Menno manages his family’s international textile trading business.

In addition, he is Chair of Keren Hayesod Holland, a member of the Keren Hayesod Board of Trustees, and Chair of its Comptrollers’ Committee. In the past, he served as Treasurer and later as Chair of the Amsterdam Jewish community. Other positions he has held include Treasurer of Jewish Social Work and Treasurer of the Jewish umbrella organization, Organization of the Dutch Jewish Communities.

Mr. Paktor has been a member of The Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since 2004. Prior to that, he served from 1998 as an Assembly member, serving on Board committees.