across industries and borders.
We operate as a family. That means long time horizons, trusted relationships, and a standard of accountability that goes beyond the bottom line.
May 20, 1924 – March 3, 2009
Before he was an engineer, Dr. Meir BenAmoz was a soldier. Born in 1924, he fought alongside the British against the Nazis in World War II. That combination of courage and conviction would define everything he did afterward.
He earned a degree in Civil Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, followed by a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania — where his doctoral dissertation, A New Variational Theorem in Coupled Thermoelasticity and Its Applications, opened an entirely new field of scientific inquiry. That work, published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics in 1965, remains cited in peer-reviewed research to this day.
He went on to apply that foundation where it mattered most — at General Electric’s Missile and Space Division at the Valley Forge Space Technology Center, where he contributed to the lunar capsule heat shield program during the height of the Space Race. His expertise in thermal heat dispersion and materials fatigue addressed one of the most demanding engineering challenges of the era: ensuring that astronauts could survive the journey home from the Moon. In recognition of his contributions, GE honored him with the Truly Warner Award, presented to top engineers in aerospace.
His work was the kind that rarely makes headlines but quietly underpins the safety and performance of flight itself. He was part of a generation of scientists and engineers who believed that rigorous inquiry and disciplined work were acts of service — to their field, to their country, and to the people who would one day depend on what they built.
Dr. BenAmoz settled in Niskayuna, New York, where he raised a family and built a life that reflected everything he stood for. Generations of his family continue to try to live up to the standard he set.
With over 44 years of experience reshaping independent pharmacy, Dan BenAmoz has built a career at the intersection of clinical excellence and entrepreneurial vision. A 1981 alumnus of the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) and a U.S. patent holder for the transdermal delivery of steroids via ultrasound, Dan has long stood where science meets disruption.
As founder of Pharmacy Development Services (PDS), he built and scaled one of the most recognized performance improvement networks for independent pharmacies in the United States — helping hundreds of owners stabilize operations, accelerate growth, and build businesses worth owning — culminating in a successful exit. He has also maintained active ownership of independent compounding pharmacies across multiple states, advanced pharmaceutical access for Native American tribal communities, and developed and commercialized digital prescription management tools aligned with U.S. insurance and reimbursement priorities.
In 2023, Dan made a $1 million gift to ACPHS to establish a Pharmacy Entrepreneurship Program — contributing both funding and curriculum design to ensure that future pharmacists enter the field as business builders, not just clinicians. The gift was highlighted in the Fall 2023 issue of Breakthroughs Magazine.
Today, Dan serves as a senior principal within the Benamoz Family Consortium — a coordinated platform of bankers, advisors, executives, and investors focused on cross-border initiatives in healthcare security, biotechnology, and critical supply chains. His flagship retail venture, RxVIP Concierge Quality Pharmacy in Delray Beach, serves as an innovative model for personalized, technology-enabled pharmacy care.
Rafi BenAmoz is a process engineer, business strategist, and change agent with decades of experience spanning global manufacturing, healthcare operations, and entrepreneurship. His career is a study in what happens when rigorous systems thinking meets real-world accountability.
He spent three decades at General Motors and Delphi Automotive in roles across industrial engineering, manufacturing management, labor relations, plant personnel leadership, quality assurance, and international LEAN implementation — applying the Toyota Production System to drive new levels of productivity across operations in the United States and abroad. That foundation shaped everything that followed.
Rafi has applied LEAN principles to stabilize systems and drive triple-digit growth across industries — proving that the disciplines of manufacturing excellence translate directly into service businesses. Today, as President and CEO of Benamoz Business Entrepreneur Solutionz, he works directly with business owners to eliminate inefficiency, develop leadership capacity, and build enterprises that are profitable, sustainable, and worth owning.
Rafi holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University at Buffalo. His approach is direct, practical, and grounded in four decades of results.
Eileen Handelman has spent more than 25 years helping organizations raise money, build coalitions, and grow. As a principal and co-founder of Capital Affairs LLC — established in 2003 — she has led some of the most complex multi-stakeholder fundraising campaigns and events in the nonprofit sector, working across corporate, government, and community lines to drive outcomes that last.
Her expertise spans strategic fundraising, corporate philanthropy, stakeholder engagement, and event strategy. She is known for her ability to align diverse interests around shared goals — bringing together boards, staff, donors, and public partners in ways that produce not just financial results, but lasting institutional momentum.
Under her leadership, Capital Affairs has become synonymous with excellence in managing campaigns and events that require both vision and execution. Eileen’s approach is deeply collaborative and deeply relational — grounded in the belief that the most durable outcomes come from the most durable partnerships.
Jonathan BenAmoz is a seasoned executive in financial services and fintech with over 11 years of experience scaling companies from pre-seed startups to successful exits to public companies. Throughout his career he has played a central role in bringing innovative financial products to market, building and training high-performance sales teams, and executing strategic growth initiatives that have produced double and triple-digit year-over-year expansion.
His expertise spans business development, market adoption strategy, and organizational scaling — the work of turning early-stage momentum into durable, market-leading businesses. He has operated at the intersection of finance and technology through a period of significant industry transformation, and has built a track record that reflects both the ambition and the discipline required to succeed in that space.
Nathan BenAmoz’s career has been defined by a willingness to bet on himself. At 21, he was managing vehicle deliveries for Tesla across the state of Florida — the largest delivery region outside California — and was on a clear path to corporate advancement. He walked away to build something of his own.
Over the years that followed, he developed deep expertise in marketing, media, and web automation, working across finance, healthcare, and personal development. He is the founder or co-founder of Unlimited Networks Inc and associated brands through the Hope Network. He also led the formation of UNI Venture Group – initially as a platform for global public-private projects but eventually bringing together the strengths of his family under this visionary and ambitious platform. His media and digital work spans brand launches, platform development, and engagement with governmental and institutional stakeholders.
He has been mentored and trained by a range of leaders and entrepreneurs; and has built his capabilities across leadership, marketing, advanced communication, team building, and strategic development — always as an active student, never as someone who stopped learning.
Today, Nathan works at the intersection of the BenAmoz family businesses and broader public-private initiatives focused on supply chain security and pharmaceutical access across western allied markets. He operates between multiple ventures and jurisdictions, connecting relationships, capital, and opportunity in ways that no single discipline could contain.
Outside of work, Nathan is a storyteller, traveler, and practitioner of yoga — someone who believes that the best businesses are built by people who are fully alive.
But perhaps his greatest accomplishment to date has been pulling together multiple generations of his family into a unified platform — and developing the global relationships, institutional credibility, and operational infrastructure to make that platform matter on a world stage.
