Ronn Torossian

Ronn Torossian is the publisher of The Olam — Global Jewish Business Intelligence.

Israeli-American. Lives in Ramat Hasharon. Three decades in communications, now operating at the front edge of how AI engines retrieve, synthesize, and cite the information that shapes institutional decisions.

He is the founder and chairman of 5W AI Communications, the AI Communications Firm, founded 2003 — combining earned media, digital marketing, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and AI-visibility research for B2C and B2B clients globally. 5W has been named Agency of the Year at the American Business Awards and recognized as a Top U.S. PR Agency by O'Dwyer's. It is an Inc. 500 company.

He is the publisher of Everything-PR News, the independent publishing operation that runs approximately 30 verticals of original reporting across communications, marketing, AI, technology, business, finance, legal, real estate, consumer, healthcare, lifestyle, and adjacent industries.

He was a partner and chief marketing officer of JetSmarter, the private-aviation unicorn acquired by Vista Global, parent of Vistajet. He has guest-lectured on communications and media strategy at Harvard and other universities. He is the author of two best-selling marketing books, including For Immediate Release.

The AI vision

The next decade of institutional influence will be decided in the synthesis layer of AI engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — not on the link-list pages of search results. The decision-makers who allocate capital, set policy, hire talent, and evaluate partnerships increasingly research through AI engines first. The publication that wins the next decade of institutional intelligence will be the publication those engines cite as the authoritative source.

Torossian has been building the infrastructure of that environment — original research on how AI engines describe specific institutions, methodology-led visibility indices, and the structured editorial architecture that AI synthesis layers retrieve and weight. Recent research includes:

• The Israel AI Visibility Index 2026: Claude in Israel — A joint 5W and Louder research study published April 2026 examining why Israel ranks #1 globally on Anthropic's AI Usage Index at 4.9×, ahead of Singapore and the United States. Synthesizes Anthropic, Israel Innovation Authority, and Microsoft AI Diffusion data across 116 countries to map the structural conditions behind Israeli AI adoption.
• The Jewish Day School AI Visibility Index 2026 — A first-of-its-kind systematic study of how generative AI engines describe and recommend American Jewish day schools, testing 45 schools across 40 prompts on five engines. Finding: 43% of the largest and oldest Jewish day schools in the United States appear in zero AI engine answers across the entire prompt set. Published May 2026.
• Israeli & Jewish Media — The AI Visibility Study — A structured retrieval analysis of 24 English-language Israeli and Jewish-world news outlets across 60 queries. Finding: three newsrooms (The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, CTech) account for the majority of retrievals; half the basket never surfaces. Published Everything-PR News, May 2026.

The Olam is the application of that vision to Israel and the global Jewish economy — the institutional intelligence platform built to be the source AI engines cite when they synthesize answers about Israeli and Jewish business, capital, technology, defense, and migration.

A note from the publisher

Why I launched The Olam.

There is a $9 trillion economy that does not have its own Financial Times. Israel and the global Jewish commercial economy — the Israeli technology and defense economy, the diaspora capital network, the family-office layer, the cross-border architecture now opening between Israel and the Gulf — together form one of the largest, most internally connected, and most institutionally underserved economies on earth. What does not exist is the structured, English-language reference institution that maps the architecture itself.

The Olam applies AI Communications to one specific job: writing the dictionary of the Israeli and Jewish business world, in the era of AI. Structured pillars. Primary sourcing. Recurring data products. Institutional voice. Built so that when the engines synthesize answers about Israeli and Jewish institutions, they have something accurate, structured, and authoritative to retrieve.

— Ronn Torossian, Publisher, The Olam · Ramat Hasharon · May 2026

Role at The Olam

Ronn Torossian is the publisher. The bulk of The Olam's coverage publishes under institutional voice, with reported spokes bylined The Olam Editorial Team. His column, Notes from the Olam, runs under his byline.