20MinuteLeaders
20MinuteLeaders features the world's prominent leaders for short conversations about their journeys and insights.
S1 E1151 · Sat, July 19, 2025
The Human Zero Day Series | Ep1151: Dr. Nima Schei: Bio‑Inspired AI Trust
MD‑turned‑neuroscientist Nima Schei shares how modeling the brain’s limbic system led him from crab‑neuron labs to Guacamole ID—lightweight, continuous desktop authentication—while devising guardrails against deepfakes and MFA fatigue. His bio‑inspired algorithms suggest emotional intelligence in machines can raise trust, cut compute, and free teams in fast‑moving enterprises.
S1 E1150 · Wed, July 16, 2025
The Human Zero Day Series | Ep1150: Lucas Hu – Building a Swiss Cheese Security Stack
When Lucas Hu witnessed a deepfake breach his firm’s defenses, he recognized the limits of traditional tooling. Leveraging a decade of ML research and hands-on cybersecurity experience, he pioneered a “Swiss cheese” model—layering email, domain, and behavioral signals—to outsmart evolving phishing and deepfake attacks.
S1 E1148 · Mon, July 14, 2025
The Human Zero Day Series | Ep1149: Joshua Crumbaugh - Cognitive Biases: Security’s Edge
After witnessing a high-stakes breach test turn real, Joshua Crumbaugh shifted from underground hacking roots into marketing strategy, then combined both to pioneer ethical social engineering. At Phish Firewall, he applies behavioral science and AI-powered micro-simulations to train employees in role-specific threat responses and foster a culture of vigilant defense.
S1 E1148 · Thu, July 10, 2025
The Human Zero Day Series | Ep1148: Ofer Friedman: ID Defense Evolves
As deepfakes evolve at breakneck speed, Ofer Friedman sounds the alarm on how our senses and even biometric verification, can no longer be trusted. He reveals how fraudsters bypass security not by hacking systems, but by impersonating humans in real-time. From the rise of fraud-as-a-service to the failure of traditional AI defenses, Ofer unpacks a perfect storm threatening our digital identities. He shares why explainability and anomaly detection are the next frontier and why the clock is ticking.#20MinuteLeaders #DeepfakeSecurity #AIIdentityTheft #Cybersecurity #DigitalIdentity #DeepfakeThreat #FraudDetection #AIExplainability #ZeroDayThreat #OferFriedman #HumanImpersonation
S1 E1147 · Sat, July 05, 2025
Ep1147: Revolutionizing Cyber Risk: The CACR Method with Mario Procopio
Cyber threats evolve constantly, but most organizations still rely on static, outdated risk assessments that leave them vulnerable. Mario Procopio challenges this mindset with CACR—Continuous Assessment, Continuous Remediation—a methodology inspired by agile DevOps principles that enables real-time risk visibility, adaptive security strategies, and faster decision-making. He breaks down how CISOs can shift from reactive defenses to proactive, dynamic risk management, ensuring security evolves as fast as the business.
Wed, July 02, 2025
AI-Powered Crisis Management: Transforming Cybersecurity Responses with Nimrod Kozlovski
Cybersecurity breaches are unavoidable, making resilience and effective response critical for businesses. My conversation with Nimrod Kozlovski, co-founder of Cytactic, highlighted how AI can transform crisis management. Kozlovski, an expert in guiding Fortune 500 companies through cyber incidents, observed significant chaos during crises despite numerous external advisors. He noted that relying on various experts, each with their own processes, often creates confusion when clarity is most needed. This fragmented, manual approach exacerbates damages; Kozlovski points out that most cyber incident damages stem from the chaotic response rather than the initial attack. Many companies shut down unnecessarily or operate unaware of ongoing risks, leading to substantial reputational, legal, and financial harm. The core issue, Kozlovski believes, is a lack of technological support in crisis management. While other business functions have embraced digital transformation, cyber crisis management often relies on outdated, static playbooks. AI offers a powerful solution. AI tools, like those from Cytactic, can simulate potential crises tailored to an organization's vulnerabilities. Kozlovski emphasized that AI excels at dynamically adjusting crisis response processes in real time, unlike static traditional playbooks. AI also streamlines communication and task prioritization by synthesizing complex data into actionable insights for faster decision-making and clearer communication. Kozlovski highlighted Israeli startups, including Cytactic, that use AI to automate threat detection and response, immediately initiating targeted actions upon anomaly detection. This significantly reduces incident severity and duration by bridging the gap between detection and response, minimizing human error. It's clear that organizations must prioritize resilience and real-time responsiveness, with AI dramatically enhancing crisis preparation. Embracing these advanced solutions will lead to fewer disruptions, quicker recoveries, and more robust business continuity. As Kozlovski stated, "AI’s role is enormous... It enhances human capabilities dramatically, offering clarity, confidence, and consistency precisely when human teams need them most." The future of cybersecurity crisis management lies in intelligently managing inevitable attacks. Organizations must integrate AI-driven solutions to transform their security frameworks from reactive chaos to proactive, data-driven resilience.
S1 E1146 · Tue, July 01, 2025
Ep1146: The Real Threat of Deepfakes - Anthony Sahakian on What Enterprises Must Know
Anthony Sahakian’s journey into deepfake detection began before the world even had a name for it. From navigating misinformation in authoritarian regimes to pioneering AI-driven solutions for enterprises, he shares hard-earned lessons on the limits of technology, the power of cognitive bias, and why the fight against digital deception starts with human awareness.
S1 E1145 · Fri, June 27, 2025
Ep1145 | Alan Cahn: Design Your Next Era
At 64, Alan Cahn reframed his life with a purpose: to help people live with full hearts and enlightened minds. From a challenging childhood and early countercultural days to 32 years designing transformative experiences at Landmark, Alan’s path is grounded in deep personal work. In this episode, he reflects on the power of presence, the myth of being “stuck,” and the quiet discipline behind real change. Through stories of mentorship, mistakes, and micro-decisions, he shows how anyone—at any age—can live a life aligned with purpose.
S1 E1144 · Tue, June 10, 2025
Ep1144: Yossi Matias: Scaling AI for Impact
What happens when cutting-edge AI research meets real-world urgency? Yossi Matias reflects on decades at the forefront of innovation—from early machine learning to deploying life-saving healthcare tools and advancing AI agents that accelerate scientific discovery. Through stories of rapid transformation, he reveals how research, curiosity, and responsibility converge to shape technology with global impact. #AIInnovation #TechForGood #MachineLearning
Mon, May 26, 2025
Securing the AI-Driven World: A Conversation with Daniel Shechter, CEO of Miggo Security
Cybersecurity is no longer just about preventing breaches—it’s now about enabling innovation securely in a fast-moving, AI-powered world. As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everything from microservices to digital platforms, cybersecurity needs a major mindset shift. Daniel Shechter, CEO of Miggo Security, cybersecurity leader at 8200, and Havazalot program alumni, offers exactly that. Daniel’s journey—from jazz saxophonist to military intelligence, McKinsey consultant, and now startup founder—reflects a rare ability to simplify complex challenges. It’s a skill that’s more vital than ever as AI and cybersecurity rapidly converge. In our conversation, Daniel spotlighted a critical but often overlooked domain: application-layer security. Traditionally, app security focused on static code scans or endpoint defenses. But today’s systems run on microservices, rendering those approaches outdated. As Daniel explained, “Endpoints are losing many functionalities over time, shifting largely to SaaS in the backend. That’s what we protect.” This shift demands a new approach—one built on observability and real-time application detection and response. He compared today’s digital platforms to intricate water networks where threats can flow undetected. To keep up, security can’t just be reactive—it must be deeply integrated and proactive. The need for speed has never been clearer. Daniel cited eye-opening stats: AWS’s CISO reported that attacks tripled or quadrupled with the rise of generative AI. Even more alarming, attackers can now exploit known vulnerabilities in as little as 22 minutes—down from 100 days just a few years ago. For Daniel and Miggo Security, the mission is clear: secure innovation. “We’re here to facilitate innovation securely, responding dynamically as threats evolve,” he shared. In other words, cybersecurity can no longer be a barrier to progress—it must be the enabler. AI’s role in cybersecurity, especially at the app layer, calls for adaptive strategies that evolve as fast as threats do. Daniel’s approach—deep tracing, observability, and real-time response—embodies this necessary evolution. This conversation left me convinced: cybersecurity is entering a transformative era. Legacy tools and static defenses simply won’t cut it. Organizations must adopt agile, AI-driven solutions to protect and empower their growth. To stay ahead, companies need to prioritize flexibility and speed. In this new landscape, success belongs to those who can adapt faster than threats evolve. The message is clear: embrace AI-driven, adaptive cybersecurity—or risk falling behind.
Mon, May 26, 2025
"AI Creates New Threats, but Also Unlocks Solutions We Never Had Before.", a Talk With Maor Saubron
In a world where cybersecurity threats evolve faster than our defenses, AI-driven risks are becoming the frontline challenge for enterprises. To gain deeper insights into this rapidly shifting landscape, I spoke with Maor Saubron, Head of Corporate Security at Amdocs, whose decades-long journey through cybersecurity offers an unparalleled view into how organizations can effectively respond to emerging threats.Maor leads a team of over 200 security professionals at Amdocs, a global technology giant serving critical infrastructure for telecom companies like AT&T and T-Mobile. His role places him at the intersection of security innovation and practical implementation, uniquely qualifying him to discuss AI’s growing impact on cybersecurity strategies."We are in a technological race against our attackers," Maor emphasized during our conversation. "AI is significantly reshaping the landscape by not just creating advanced threats but also by providing revolutionary solutions."One key insight from Maor was the dual nature of AI—it is both an enabler of sophisticated cyber threats and a powerful tool for defense. At Amdocs, Maor described facing enormous cybersecurity challenges due to the vast scale of their operations: hundreds of thousands of servers globally, over tens of thousands of endpoints, and approximately 30,000 employees in 90 countries. With this scale, managing the risk is both complex and critical."We receive tens of millions of emails per month, and a significant portion of these are spam or phishing," Maor revealed. The sheer volume demonstrates why traditional cybersecurity methods are inadequate. To tackle such massive challenges, Maor’s team deploys multiple layers of protection and leverages AI-powered tools to analyze patterns and reduce response times dramatically.However, despite the advanced technological frameworks, Maor pointed out a pivotal vulnerability that technology alone can't solve—the human factor. "At the end of the day, cybersecurity incidents often start with a single employee," he noted. "Our mission is to foster a deep security culture among employees, making them part of our defense strategy."This cultural shift includes comprehensive awareness programs, highly sophisticated phishing simulations, and personalized training that empower employees to recognize and respond effectively to threats. Maor believes cybersecurity must transcend technical solutions, incorporating an organization's entire human element into a holistic security strategy.When we discussed emerging threats, Maor highlighted how generative AI tools like ChatGPT have introduced new risks, especially around data leakage. Employees frequently use these tools, unintentionally exposing sensitive corporate information. Amdocs responded proactively by establishing an AI governance committee, implementing sophisticated monitoring tools, and introducing educational initiatives about responsible AI use. Maor explained, "We give employees freedom but mai
S1 E1143 · Wed, May 21, 2025
Ep1143: Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor: Strategic Compliance
Haunted by the rise of online antisemitism, Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor left a high-powered legal career to launch CyberWell—a nonprofit using AI to hold social media platforms accountable to their own policies. In this conversation, she shares how antisemitic hate moved from fringe forums to mainstream feeds, the troubling aftermath of October 7, and why current systems are failing to respond. Her work exposes the gaps in content moderation and reveals how high-integrity data and generative AI can reshape digital accountability—offering a hopeful, scalable path forward in one of tech’s most urgent ethical battles.#20minuteleaders #OnlineAntisemitism #AIForGood #ContentModeration
S1 E1139 · Sun, May 18, 2025
Ep1142: Shalev Ifrah: Revenue-First Growth
Shalev Ifrah’s path is one of curiosity, creativity, and continuous growth. From launching his first ventures to building Israel’s leading digital marketing college, he shares how real-world learning, persistence, and strategic risk-taking shaped his entrepreneurial vision. His journey highlights the power of aligned partnerships, rapid adaptation, and turning insights into innovation.#20minuteleaders #EntrepreneurshipJourney #RevenueGrowthStrategies #DigitalMarketingLeadership
Thu, May 15, 2025
The New Security Playbook for AI Adoption: A Conversation with Dan Benjamin
The cybersecurity landscape is rapidly evolving, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and the growing complexity of enterprise data environments. In a recent conversation with Dan Benjamin, VP at Palo Alto Networks and co-founder of Dig Security, it became clear that securing data and AI requires moving beyond traditional perimeter-based strategies toward more dynamic, proactive approaches. Dan brings deep entrepreneurial experience. After founding multiple cybersecurity startups, his latest—Dig Security—was acquired by Palo Alto Networks within just two years, signaling rapid adoption and market validation. His background at Microsoft and current leadership role give him a sharp lens on the intersection of AI and data security. One key takeaway from our conversation: speed is critical. “The ability to scale quickly and see immediately if something works or doesn't is critical,” Dan said. This mindset powered Dig’s growth to nearly 80 employees in two years, fueled by focus and strategic clarity. A major theme was the rise of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). As Dan shared, when Dig launched, “more than 50% of enterprise data had already moved to the cloud,” rendering legacy security tools ineffective. DSPM answers urgent questions like: What data do we have? Who can access it? Is it protected? As companies adopt multi-cloud infrastructures, DSPM becomes essential. This transformation has also been accelerated by market awareness—fueled by VC investments and competing startups. “Data security wasn’t even a top-ten concern for CISOs initially. Within a year, it was top three,” Dan noted. It’s a reminder of how fast industry priorities can shift. And now, AI is redefining those priorities again. Dan emphasized how AI introduces both opportunity and risk. Boards are pushing for rapid AI integration, while CISOs scramble to secure it. “AI security must begin with visibility—knowing what models you’re running, what data was used, and ensuring proper compliance and access controls.” At Palo Alto Networks, around half of all data security discussions now center on AI, reflecting its growing urgency. AI isn’t just creating new threats—it’s forcing a rethink of cybersecurity strategies. But AI isn’t just a risk—it’s also part of the solution. Dan predicts that in the next five years, AI will autonomously handle many cybersecurity decisions. Already, AI tools are handling initial threat triage in SOCs, easing analyst workloads and improving response times. This aligns with what we’re seeing at Clarity, where AI-driven tools are helping counter advanced threats, from deepfakes to social engineering attacks. The shift from reactive alerts to proactive AI-powered defense is already underway. My biggest takeaway: enterprises must integrate DSPM and AI security now—
Wed, May 14, 2025
Passwordless Security in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Slavik Markovich, CEO of Descope
Cybersecurity is once again at a critical crossroads—this time, driven by the explosive growth of AI technologies. During a recent visit to Descope’s Palo Alto office, I sat down with CEO Slavik Markovich, a veteran in the cybersecurity space whose past ventures, Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and Sentrigo (acquired by McAfee), shaped much of the modern security landscape. Our conversation centered around how AI is radically reshaping digital identity. Slavik and his team—collaborators for nearly three decades—launched Descope with a bold mission: eliminate passwords altogether. “Passwords are the worst of both worlds,” he noted, “hard for humans to remember and easy for computers to crack.” As AI supercharges phishing and other attack vectors, traditional passwords only grow more inadequate. Instead, Slavik advocates for passkeys—phishing-resistant, cryptographic keys stored locally and authenticated via biometrics, without ever exposing the biometric data. It's a fundamentally more secure and seamless approach to authentication. Descope’s innovation doesn’t stop there. As AI evolves into “agentic” form—digital agents acting on behalf of users—the company is tackling a new security frontier. These agents don’t fit neatly into existing models of user authentication or machine-to-machine trust. “The industry is shifting toward agentic AI,” Slavik explained, “and that’s expanding the scale and complexity of identity management.” One surprisingly common challenge they’re solving is the "confused agent problem," where digital agents unintentionally act with higher privileges than intended. Descope positions itself as the intermediary—managing progressive authorization, mediating between users, agents, and applications, and ensuring secure, compliant interactions. For CISOs and enterprise leaders, this shift presents both urgency and opportunity. AI is no longer an emerging edge case—it’s embedded in tools and workflows across organizations. Security teams must act swiftly to secure agent-driven interactions and identity touchpoints or risk falling behind. At Clarity, where I focus on AI-powered threats like deepfakes and next-gen phishing, I see firsthand how vital identity management has become. It’s no longer just a login issue—it’s the first and most critical line of defense. Security solutions must be both robust and frictionless, balancing user experience with airtight protection. Slavik also shared a personal insight that stood out to me: “We prioritize having fun. We’ve built multiple companies together because we genuinely enjoy the journey.” That mindset resonates. The best cybersecurity innovations come from passionate teams that love solving hard problems, not just building defenses. The identity revolution is already underway. Organizations that embrace passwordless, agent-aware authenticatio
S1 E1141 · Mon, May 12, 2025
Ep1141: Securing APIs at Enterprise Scale with Roey Eliyahu
At nine, Roey Eliyahu was already coding. By 11, he was freelancing. His path from an IDF cybersecurity unit to founding Salt Security reflects a deep understanding of how microservices and GenAI transformed APIs from simple gateways to complex security risks. He shares why discovery, governance, and protection are now essential pillars for any enterprise navigating rapid innovation—and how early insights shaped a category-defining solution.#20MinuteLeaders #APISecurity #CybersecurityLeadership #EnterpriseTech
Tue, May 06, 2025
Securing AI Adoption: A Conversation with Matan Derman, Co-founder & CEO of Apex
By Michael Matias, CEO of Clarity and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum Cybersecurity is at a turning point, driven by AI’s rapid rise. In a recent conversation with Matan Derman, CEO of Apex, we explored why integrating AI into organizations is inevitable—and why traditional security strategies must evolve to meet AI-specific threats. Derman, with a background in elite Israeli cyber units and Stanford Business School, alongside co-founder Tomer Even, quickly recognized how accessible AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot were revolutionizing productivity while exposing new vulnerabilities. “Organizations were banning AI tools out of fear—legal, compliance, privacy, and data leakage concerns were overwhelming,” Derman shared. At Clarity, I’ve seen firsthand how AI-generated cyberattacks are escalating. Team8 reports AI-driven phishing attacks have surged over 2,000% recently. Static, reactive security models are no match for these dynamic threats. Apex’s solution? Use AI to secure AI. "We evolved from being a security company focused on AI to becoming a security company for AI, leveraging AI extensively," Derman explained. Traditional defenses can’t handle novel attack methods like prompt injection and jailbreak attacks, which trick AI models into revealing sensitive data—even through creative methods like Morse code. Organizations now face a clear choice: adopt proactive, AI-powered security or risk falling behind. As AI lowers the barrier for attackers, real-time, AI-driven defenses have become essential. Derman stressed that for AI’s true potential to be realized, it must be widely adopted across entire workforces—not just by tech experts. Yet, broader use also expands the risk landscape. Companies must urgently adopt AI-native security platforms to harness AI’s benefits safely. The cybersecurity industry is at a crossroads. AI-driven solutions are no longer optional—they’re today’s standard. As Derman put it: “Our goal was identifying critical problems unique to AI use and creating foundational security layers for future AI adoption.” The time to act is now. The future won’t wait.
Mon, May 05, 2025
AI’s New Frontier in Data Security: A Conversation with Flow Security CEO Jonathan Roizin
By Michael Matias, CEO of Clarity and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum Cybersecurity is at a turning point, driven by artificial intelligence (AI). My conversation with Jonathan Roizin, CEO of Flow Security—now part of CrowdStrike—reinforced the urgent need for organizations to rethink data protection strategies in an era of dynamic, fluid information exchange. The Shifting Nature of Data Security Roizin, a veteran of elite Israeli cybersecurity organizations, has spent over 15 years tackling cyber threats. His focus on "data in motion" highlights a critical reality: data no longer sits in static environments. It moves continuously across cloud services, SaaS platforms, and APIs, fundamentally altering security needs. The stakes are enormous. IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach report revealed that the average breach now costs $4.45 million. Meanwhile, organizations use over 130 SaaS applications, a number increasing nearly 18% annually. Yet, many still rely on outdated security models that assume clear perimeters around data. The Decline of Traditional Defenses Roizin emphasized the need to move beyond legacy Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) strategies, which were designed for endpoint security and internal networks. “The boundaries have been broken,” he explained. As organizations migrate to cloud environments like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, perimeter-based security models are becoming ineffective. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 85% of businesses will operate primarily in the cloud. AI as a Threat and a Defense Mechanism The rise of AI compounds security challenges. AI-powered tools—such as coding assistants and automated meeting note-takers—introduce new vulnerabilities. Employees often share sensitive information through unmonitored AI platforms, inadvertently exposing critical data. A Team8 report found AI-driven phishing attacks have surged by more than 2,000%, with nearly half using GPT-generated communications. Yet, AI also strengthens cybersecurity. Flow Security leverages AI-driven automation to classify and monitor sensitive data in real time, providing dynamic protection that traditional security models cannot achieve. The Urgent Need for Proactive AI Integration The future of cybersecurity demands a philosophical shift—security cannot rely on passive visibility. Instead, AI-driven real-time interventions must become the norm. Roizin and I share a conviction: cybersecurity teams should not simply identify risks but actively prevent breaches before they occur. My work at Clarity reinforces this belief. AI-driven techniques can protect organizations far more effectively than reactive security models. Intelligent automation minimizes false positives, allowing security teams to focus on genuine threats rather
Mon, May 05, 2025
AI and the Cybersecurity Future of Trains: A Conversation with Cylus Co-Founder and CTO Miki Shifman
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cybersecurity—not just for digital threats but also for critical physical infrastructure like railways. My conversation with Miki Shifman, Co-Founder and CTO of Cylus, underscored the urgent need to extend cybersecurity beyond traditional digital domains to protect transportation systems. Railway Cybersecurity: A Growing Concern Shifman, a cybersecurity expert and Israeli intelligence veteran, co-founded Cylus in 2017 to address vulnerabilities in railway systems. Historically, rail safety focused on mechanical redundancy and human oversight. But modern trains—autonomous, high-speed, and digitally connected—face unprecedented cyber risks. As Shifman put it, “The boundaries have been broken.” Recent incidents highlight the severity. London’s railway shutdown last September exposed the economic and societal disruptions cyberattacks can cause. A similar event in New York’s subway system would ripple far beyond transportation, affecting healthcare and public safety. Emerging Threats and AI’s Role Railway cyber threats fall into two categories: availability threats that halt train operations and safety threats that could lead to collisions or derailments. Many railway systems lack adequate encryption and authentication, making vulnerabilities deeply embedded. AI accelerates these risks—lowering the expertise needed to execute sophisticated attacks. Tools like ChatGPT enable less-experienced hackers to gain insights into specialized rail protocols, expanding the pool of potential attackers. Regulatory Response and AI-Powered Defense With railways classified as critical infrastructure, regulatory bodies in the EU and U.S. are mandating stronger cybersecurity measures by 2025. However, these solutions must integrate carefully to avoid interfering with operational safety. AI also strengthens defenses. Cylus uses AI to enhance threat detection, real-time monitoring, and anomaly detection while reducing false positives. AI boosts productivity across railway cybersecurity, from rapid prototyping to regulatory compliance automation. “AI helps turn compliance from a burden into an asset,” Shifman noted. The Future of Railway Cybersecurity Rail cybersecurity lags behind other critical infrastructure sectors, but AI provides an opportunity to leap forward. Organizations embracing AI-driven security will gain unprecedented protection—while those slow to adapt remain vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated threats. When asked about AI’s future in rail security, Shifman admitted, “We’re still evolving our understanding. But ignoring AI simply isn’t an option. This technology changes the landscape weekly.” That mindset—alert, adaptable, and proactive—is exactly what the railway industry needs today.
Mon, May 05, 2025
AI and the Urgency of Real-Time Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Dr. Dorit Dor, Check Point
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a mere enhancement in cybersecurity—it’s essential. My conversation with Dr. Dorit Dor, Chief Technology Officer at Check Point Software Technologies, reinforced AI’s transformative role in defending against cyber threats. As a pioneer in Israel’s cybersecurity sector, Dorit has been shaping security strategies for nearly three decades. AI’s Expanding Role in Cybersecurity From Check Point’s early days to its global prominence, Dorit has emphasized the need to shift from reactive threat detection to proactive prevention. “AI empowers attackers to scale their operations dramatically,” she explained. Today, targeted cyberattacks occur at mass scale, making real-time defense a necessity. The Challenge of AI-Driven Threats Organizations now face AI-generated threats daily, including deepfakes and hyper-targeted phishing campaigns. Dorit stressed the urgency of stopping attacks as they happen, not just detecting them afterward. The conversation highlighted a growing vulnerability: supply chain security. Cybercriminals increasingly exploit weak links within supply chains, underscoring the importance of securing every aspect of an organization’s ecosystem. “Supply chain attacks have significantly increased,” she warned, calling for rigorous internal security among providers. AI and the Future of Cybersecurity Operations Beyond threat prevention, AI is reshaping cybersecurity roles. “The human factor will increasingly shift from direct intervention to supervising AI agents executing defensive tasks,” Dorit noted. Traditional manual security processes are giving way to AI-driven systems, requiring cybersecurity teams to act as strategic managers rather than hands-on defenders. The Urgency to Adapt Cybersecurity must evolve at the pace of emerging threats. AI-driven attackers pose a growing risk, and organizations failing to integrate AI into their security frameworks will struggle to keep up. Dorit’s perspective aligns with my own experiences at Clarity, where AI-driven cybersecurity is not a luxury—it’s a necessity. As she put it, “Organizations today need solutions that can respond automatically and intelligently. We must empower our defenses to act decisively when under attack.” Looking Ahead AI stands at a crossroads: both a threat multiplier and a defensive enabler. Organizations must act swiftly to integrate AI into their cybersecurity strategies, ensuring they stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats. Dorit’s insights serve as both a warning and a roadmap—those that embrace AI will not just survive but thrive in the evolving digital landscape.
Mon, May 05, 2025
AI and the End of Traditional Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Barak Schoster
Cybersecurity is at a turning point, largely driven by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). My recent conversation with Barak Schoster—a renowned cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur—highlighted AI’s profound impact on the field. Schoster, who founded Bridgecrew (now part of Palo Alto Networks), has extensive experience in advanced threat protection and innovative security solutions. AI’s Role in Cybersecurity Schoster put it simply: “The boundaries have been broken.” Traditional security methods, such as endpoint protection and perimeter-based defenses, are no longer enough in an era dominated by cloud computing and fast-moving data. By 2025, Gartner predicts that 85% of enterprises will primarily operate in cloud environments, demanding proactive and adaptive security models. Emerging Challenges Organizations are increasingly using cloud platforms and SaaS applications, introducing new risks. AI-driven productivity tools, while boosting efficiency, also heighten vulnerabilities—through unintended data leaks and unsecured exchanges. Employees frequently use tools outside corporate oversight, raising serious security concerns. Schoster noted that open-source adoption accelerates software distribution but requires strategic monetization. “We moved from single-player mode, where developers benefited individually, to multiplayer mode, which brought real enterprise value,” he explained. AI’s Double-Edged Impact AI both expands the attack surface and enhances defense capabilities. Schoster pointed out that deepfakes and automated phishing campaigns have significantly lowered the cost and complexity for cybercriminals. However, AI-powered security tools can automate complex tasks, improving efficiency and resilience. The urgency is clear: AI-driven phishing attacks have increased by over 2,000% in the past year alone, according to Team8. This escalation highlights the need for real-time security interventions. Bridgecrew leveraged AI for instant monitoring and security enforcement, shifting cybersecurity from reactive threat detection to proactive prevention. The Future of Cybersecurity This transformation reflects a larger industry shift. AI can dramatically reduce vulnerabilities, minimize false positives, and enhance productivity by automating critical security tasks—allowing experts to focus on strategic objectives. Schoster predicts that static defenses and perimeter-based models will soon be obsolete. “Execution, speed, and adaptability have become more important than traditional moats like IP or patents,” he asserted. Organizations must embrace AI-powered security strategies or risk being replaced by more agile competitors. As Schoster warned, “Those that fail to adapt quickly enough will inevitably be replaced by innovative, AI-driven newcomers.” The future of cybersec
Mon, May 05, 2025
How AI is Shaping the Future of Cyber: A Conversation with Liran Grinberg, Co-founder of Team8
Cybersecurity today is more dynamic and critical than ever, thanks to the transformative influence of AI. Liran Grinberg, Co-founder of Team8, highlighted this evolution in a recent discussion. Drawing on his experience from Israel's elite Unit 8200 and managing over $1 billion in ventures, he shed light on how AI is reshaping cybersecurity. He emphasized that AI isn't just enhancing existing technologies but enabling previously impossible capabilities, which also broadens the attack surface—creating both new vulnerabilities and opportunities for innovation.Grinberg's perspective resonated with my own observations at Clarity, where AI has expanded the threat landscape while revolutionizing defense capabilities. Traditional reactive models are becoming outdated. Analysts are now evolving into supervisors of AI-driven agents managing operational tasks, which showcases how AI integration can bolster cybersecurity effectiveness. This shift is essential, particularly given the increasing complexity and sophistication of threats, such as AI-driven phishing and deepfakes.Speed and momentum are critical in the competitive world of cybersecurity. Grinberg pointed out the necessity for rapid, responsible decision-making to secure market leadership. This aligns with Clarity's approach, where staying ahead of threats is not optional but a mandate for survival. He also emphasized the enduring need for domain expertise, particularly when integrating complex AI solutions into cybersecurity strategies. Without such expertise, even the most advanced tools risk being ineffective.Grinberg's outlook underscores the need for proactive, predictive, and preventive strategies in cybersecurity. At Team8, their AI Excellence Center exemplifies this by focusing on deep, strategic AI integration rather than surface-level adoption. The accelerated adoption of AI presents unmatched opportunities but also escalates risks for those lagging behind.The message is clear: embracing AI-driven cybersecurity is no longer optional. Organizations must prioritize strategic AI integration to ensure resilience and efficiency in an increasingly complex threat environment. As Grinberg said, the future of cybersecurity is dynamic, proactive, and deeply intelligent. Those who delay risk falling dangerously behind.
S1 E1140 · Sun, May 04, 2025
Ep1140: Sagi Shentag: Scaling Global Connectivity
After years in finance and a move from New York back to a kibbutz, Sagi Shentag led Tango from startup to $300M revenue before taking the helm at VOY. Now, he’s transforming global connectivity by making travel data seamless, affordable, and stress-free—turning a complex necessity into a simple, empowering experience. #20MinuteLeaders #GlobalConnectivity #TravelTechInnovation #EntrepreneurialJourney
S1 E1139 · Mon, April 28, 2025
Ep1139: Manish Patel: Navigating AI Chaos for Growth
Growing up between Uganda, the UK, and rural Kentucky, Manish Patel’s journey led him from Stanford to Google and then into venture capital. Reflecting on technology’s human impact, Manish shares how today’s AI-driven chaos mirrors past moments of innovation—and why building around human needs, not just features, will define the next generation of companies.#VentureCapital #AIInnovation #StartupMindset
S1 E1136 · Thu, April 24, 2025
Ep1138: Operationalizing Cyber Risk with Sumedh Thakar
Sumedh Thakar, CEO of Qualys, delves into his journey from software engineer to cybersecurity leader, stressing the critical role of risk quantification in protecting business value. He highlights the dynamic nature of cybersecurity, tackling challenges like AI and quantum security, while offering insights into aligning security efforts with financial impact for long-term resilience. #CyberRiskManagement #CybersecurityLeadership #RiskQuantification #InfoSecStrategy #20MinuteLeaders
Thu, April 24, 2025
Securing the AI Wild West: A Conversation with Elad Schulman, CEO of Lasso
The arrival of Generative AI marks perhaps the fastest and most dramatic technological change we've ever experienced, reshaping cybersecurity at a pace most organizations are unprepared for. A recent conversation with Elad Schulman, CEO and Co-Founder of Lasso, reinforced my understanding that organizations must rapidly adapt to this new reality, where threats evolve continuously and at an unprecedented rate.Schulman, a seasoned entrepreneur who founded and sold the cybersecurity company Segasec to Mimecast, emphasized that upon entering the Generative AI world about two years ago, it felt like stepping into a "new Wild West." "You need a new sheriff to catch the bad guys," he noted. This metaphor aptly captures the significant challenge organizations face today as traditional security models, built on static defenses and rigid tools, can no longer handle the dynamic, AI-driven threats.What's particularly striking about this transformation is the aggressive adoption of AI tools by employees themselves, without waiting for formal approvals or clear organizational policies. As Schulman explained, "Employees didn't wait for policy or enforcement; they simply started using these tools because they are extraordinarily effective." Such rapid, unsupervised adoption poses significant security challenges, from sensitive data leaks to exposure to new risks previously nonexistent.Lasso’s approach, under Schulman's leadership, focuses on providing organizations with comprehensive visibility into employees' use of AI tools. Instead of attempting to block the technology, their strategy enables safe and efficient AI adoption. "Security shouldn't prevent usage but enable it," Schulman emphasized. "We must help employees elegantly recover from mistakes rather than just block them."This approach represents a substantial shift from traditional security methods, which typically create user friction, harm productivity, and ultimately lead employees to circumvent policies. Organizations restricting AI usage risk undermining their competitive edge. Conversely, adopting this technology without adequate security exposes them to significant new vulnerabilities.Beyond security challenges, AI also opens new defensive opportunities. At Lasso, AI is employed to provide organizations immediate and active visibility into internal data flows, quickly identify threats, and neutralize them. "We are not just creating another security tool but an entire platform enabling organizations to adopt AI safely," Schulman said.From my perspective, we stand at a critical juncture. AI adoption is no longer optional—it’s already here, fundamentally changing the nature of work and security. Organizations strategically integrating AI within their security frameworks will secure a considerable competitive advantage. Those hesitant to do so will find themselves increasingly vulnerable to attacks leveraging precisely these technologies.As Schulman candidly summarized, "We are still learning as w
S1 E1137 · Thu, April 10, 2025
Ep1137: Zac Staples on AI for Naval Readiness
A childhood love of tractors and a Navy career shaped Zac Staples’s path to founding Fathom5, the first company to deploy AI on a naval warship. In this episode, he shares how he's tackling the overlooked world of industrial machines—building platforms that bring AI to legacy systems powering national security and daily life. With a focus on trust, machine resilience, and sustainability, Zac offers a grounded, thoughtful perspective on modernizing critical infrastructure in an AI-driven age.#AIinDefense #MachineTrust #CriticalInfrastructure
Wed, March 26, 2025
AI Revolution in Browser Security: Insights from Ofer Ben-Noon, CTO of SASE at Palo Alto Networks
By Michael Matias, CEO of Clarity and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum Cybersecurity is at a pivotal crossroads, transformed by AI and the realities of hybrid work. In my recent conversation with Ofer Ben-Noon—founder of Talon Cyber Security and former CEO of Argus Cyber Security—it became clear that traditional cybersecurity strategies must evolve, especially as the browser becomes the primary gateway to enterprise data. With a background in Israel’s elite Unit 8200 and as a pioneer in automotive cybersecurity, Ben-Noon now leads Talon in redefining how organizations secure today’s decentralized workforce. His focus? The secure browser. “Control the browser, and you control the data,” he said. That simple yet powerful insight underpins a massive shift in cybersecurity thinking. As workers increasingly access corporate systems from personal or unmanaged devices, legacy defenses like firewalls and VPNs fall short. Ben-Noon, now also CTO of SASE at Palo Alto Networks, pointed out that 90% of enterprises allow access from unmanaged devices—and 85% of ransomware attacks stem from them. This challenge is compounded by SaaS sprawl. While companies officially use about 1,500 apps, they often have up to 8,500 unsanctioned ones operating in the shadows. This explosion of shadow IT, paired with the rise of AI, introduces massive vulnerabilities. Every day, Palo Alto Networks sees 7.7 million new malicious URLs and countless AI-generated malware strains. “AI dramatically accelerates both the complexity and volume of threats,” Ben-Noon warned. Yet, AI is also a powerful ally. Talon’s secure browser integrates AI-driven security directly into everyday workflows—no more clunky, bolt-on tools. This innovation transforms the browser from a weak point into a flexible, secure productivity hub. “The browser itself becomes the center of secure productivity—empowering users rather than limiting them,” he explained. I couldn’t agree more. Today’s workforce values autonomy and speed. A secure browser gives teams both, while protecting critical data in real time. Ben-Noon emphasizes proactive AI-driven defenses over reactionary ones: detecting breaches after the fact isn’t enough anymore—prevention is key. In closing, Ben-Noon shared, “We’ve made significant bets on three trends: distributed workforces, web-based applications, and the Chromium browser as the dominant digital workspace.” These trends, rapidly accelerated by AI, demand a fresh cybersecurity mindset. The organizations that embrace this shift—integrating AI and secure browsers into their DNA—will be the ones best equipped to thrive in an increasingly complex digital world.
S1 E1136 · Mon, March 24, 2025
Ep1136: Harel Ram: Building the Negev Innovation Hub
From overcoming startup challenges to driving regional innovation, Harel Ram shares his journey from entrepreneur to ecosystem leader. He unpacks the transformation of Beersheba into a global tech hub, the power of strategic partnerships, and the lessons learned in balancing vision, investment, and execution to create lasting value for startups, investors, and the wider tech industry.#TechInnovation #StartupEcosystem #BeershebaTechHub
S1 E1135 · Tue, March 18, 2025
Ep1135: Itamar Friedman: Safeguarding AI Code Integrity
From military service to deep tech startups, Itamar Friedman has always been drawn to solving complex problems. Now, as the founder of Codo, he sees AI-driven code integrity as his life’s mission. In this conversation, he unpacks the rapid evolution of AI in software development, the future of automated code testing and review, and the critical role AI will play in ensuring software aligns with ethical and security standards. With insights on the intersection of AI, infrastructure, and the next wave of technological breakthroughs, this discussion offers a thought-provoking look at how AI is reshaping the way we build, verify, and trust code.
S1 E1134 · Thu, March 13, 2025
Ep1134: Eric O’Neill on the Future of Cybersecurity: Trust Over Data
Trust is the new currency in cybersecurity. Former FBI counterintelligence operative Eric O’Neill reveals how cybercriminals exploit AI, deep fakes, and social engineering to infiltrate even the most secure organizations. With insights from his career tracking spies and securing critical infrastructure, he unpacks the evolving threats businesses face and the urgent need to rethink digital security. From real-world espionage cases to the vulnerabilities of global enterprises, he explores why protecting data isn’t enough—safeguarding trust is the real challenge of the digital age.
S1 E1133 · Tue, March 11, 2025
Ep1133: Inna Tokarev Sela: Context is Enterprise AI's Missing Link
Inna Tokarev Sela has been at the forefront of data and AI, from her early days at SAP to leading innovation in enterprise analytics. She shares her journey of bridging the disconnect between technical and business teams, the challenges of AI adoption in enterprises, and how Elumex is transforming generative AI into a seamless tool for decision-making. With insights on AI governance, automation, and the future of application-free workflows, she paints a compelling vision of how businesses can harness AI for smarter, faster, and more intuitive data-driven operations.
S1 E1132 · Fri, March 07, 2025
Ep1132: Building Security at the Design Stage with Michael Nov
Michael Nov’s journey—from the Israeli military to enterprise software and entrepreneurship—shaped his approach to product security. He shares how AI can bridge the gap between engineering and security teams, ensuring security is embedded at the design stage rather than becoming a last-minute hurdle. Drawing from his experience at OwnBackup and now as co-founder of Prime Security, he discusses the challenges of scaling security in fast-moving enterprises, the evolving role of AI in risk management, and why proactive security is key to business velocity.
S1 E1131 · Sun, March 02, 2025
Ep1131: Get Off the X: Michele Rigby Assad on Moving Beyond Comfort Zones
In the chaos of Baghdad during her CIA tour, Michelle Rigby Assad discovered that working harder wasn't enough—working on the right things was crucial. Drawing from intelligence vetting techniques, she explains how questioning established processes and being intentionally curious can transform both personal growth and organizational success. Her book "Get Off the X" explores moving beyond comfort zones toward purposeful action, emphasizing that meaningful progress often comes from small, consistent daily steps. #20MinuteLeaders #GetOffTheX #EmbraceTheUnknown #PurposefulAction
S1 E1130 · Wed, February 26, 2025
Ep1130: Yaniv Vardi: Securing Industrial Systems at Scale
Yaniv Vardi is a seasoned executive leader with over 20 years of experience in Enterprise Solutions. As former Global Managing Director of Centrica Business Solutions International and CEO of Panoramic Power (acquired by Centrica in 2015), he has driven significant international growth across multiple markets. A Magna Cum Laude graduate from NJIT and Israeli Air Force veteran, Vardi leverages his expertise in operational strategy as a board director for companies across Israel, Europe, and the US.
S1 E1129 · Tue, February 25, 2025
Ep1129: Yossi Synett: Bridging Data, AI, and Accessibility
From finance to AI-driven healthcare and accessibility, Yossi Synett’s journey is one of adaptability and impact. He shares lessons from optimizing financial data, shaping marketing algorithms, and using technology to improve lives. Exploring the intersection of data, real-world application, and human experience, this conversation uncovers the power of innovation in unexpected places.
S1 E1128 · Wed, February 19, 2025
Ep1128: Adam Hanft: Trust Evolution in the Digital Age
Misinformation has never been more powerful—or more dangerous. Adam Hanft, a branding expert and communication strategist, explores how deep fakes, AI-generated content, and evolving digital landscapes are reshaping our ability to trust what we see and hear. Drawing on psychology, history, and marketing insights, he unpacks the challenge of distinguishing reality from manipulation—and why the future of trust depends on both technological solutions and human adaptability.
Tue, February 04, 2025
Ep1127: Mastering RevOps: Insights from Scale Ops CEO Rosie Penhasi
Rosie Penhasi's unconventional journey into the world of scalable operations offers a unique perspective on the evolving landscape of RevOps. From navigating the lead-to-cash process to building a thriving consultancy, Rosie shares invaluable insights on the challenges and opportunities of driving user adoption and establishing robust infrastructure. Prepare to be captivated by her genuine storytelling and leave with a renewed appreciation for the complexities of scaling a successful organization.
S1 E1126 · Sat, January 25, 2025
Ep1126: Eyal Cohen: Illuminating the Future of Photonic Computing
Eyal Cohen is CEO and Co-founder of CogniFiber, pioneering photonic computing technology that combines optical communications with deep learning neural networks. With over 20 years of expertise in photonic computing, hardware design, and neuroscience, Cohen's journey spans from Naval officer to postdoctoral research at prestigious Israeli universities. Under his leadership, CogniFiber is developing processors 1000x faster than existing solutions, garnering recognition from industry giants like Intel and AMD.
S1 E1125 · Thu, January 23, 2025
Ep1125: Marc Gaffan: From Soldier to Cybersecurity Visionary: A Journey of Adapting to Customer Needs
Marc Gaffan's unconventional journey from Israeli soldier to cybersecurity entrepreneur offers a unique perspective on building products that delight security teams. Hear his candid insights on achieving product-market fit and making cybersecurity solutions accessible in an evolving threat landscape.
S1 E2 · Tue, October 01, 2024
Ep1124: Mark Gazit: Navigating the Future of AI, Cybersecurity, and Human Trust
Mark Gazit shares his remarkable journey from serving in the Israeli Air Force to pioneering advancements in AI and cybersecurity. He discusses the evolution of the internet, the early days of AI, and the critical role data plays in shaping industries. With stories of turning ideas into reality, Gazit emphasizes the importance of leadership, trust, and collaboration in navigating disruptive technologies. He also touches on the complex challenges AI brings to society, from deepfakes to data security, and highlights the opportunities for innovation in solving some of the world’s toughest problems.
Fri, September 27, 2024
Ep1123: Paul Melcher: Trust, Truth, and the Future of AI in Photography
In our first episode of the AI&I series, Paul Melcher takes us through his evolution from a renowned figure in photography to an innovator at the forefront of AI and technology. He discusses the profound impact of visual content on modern marketing, revealing how AI is transforming the creative landscape. Paul dives deep into the balance between human creativity and artificial intelligence, sharing how these two forces can complement each other to drive innovation. From the challenges of merging art with tech to the opportunities it brings, Paul offers valuable insights into the future of creativity, business, and the digital world. His reflections encourage us to rethink how industries and individuals can adapt and thrive in a tech-driven future.
S1 E1122 · Tue, August 20, 2024
Ep1122: Revolutionizing Video Marketing: Asaf Yanai on How Alison AI Transforms Creative Strategies with AI-Powered Insights
Asaf Yanai takes us through his evolution from a career in traditional marketing to co-founding Allison AI, a company that's transforming how brands approach video content. Drawing on his work with global giants like Unilever and Procter & Gamble, Asaf highlights the challenges of traditional A/B testing and how Allison AI uses advanced data and AI to create more effective and personalized video campaigns. He also discusses bridging the gap between creative and media teams, offering a glimpse into the future of digital marketing where creativity is seamlessly integrated with data-driven insights.
S1 E1121 · Thu, August 15, 2024
Ep1121: Avichay Nissenbaum – From Startup Triumphs to Mentorship Mastery
Avichay Nissenbaum shares his journey from successful entrepreneur to guiding early-stage founders at Lul Ventures. He delves into the importance of mentorship, navigating the complexities of startup life, and the value of being both a challenger and a listener in building resilient, visionary companies.
S1 E1120 · Mon, July 22, 2024
Ep1120: Revolutionizing Health: John Rajchert on Invisible Light Technology
John Rajchert, co-founder and CEO of Lit Thinking, delves into the innovative use of far ultraviolet light to combat aerosolized pathogens such as viruses and bacteria. With over 30 years of experience at Honeywell, John discusses the revolutionary potential of this technology in preventing illnesses like the common cold and COVID-19, highlighting the journey from discovery to application. Learn how Lit Thinking is transforming health and safety standards with groundbreaking light technology that is both effective and safe for humans.
S1 E1119 · Fri, July 19, 2024
Ep1119: Upskilling Revolution: Empowering Experts with Eddie Rubinov
Eddie Rubinov discusses the importance of upskilling in today’s fast-evolving tech landscape. He highlights how his company empowers professionals by offering hands-on courses taught by industry leaders. Rubinov emphasizes the necessity of continuous learning to remain competitive and shares his journey from tech professional to founder, detailing the operational challenges of scaling a global education business.
S1 E1122 · Mon, July 15, 2024
Ep1118: Ori Barzilay: Mastering Cybersecurity Investments with Team8
Dive into Ori Barzilay’s transformative journey from IDF special forces to leading tech investments at Team8. Discover how his hands-on experience in cybersecurity and product management influences his investment strategies, driving innovation in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. Learn about the unique challenges and opportunities in the cybersecurity sector, and how Ori’s broad perspective helps him identify and nurture groundbreaking startups. This episode offers invaluable insights into the future of tech and the dynamic world of early-stage investments.
S1 E1117 · Fri, July 12, 2024
Ep1117: Chaim Shiff: Transforming Private Equity with The Elephant
Chaim Shiff, CEO of The Elephant, dives into the evolving world of secondary markets. Discover how private companies are unlocking liquidity for shareholders while attracting new investors. Learn about the challenges and opportunities in this growing ecosystem and the innovative solutions shaping the future of private equity.
S1 E1116 · Thu, July 11, 2024
Ep1116: Meiran Galis: Simplifying Security Compliance for Startups
Meiran Galis shares his journey from tech risk management to founding Scytale, addressing the pain points of security compliance for startups. Discover how his innovative approach simplifies and automates compliance, making it accessible and efficient for growing companies navigating complex regulatory landscapes.
S1 E1114 · Mon, July 08, 2024
Ep1114: Hadar Ashuach: Innovating Advocacy: Technology Crowd Wisdom
Hadar Ashuach shares his journey from early tech ventures to leading AdFreeway Israel. Amidst the turmoil of war, he leverages innovative ad technology to combat antisemitism, creating impactful campaigns that amplify Israeli voices and counter misinformation on a global scale.
S1 E1115 · Sat, July 06, 2024
Ep1115: Eran Haggiag: Revolutionizing Digital Identity Through Telecom Innovation
Eran Haggiag delves into the fusion of telecommunications and digital identity, explaining how leveraging telco data can revolutionize multifactor authentication. From his beginnings in enterprise software to pioneering blockchain innovations with ClearX, Eran's journey highlights the potential of aligning big companies for greater societal value. Discover how his insights on identity security and API integration are paving the way for more secure and seamless digital interactions, transforming how we authenticate ourselves in the digital age.
S1 E1095 · Wed, July 03, 2024
Ep1113: Stefan Heck: Revolutionizing Road Safety with AI
Stefan Heck discusses how NAUTO uses real-time AI to predict and prevent driving risks, significantly reducing collisions in commercial fleets. He shares his journey from founding Nauto to leveraging technology for life-saving innovations. Learn about the challenges faced in integrating AI into vehicles, the behavioral psychology behind driver interventions, and the profound impact of reducing road accidents. Discover how AI is transforming vehicle safety and reshaping the driving experience for commercial fleets.
S1 E1112 · Sun, June 30, 2024
Ep1112: Iddo Peleg: Revolutionizing Clinical Trials with Cutting-Edge Data Integration
In this episode, Iddo Peleg, a clinical trial expert, discusses the critical role of accurate data in medical research and his journey to streamline data integration between EHR and EDC systems. Discover how his innovative approach is transforming clinical trials, ensuring global accuracy and efficiency in medical advancements.
S1 E1111 · Tue, June 25, 2024
Ep1111: Pete Steinberg: Bridging Sports and Business through Innovative Leadership
From coaching women's rugby to consulting CEOs, Pete Steinberg shares how prototyping leadership and fostering feedback loops can maximize team potential. Explore his unique journey from sports to business, revealing the importance of humility, continuous learning, and innovative thinking. Gain insights into overcoming challenges, enhancing team performance, and driving impactful results.
Fri, June 21, 2024
Ep1110: Roger Krulak: Transforming Construction with Modular Innovation and AI Precision
In this episode, Roger Krulak, CEO of Fullstack Modular, delves into the transformative power of modular construction and AI technology in the real estate industry. Roger discusses the significance of accurate information and dimensional precision in building factory-made structures and how robotic surveying ensures exceptional accuracy. He explains the evolution of the construction industry, emphasizing the need for innovation to meet market demands efficiently. The conversation covers the benefits of integrating AI and industrialization to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and streamline workflows. Roger also touches on the future of sustainable urban environments and the importance of providing housing solutions to support growing industrial capacities in the U.S.
S1 E1109 · Wed, June 19, 2024
Ep1109: Ruban Phukan: Revolutionizing Learning with AI at GoodGist
Ruban Phukan shares his journey from data science pioneer to AI-driven learning innovator. Discover how Ruban is transforming personalized education with GoodGist, leveraging generative AI to solve real-world problems and empower lifelong learners. From his early days at Yahoo to founding startups, Ruban explores the challenges and opportunities in upskilling technology teams and partners in a rapidly evolving landscape. Dive into the innovative solutions he's developing to make learning more efficient, tailored, and impactful for individuals and organizations alike.
S1 E1108 · Tue, June 18, 2024
EP1108 Alex Quilici: The Future of Safe Communication
From developing one of the first voice portals to combating modern robocalls and deepfakes, Alex Quilici's journey is both pioneering and timely. Dive into the evolution of communication security as Alex shares his experiences at AOL and UMail. Learn about the challenges, opportunities, and innovations in protecting our digital interactions, and how AI is reshaping the battle against scams and fraud.
S1 E1107 · Mon, June 17, 2024
Ep1107: Dorin Baniel: Thriving Amidst Adversity
Dorin Baniel shares insights from Israel’s vibrant startup and cybersecurity scene during challenging times. Despite the ongoing conflict, entrepreneurs and investors are adapting and maintaining business continuity. Discover how they are pushing forward with groundbreaking innovations, securing critical investments, and demonstrating unparalleled resilience.
S1 E1106 · Thu, June 13, 2024
Ep1106: Amir Haramaty: Innovating Business Processes through AI and Speech Recognition
Amir Haramaty shares his journey from cybersecurity to pioneering AI solutions, focusing on the power of voice-driven technology to revolutionize business processes. He discusses the challenges of integrating AI into traditional industries and highlights how his team's innovative solutions are making complex tasks simpler and more efficient. Amir's insights reveal the practical applications of AI, offering a glimpse into a future where technology enhances everyday work and drives measurable value in various fields.
S1 E1105 · Tue, June 11, 2024
Ep1105: Udi Goori: Bridging Digital and Health – A Journey in Innovation
Udi Goori shares his journey from a tech background to leading digital health innovations at Elements Health. He delves into the challenges of integrating diverse healthcare solutions, emphasizing the importance of collaboration, measurable outcomes, and a step-by-step approach to digital transformation. Udi reflects on the need for seamless integration in healthcare, comparing it to the evolution seen in other industries like e-commerce and digital banking. Discover how Udi’s passion for technology and people is driving a revolution in healthcare, aiming to make it more efficient, connected, and patient-centered.
S1 E1104 · Mon, June 10, 2024
Ep1104: Nuno Job: Reimagining Data Communication with Decipad
Nuno Job shares his journey from a humble background to becoming the founder of Decipad. He discusses the challenges of making data accessible and engaging, emphasizing the disconnect many people feel with numbers, despite their importance. Nuno delves into his passion for transforming static spreadsheets into interactive, user-friendly documents, aiming to bridge the gap between complex data and everyday understanding. Through his experiences in the tech industry, he highlights the significance of building tools that allow for better communication and decision-making based on data. This episode offers a thought-provoking exploration of reimagining data communication and the potential impact on both personal and professional lives.
S1 E1103 · Fri, June 07, 2024
Ep1103: Michal Tzuchman Katz: Behind Kahun's Vision – Transforming Healthcare through AI
Michal Tzuchman Katz, Chief Medical Officer at Kahun, discusses the integration of AI and clinical reasoning in revolutionizing patient care. The episode explores the importance of conversational AI in understanding patient complaints, the impact of AI on physician decision-making, and the challenges and future of AI in healthcare. The conversation highlights the aim to enhance diagnostic accuracy, improve clinical decision-making, and create a healthcare environment that combines technology with empathy and understanding.
S1 E1102 · Thu, June 06, 2024
Ep1102: Ohad Parush: Revolutionizing Sales with Gong's AI-Powered Insights
Ohad Parush, Chief R&D Officer at Gong, shares his journey from cybersecurity to leading AI innovations in sales intelligence. He delves into Gong's pioneering role in transforming sales conversations into actionable insights and the impact of generative AI on their platform. Ohad discusses the challenges of developing cutting-edge technology that enhances sales performance and the importance of simplicity and user-friendliness in delivering these advanced tools. Discover how Gong's revolutionary approach is shaping the future of revenue intelligence and driving success for sales teams worldwide.
S1 E1101 · Tue, June 04, 2024
Ep1101: Grant Singleton: Building PangoBooks – Discipline, Connection, and the Power of Reading
Grant Singleton's journey from a high school baseball player with no business acumen to the founder of PangoBooks is both inspiring and transformative. After serving in the US Navy, where he learned discipline and resilience, Grant pursued a computer engineering degree. His passion for reading, reignited during the pandemic, led him to create PangoBooks—a social marketplace for books. Despite initial challenges and competition from giants like Amazon, Grant's dedication to connecting readers and making book trading accessible has turned PangoBooks into a thriving platform. Discover how his unique path and commitment to innovation are reshaping the way we think about books and community.
S1 E1100 · Mon, June 03, 2024
Ep1100: Qasim Saifee: Bridging Gaps in Employment - A Journey with ZipRecruiter
Qasim Saifee, COO of ZipRecruiter, shares his fascinating journey from his early days at Disney to leading one of the most influential job marketplaces. He delves into the complexities of modern marketplaces, discussing the challenges and opportunities of enhancing job seeker experiences. Learn how ZipRecruiter is revolutionizing the job search process by advocating for candidates, simplifying applications, and providing real-time feedback. This episode offers a deep dive into the future of career matching and the innovative ways value is created and delivered in today’s job market.
S1 E1095 · Mon, June 03, 2024
Ep1095: Tyler Plant: The Future of Work in the Age of AI and Human Connection
Tyler Plant explores the intersection of AI and human elements in modern organizations. As Chief Revenue Officer of Simpli5, he shares his journey from the wine industry to leading a company that integrates psychology, neuroscience, and technology. Plant emphasizes the enduring importance of emotional intelligence, soft skills, and effective communication in an AI-driven world, highlighting how these elements are critical for team dynamics and productivity. He provides insights into how Simpli5's tools help individuals and teams understand and leverage their strengths for better collaboration and success.
S1 E1099 · Thu, May 30, 2024
Ep1099: Shai Meretzki: Pioneering the Future of Bone Regeneration
Shai Meretzki shares his journey from academia to leading biotech innovations in cell therapy and tissue engineering. He discusses how his team at Bonus BioGroup pioneers methods to grow bones and heal patients, addressing common and severe bone loss conditions. With a focus on creating complete and lasting healing, Shai explains the challenges and breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, revealing the potential to transform healthcare and improve millions of lives. Learn about the future of biotech and the exciting developments on the horizon.
S1 E1098 · Wed, May 29, 2024
Ep1098: Kerry Killoren Michaels:Direct-to-Consumer Revolution: Building Brands Through Stories
Kerry Killoren Michaels shares her dynamic transition from the golf apparel industry to e-commerce entrepreneurship, focusing on the importance of building trust with both investors and customers. Her insights into adapting to startup culture, prioritizing customer needs, and handling challenges offer valuable lessons for any aspiring entrepreneur.
S1 E1097 · Tue, May 28, 2024
Ep1097: Ran Broder: Navigating the Future of Urban Mobility
Ran Broder, CEO of Bird Israel, discusses the transformative world of urban mobility, including the evolution of micro-mobility options and the challenges of maintaining and scaling these systems. He emphasizes the potential of innovative transportation solutions to alleviate congestion and enhance commuter freedom, and highlights the role of infrastructure and regulation in shaping the future of mobility.
S1 E1096 · Mon, May 27, 2024
Ep1096: Eyal Gafni: Pioneering the Future of Digital Banking
Eyal Gafni shares his journey from a strategic advisor and FinTech startup founder to leading the innovative digital bank One Zero. In this episode, he discusses how AI and technology are revolutionizing banking by providing personalized financial advice and improving customer experiences. Learn about the challenges and opportunities in creating a new kind of digital bank that integrates cutting-edge technology with a human touch, offering consumers smarter, more efficient ways to manage their finances in an ever-changing financial landscape.
S1 E1094 · Fri, May 24, 2024
Ep1094: Sagive Greenspan: The Future of Agile Business Management Software
Sagive Greenspan, CEO of Priority Software, shares his journey from developer to tech leader, discussing the intersection of business, technology, and customer needs. Discover how Priority Software's innovative ERP solutions empower companies across various industries to adapt quickly and efficiently in an ever-changing digital landscape.
S1 E1093 · Thu, May 23, 2024
Ep1093 Boaz Noy: Making Vegan Food Tasty and Nutritious with NextFerm
Boaz Noy shares his journey from finance to food tech, leading NextFerm in pioneering yeast-based proteins. He delves into the critical challenges of creating tasty and nutritious vegan alternatives, highlighting the importance of sustainability, animal welfare, and health. Discover how NextFerm is revolutionizing the food industry by providing high-quality, neutral-tasting proteins that can seamlessly integrate into various products, offering a promising future for alternative proteins.
S1 E1092 · Wed, May 22, 2024
Ep1092: Benny Shlesinger: How At-Bay is Modernizing Cyber Risk Management
Benny Shlesinger, VP of Cyber Technologies at At-Bay, delves into the evolving landscape of cyber insurance. He discusses the unique challenges of quantifying cybersecurity risks for SMBs and shares his journey from a young programmer to a leader in the field. Discover how At-Bay balances innovation with practical risk management.
S1 E1091 · Tue, May 21, 2024
Ep1091: Chandini Jain: Building Trust and Efficiency in Financial Markets with AI
Chandini Jain shares her unconventional journey from finance to founding Awkwon, tackling the overwhelming influx of data in financial services. Discover how her company transforms noise into knowledge using AI, enhancing decision-making and building trust in an ever-evolving industry.
S1 E1059 · Mon, May 20, 2024
Ep1090: Talor Sax: Transforming Healthcare with Deep Tech Innovations
In this episode of 20 Minute Leaders, we delve into the world of deep tech in digital health with Talor Sax, a seasoned entrepreneur turned investor. Talor shares his unique journey from founding a startup during the dot-com boom to navigating the intricate landscape of health tech. Discover the challenges and opportunities in developing medical devices and digital therapeutics, and learn how Health Ventures is pioneering advancements that bring healthcare into our homes. Talor's insights on the slow yet impactful integration of AI in healthcare and the vital role of patience and precision in this field will leave you inspired and curious about the future of health technology. Join us for a thoughtful conversation on how innovation can transform lives and the healthcare industry.
S1 E1089 · Sun, May 19, 2024
Ep1089: Michael Shaulov: Overcoming Challenges in the Blockchain Era
Michael Shaulov delves into the transformative power of blockchain technology in the financial sector. He shares insights from his journey in cybersecurity to leading Fireblocks, tackling challenges in digital asset security and compliance, and envisioning a future where financial transactions are seamless, secure, and accessible worldwide.
S1 E1088 · Thu, May 16, 2024
Ep1088: Naama Ore: SparkIL and the Future of Social Impact Lending
Naama Ore, CEO of SparkIL, discusses the impact of their peer-to-peer lending platform on Israel's small business landscape and Jewish engagement. SparkIL provides fair credit solutions and fosters community connections.
S1 E1087 · Mon, May 13, 2024
Ep1087: Gautam Prem Jain: Beyond Borders - Revolutionizing Logistics with GoComet
Gautam Prem Jain, co-founder of GoComet, shares his entrepreneurial evolution from dropshipping ventures to revolutionizing the logistics industry. Discover how he leverages AI to enhance global trade transparency and efficiency, transforming the invisible into the indispensable. This episode explores the journey of turning complex challenges into groundbreaking opportunities in international logistics.
S1 E1086 · Sun, May 12, 2024
Ep1086: Bobi Gilburd: Securing Tomorrow—AI's Role in Cyber Defense
In this episode, Bobby Gilbert shares insights from his transformational journey from elite military intelligence to spearheading AI innovations in cybersecurity. Explore how his experience shapes cutting-edge technology strategies, tackling both opportunities and challenges to secure the digital future.
S1 E1085 · Fri, May 03, 2024
Ep1085: Moti Elkaim: Pitching Success through Storytelling - The Key to Investor Confidence
Moti Elkaim, a former CMO turned storytelling advocate, delves into the critical role of narrative in investor pitching. Drawing on his journey from tech marketing to launching his agency, he shares insights on how to connect with investors, balance vision with groundedness, and craft pitches that resonate. This episode offers a compelling exploration of storytelling in tech entrepreneurship.
S1 E1083 · Tue, April 30, 2024
Ep1083: Jeff Robbins: Enhancing Healthcare with Tech-Driven Precision
Jeffrey Sharp Robbins, founder of LiveData, shares his journey from real-time utility middleware to transforming healthcare. Driven by a personal tragedy, Jeff's vision led to streamlining surgical processes through real-time data integration. This episode explores his mission to improve patient outcomes by automating data collection, reducing manual entry, and enhancing surgical workflows.
S1 E1082 · Mon, April 29, 2024
Ep1082 Udi Cohen: The AI Revolution in Governance, Risk, and Compliance
In this episode, Udi Cohen shares his transformative journey from technology enthusiast to pioneering the use of generative AI in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). Delve into how Udi's innovative approach to vendor verification is reshaping security protocols, offering new solutions to old challenges, and making compliance accessible and efficient in an increasingly interconnected world.
S1 E1081 · Wed, April 24, 2024
Ep1081: Daphna Nissenbaum: Nature’s Packaging - Innovating for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Step into the visionary world of Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO of TIPA Corp, who transformed a simple jog into a revolutionary eco-friendly endeavor. Inspired by a conversation with her children, Daphna embarked on a mission to replace persistent plastics with compostable alternatives that benefit the earth. Her dedication to mimicking nature's circular processes illustrates the profound impact of innovation. As she navigates the challenges of a stubborn industry, her story offers a beacon of hope and a testament to the power of sustainable change, inspiring us to rethink how we interact with our environment.
S1 E1080 · Mon, April 22, 2024
Ep1080: Vera Shulman: Navigating the Clouds - Unifying Tech and Strategy at ProfiSea
Vera Shulman delves into the transformative potential of cloud technology, exploring the universal challenges companies face in cloud adoption and the innovative solutions provided by ProfiSea Labs. With a focus on making cloud services accessible and affordable, Vera's journey from established tech giants to pioneering FinOps with Prophecy highlights a path of continuous innovation and strategic foresight.
Tue, April 16, 2024
Ep1079: Oded Blatman: Navigating Cyberspace: From Defense Systems to Blockchain Security
In this episode, Oded Blatman shares his transition from a developer to a Chief Information Security Officer, revealing the complexities of protecting digital assets against nation-state threats. From establishing cutting-edge security operations in Israel's defense sector to pioneering cybersecurity measures in the blockchain space, Oded discusses the evolving nature of cyber threats and the critical role of innovation and proactive defense strategies in safeguarding information.
Fri, April 12, 2024
Ep1078: Shahar Sorek's Journey from Martial Artist to Entrepreneurial Success
In the latest episode of 20 Minute Leaders, if you guessed Shahar Sorek, you're absolutely correct! Shahar took us on a wild ride through his journey from martial artist and actor to gaming entrepreneur extraordinaire. He spilled the beans on founding a successful gaming company, then switched gears to join Overwolf as CMO and Investor Relations Officer. We geeked out over the gaming industry's evolution, with Shahar dropping truth bombs about the rise of user-generated content (UGC) and the crucial role of third-party creators. From epic collaborations with studios like Wildcard for Ark Survival Ascended to empowering creators to make a living from their craft, Shahar's passion for gaming and community-building shone through. It was a rollercoaster of insights, laughs, and a whole lot of gaming goodness. So grab your controller and tune in for a dose of gaming inspiration! 🎮✨ #GamingIndustry#Entrepreneurship#20MinuteLeaders#GamingCommunity#GamingInspiration#GamingEntrepreneur
S1 E1077 · Thu, March 28, 2024
Ep1077: Oren Kandel: Navigating the New Wave of Video Content Creation
Embark on a journey with Oren Kandel as he navigates the thrilling ups and downs of transforming the world of video content creation through AI. From early setbacks to achieving a groundbreaking $1M ARR in record time, discover the resilience and innovation driving the future of digital storytelling. #20MinuteLeaders
S1 E1076 · Tue, March 19, 2024
Ep1076: Liat Hayun: Navigating Cybersecurity and Entrepreneurship Amidst Adversity
Liat Hayun shares her unexpected journey from aspiring aeronautics engineer to cybersecurity visionary, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of navigating the tech world. Her story is a testament to the power of curiosity and the impact of embracing unforeseen paths in shaping a secure digital future.
S1 E1075 · Wed, March 13, 2024
Ep1075: The Minds Behind Mine: Redefining Privacy for the Digital World
In a digital era where privacy is paramount, the founders of Mine share their journey of empowering individuals with control over their personal data. Celebrating five years of innovation, they delve into the evolution of data governance, highlighting the balance between technological advancement and user consent. Discover how Mine is shaping a future where privacy and transparency coexist.
S1 E1074 · Sat, March 09, 2024
Ep1074: Yoav Landman: Crafting the Future of Digital Transformation at JFrog
From law graduate to tech innovator, Yoav Landman shares his transformative journey to co-founding JFrog. Discover the pivotal moments that shaped JFrog's mission to secure software creation through trust and innovation, and how they're navigating the digital transformation landscape. A tale of passion, adaptation, and visionary thinking in the ever-evolving world of tech.
S1 E1072 · Thu, February 29, 2024
Ep1072: Yaron Niski: Navigating Stories Across Time - A Dive into Historical Documentaries
Dive into Yaron Niski's unique journey from tech to creating impactful historical documentaries. Discover how his passion for storytelling and challenges in the tech bubble led to adventures in filmmaking, from comedy to uncovering ancient mysteries with global icons. A tale of dreams, resilience, and the art of engaging storytelling.
S1 E1071 · Mon, February 26, 2024
Ep1071: Yael Peled Adam: Transforming Patient Care Through Conversational Intelligence
Dive into Yael Peled Adam's journey from an elite athlete to a pioneering force in healthtech. Explore how Laguna Health is revolutionizing patient care by focusing on the crucial, often overlooked, post-hospitalization recovery process. Uncover the innovative approach to enhancing patient and caregiver communication, ensuring no one is left behind in their healing journey. #20MinuteLeaders
S1 E1070 · Wed, February 21, 2024
Ep1070: Yodfat Harel Buchris: Shaping the Future with Blumberg Capital
Yodfat Harel Buchris, from Blumberg Capital, shares her vast experience across tech and finance, revealing how a blend of innovation, leadership, and strategic investment shapes the future of startups. Dive into her insights on nurturing groundbreaking companies and her vision for a data-driven, AI-enhanced world.
S1 E1069 · Mon, February 19, 2024
Ep1069: Magen Margalit: Bridging Perspectives Through Technology
Magen Margalit shares a compelling narrative of leveraging technology for empathy and understanding, transforming the way global communities perceive crisis situations. His journey from banking to advocating through digital innovation exemplifies the power of tech in creating impactful societal change.
S1 E1068 · Thu, February 15, 2024
Ep1068: Empowering Growth: The D-ID Journey with AI in Marketing and Beyond
Dive into the transformative world of digital avatars with Tomer Zuker, as he shares his journey from a private investigator to pioneering in AI-driven communication. Discover how the integration of avatars is reshaping our digital interactions, making every exchange more human, accessible, and engaging.
Thu, February 08, 2024
Ep1067: Aviv Canaani: Steering Through Storms - DataRails' Path Forward
Aviv Canaani shares his journey from the tech hubs of the U.S. back to Israel, only to face unprecedented challenges amidst conflict. His story reveals the resilience of a startup navigating through crises, emphasizing the power of adaptability and the spirit of teamwork in the face of adversity.
Fri, February 02, 2024
Ep1066 Asaf Somekh: Bridging Data and AI - A Journey from Startups to Global Impact
In this episode, Asaf Somekh shares his transformative journey from early computing challenges to leading AI innovations at Iguazio and beyond. His insights into bridging the gap between AI concepts and real-world applications illuminate the evolving landscape of technology, highlighting the impact of AI across various industries and the importance of adaptability and collaboration in driving progress.
Tue, January 30, 2024
Ep1065 Yaron Morgenstern: From Garage to Global - A Story of Digital Innovation and Leadership
Yaron Morgenstern, with extensive experience in tech, discusses his path from a startup to guiding Glassbox. He explores the changing landscape of digital customer interactions, the role of Gen AI, and managing personal development alongside professional hurdles.
S1 E1064 · Thu, January 25, 2024
Ep1064 Mark Gerson: The Art of Meaningful Giving - Insights from the Chairman of United Hatzalah
In this episode, Mark Gerson, Chairman of United Hatzalah of Israel, shares his transformative journey from corporate success to impactful philanthropy. He delves into the principles of ROI in charitable giving, emphasizing the profound impact of strategic philanthropy on global health and education. His story is a testament to the power of compassionate, results-driven giving.
S1 E1062 · Sun, January 21, 2024
Ep1063: Yair Snir | Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital
Ready for a dose of inspiration? Tune into the latest 20 Minute Leaders episode featuring the incredible Yair Snir! 🎧 From his early days as a student who struggled to find his path, to becoming a titan in the tech investment sphere, Yair's story is a rollercoaster of determination and transformation. Discover how Yair turned every 'No' into a stepping stone for success, and learn why he believes challenges are just hidden opportunities. He gives us a sneak peek into the high-stakes world of venture capital, shedding light on what makes a team not just good but great. As a key figure at Dell Capital, Yair discusses the art of identifying breakthrough ideas and the importance of a balanced founding team. Plus, get his unique take on leveraging strengths and embracing weaknesses. This episode is more than just a conversation; it's a journey through resilience, innovation, and self-belief. So, grab your headphones and join us for an enlightening session with Yair Snir – it's a story you don't want to miss! #20MinuteLeaders #TechInvestment #Resilience #YairSnir
S1 E1062 · Wed, January 17, 2024
Ep1062: David McQuarrie | Chief Commercial Officer, HP
Welcome to another exciting episode of 20 Minute Leaders! David McQuarrie, Chief Commercial Officer of HP, will be joining us today for a fascinating discussion on leadership, values, and the future of work.Dive into the world of HP with David as he shares the core principles that drive the company forward and how these align with his personal values. He talks about the transformative impact of hybrid work models and how they're reshaping the corporate landscape.David opens up about the profound influence of his inner circle on shaping his leadership style. He stresses the importance of corporate responsibility and the conscious choices leaders must make to steer their organizations in the right direction.We'll unpack some key quotes from David that highlight the significant impact of our environment, the invaluable nature of time, and the immense power our reactions hold in defining our paths.As we delve into this conversation, we explore how a leader's legacy is deeply intertwined with their personal and professional values, creating a blueprint for future generations.Join us for this insightful journey with David McQuarrie, right here on 20MinuteLeaders! #LeadershipInsights #HPInnovation #20MinuteLeaders
S1 E1061 · Thu, December 14, 2023
Ep1061: With its counter-drone technology, Startup Xtend plays a crucial role in the ongoing war
Xtend CEO Aviv Shapira gives insights into how their team has dedicated 100% of their efforts to partnership with the IDF
Mon, December 11, 2023
Ep1060: Mavens and Zynga Step Up for Employees and the Broader Public
Leading with empathy, Zynga and mavens have developed several initiatives to ensure the mental well-being of their employees and the long-term well-being of the victims directly affected by the ongoing war
S1 E1059 · Wed, November 29, 2023
Ep1059:UBQ Materials Unyielding Spirit in the Face of Devastating Loss
An interview with Jack Tato Bigio The climate tech company lost two of its team members to the Hamas massacre. This is their story of resilience and the fighting spirit that characterizes our nation.
S1 E1058 · Mon, November 27, 2023
Ep1058: Children’s Fund: Investing in the Future of Our Young Victims
Investors and entrepreneurs have banded together to do all in their power to ensure the young victims in our nation have the opportunity to lead exceptional lives.
S1 E1057 · Sun, November 26, 2023
Ep1057: Edouard Cukierman’s Multifaceted Impact on Israel
With his work as a spokesperson, his support of non-profits, and continuing to invest in high-tech with Catalyst Investment, Edouard is a driving force in Israel in this critical time
S1 E1056 · Wed, November 22, 2023
Ep1056: Dov Moran, a Voice of Optimistic Resilience
Managing Partner of Grove Ventures, Dov Moran provides his insights on our tech ecosystems' road to recovery and our nation's ability to move forward
S1 E1055 · Tue, November 21, 2023
Ep1055: EpLike4Israel: Championing Israel Supporters on the Global Stage
Ep1055: EpLike4Israel: Championing Israel Supporters on the Global Stage
Sun, November 19, 2023
Ep1054: Guy Katsovich Continues to Invest in Our Startup Nation on Multiple Fronts
From establishing a High Tech Operations Room, supporting their pre-seed founders, and serving in milium, Guy and his team personify ‘no matter what
S1 E1053 · Wed, November 15, 2023
Ep1053: MIT Israel Alliance Fights for the Safety of Jewish Students on Campus
Talia Khan tells of the rampant anti-semitism in their prestigious campus and how a group of students have banded together to combat the anti-Israel bias
S1 E1052 · Tue, November 14, 2023
Ep1052: InNegev is Looking Out For Our Startup Nation’s ‘Day After’
InNegev’s initiative aims to aggregate and address those challenges faced by early-stage startups to ensure this war does not have long-term effects on our Ecosystem
S1 E1051 · Mon, November 13, 2023
Ep1051: Tikkun Olam Makers: Building Solutions and Bridges for Our Future
Gidi Grinstein and his team are deploying cutting-edge methodologies to create and distribute solutions for those wounded and with disabilities, all while maintaining a sense of hope for peace.
S1 E1050 · Thu, November 09, 2023
Ep1050: Startup Resilience: Trullion Leans on Their Values in Times of Adversity
Isaac Heller walks us through the amazing initiatives of his employees and his sturdy belief in the resilience of our tech community.
S1 E1049 · Tue, November 07, 2023
Ep1049: Talon: A Beacon of Resilience and Recovery
Talon has spared no effort to aid its customers, employees, and the broader community in this time of need.
S1 E1048 · Mon, November 06, 2023
Ep1048: Tech PR Community Fills The Vacuum
Rachel Glaser tells of how her fellow PR professionals united to ensure journalists had what they needed to tell our story as accurately as possible.
S1 E1047 · Mon, November 06, 2023
Ep1047: M: An Ambassador of Shayetet 13 With a Unique Special Mission
M spent five years in Shayetet 13, the Navy Seals of Israel. Now his mission is supporting his teammates in this critical time from afar, gathering donations and sending vital equipment to aid his special unit in the war.
S1 E1044 · Thu, November 02, 2023
Ep1046: Hitech4israel: A Startup Nation’s Call to Action
Israeli tech enthusiasts unite in service of the state and its citizens to provide the necessary equipment and assistance rapidly, urgently, and efficiently.
S1 E1045 · Wed, November 01, 2023
Ep1045: Standing Behind Our People: Concrete and Immediate Aid
A central hub for those supporting soldiers and citizens with a high-tech, high-impact mentality.
S1 E1044 · Tue, October 31, 2023
Ep1044: Cyabra: On The Frontlines of Disinformation
Shedding light on a new kind of warfare that transcends borders and underscores the importance of knowledge as our most powerful weapon.
S1 E1043 · Mon, October 30, 2023
Ep1043: Tech4Israel: Mobilizing Global Capital for Israel’s Pressing Needs
Tech4Israel acts as the ultimate connector for global donors to provide funds where they are needed most.
S1 E1042 · Sun, October 29, 2023
Ep1042: Appleseeds: Personal Tragedy and Profound Impact
How a Dedicated Team Mobilized for Change and harnessed its resources for the benefit of the people they have served diligently for many years.
S1 E1041 · Thu, October 26, 2023
Ep1041: Brothers and Sisters for Israel: the largest aid organization in Israel
Brothers and Sisters for Israel embodies the spirit of our Startup Nation turned Volunteer Nation with its 100% civilian voluntary operation. Their efforts include mobilizing critical resources, including food, water, clothing, medical equipment and aid, providing accommodation for displaced families, evacuating those in war zones, locating missing individuals, procuring vital equipment, and much more.
S1 E1040 · Wed, October 25, 2023
Ep1040: Social Media for Israel: Tackling Misinformation in Israel's Online Battle
A community of volunteers combating misinformation and ensuring pro-Israel content remains accessible to a global audience during this pivotal juncture in the court of public perception.
S1 E1039 · Tue, October 24, 2023
Ep1039: Build to Support: an interview with founder Mickey Haslavsky
Build to Support is a marketplace of 3000 volunteers dedicated to aiding civilians and the military within minutes. Their platform matches people to suitable projects, and with volunteers ranging from engineers, product managers, AI computer vision researchers, graphic designers, and everything else in between, their capabilities are overwhelming. Projects they assist with include aggregating information on missing people, content management for online warfare, tech support for various organizations, and countless more.
S1 E1038 · Mon, October 02, 2023
Ep1038: Elliot Robson | CEO, Eduworks Corporation
Tune in to our latest episode, where we chat with Elliot Robson, a trailblazer in human performance and human-machine interaction. From the NYC Department of Education to cutting-edge projects for the National Science Foundation, Elliot shares invaluable insights into AI, skill digitization, and the future of work. Don't miss it!
S1 E1037 · Wed, September 20, 2023
Ep1037: Mati Ram | CEO Adscale
New Episode Alert! Ready for a dose of inspiration? Tune in to the latest episode of 20 Minute Leaders featuring Mati Ram, the CEO and Founder of AdScale. Mati is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in high-Tech. From founding Dynasec—a risk management software company that got snapped up by Check Point—to running AdScale, an innovative platform for eCommerce, he's got loads to share. But wait, there's more! Mati's a double threat with a BA and an MBA, plus he's an amateur author. If you've ever wondered how to combine passion, expertise, and education to build something amazing, this is your chance to learn from the best. Don't miss out—catch this episode to fuel your entrepreneurial fire! #20MinuteLeaders #MatiRam #Entrepreneurship #AdScale #eCommerce #Startups
Thu, September 07, 2023
Ep1036: Yotam Idan | Co-Founder & CEO, WeSki
Strap in for a rollercoaster of a chat on 20 Minute Leaders! We're diving deep with Yotam Idan, Co-Founder & CEO of WeSki. Yotam shares how his team navigated the pandemic with the mindset of "survive and thrive." From glimpsing the "hockey stick" growth of success to the tough decision of whether to let go of a dream, Yotam opens up about the journey that has made WeSki what it is today. Skiing since he was 4 and programming since his time in the 8200 unit, Yotam has a unique blend of passion and skill that’s hard to ignore. Don't miss out on this episode that’s jam-packed with insights and inspiration!
S1 E1035 · Thu, August 24, 2023
Ep1035: Jhaymee Tynan | Principal, Healthcare Services, Korn Ferry
Get ready to be inspired by the incredible Jhaymee Tynan! She's not just an award-winning strategist and culture leader, but also a wellness champion who's making waves in the world of healthcare. Known for her values of empathy and kindness, she's redefining workplaces everywhere. Former AVP of Integration at Atrium Health in Charlotte, now shining bright as a key player in Egon Zehnder's global Health Services, Public and Social Sector, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices in DC. Let's dive into her journey and soak up those positive vibes! #JhaymeeTynan #EmpathyInAction #WorkplaceWellness
Tue, July 25, 2023
Ep1034: Roy Akerman | Co-Founder, CEO, Rezonate
In this episode of 20 Minute Leaders, Michael hosts Roy Akerman, former head of the operational unit for countering espionage and cyber terrorism in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office, where he also met his Co-Founder of their cloud protection startup, Ori Amiga. After leading creative operations to protect the state's infrastructure, they decided to develop a platform that will solve what they define as the next challenge for big companies: identity-based threats to the company's systems.Rezonate, an identity-centric security platform, locates sophisticated unusual behaviors within an organization's systems, among customers, employees, etc.—and presents the organization with a sort of storyline view of where the treatment of each problem stands.Roy, the CEO of Rezonate, will talk about the next challenges in the field of cloud security and his passionate career path.
S1 E1033 · Mon, July 10, 2023
Ep1033: Omer Egozi | Co-Founder & CEO, Triplan
Dive into the fascinating world of travel tech with the newest episode of 20 Minute Leaders! Join us on 20 Minute Leaders for a whirlwind adventure with Omer Egozi, Co-founder and CEO of Trip Plan! Discover his lifelong passion for travel and the origins of his innovative travel-tech venture. Tune in for an exciting exploration of travel, technology, and global experiences in just 20 minutes. Don't miss out! #Podcast #TravelTech #TechLeaders #Innovation #TripPlan #20MinuteLeaders
S1 E1032 · Thu, June 29, 2023
Ep1032: Tali Gross | CEO, SixtyFive
With the rising cost of living, millions of American seniors find themselves in economic hardship. Don't miss this episode with Tali Gross, CEO and Co-founder of SixtyFive. Discover how their home equity investment (HEI) product empowers seniors to transform their home equity into an accessible income on demand.
S1 E1031 · Tue, June 06, 2023
Ep1031: Donna Griffit | Corporate Storyteller
Donna Griffit, Corporate Storyteller, has worked globally for over 16 years with Fortune 500 companies, Start-Ups and investors in a wide variety of industries. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries, helping them create, edit and deliver verbal and written presentations, pitches and messages. Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive to results. Through her guidance clients have raised over half a billion dollars. To learn more, visit DonnaGriffit.com
S1 E1030 · Tue, May 30, 2023
Ep1030: Lior Handelsman | General Partner, Grove Ventures
Lior Handelsman is a General Partner at Grove Ventures, a leading early-stage VC fund with more than half-a-billion dollars under management. Grove Ventures partners early with exceptional Israeli entrepreneurs who believe that the Deep Future is now and are ready to build it. As a General Partner, Lior led the fund’s investments in companies like Protai, NoTraffic, Luminescent, Protai, Teramount, Mirato, and Vocai, among others. Prior to joining Grove Ventures, Lior was one of the founders of SolarEdge (NASDAQ:SEDG). He took part in inventing and developing the company’s technology and saw it grow from a small startup to a multi-billion dollar global company, with a market leadership position in the smart and renewable energy markets. Before SolarEdge, Lior spent 11 years leading research and development teams and directing large-scale, multidisciplinary R&D projects in power electronics, analog design, communications, and signal processing at the Intelligence Corps Technology Unit – Unit 81. Lior holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) and an MBA from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
Tue, May 16, 2023
Ep1029: Andrew Schmertz | CEO, Hopscotch Air
Andrew Schmertz is a seasoned entrepreneur and the CEO of Hopscotch Air, about 10 years ago, this former lawyer and TV contributor, discovered a very special demand in the air transport market- and set out to build his commercial airline company from scratch. This is a great episode about spotting opportunities and building crazy businesses from scratch. Enjoy!
S1 E1028 · Thu, May 11, 2023
Ep1028: Sascha Lock | Head of Media & Performance Analytics, AMP Agency
Sascha is an advertising executive with over 15 years of experience in the industry, working in the USA and Germany. He has worked on a variety of campaigns for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, such as Fidelity Investments, Ahold-Delhaize, and Avocados From Mexico, and has a track record of delivering innovative solutions. His career began in digital media planning, where he learned the ins and outs of strategy, buying, and target audience development. From there, he moved into hybrid media and account management positions working with clients to develop and execute marketing strategies. In his current role as SVP, Media & Performance Analytics, he leads a team of professionals to develop, execute, and measure integrated campaigns across all channels for the Integrated Agency Group within Advantage Solutions, including AMP Agency, Upshot, and Halverson Group. Outside of work, he is a co-chair of the disABILITIES in ACTION enterprise resource group within Advantage Solutions’ DE&I Council.
S1 E1027 · Mon, May 01, 2023
Ep1027: Steve Blue | CEO, Miller Ingenuity
Steve is President & CEO of Miller Ingenuity, an international manufacturer of high technology products that save lives and preserve the environment. Steve has published five books that teach senior leaders and CEOs how to increase profit, take market share, and destroy competition. He is an internationally recognized expert on leading change and business transformation. Steve is a highly-acclaimed keynote speaker, having addressed audiences at Harvard Business School, The United Nations, Carnegie Hall, Industry Week, The World Safe Summit, CEO Clubs International and Medtronic Corporation. His leadership insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Fox Business Channel, CNN, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, CEO World, Business Week and Success Magazines.
S1 E1026 · Tue, April 04, 2023
Ep1026: Jasmine Bharucha | Founder, Katharos Foods
Jasmine Bharucha is the Founder and CEO of Katharos foods, a brand that crafts clean and healthy plant-based cheese. At the helm of the company, she spearheads all the growth-driven and business-critical decisions while charting the product roadmap. Having an MBA from Northeastern University, Boston, USA, Jasmine holds over 17 years of work experience with the leading multinational companies KPMG and Capgemini. A few years back, she started her journey to lead a healthy plant based lifestyle and observed the lack of good quality and affordable vegan cheese in the market. This motivated her to bring plant-based dairy alternatives for people who want high-nutrition and affordable plant based lifestyles with Katharos. After spending years in the corporate world, she started her entrepreneurial journey with Katharos in 2019. Since its inception, the company providing an assortment of 100% natural cheese has garnered its foothold in the market. Awarded for her efforts, Jasmine was selected among the top 5 Humane Entrepreneurs in India by HSI in 2020. Under her leadership, Katharos was named the ‘Best Vegan Cheese in India’ by PETA in 2021.
S1 E1025 · Fri, March 17, 2023
Ep1025: Ziv Peremen | CEO and Co-Founder, X-trodes
Ziv Peremen is a neuroscientist and business leader in the field of digital health. He is CEO and Co-Founder of X-trodes, a medical device company bringing wireless medical-grade monitoring solutions to the comfort of users’ home environments. Prior to cofounding X-trodes, Ziv served as VP Medical Solutions at ElMindA, a leading company in the field of brain health. He was also CTO of the Brain Stimulation & Monitoring Toolbox Consortium (BSMT). An experienced business leader with a diverse background, Ziv is fascinated by the potential for harnessing DeepTech into applicable solutions that can improve health and quality of life. Ziv holds a PhD in Neurocognitive Science and BSc in Physics and Philosophy, both from Tel Aviv University.
S1 E1024 · Fri, March 10, 2023
Ep1024: Itay Dressler | Co-Founder & CTO, theGist
laItay Dressler is the Co-Founder of TheGist; his previous roles include VP of Engineering at OpenWeb, as well as CTO & Co-Founder of Salaryo
S1 E1023 · Thu, March 09, 2023
Ep1023: Izhak Paz | Founder and CEO, SafeGuard
Izhak Paz is the founder and CEO of SafeGuard, an international construction-tech company that uses artificial intelligence to identify human behavior and predict and prevent construction accidents. Paz has a background in economics and public health and a passion for saving lives. Previous to SafeGuard Izhak served as a consultant to the Israeli Department of Occupational Health.
S1 E1022 · Mon, March 06, 2023
Ep1022: Ido Gonen | Co-founder & CTO, Exodigo
Ido Gonen is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Exodigo, the non-intrusive, multi-sensing subsurface imaging platform. Prior to Exodigo, Ido led multiple engineering teams focusing on innovative, inter-unit R&D projects inside one of Israel’s elite deep tech units, where he started his career as a software engineer. Ido graduated cum laude from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology with a B.Sc in software engineering and an M.Sc in computer science. He also participated in Psagot, the highly selective flagship program of the military’s academic services and earned additional certificates in corporate analysis and valuation from Bar-Ilan University.
S1 E1021 · Sun, March 05, 2023
Ep1021: Yael Daniely | Founder and CEO, YD scale up your business
Yael is a co-founder therapist and startup psychologist. She is the founder and CEO of YD scale up your business. Yael did extensive research, interviewing over 450 innovators, investors, and other ecosystem members. Yael's research focuses on the intangible factors that underpin the start-up growth life cycle: co-founder conflicts, the founding CEO's psychological elements of scale, and startup growing pains. She founded a clinic and now works with a portfolio of startups at various stages, assisting them in scaling while addressing these important growth engines. Yael has a background in psychology, couple therapy, and group analytics.
S1 E1020 · Sat, March 04, 2023
Ep1020: Mark Gazit | CEO & President, ThetaRay
Mark Gazit is prominent senior executive with 25 years of experience in Israeli and international high-tech companies, Mark is currently CEO of ThetaRay. Mark served as Managing Director of NiceTrack, which provides software and hardware solutions to government agencies worldwide in the areas of information intelligence and cyber where he transformed it into a fast growing, profitable revenue generator. He was also the Group President & CEO of SkyVision, which he took from the start-up stage to an international company serving over 50 countries worldwide. Mark has held additional pivotal executive roles in leading companies.
S1 E1019 · Fri, March 03, 2023
Ep1019: Eyal Webber-Zvik | Vice President Product Marketing and Strategic Alliances, Cato Networks
Eyal Webber-Zvik is the Vice President of Product Marketing and Strategic Alliances at Cato Networks. In his role, Eyal manages a global team of product marketing directors that are tasked with driving the company's messaging, position, press and media relations, and more. Previously, Eyal ran Cato's product management organization, translating Cato's SASE vision into a global, successful cloud service. Prior to Cato Networks, Eyal held product management, project management and software engineering positions in several startups and in the IDF.
S1 E1018 · Thu, March 02, 2023
Ep1018: Louwki Coetsee | Group Vice President: Sales & Client Value, Netsurit
Louwki’s entire career has been devoted to serving companies’ technical needs. After earning his Master Network Engineer qualification, he became a technical trainer for Torque-IT, and shortly after this, he was promoted to Technical manager. Louwki then joined Tronic Trade Technology Holdings and served as Technical Manager. He then spent over a decade at Netsurit starting as a Senior Technical Consultant. He worked his way up to Head of Support at Netsurit and was part of the executive committee. Following a 3-year stint at Dimension Data as a Service Improvement & Enablement Manager and part of the GSC Management team, he re-joined the Netsurit team in 2017 to help grow the US business.
S1 E1017 · Wed, March 01, 2023
Ep1017: Josh Tyson | Director of Creative Content, OneReach.ai
Josh Tyson is co-author of The Wall Street Journal business bestseller, Age of Invisible Machines, Director of Storytelling at OneReach.ai, and co-host of N9K, a podcast from the future.
S1 E1016 · Tue, February 28, 2023
Ep1016: Seth Bogner | Chairman and CEO, HeartPoint Global Inc.
Bio: Seth Bogner is a visionary entrepreneur with over three decades of experience in principal investing, structured finance, restructurings, and merchant banking. He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of HeartPoint Global Inc., where he merges his exceptional leadership abilities with his long-time goal of creating a business that is both profitable and socially responsible. Bogner began his career at Loeb Partners Realty and later served as the Chairman of Hearthstone Management Group Ltd. Prior to joining HeartPoint Global, he was the managing partner of Union Square Partners Ltd. and founded Ohr Partners in 2007.
S1 E1015 · Mon, February 27, 2023
Ep1015: Omer Glass | CEO and Co-Founder, GrowthSpace
Omer Glass is CEO and Co-Founder of GrowthSpace, the world’s first outcome-focused talent development platform. Omer’s passion for upskilling began with his first startup, Careerology, an online school for career development. Following this, he became a Management Consultant at Shaldor, Israel’s leading management consulting firm, where he focused on business strategy.
S1 E1014 · Thu, February 23, 2023
Ep1014: Efrat Dagan | Founder and CEO, Workaround
Efrat Dagan is Founder of WorkAround, Strategic Talent Acquisition Services. Simply put: Efrat can help figure out your growth pains. Efrat has led Google Israel’s Staffing for about a decade from the inception of the R&D offices in Israel (2006). Efrat managed the recruitment of six Google offices in Europe, including Israel, Russia and Northern Europe and Waze. Efrat has been with Google for 12 years and In her last role at Google she has been a Global Recruitment Manager at headquarters in California, In the last few years Efrat headed the talent team globally at the Lyft Autonomous Driving Division and at Next insurance. Efrat has been selected as one of the most prominent human resources professionals in Israel in 2014. Efrat lectures, blogs about the future of the world of work, and she mentors entrepreneurs and individuals which are involved in the field.
S1 E1013 · Wed, February 22, 2023
Ep1013: Doron Naim | Co-Founder and CEO, DevOcean Security
Doron Naim is Co-Founder and CEO of DevOcean Security, a Cloud Application Vulnerability Remediation platform. DevOcean revolutionizes the process of fixing risks in the new environment of the cloud and is backed by Glilot Capital Partners with participation from angel investors, including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelbeck and Amazon’s Head of Security Audit Adam Hirsch. Previously, Doron served as GM of Security Research at CyberArk, uncovering and disclosing critical, zero-day vulnerabilities to large organizations. There he founded the ArkCon security conference, creating a global community of top cybersecurity thought leaders, researchers, and decision-makers. Doron frequently speaks at several international cybersecurity conferences. Doron is a veteran of the elite Israel Defense Forces 8200 unit and has a B.Sc. in Computer Science.
S1 E1012 · Sat, February 18, 2023
Ep1012: Rishi Agrawal | CEO and Co-Founder, TeamLease Regtech
Rishi Agrawal, is the CEO and Co-Founder of TeamLease Regtech, India’s leading Regulatory SAAS company. His company helps India Inc navigate the complexity of the country’s regulatory ecosystem and stay on the right side of the law. He is envisioning Compliance 2.0, a paperless, presenceless and cashless ecosystem for digital India. Rishi works closely with Union and state governments in India to help them reimagine employer compliance. Rishi is an avid traveler and amateur photographer. He has recently published a coffee table photo book titled, Varanasi, A passage to immortality.
S1 E1011 · Tue, February 14, 2023
Ep1011: Will Robinson | CEO, Encapture
Will Robinson is the CEO of Encapture, which is a fast-growing SaaS platform that helps banks automatically pull important information from documents. By using machine learning to process large amounts of data, it helps companies like Wells Fargo, Frost Bank, and Truist save time and money. Encapture's easy-to-use automation helps banks save time and reduce compliance risk by processing documents quickly and correctly in an easy-to-access format. Before joining Encapture, Will worked at Dynata in a number of executive management roles. Will worked as an investment professional at The Carlyle Group, which is one of the largest and most successful investment firms in the world, before he joined Dynata.
S1 E1010 · Sat, February 04, 2023
Ep1010: Sharon Handelman-Gotlib | Healthcare and Aging Business Manager at Sompo Digital Lab TLV
Sharon Handelman-Gotlib is the Healthcare and Aging Business Manager at Sompo Digital Lab TLV as well as a leader in the Israeli FemTech community promoting women's health and Israeli FemTech ecosystem.
S1 E1009 · Fri, February 03, 2023
Ep1009: Roi Ben Daniel | CEO, Received
Roi is CEO and Cofounder of Received, a startup building a revenue management platform for finance teams. Before that, Roi built Visa's Partnerships team in Tel Aviv, and was part of the Visa Ventures global team. Roi holds an LL.B. in Law and Accounting from TAU, and an MBA from Chicago Booth.
S1 E1008 · Thu, February 02, 2023
Ep1008: Steven Weinberg | Member Board Of Directors, Mental Health Association of Greater Chicago
Steve Weinberg has spent his life selling and helping others sell better, more, and faster. He recently led the Accuity sales team to new sales accomplishments for twelve years. Accuity is a British-Dutch technology company that is now part of Lexis Nexis Risk Systems and is a RELX subsidiary. It provides anti-money laundering and electronic payment solutions to financial institutions and corporations. While at Accuity as a salesperson and simultaneously as a manager of a team of salespeople, Steve closed the largest sale in the company’s history.
S1 E1007 · Tue, January 31, 2023
Ep1007: Peter Mann | Founder and CEO, Oransi
Peter Mann is the CEO & Founder of Virginia-based Oransi, a leading air purification company known for its efficient, intuitive and reliable products for consumers, schools, organizations and businesses. He also is the Chair of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers. In 2021, Oransi merged with Aviemore Technologies and is now a motor technology company with a clean energy mission. Oransi’s new manufacturing facility in Radford, Virginia is making products in the USA with advanced motor technologies. Previously, Peter was the Founder & CEO of the Austin, Texas-based Alen Corp., an air purification company he built, and after 7 years had a successful exit. He went to college on a Navy ROTC scholarship and then served 4 years, including a tour in the Red Sea during the First Gulf War.
S1 E1006 · Mon, January 30, 2023
Ep1006: Dr. Ruth Dagan | Partner and Head of Environment and Climate Change, Herzog, Fox & Neeman
Dr. Ruth Dagan is a partner and head of the environment and climate change practice at Herzog Law Firm. Ruth was recently appointed as a consultant on carbon markets for the United Nations Climate Change Convention Secretariat. Ruth has been a leading environmental and climate law practitioner in Tel Aviv and New York for over two decades. She holds a doctorate from NYU's School of Law, specializing in environmental finance. Her practice is deeply focused on climate-related technological innovation, the development of carbon offsetting projects, and carbon market transactions. Ruth works closely with a multitude of international corporations, tech companies, financial institutions, and investors to develop curated carbon strategies tailored to their unique needs and targets. Ruth is a firm believer in markets, and she works with both national and international groups to develop tools and policies for the carbon market.
S1 E1005 · Mon, January 30, 2023
Ep1005: Maya Huber | Co-Founder & CEO, TaTiO
Maya Huber spent the last 15 years in the HR Tech industry in practice and research, meeting thousands of desperate job seekers and recruiters, all trying to find their perfect match. She leverages her expertise in recruitment with the power of artificial intelligence to create a new job matching standard.
S1 E1004 · Fri, January 27, 2023
Ep1004: Amy Clark | Chief Human Resources Officer, BBB National Programs
Amy Clark is an executive coach and a leader in human resources. She helps people improve their management and leadership skills, which leads to measurable business results. She has more than 20 years of valuable corporate business experience at various Fortune 500 companies and national non-profit organizations, serving in positions such as vice president of management and chief human resources officer. Amy has a deep passion for connecting with and developing others, and she is an all-in thought partner with a track record of being in the trenches and walking alongside leaders. She has had a lot of valuable first-hand experience that has led her to believe that teaching people skills through coaching makes a big difference in their lives. As a leadership development coach, she works one-on-one with visionary, growth-minded leaders to identify key behaviors they want to gain awareness of and help them understand what they can do today to be more successful tomorrow.
S1 E1003 · Wed, January 25, 2023
Ep1003: Yaron Ravkaie | Chief Executive Officer, Teridion
Ravkaie is highly energetic, experienced CEO with a technology background in the communications and IT industry and vast international experience. Ravkaie is the CEO of Teridion - a WAN service that is transforming enterprise connectivity. Based on the public cloud, Teridion's solution offers superior performance globally, including in China. Enterprises and SaaS providers worldwide benefit from Teridion's circuit-like WAN performance and reliability. Previously, he was CEO of Radcom, a global, publicly traded (NASDAQ) software company focused on service assurance and customer experience management. While working as the Chief Business Officer of RR Media, a satellite services company, he was responsible for the day-to-day operations. Before that he was a president at Amdocs – a leading software company serving the communications industry. His last role was as Division President, focused on creating new businesses, and reaching mega growth of ~$1B. I grew in the ranks of Amdocs from Technical director, Solution Architect, Presales to Vice President and then Division President. He is focused on growth and run with what I strategize, setup and sell.
S1 E1002 · Wed, January 25, 2023
Ep1002: Yochai Corem | CEO, Cyberint
Yochai Corem is A multi-disciplinary executive with an impressive ability to innovate and lead Businesses, Products and Projects. Over 20 years of experience leading Sales, BizDev, Product Management and Innovation in international markets.
S1 E1001 · Tue, January 24, 2023
Ep1001: Amir Weitmann | Managing Partner, Champel Capital
Amir is an experienced licensed investment advisor and asset manager, and has been involved in asset management since 2004. From 2010 to 2017, he served as a Senior Investment Advisor for Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank. In 2017, he established Champel Capital with Arié to harness the power of Israeli technology investments. Amir holds a BA and an MA in International Relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
S1 E1000 · Wed, January 18, 2023
Ep1000: Yossi Matias | Vice President, Engineering & Research, Google
Yossi Matias is Vice President, Engineering & Research, at Google, advancing AI to help transform healthcare, conversational AI, and the climate crisis. He is the global lead of Google’s Health AI, Google’s Crisis Response and Climate Crises AI initiatives, and pioneered Conversational AI technologies. Previously Yossi was on Google’s Search leadership for over a decade. Yossi established Google’s center in Israel and grew it to over 2500, oversaw Google’s site in Bangalore, India through its 4-fold growth, and oversees Google’s expanding Research center in Africa. He is a founding lead of Google’s AI for Social Good and of Google for Startup Accelerator. Yossi is on the CS faculty of TAU with over 100 published papers and the inventor of over 60 patents. He was previously a Research Scientist at Bell Labs, a visiting professor at Stanford, and an entrepreneur. Among his recognitions, Yossi is a recipient of the Godel Prize and the ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for seminal work on large-scale data analytics.
S1 E999 · Tue, January 17, 2023
Ep999: Ohad Zadok | CEO and Co-Founder, Tagado
Ohad is the CEO and Co-Founder at Tagado, a company that collects customer feedback about companies and transforms them into business insights using natural language processing (NPL). Tagado's platform allows companies to organize customer feedback from multiple channels and generate actionable business insights automatically. It gathers public and internal information from review sites, social media, support tickets, CRM, and more, and uses models of natural language processing and machine learning (ML-NLP) to identify trends and micro-trends, opportunities and risks and flood them to the customer. Ohad was VP Product at Brezzometer, which Google acquired. He also founded Gadgety, the largest tech website in Israel. In February 2021 He Founded Tagado with Eli Lepkifker and Dor Stern.
S1 E998 · Mon, January 16, 2023
Ep998: Ronen Dar | Co-Founder & CTO, Run:ai
Ronen Dar is an Algorithm engineer and the Co-Founder & CTO at Run:ai, a cloud-native software platform that optimizes and orchestrates GPU compute resources for AI and Deep Learning workloads. The company recently raised a $75M Series C. Before starting Run:ai, Ronen did a Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University and a postdoc as a research scientist at Bell Labs in the US, so he can talk about his switch from academia to becoming a founder. Ronen is a recipient of the Intel award for excellence in academic studies and research (2013), the Weinstein award for outstanding publication in the field of signal processing (2013), and the Weinstein prize for academic excellence (2011).
S1 E997 · Sun, January 15, 2023
Ep997: Eric Krzeslo | CEO, Mintt
Eric is the CEO of Mintt since 2018 where he brought innovation to market and now scaling internationnaly. Prior to Mintt, he co-founded SoftKinetic, inventor of 3D depth sensors and human tracking algorithms. SoftKinetic has been acquired by Sony in 2015. Before SoftKinetic, Eric co-founded 72dpi, a innovative CGI, Web & Entertainement company i the early 2000.
S1 E996 · Sat, January 14, 2023
Ep996: Ehud Hausman | Partner, Head of Hi-Tech Practice Patent Attorney, Advocate, Reinhold Cohn & Partners
Ehud (Udi) Hausman is a patent attorney who manages the Hi-Tech department of the Reinhold Cohn Group, the largest, earliest established Intellectual Property firm in Israel. Over the years he has offered his professional expertise in the protection of inventions and building IP strategy, advising both entrepreneurs and companies in the fields of Computer Science, Physics and Electronics, including Internet, cellular technology, databases, multi-media, Big Data, Machine Learning and other software, hardware, and integrated systems and processes.
S1 E995 · Fri, January 13, 2023
Ep995: Bobby Pinero | CEO and co-founder, Equals
Bobby is the CEO of Equals, a next generation spreadsheet with live connections to any database, versioning, and collaboration. He previously ran Finance and Analytics at Intercom.
S1 E994 · Thu, January 12, 2023
Ep994: Joe Natoli | Founder, LOOFT Inc.
Joe Natoli has had many titles throughout his career: actor, game designer, educator, full-stack developer and entrepreneur. His passion for delighting people through technology led him to found LOOFT, the world’s first world’s first cooling and heating comfort service company while working at a venture builder in Leipzig, Germany. Joe brings knowledge of international startups, Silicon Valley and more, having worked with billionaire investor Tim Draper, Draper University, teaching entrepreneurship around the world from Africa to Asia. Afterwards, Joe settled in Europe to put his knowledge to work by forming ventures in the underserved market of Eastern Germany. Joe could be considered the ultimate startup guy, having built, founded or failed over a dozen startup businesses.
S1 E993 · Wed, January 11, 2023
Ep993: Wilko Visser | Founder and CEO, ValueBlue
Wilko Visser is the CEO at ValueBlue, a company behind the SaaS platform BlueDolphin: an Enterprise Architecture tool for Agile Business Transformation. Prior to starting the company in 2011, Wilko spent time as a senior executive across both self-started organizations and private corporations with thousands of employees. A strong believer in the promises of digital transformation, Wilko is excited about the innovation BlueDolphin is enabling for organizations across the globe.
S1 E992 · Tue, January 10, 2023
Ep992: Bracha Halaf | Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Gravity Climate-Fund & Venture Studio
Dr Bracha Halaf is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Gravity Climate-Fund & Venture Studio. An investor with deep scientific, engineering, and regulatory background. Bracha was the Chief Scientist of Israel’s Ministry of Energy and the public representative at Israel’s Public Utility Authority. Bracha also served in the recent years as a Principal at Qure Ventures, a digital Health VC. Bracha Holds Ph.D in Biophysics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and M.Sc. & B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.
S1 E991 · Mon, January 09, 2023
Ep991: Tyler Bryden | Co-Founder, Speak Ai
Tyler Bryden is an experienced business owner, marketer, and product leader passionate about improving human-computer interaction to unlock personal and professional growth. He currently leads Speak Ai, a technology company supported by Techstars that uses speech-to-text and natural language processing to automatically extract valuable insights from audio, video, and text. 7,000+ researchers, marketers, and data professionals use Speak Ai's intuitive platform to capture and analyze language data for better decision-making.
S1 E990 · Sun, January 08, 2023
Ep990: Roee Shibolet | Head of Israel R&D Center, Intuitive Israel
Roee is Head of the Israel R&D center for intuitive Surgical, a US Robotic Surgery company that revolutionised minimal invasive surgery with the DaVinci robot. Roee has more than 20 years of technology experience in the medical domain. Roee has led software, data and algorithm groups in areas including automatic inspection, artificial inteligence and digital solutions. Introducing products from POC to FDA approval. His current group is part of Intuitive's digital organization and is devlopping the digital platform for hosting applications that enhance the healthcare team's ability to improve and provide the best care for patients. Roee holds a Bsc in Computer Science and a MBA.
S1 E989 · Sat, January 07, 2023
Ep989: Ziv Elul | CEO, Periapt
Ziv Elul hes a Entrepreneur, CEO and founder. The digital advertising company 'Ineractive' which he founded together with Ofer Yehudai was sold in the first round for 86 million dollars to the German Faber company. Elol served as CEO for 12 years of the company. In 2021, Fyber was sold in a deal worth 650 million dollars and in the same year Elul established a new startup called Periapt. He is an avid investor and board member of several start-up companies. Lt. Col. in res. Holds a master's degree in business administration with honors from the Hebrew University and is one of its board of trustees.
S1 E988 · Fri, January 06, 2023
Ep988: Amit Kumar Agarwal | Founder & CEO, NoBroker.com
Amit Kumar Agarwal is the CEO and Co-founder of NoBroker.com , India's first proptech unicorn. He defines and guides the overall vision at NoBroker and spearheads the company’s business strategies. Amit, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and IIM, Ahmedabad, was a banking and finance veteran for over 13 years prior to starting his entrepreneurial journey. Amit has been revolutionizing the house-hunting experience for home seekers across India and is making the discovery process more hassle-free. NoBroker has democratised the house hunting process and empowered the tenants/buyers/sellers to have seamless real estate transactions free from the pressures, biases and manipulations that are quintessential of offline transactions. To date, NoBroker has saved upwards of INR 10,000crores in brokerage for its customers.
S1 E987 · Fri, January 06, 2023
Ep987: Ilit Raz | CEO and Founder, Joonko
Ilit Raz is the CEO and founder of Joonko, the ultimate automated diversity recruiting software solution. She comes with over 18 years of experience working in various product management and team management roles in tech startups and 7 years in the highly regarded IDF intelligence unit 8200, with vast experience in NLP. She holds a Computer Science degree (Bsc.) and an Executive MBA. As a working woman in tech, usually being the only woman in the room, she experienced bias firsthand and began her journey towards workforce-related DE&I initiatives and decided to change the way people work. That's when she founded Joonko.
S1 E986 · Thu, January 05, 2023
Ep986: Art Harrison | Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer, Daylight
Art Harrison is co-founder and chief growth officer at Daylight. With more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Art started his career as an entrepreneur, building some of the first generation social networking dating sites with over 2,000,000 registered users. He is a dynamic and passionate speaker.
S1 E985 · Wed, January 04, 2023
Ep985: Shaara Roman | Founder & CEO, The Silverene Group
Shaara Roman is author of “The Conscious Workplace” and founder and CEO of The Silverene Group, a culture consulting firm that is on a mission to help build better, more inclusive workplaces. Previously, Shaara held leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies. Born in India, schooled in Nigeria and England, and having lived in Greece before coming to the US, Shaara uses her global experience as the foundation for crafting strategies to improve culture, workforce quality, and operations across a multitude of disciplines in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Shaara also serves on several advisory and nonprofit boards, she’s a charismatic speaker, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
S1 E984 · Tue, January 03, 2023
Ep984: Yehiel Atias | Co-Founder & CEO, Hexa
Yehiel Atias is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hexa, an immersive 3D tech stack that enables content creation, management, distribution, and analysis, and the chairmain of the retail tech public council at the Israeli Export Institute. Atias’ professional experience started at the young age of 21 and spans having founded two other companies to working alongside C-suite executives of retail giants like H&M, Alibaba, Walmart, Amazon,and IKEA. His strong belief in prioritizing people is palpable within Hexa’s company culture, and this tenet extends into Atias’ participation in nonprofit organizations.
S1 E983 · Fri, December 30, 2022
Ep983: Donald Thompson | CEO, The Diversity Movement
Donald Thompson is CEO of The Diversity Movement, a results-oriented, data-driven strategic firm offering clients a productized DEI journey built on digital learning tools, expertly-curated content, conversational AI, and analytics. The company was recently named to Inc. Magazine’s 2021 Best in Business List in DE&I Advocacy. In addition, Donald serves as a board member for several organizations in marketing, healthcare, banking, technology, and sports. Donald is an entrepreneur, public speaker, author, podcaster, Certified Diversity Executive (CDE), and executive coach. He is a thought leader on goal achievement, influencing company culture, and driving exponential growth. Donald has led companies that attained successful exits with strong returns for shareholders and employees. He writes a leadership column for WRAL TechWire and has contributed to Entrepeneur.com and CNBC.com. Donald’s autobiography and leadership book "Underestimated: A CEO’s Unlikely Path to Success" — published in October of 2022.
S1 E982 · Mon, December 26, 2022
Ep982: Elie Sprung | Hi-Tech and VC Partner, Arnon, Tadmor-Levy
Elie Sprung is a partner at Arnon, Tadmor-Levy law offices, with a special expertise in the field of Hi-Tech and Venture Capital. Elie’s clients include hi-tech companies and entrepreneurs as well as venture capital funds, incubators and accelerators in a wide array of industries. Elie has extensive experience in representing his clients in financings, exit transactions, intellectual property and commercial transactions and agreements as well as assisting in the day to day operations of a company, with his practice spanning the entire life cycle of emerging growth companies.
S1 E981 · Sat, December 24, 2022
Ep981: Tamir Wolf | CEO and Co-Founder, Theator
Dr. Tamir Wolf is CEO and Co-Founder of Theator. After graduating medical school at the Technion, Tamir served as a physician in the IDF’s Flotilla 13 (the equivalent of SEAL Team 6). During his tenure in naval special ops, Tamir was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service for treatment of wounded under fire. Transitioning to civilian life, Tamir found his passion for the industry side of healthcare and worked in various leadership positions in startups and as a VC. He co-founded Theator after witnessing the unacceptable variability and disparity in surgical care. Tamir holds a MD and a PhD from the Technion and completed the executive MBA program at Harvard Business School.
S1 E980 · Tue, December 20, 2022
Ep980: Yotam Oren | Co-founder and CEO, Mona Labs
Yotam is the co-founder and CEO of Mona, a startup developing an intelligent monitoring platform for AI and automations in a variety of industries. Over a 15+ year career as a technology executive, Yotam gained extensive experience bringing data-driven products into the enterprise software market. Prior to Mona, he was a growth and product executive at ADP, and an associate partner at McKinsey & Co. Yotam holds a B.Sc (Cum Laude) in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel, and an MBA (with distinction) from the University of Michigan.
S1 E979 · Mon, December 19, 2022
Ep979: Eldad Postan-Koren | Co-founder and CEO, Winn.ai
Eldad Posten-Korn, 37, is the founder and CEO of Winn.AI, a startup that builds an artificial intelligence-based personal assistant for salespeople. The company has been operating for less than a year, raised $17 million as an initial investment, and has 25 employees. The idea behind Winn.AI came after leading sales at DreaMed Diabetes, where he started as a salesman himself. In the past, he also worked at the venture capital fund Ourcrowd as responsible for the business development of the portfolio companies. In addition, Eldad had been an active entrepreneur for the past decade. In recent years, he and his heart surgeon wife Roni co-founded 'Shavot', a non-profit organization for girls' leadership. The organization is already active in 26 cities, with over 3,000 female volunteers. Shavot is also the leader of ""Israeli Girl's Week" where more than 100,000 girls and teenagers will partake in activities meant to inspire women this year. In the past, Eldad founded the "The Sky is the Limit" association that promoted social entrepreneurship for at-risk youth and served as chairman of the student union at the Hebrew University. He also served as an officer in the Israeli navy.
S1 E978 · Mon, December 19, 2022
Ep978: Jed Corenthal | Chief Marketing Officer, Phenix
Phenix Jed Corenthal is CMO at Phenix, a company that focuses on broadcasting real-time video streaming for sporting, gaming, and other entertainment events. As the CMO at Phenix, Jed is in charge of overseeing all Marketing and Business Development efforts to ensure that companies in sports and entertainment to grow their audiences. Phenix has perfected a unique real-time streaming technology infrastructure that provides content to broadcast-sized audiences with a latency of less than half a second. He has decades of experience leading marketing, business development, PR, technology, and other revenue-generating positions across a number of industries. Nike, UPS, the NFL, Sony, and Disney are only a few of the many clients Jed’s had over the years.
S1 E977 · Sun, December 18, 2022
Ep977: Jon Rathauser | Chief Egg Officer & Co-Founder, Eggmented Reality
Jon Rathauser is the Chief Egg Officer & Co-Founder at Eggmented Reality, a Co-Chair of the Nevo Alumni organization and advocate of combining social impact with business models that sustain and scale.
S1 E976 · Sat, December 17, 2022
Ep976: Daniel Vukelich | President, Association of Medical Device Reprocessors
Daniel Vukelich is President & CEO of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors. AMDR represents the interests of member companies that reprocess “single-use” medical devices in accordance with federal law, for use at hospitals, acute surgical care centers, and physician’s offices. The industry has doubled in size yearly, on average for 20 years – all under Dan’s leadership. In 2020, the reprocessing industry saved providers over $442 million in device acquisition costs and an additional $3.6 million in waste disposal cost savings. AMDR’s members provide reprocessed devices to over 10,300 hospitals. Dan received a B.A. and a law degree from the American University. He is a native of Minneapolis and a member of the Florida and District of Columbia Bars.
S1 E975 · Fri, December 16, 2022
Ep975: Gordon Allott | President and CEO, BroadPeak Partners
Gordon Allott is the president and CEO of BroadPeak Partners, the developer of the K3. K3 is software that takes data from anywhere, allows users to transform, filter, and unify through an intuitive UI, and send it to anywhere. Before founding BroadPeak Gordon was a consultant and attorney in the financial sector. This included advising a wide variety of bulge bracket banks and hedge funds on derivatives trading. Gordon led the energy trading and risk group for Sapient delivering trading projects for Duke, Constellation, JPMorgan, Chevron, and others. Prior to Sapient he was part of a startup (KWI) leading the USA as VP of Business Development and VP then Asia Pac (now Alstom). Gordon practiced as a derivatives attorney, has a JD from the University of Denver, and a BA from Drake University.
S1 E973 · Thu, December 15, 2022
Ep974: Yoni Shohet | Co-Founder & CEO, Valence Security
Yoni Shohet is a seasoned entrepreneur, with a successful track record in the Israeli cybersecurity landscape. Yoni received his BSc in Mathematics at the age of 19, and completed his service in the Israel Defense Forces as a cybersecurity team leader and project manager at one of Israel’s most esteemed military intelligence units. Valence is the second cybersecurity startup Yoni has founded, following his time as CEO and co-founder of SCADAfence, a pioneer in industrial IoT cybersecurity.
S1 E973 · Wed, December 14, 2022
Ep973: Guy Bejerano | CEO & Co-founder, SafeBreach
Guy Bejerano is co-founder and CEO of SafeBreach, a pioneer in the continuous security validation category. Prior to SafeBreach, Guy was CSO of LivePerson, leading the security of one of the world's largest cloud platforms and providing security for more than 1 billion web visits across the internet each month. Guy has more than 24 years of expertise in operational, application, and network security, specializing in building security programs for global companies and cloud services, including the Information Security branch and red-team operations of the Israeli Air-Force.
S1 E972 · Wed, December 14, 2022
Ep972: Kevin Tate | Chief Marketing Officer, Clearbit
Kevin Tate helps Clearbit reach B2B companies that are trying to better understand their customers and optimize their digital funnel. He has over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and product, and deep expertise in enterprise SaaS, eCommerce, digital marketing, social media, and IoT. Prior to joining Clearbit, Kevin held executive roles at SurveyMonkey, Chirpify, and ShopIgniter.
S1 E971 · Mon, December 12, 2022
Ep971: Nicole Tj | Co-Founder & CEO, Travis
Nicole Tj is the Co-Founder and CEO of Travis, a travel app that turns dream vacations into a reality while leading the charge on empowering micro-influencers who are changing how we discover, plan and book vacations. Before co-founding Travis, Nicole was a influencer who experienced the struggle and success of building your brand through partnerships and affiliate programs. She later worked in strategy and innovation consulting at Deliotte. Nicole uses her knowledge in technology and her first-hand experiences of being an influencer to inspire the mission and consumer goals of Travis.
S1 E970 · Sun, December 11, 2022
Ep970: Yuval Samet | CEO, RiseUp
Yuval is a product manager and entrepreneur with a passion for solving people’s pains through value-driven products. Yuval co-founded Analyzd, a fraud-protection company, which in 2011 was acquired by Klarna. Yuval joined Klarna and there he built the Klarna Tel-Aviv R&D center, founded the product group as Chief Product Officer (CPO) and finally acted as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). After 5 years at Klarna and 3 in Sweden, he moved back to Israel to build Impact Technology products for Israelis. In 2017 he cofounded RiseUp, a Profit-with-Purpose startup on a mission to create a world in which anyone can achieve financial wellbeing. RiseUp uses cutting-edge technology, entertaining content and a community of 50,000+ members, to help Israeli families control their finances and start to save money. He is currently CEO RiseUp.
S1 E969 · Sat, December 10, 2022
Ep969: Erik Huberman | Founder and CEO, HawkeMedia
CEO & Founder Erik Huberman launched Hawke Media in 2014. Now valued at over $100 million, Hawke Media is the fastest growing marketing consultancy agency in the United States. Prior to its launch, Erik successfully founded, grew, and sold two e-commerce companies by the age of 26. Erik has since continued to strategically expand his business portfolio inclusive of a handful of company acquisitions—Hawke Ventures, which raised $25M in its second fund, and most recently HawkeZ, an agency offering brands the tools needed to tap into GenZ. As a serial entrepreneur and marketing expert, Erik has been recognized by his industry peers through honors and awards including, Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30, CSQ’s 40 Under 40, and Inc. Magazine’s Top 25 Marketing Influencers.
S1 E968 · Fri, December 09, 2022
Ep968: Daniel Bai | Founder and CEO, CloseForChiro
Dr. Dan is the CEO of CloseForChiro. a provocative and edgy business consulting company from an unlikely industry: chiropractic. He is an author, speaker, and thought leader on the subjects of sales and marketing in the modern world and has changed the antiquated notions most have about the subject. He has tackled the difficult dilemma that many business owners struggle with when it comes to serving humanity versus scaling a business. Although he serves the chiropractic industry exclusively, his lessons cross all boundaries and are sought by many other businesses and organizations.
S1 E967 · Thu, December 08, 2022
Ep967: Amit Sinha | Co-Founder, Unnati
Fun fact: "I am a painter." Bio: Amit Sinha is the co-founder of Unnati, a new-age fintech powered Agritech platform. In his present capacity, Amit is responsible for overseeing all operations in Unnati. Amit comes with a rich academic background. Having completed his bachelor’s degree in mining engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), he went on to pursue his MBA in PGDM and marketing from the Indian Institute of Management. Throughout the course of his prolific career, Amit has achieved several milestones and has been associated with renowned organizations in senior roles. He has previously worked with brands such as Infosys, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Bharti Airtel, and One97 Communications. He joined Paytm where he served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Head of HR, COO, and Business Head for Insurance for over 4 years, before co-founding Unnati with Ashok Prasad. Amit aims to leverage his rich expertise and industry experience to scale Unnati’s operations and create farmer entrepreneurs across the country.
S1 E966 · Thu, December 08, 2022
Ep966: Jacob Shwirtz | Content & Creators, Lightricks
Jacob Shwirtz is a veteran executive of the creator economy, having worked with the top talent across every platform for over 20 years. He's held leadership roles at Viacom, WeWork and Endemol. Jacob now helps Lightricks connect with creators in meaningful ways, overseeing a team of talent managers. His favorite foods include buffalo wings, soup, and cappuccinos.
S1 E965 · Wed, December 07, 2022
Ep965: Gal Shaul | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Augury
Today Eitan is the CEO at Road2 - a center how builds start-ups through networking, funding, and technology. also he serves as a co-president of the investment fund Friendly Angels Club. Lawyer Eitan Kate has been engaged for over 15 years. he took part in the team of the Ofer brothers and was a partner in the firm Amit Polk Matlon. Later, Eitan was involved in several senior positions in the leading med-tech companies in Israel, including Lumenis, Biosens-Webster - a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson and served as COO at Kamada, one of the only ethical pharmaceutical companies in Israel. The world of investments is an integral part of Eitan's professional life, reflected in his familiarity with the Israeli ecosystem.
S1 E964 · Mon, December 05, 2022
Ep964: Eitan Kyiet | Chief Executive Officer, Road2 Haifa
Today Eitan is the CEO at Road2 - a center how builds start-ups through networking, funding, and technology. also he serves as a co-president of the investment fund Friendly Angels Club. Lawyer Eitan Kate has been engaged for over 15 years. he took part in the team of the Ofer brothers and was a partner in the firm Amit Polk Matlon. Later, Eitan was involved in several senior positions in the leading med-tech companies in Israel, including Lumenis, Biosens-Webster - a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson and served as COO at Kamada, one of the only ethical pharmaceutical companies in Israel. The world of investments is an integral part of Eitan's professional life, reflected in his familiarity with the Israeli ecosystem.
S1 E963 · Mon, December 05, 2022
Ep963: Chris Clews | Author, What 80s Pop Culture Teaches Us About Life and Work
Growing up in the '80s and with over twenty years of leadership experience in corporate marketing, Chris Clews knew three things very well – '80s pop culture, business and this crazy thing we call life. One day, in his mid 40s, he was on his couch having a self pity party of one over a job that just wasn’t working out for him. Flipping channels he stopped on the classic 1983 movie The Outsiders and literally jumped off his couch when he heard Johnny Cade say, “You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.” Yes I do still have a lot of time to make myself be what I want, he thought to himself. He left his corporate career of 20 plus years and combined his areas of expertise to create the popular book series, The Ultimate Series on Essential Work & Life Lessons from ‘80s Pop Culture, which includes two volumes of What '80s Pop Culture Teaches Us About Today’s Workplace, with a third title scheduled to be released late September 2022, Raised on The '80s: 30+ Unexpected Life Lessons from the Movies and Music That Defined Pop Culture’s Most Excellent Decade. He parlayed the books into a keynote speaking career on the same topic.
S1 E962 · Fri, December 02, 2022
Ep962: Larisa Amir | Managing Director, Merck Healthcare R&D, Israel
Larisa leads Merck KGaA's Healthcare R&D Center in Israel. She also serves on the Merck Global Healthcare Drug Discovery Technology Leadership Team and is a member of the "Women in Leadership" program. At Merck Larisa has managed global projects and teams across geographies and cultures. Larisa has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, having worked for large corporations, small-to-medium businesses, and startups, and she is well-versed in process development, analytics, manufacturing, and technology transfer in the frame of pharmaceutical regulation. She is also involved in key startup business decisions such as the company's growth strategy, product portfolio, due diligence, technology review, and potential strategic relationships with other companies or investors.
S1 E961 · Wed, November 30, 2022
Ep961: Steven Gerbsman | Managing Principal, Gerbsman Partners
Steven R. Gerbsman is a nationally recognized Crisis/Turnaround CEO/Restructuring Professional and Private Investment Banker who has been involved in maximizing enterprise value, stakeholder and shareholder value in a broad variety of industries. He has worked with a wide spectrum of senior and junior lenders, bondholder groups, venture capital and private equity sources, private investors and institutional groups. He has acted in the capacity of Crisis/Turnaround CEO, Chief Restructuring Officer, Crisis Consultant, Private Investment Banker, Examiner for the Office of the United States Trustee, a member of the Board of Directors of various companies and Advisor to stakeholder groups.
S1 E960 · Wed, November 30, 2022
Ep960: Bryan Clayton | CEO and cofounder, GreenPal
Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013
Tue, November 29, 2022
Ep959: John Nieuwenburg | Founder, W5 Business Coaching
John Nieuwenburg has been a business coach since 2004. He has helped over 320 small business owners increase profit, remove the stress and chaos from their businesses and get their lives back. Before becoming a business coach, John was president of BC Liquor Stores which currently does over 3 billion dollars in sales annually with a headcount of 4,000 people. In 2019, MacKay CEO Forums awarded John with Canada's CEO Trusted Advisor Award in the Small Business category.
S1 E958 · Mon, November 28, 2022
Ep958: Helen Gu | Founder and CEO, InsightFinder
Dr. Helen Gu, Ph.D. has made it her life’s work to create unsupervised machine learning to detect anomalies in data in valuable ways. Based on more than 15 years of Helen’s academic research and findings, Helen created InsightFinder, a tool that can help predict and prevent IT incidents based on algorithms that can determine an anomaly score and predict the future impact on a company’s infrastructure. The platform also diagnoses the root cause of each system issue and provides automated self-healing capabilities to minimize the impact of service outages. In addition to being the founder/CEO of InsightFinder, Helen is also a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina, and worked at IBM T. J. Watson research center, where she worked on the IBM stream processing system called System S. It later became IBM's InfoSphere Stream product.
Mon, November 28, 2022
Ep957: Madhav Nair | Senior Vice President Of Engineering, ZoomInfo
A passionate and empathetic leader, Madhav Nair is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at ZoomInfo, a leading go-to-market intelligence platform designed to drive a brand’s sales, marketing, and recruiting initiatives seamlessly and profitably. In his role, Madhav is responsible for leading engineering for all applications and data services, development, quality, and delivery of ZoomInfo’s software products.
S1 E956 · Fri, November 25, 2022
Ep956: Yishai Mishor | Founder & CEO, Meat.The End Inc.
Dr. Yishai Mishor is MTE's founder. Prior to MTE, Yishai was founder and CEO of Ein Hamishpat, a legal-tech start-up. His 20-year career spans law, business, academia and politics, including serving as Chief of Staff to the President of Israel. Yishai holds a PhD in Law from the University of Oxford and was a professor at Oxford.
Thu, November 24, 2022
Ep955: Ariel Geifman | Chief Revenue Officer, Dealtale
Ariel Geifman is a co-founder and CRO of Dealtaele, the Revenue Science company. Ariel was the CEO of Dealtale from founding until the acquisition by Vianai at the beginning of 2022. Ariel is an avid eneprenour and an expert in tech go to market.
Wed, November 23, 2022
Ep954: Ryan Larson | Owner and Investment Advisor, FirstLine Financial
Ryan Larson is the founder and CEO of Scottsdale-based FirstLine Financial, LLC. His job as a firefighter gave him a sense of purpose and a lifelong desire to make the world safer. In his new business book, Ladder to Leader: My Journey from Failure to Fire to Financial Freedom (Calling Card Books, May 2022), Ryan describes his journey from a troubled youth to a successful founder and CEO, and the life and business lessons he learned along the way. Ryan's mom pushed him to join the Fire Department Explorer Program, where the entrance exam changed his mentality and gave him confidence.
Tue, November 22, 2022
Ep953: Chen Rosen-Rajuan | Managing Partner, Reality Fund
Chen was the Co-Founder and CEO of two companies, and led them to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues and sold them to Fortissimo PE, and Teldor Group, for tens of millions of dollars. Chen managed NCR Retalix Partners in the Asia Pacific (APAC) as well as Verint Software in Australia (Victoria) and New Zealand, leading it successfully to 70% market share. In the last 3 years, Chen took an active role in the Proptech industry, as a board member in accelerators, invested in 4 startups, and built a reputation as a leading Proptech investor. He is also serving as a board member and consultant in several startups as well.
Mon, November 21, 2022
Ep952: Brandi Marek | Business Advisor, Ferguson Alliance, LLC
Brandi spent most of her career in management and leadership roles at Magnolia Gardens Nursery, a family business with over 150 employees. As a “next generation” family member in a family-owned business, Brandi understands the delicate and at times challenging situations that can face family businesses. Brandi has experience developing strategic plans, leading departments, and managing capital expenses. She’s comfortable with complicated financials and the nuances of organizational structure. However, her passion lies with the people. Organizations excel when the people within them thrive, and Brandi is driven to bring out the best in people.
Sun, November 20, 2022
Ep951: Ophir Zilbiger | Global Cyber Leader, BDO
Ophir heads BDO’s Global Cybersecurity Practice for BDO International, working with BDO firms and the cybersecurity leadership group to develop and grow BDO’s cybersecurity practice around the world. Ophir heads BDO Israel Cybersecurity Center, helping organizations to manage their cybersecurity risk and build their risk based cyber defense. His IT and cybersecurity experience spans over 25 years, in which he worked with organizations of various industries, size and geography, with C-suite and board members as well as technology, IT and cybersecurity leaders.
Sat, November 19, 2022
Ep950: Ashley Reichheld and Amelia Dunlop | Deloitte Digital
Ashley Reichheld, a principal at Deloitte Digital, works with clients across industries to help them to reimagine their brands and experiences. Ashley believes that building trust is the single greatest opportunity to create a competitive advantage. So she created HX TrustIDTM –a groundbreaking measurement tool poised to become the gold standard for evaluating organizational performance—to help companies measure, predict, and build trust with their customers, workforce, and partners. Ashley is the lead author of The Four Factors of Trust. Amelia Dunlop, Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital, helps organizations solve their toughest problems using human-equity-centered design to build empathy and trust. Amelia believes in elevating the experience for all humans, including customers, workers, and partners. She received Consulting Magazine’s 2020 Top Women in Technology Award for Excellence in Innovation. She is the author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller, Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work, and the co-author of The Four Factors of Trust.
Fri, November 18, 2022
Ep949: Faisal Hoque | Founder, Chair, NextChapter
Faisal Hoque is an accomplished entrepreneur, senior executive, author, thought leader, public speaker, and advisor to management teams and BODs with more than 25 years of cross-industry success. He is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies; they focus on enabling sustainable and transformational changes.
Thu, November 17, 2022
Ep948: Rani Puranik | Owner, EVP & Global CFO, Worldwide Oilfield Machine
Revati “Rani” Puranik is co-owner, EVP and Global CFO of Houston-based Worldwide Oilfield Machine (WOM). Over 15 years ago, she joined WOM, an oil and gas equipment manufacturing firm, and has since implemented the framework for communication standardization operations and business development. As a result of these frameworks, the company grew to more than $350 million in annual revenue. Rani has been named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential Women in Energy 2022” by Oil and Gas Investor and Hart Energy. In her book, Seven Letters to My Daughters she shares memoirs of her journey through transformative seven-year phases in her life by telling the true story of a young girl who grew up between two countries and faced many obstacles, but always persisted in learning and moving forward. Rani shares how her womanhood and motherhood inspired each step to help others find their path, success, love, and independence.
Thu, November 17, 2022
Ep947: Jeet Chandan | Founder and Managing Director, Entremax Global Solutions
Jeet Chandan is an experienced entrepreneur and founder who has completely changed the course of industries across the land. He is a marketing maestro and a fintech specialist who has created a legacy in the entrepreneurial world. He works with the vision of bringing changes to the ever-evolving planet. With the aim to join entrepreneurs and businesses with the idea of new orders, Jeet has built significant platforms like - Entremax, BizDateup, and Shortgun.
Wed, November 16, 2022
Ep946: Lorraine Marchand | Executive Managing Director, Merative
Lorraine Marchand is Executive Managing Director of Merative (formerly IBM Watson Health) and has three decades of experience in new product development. She has held leadership positions at Bristol Myers Squibb, Covance, Cognizant, and IQVIA, and has cofounded four companies. Marchand is an adjunct professor of management and serves on the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program Advisory Board at Columbia Business School and is an adjunct professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at Yeshiva University’s Katz School of Science and Health. She is also an investor-member of venture firm Plum Alley. Her new book, THE INNOVATION MINDSET: Eight Essential Steps To Transform Any Industry, was recently published by Columbia University Press.
Tue, November 15, 2022
Ep945: Aaron Zucker | Founder & Managing Partner, Sapir Venture Partners
Aaron is the founder and managing partner of Sapir Venture Partners, a pre-seed/seed stage fund investing in Israeli deep-tech companies. SapirVP uses a mentorship-driven strategy, where the diligence process establishes a relationship that allows SapirVP to contribute meaningful value beyond cash as new enterprises create long-term success. Aaron was a serial entrepreneur in Israel and the U.S. before creating SapirVP. He is a recovering attorney (like everyone in Israel) with an LLB from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an MBA from MIT Sloan. Aaron runs MassChallenge Israel. MCIL is Israel's largest accelerator without founder equity. We're a global non-profit with over 3300 specialists who coach and judge entrepreneurs in our accelerator competition. MCIL is situated in Jerusalem, where we've helped 330 startups raise $1B.
Sat, November 12, 2022
Ep943: Ido Eylon | CEO, 3DM Digital manufacturing
A well-rounded experienced business executive with an international mindset, Ido Eylon is 3DM’s CEO and board member. Ido has a vast experience in the Additive Manufacturing industry in various roles and positions. He started his journey in the industry with Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS) where he assumed positions in Israel, North America & Asia Pacific. Being close to the market and customers, he gained a lot of experience and insights into the industry’s landscape. In his last role before joining 3DM, Ido held the position of Vice President of Sales & Marketing in Massivit (TASE: MSVT) leading the company’s go-to-market organization worldwide. Ido holds a Bsc in Biomedical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.
Fri, November 11, 2022
Ep942: Ron Reiter | Co-Founder & CTO, Sentra
An experienced entrepreneur who sold his company to Oracle in 2016 and went on to invest in over a dozen new startups. After serving in Unit 8200, Ron spent 15 years in various managing positions in data engineering, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure.
Thu, November 10, 2022
Ep941: Yossi Carmil | CEO, Cellebrite
Yossi Carmil is the CEO of Cellebrite, a global leader in Digital Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors. The company’s technology is used in millions of investigations around the world, helping thousands of law enforcement agencies to convict bad actors and bring justice to victims of crimes. Carmil started as one of Cellebrite’s very first employees and has been serving as CEO for the past 17 years. Before joining Cellebrite, he was Siemens' Commercial Vice President in Israel. Carmil has more than 25 years of experience in management, international sales, business development, and strategic consultancy. Prior to working in the private sector, he served at the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Wed, November 09, 2022
Ep940: Alon Jackson | CEO and Co-Founder, Astrix Security
Alon Jackson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Astrix Security, the first app-to-app security solution. Prior to founding Astrix, Jackson served as Head of R&D Group at automotive cyber security startup Argus (acquired by Continental AG). He also previously served over 12 years in strategic roles in the Cyber Security Division of the Israeli Military Intelligence Unit 8200, where he led the cloud security division. Jackson received an MSc in Computer Science with honors, specializing in cryptography.
Tue, November 08, 2022
Ep939: Noy Shulman | CEO & founder, Todale
Noy is the CEO and founder of Todale. Todale's products use large language models to help businesses communicate better with their clients through text-based channels. Prior to Todale, Noy was head of AI for STC where he spent his time researching and developing tailored AI solutions for companies - from startups to enterprises. Noy loves sharing his knowledge about concepts from the basics of AI to the novelties that are being invented regularly with none technical people, he does that as a part of the AI school for leaders.
Tue, November 08, 2022
Ep938: Shahar Fogel | CEO, Rookout
Shahar Fogel is the CEO of Rookout. He's spent the last two decades leading data-driven businesses, products, and R&D teams, from early-stage start-ups to government organizations. Shahar is passionate about software architecture and observability; as a cyber Security team lead, product manager, VC investor, and a Cambridge University MBA alumni.
Tue, October 25, 2022
Ep937: Shaival Desai | Chief Growth Officer, Petpooja
Shaival Desai is the Chief Growth Officer, of Petpooja, a next-generation restaurant management platform offering state-of-the-art POS (Point of Sale) software to manage restaurant billing, inventory, online orders, menu, and customers. Fondly known as the Google of Petpooja by his colleagues, Shaival oversees the company's marketing, advanced products, in-house sales, and training. Along with his team of professionals, he also plays an instrumental role in building Petpooja’s advanced products such as Voice Ordering KIOSK, Order Serving Robot, Waiter-calling devices, etc. Aside from these core responsibilities, Shaival drives SaaS implementation at the company to streamline the processes for the other teams.
Sat, October 22, 2022
Ep936: Lilach Ritter | R&D Group Lead, vcita
Lilach is a group lead at vcita, a firm dedicated to enabling small businesses and helping entrepreneurs achieve independence and success. She believes in social equality, accessibility, and reducing social and gender disparities. Lilach rose to management in a fast-paced startup a few years ago. She loved the action, intense collaboration, and feeling of accomplishment. Lilach was often the lone woman in her position. She struggled to keep her voice and trust her intuition in difficult situations. Bottom-up leadership, openness, full partnership, and trust allow us to be authentic, says Lilach. Lilach worked as a pastry cook in patisseries and a gourmet catering firm, where she met her partner. They have a 7-year-old daughter and twin 4-year-olds.
Wed, October 19, 2022
Ep935: Patrick Thean | CEO Rhythm Systems, Inc.
Patrick Thean is an international speaker, CEO coach and serial entrepreneur. He is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His work has been seen on NBC, CBS, and Fox. Patrick was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1996 for North Carolina as he grew his first company to #151 on the Inc 500 (now called the Inc. 5000). After a successful exit, he has been on a mission to help CEOs build great companies and achieve their dreams.
Tue, October 18, 2022
Ep934: Shmuel Ben-Tovim | Director, Fintech.IL President, The Israel Fintech Center
Shmuel is the Director of Fintech.IL Innovation Community and the President of The Israel Fintech Center, the largest and most influential Fintech group in Israel. His career has encompassed both the private and public sectors. Among his previous positions: Minister for Economic Affairs, The Embassy of Israel, London; Assistant Director General, the Bank Leumi Group; Chief Economic Adviser to the Minister of Industry, Trade & Tourism; Israel’s Consul & Trade Commissioner to the USA; Directly-elect Mayor of Kfar Shmaryahu. Shmuel has served as a director in leading Israeli corporations, including Bezeq Ltd. and Israel Chemicals Ltd. He holds a BA in Economics and an MBA from the Hebrew University.
Mon, October 17, 2022
Ep933: Soon Yu | Best Selling Author, Iconic Advantage and Friction
Soon Yu is a best-selling author and expert on innovation and design. His latest book, Friction, asks businesses to consider adding MORE friction for their customers and employees to create greater engagement, meaning, belonging, rapport, assurance, competence, and exclusivity. He most recently served as the Global VP of Innovation and Officer at VF Corporation, the parent organization to over 30 global apparel companies, including The North Face, Vans, Timberland, Nautica, and Wrangler. Before this, he worked as a general manager at The Clorox Company and Chiquita Brands, as a consultant at Bain and Company, and as a founder for numerous venture-backed startups.
Sun, October 16, 2022
Ep932: Joseph Gitler | Chairman, leket ISRAEL
Joseph Gitler formed Leket Israel in 2003 as a one-man food rescue project which has since grown into the largest food bank and leading food rescue operation in Israel. Leket Israel provides food and nutritional support to 223,000+ needy Israelis weekly through its partnership with 260 nonprofit organizations serving the poor.
Thu, October 13, 2022
Ep931: Meirav Harel | Member Board Of Directors, Excellence Trade
Meirav Harel is a world-renowned expert on FinTech, Blockchain, Digital Disruption, the Future of Finance, and Investment & Trading Interfaces. She was named one of the "100 Most Inspiring Women in Blockchain 2020." She has more than 20 years of experience in finance, technology, and making award-winning FinTech innovations. TechRoundUK named her one of the 36 Top Women Revolutionizing Crypto 2022 Worldwide, and Innovate Finance UK chose her twice for their "Women in Fintech Powerlist." As a director at Excellence-Trade and Excellence Investment House, Meirav focuses on how new technologies will affect the future of banking, finance, money, regulations, macroeconomics, and businesses. Meirav is a well-known international advisor and keynote speaker on Blockchain, Fintech, 5G, NFT, Metaverse, the Future of Money, Finance, and Banking, CBDC, cryptocurrencies, and digital disruption. She teaches, consults, and manages.
Wed, October 12, 2022
Ep930: Merav Grossman | CEO, Advanced Manufacturing Institute
Merav Grossman is the CEO of the Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) in Israel, leading a unique program for digital transformation in manufacturing companies, mainly SMBs, financed by the Ministry of Economy and Industry. Merav is happily married, a mother of 3, and holds a BSc degree in Information Systems Engineering and an MBA in Technology management. With 30 years in senior positions in the industry, leading such an organization is a privilege and mission for her.
Tue, October 04, 2022
Ep929: Saeed Amal | Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Saeed Amal is an Assistant Research Professor at Northeastern University focusing on the applications of Artificial Intelligence to improve cardiovascular disease care. Amal was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine. Amal received his BSc degree in Computer Science from Technion, and his Ph.D. and MSc degrees in Computer Science from the University of Haifa. Amal was Vice President of an R&D data medical startup in the field of cardiology and established startups such as Carmel Tech for intelligent management systems.
Sat, October 01, 2022
EP928: Neha Rastogi | Founder & COO, Agatsa
Neha Rastogi is the founder and COO of Agatsa. An entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in creating affordable and technologically advanced healthcare products possesses great leadership skills. Along with being the Founder of the company, she has also built the prototype of its flagship product – the SanketLife ECG monitor. She has won various prestigious awards the 'Women Entrepreneur Award’ by TIE, ‘The Digital Women Award‘ by ShethepeopleTV, ‘The BIRAC-TiE Winner Award for women in entrepreneurial research in the field of biotechnology, and the Aegis Graham Award.
Fri, September 30, 2022
Ep927: Zaiba Sarang | Co-Founder, iThink Logistics
With a determination to make a significant contribution to the male-dominated logistics industry, she has been fighting tooth and nail to combat a lot of logistics dysfunctions. Advancing through a series of ideas, Miss Zaiba Sarang’s leadership has expanded beyond boundaries and has positively affected multiple business arenas.
Thu, September 29, 2022
Ep926: Antonio Garrido | Founder & President, My Daily Leadership
Antonio Garrido has over twenty-five years in senior leadership positions with world-class businesses. He is an expert in leadership transformation: shaping high-performance leaders out of highly stressed and overworked leaders. Garrido blends his own vast commercial experience with proven techniques to embed a unique brand of leadership development. He is a serial entrepreneur, successful business coach, author, and charismatic speaker, and works with leaders from small private businesses, right up to Fortune-60 size.
Wed, September 28, 2022
Ep925: Ori Levi | CEO, NFTrade
Bitcoiner and cryptocurrency enthusiast since 2012. Digital marketer with over 15 years of experience in PR, SEO, and content marketing. Designing and building projects from ideation to completion, and has been advising top blockchain projects for the better half of a decade.
Tue, September 27, 2022
Ep924: Benjamin Grossman | Partner & Head of Indian Legal Practice, Amit, Pollak, Matalon & Co.
Benjamin is a partner and the head of the Indian Legal practice in APM&Co., among the leading law firms in Israel. Benjamin deals with Indo-Israeli transactions for more than 20 years and has in-depth knowledge and insights about the ways to develop business relations with their Indian counterparts. Benjamin has developed expertise in the Transfer of Technology deals between Israeli and Indian companies. Benjamin also holds BS.c. in Engineering as well as MBA.
Sat, September 24, 2022
Ep923: Patrick Parker | CEO, SaaSPartners.io
Patrick B. Parker is an accomplished Tech Executive turned Founder with domestic and international experience in operations, custom software development, multichannel product distribution, and marketing involving both start-up and growth operations. He has bootstrapped companies he founded to millions ($MM) in ARR and has raised venture capital to build out teams, refine product features and user experiences, and execute go-to-market (GTM) strategies. Patrick has built award-winning products and led major growth initiatives in both the public and private sectors. He is a proven operations strategist with a track record of building successful businesses. If you want guidance that you can count on, then you have come to the right place.
Fri, September 23, 2022
Ep922: Amit Shaked | CEO & Co-founder, Laminar
Amit is the CEO and co-founder of Laminar. Shaked served in Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces, an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit focused on signal intelligence and code decryption, before co-founding Laminar. Shaked earned a master's degree in artificial intelligence and deep learning during his time in the military. After Unit 8200, Amit led deep learning, AI, and augmented reality teams for the unicorn Magic Leap. Amit holds a Master of Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.
Thu, September 22, 2022
Ep921: Urvashi Bhatnagar | Healthcare Executive and Author "The Sustainability Scorecard"
Urvashi Bhatnagar, DPT, MBA is a healthcare executive whose career spans clinical care, research, advocacy and strategy and operations consulting for leading healthcare organizations. As a mission-driven population-health and sustainability expert, she has over a decade of healthcare leadership experience working with clients to advance health outcomes in underserved communities leveraging advanced analytics and strategy—to address barriers to care, advance health equity, and improve access to life-altering high-quality care. Bhatnagar holds an MBA from Yale University and a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Boston University. She believes global wellness can be achieved through sustained and intentional investment in products and processes that are designed to be inherently sustainable and capture value from the triple bottom line advantages that sustainability offers.
Wed, September 21, 2022
Ep920: Brijesh Damodaran | Managing Partner, Auxano Entrepreneur Trust
Brijesh Damodaran is the co-founder & Chief Investment Officer of Auxano, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in growth-stage businesses across industries. A strategic thinker and a purpose-driven individual, Brijesh completed Chartered Accountancy & graduated from the University of Mumbai. Soon after acquiring his educational intent, Brijesh embarked on his professional journey in the corporate world, working in the Oil & Gas space, telecom, and Mortgage Guaranty space, serving in various roles in Accounts, Finance & compliance in Fortune 500 companies. He donned the entrepreneurial hat in 2009 in the wealth management space as a solopreneur.
Tue, September 20, 2022
Ep919: Oladosu Teyibo | Co-founder and CEO, Analog Teams
Following Oladosu's studies in information systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Oladosu went on to develop the tech hardware company Teyibo Tech. He empowers fellow entrepreneurs through angel investing, an act that has connected him with Black-owned businesses such as Froetry and the Urban Planning Growth and Sustainability Initiative (UPGS). He believes that consistency and excellent delivery are the marks of greatness, a philosophy he applies to his vision for Analog.
Mon, September 19, 2022
Ep918: Jason LaBaw | CEO, Bonsai Media Group
Jason is the Founder of Social Bee an augmented reality "meta" company focused on enhancing in-person experiences for brands and travel. Also CEO of Bonsai Media a 13yr old digital agency.
Mon, September 19, 2022
Ep917: Taranjeet Singh Bhamra | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AGNEXT
Taranjeet Singh Bhamra is the CEO and Founder of AgNext Technologies, a global award-winning venture-capital-backed company that is solving for trust and transparency in global value chains using AI-based solutions to enable quality-based assessments. A graduate of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta, Mr. Bhamra is an accomplished professional and business leader, having worked for more than 20 years in Strategy consulting, investment banking, and high-impact entrepreneurial roles in Indian and international markets.
Thu, September 15, 2022
Ep916: Daniel Green | Co-Founder and CTO, Faye
Daniel Green is Co-Founder & CTO of Faye, the #1 disruptor setting a new standard in travel insurance coverage and care. This is the second startup he has founded with Faye Co-Founder & CEO, Elad Schaffer. Both previously co-founded Wikistrat, the world’s first crowdsourced consultancy platform. There Daniel developed the company’s core technologies including a real-time collaboration platform, gamification incentification systems and its flagship data model for predicting disruptions to countries and economies. As a developer with 20 years of experience and a deep passion for travel, Daniel enjoys applying his specialization in real-time applications to Faye’s core mission of forever elevating the way consumers travel
Wed, September 14, 2022
Ep915: Erez Berkner | CEO and Co-Founder, Lumigo
Erez Berkner, a developer by heart, is the CEO & co-founder of Lumigo, a modern observability platform for the modern cloud. He attended the Open University of Israel obtaining a degree in computer science and mathematics with honors. He worked at Check Point Software Technologies for more than a decade and was the director of cloud-based security products before starting Lumigo.
Tue, September 13, 2022
Ep914: Sagi Rodin | CEO and Co-Founder, Frontegg
Sagi Rodin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Frontegg. Over the last 15 years, Sagi held senior product and software development positions leading engineering and product teams and engaged with ad hoc projects of building customer-facing software applications and transforming concepts into viable products.
Mon, September 12, 2022
Ep913: Ohad Shaked | Co-Founder & CEO, ThinkUp Founder, Thinkz
Ohad is an entrepreneur, currently running ThinkUp – a digital platform to support, enhance and accelerate other founders' journeys. Ohad Also founded Thinkz – a network for IoT devices. He ran his family office for the past 15 years, building on the success of his late father at 888.com.
Sun, September 11, 2022
Ep912: Ami Moyal | President, Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering
Prof. Ami Moyal has been President of Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering since 2014. Before joining Afeka, Prof. Moyal was active in the speech processing hi-tech industry for 15 years, and held positions as VP Technology Dev., VP Business Dev. and CEO of NSC, Natural Speech Communication Ltd.
Sat, September 10, 2022
Ep911: Yotam Azriel | CTO & Co-Founder, TensorLeap
Yotam is an expert in machine and deep learning, with 10 years of experience in these fields. He’s been involved in massive military projects in the field of underground warfare and later on joined Soreq Nuclear Research Center as a key developer in machine learning projects. Following his army service, Yotam developed and led AI and Big-Data projects from research to production for a few startups and acted as a professional consultant to companies developing AI technologies. His expertise includes image and video recognition, NLP, Algo-trading and signal analysis. Yotam is an autodidact with strong leadership qualities and great communication skills.
Fri, September 09, 2022
Ep910: Keren Leshem | CEO and Board Director, OCON healthcare
Keren Leshem is currently OCON healthcare's CEO and board director. A leading women's health BioTech company with a mission to introduce innovative intrauterine drug-delivery technology for various conditions and diseases to improve and impact women's health and quality of life. Before OCON, Ms Leshem headed the Corporate Development team at the European pharma company VISUfarma. In addition, she was a board member of a BioLight (TASE: BOLT) company: ViSci (which she previously headed as CEO) and an Open University lecturer in Marketing & Business English. As the founder & CEO of ViSci Ltd (Licensed from NASDAQ: AERI) amongst other positions in Pharma and MedTech, Ms Leshem successfully led Clinical, R&D and BD activities to achieve commercial status and MTAs (Material Transfer Agreements) in the USA, EU and China. Ms Leshem was recently featured in FORBES magazine and sits on FemTech Lab's admissions and advisory Board as well as LSX's Advisory Board, and is a Mentor at the 8400 Health Network. Ms Leshem makes sure to lead with passion and integrity and donate her time and earnings to and with women entrepreneurs starting their career paths and those who have made choices that require mentoring.
Thu, September 08, 2022
Ep909: Amos Arev | EVP, Engineering and General Manager, Israel, Capitolis
Amos is a highly experienced engineering executive who has been at the forefront of technology innovation for decades. Prior to joining Capitolis, he served as the Vice President of Research and Development at LawGeex, a company focusing on AI in the legal industry. With more than 20 years of expertise, he brings deep expertise in data, engineering, research and development, and technology, spearheading these efforts at leading technology and data companies such as Global-e, HexaTier, Cyren and Skybox Security. Amos holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.
Wed, September 07, 2022
Ep908: Michal Roizman | VP Product, Blue White Robotics
Michal received her BA in Communications from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. She spent two years as a research assistant and then a research team lead at the Media Innovation Lab at IDC, researching the field of Human Robotic Interaction. Her research on Robots and Ethics led her to write a poster paper that was accepted to the international "HRI" conference. Following her degree, she was the project manager in designing the Smart Home Robot of Samsung Korea (HQ), outlining the different aspects needed to take into consideration when designing a companion robot. Following that, she joined an innovation program at IDC with the goal to create innovations that solve 21st challenges. In this program, she founded with her co-founders, BeeHero. Beehero increases crop yield through precision pollination, combining sophisticated machine learning algorithms with low-cost sensors to simulate full output potential during peak pollination cycles. Today, Michal is the VP product of Blue White Robotics. A company that provides numerous Autonomous solutions, including the Blue White Robotic Kit, that transforms any tractor into an autonomous one.
Tue, September 06, 2022
Ep907: Danny Djanogly | COO & Co-founder, Dogiz
Danny is the COO & Co-founder of Dogiz! Danny was born and raised in London before making aliyah when he was 18 and serving as a lone soldier in the IDF. Studied Govt & Politics at IDC where he adopted his dog/best friend Mufassa!
Tue, September 06, 2022
Ep906: Amir Raveh | Founder & CEO, HYPE Sports Innovation
Amir is the founder of HYPE Sports Innovation - A Global Sportstech Arena with an equity portfolio of over 250 Sports tech & WEB 3.0 Startups. HYPE provides tech solutions to 100 top sports brands like FIBA, Bundesliga, PSG, NBA, NFL team, and more. He is also the author of his book, "Acquired Charisma". Back in 2003, Amir founded MG Equity Investments House and MEDIA CALL Ltd. in London. He's married with four sons. He is also an avid soccer player!
Mon, September 05, 2022
Ep905: Yuval Magid | COO, Connecteam
Yuval Magid, Connecteam’s COO, joined Connecteam in 2018 as the company’s 8th employee. He studied a Bachelor of Arts in Multidisciplinary Studies at the University of Haifa and is a graduate of the Israeli Naval Academy. Prior to Connecteam Yuval led different business partnerships and GTM initiatives at Windward (LON: WNWD), a leading maritime analytics company, and served in various leadership roles in the Israeli Navy.
Sun, September 04, 2022
Ep904: Raviv Melamed | CEO, Vayyar Imaging
Prior to founding Vayyar, Raviv was vice-president of the Intel Architecture Group and general manager of Intel’s Worldwide Mobile Wireless Group. Raviv joined Intel in 2004 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Envara, a fabless semiconductor company based in Israel, where he served as vice president of R&D. Prior to this he held several roles in the Israel Defense Force in the field of large-scale radar and communication projects. Raviv holds a BSc. and MSc. in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Sat, September 03, 2022
Ep903: Roger Firestien | Senior Faculty and Associate Professor, Center for Applied Imagination
Roger L. Firestien, Ph.D. has trained more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. He is Senior Faculty and Associate Professor at the Center for Applied Imagination at SUNY Buffalo State. As president of Innovation Resources, Inc., he consults, creates training programs, runs Breakthrough Labs, and has created a series of courses for Open Sesame. He is the author of several popular books including Create In A Flash: A Leader's Recipe For Breakthrough Innovation.
Fri, September 02, 2022
Ep902: David Walsh | President & CEO, Peachtree Foods Inc.
Mr. Walsh currently serves as President & CEO for Peachtree Foods Inc. Based in Atlanta, Georgia. Peachtree Foods is the leading breakfast specialty company in the commercial foodservice and hospitality industry.
Thu, September 01, 2022
Ep901: Oleg Konovalov | Global Thought Leader and Author
Dr. Oleg Konovalov is a thought leader, author, business educator, consultant, and coach with over 25 years of experience operating businesses and consulting with Fortune 500 companies both in the UK and internationally. Konovalov is on the Thinkers50 radar, has been recognized as the #1 Global Thought Leader on Culture by Thinkers 360, and is the #1 Global Leading Coach (Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50). Having been named ‘the da Vinci of Visionary Leadership’ by many leading authorities of our time, Konovalov is helping companies to create and execute their vision, diagnose and treat organizational diseases, maintain a strong productive corporate culture and achieve superior business performance. His research identifies entrepreneurs’ and managers’ strategic needs in the areas of corporate culture, and leadership, and he uses corporate diagnostics, in order to enable them to drive their companies to success.
Wed, August 31, 2022
Ep900: Elliot Shmukler | Founder and CEO, Anomalo
Before Anomalo, Elliot was the Chief Growth Officer at Instacart, where he led the company through a massive period of change and hyper-growth. Before that, he held senior product and growth leadership roles at fast-growing companies like Wealthfront and LinkedIn. He began his career as an engineer and product manager at companies like Microsoft and eBay. Elliot is a recognized expert on data-driven product management and consumer growth strategies in Silicon Valley, with numerous talks and publications on these topics. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Tue, August 30, 2022
Ep899: Merav Bahat | Co-Founder and CEO, Dazz
Merav Bahat is the CEO and co-founder of Dazz, who has spent her career creating category-leading technology products and building high-impact teams. Previously, Merav served as GM for the cloud security global business at Microsoft, and was also Deputy CEO of Microsoft Israel R&D, overseeing more than 2,500 employees. Prior, she was Product Strategy Group Director for Microsoft's Cloud & AI Security business unit, and Chief of Products and Business Development of Flash Networks. Merav has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management Engineering from Technion and a Master of Business Administration from Ben-Gurion University and served as a fellow in the Harvard Business School-Kennedy School of Government program. As one of only a handful of female CEO-founders in cybersecurity, Merav is focused on mentoring and empowering women and young leaders.
Mon, August 29, 2022
Ep898: Tal Chalozin | CTO and Co-Founder, Innovid
Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, a connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hulu, amongst others, to help advertisers bring interactive video to viewers everywhere.
Sat, August 27, 2022
Ep897: Eran Bibi | Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Firefly
Eran Bibi is Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Firefly. With years of experience in anything DevOps, he has earned a reputation as a CI/CD expert and an avid admin of Cloud Platforms and Containerized environments.
Fri, August 26, 2022
Ep896: Rabea Zioud | Co-Founder & CEO, Hasoub
Rabea Zioud is an entrepreneur, lecturer, and community leader, zioud started his first business when he was 20 years old and has since been involved in the Israeli startup ecosystem. He has served as the VP for the MENA region at Voiceitt (was the Masschallenge Finalist in 2014) and co-founded Hasoub - a non-profit grassroots movement that turns out to be one of the leading organizations that promote tech and entrepreneurship in Arab society. He is currently the CEO of Hasoub.
Thu, August 25, 2022
Ep895: Iesh Dixit | Founder and CEO, Powerplay
Iesh Dixit is the CEO and Co-founder of Powerplay, an end-to-end construction management SaaS platform that aids in the simplification of communication and synergizing collaboration within project teams in the construction industry. In his capacity within the organization, he heads Powerplay’s corporate team, fostering internal and external communication, implementing the company’s vision, and evaluating the organization’s short and long-term goals. Overall, Iesh supervises the smooth functioning of all departments while overseeing the holistic development of the organization.
Wed, August 24, 2022
Ep894: Yaniv Cohen | GM, Head of Twilio Business Unit, Aman Group
Yaniv Cohen is the operations manager of Twilio in Israel. Under the technology giant - Aman Group.
Tue, August 23, 2022
Ep893: Yoni Sherizen | Co-Founder, GABRIEL
Yoni Sherizen founded Gabriel after witnessing the hampered response to a terror attack in Tel Aviv and, a few days later, the (then) largest mass shooting in the USA. In turn, Yoni recruited a team of leading technologists and security experts to reimagine how we prepare for and respond to critical incidents. Mass shootings have been their initial focus, and Gabriel has deployed in soft target settings such as schools, houses of worship, care facilities and office buildings. In April 2022, Gabriel was 'battle tested' when a shooting broke out at a customer site and the technology successfully automated the critical response to save lives.
Tue, August 23, 2022
Ep892: Dr. Tal Rotman | Partner, Chair of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Pearl Cohen
Dr. Tal Rotman is a Partner and Chair of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Pearl Cohen, a prominent law firm in Israel. He has extensive experience in mediating and litigating stakeholders’ disputes in startup companies. Previously, Tal was a consultant at the New York office of McKinsey and Company, taught at Tel Aviv University School of Law, and clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court. He holds a Ph.D. in law, M.A. in Psychology (summa cum laude), LL.M in Commercial law (summa cum laude), LL.B., and B.A. in Accounting (both magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. He also earned LL.M. in Corporate Law from New York University, where he was a Hauser Scholar.
Mon, August 22, 2022
Ep891: Phillip Kane | CEO & Managing Partner, Grace Ocean, llc Advisors
Phillip Kane is a husband, father, and businessman. He has had a successful career in some of the world’s best-known corporations. Working for brands like Goodyear, Pirelli, and NAPA, Kane has had the privilege to lead thousands of individuals and has managed billions of dollars in value for stakeholders. Crediting his father, a Polish sales manager, and a Nigerian priest with almost every good thing he has learned about life, leadership, business and the art of storytelling, Kane proved for 30 years that the need to choose between winning and caring for others is a myth. Kane lives in Ohio with his wife, three children, and four wonderdogs. The Not So Subtle Art of Caring is his first book.
Sun, August 21, 2022
Ep890: Joe Casey | Executive Coach, PEC and Managing Partner, Retirement Wisdom
Joe Casey is the Managing Partner of Retirement Wisdom and the author of Win the Retirement Game launching on August 9th. Joe’s an executive coach who also helps people create meaningful lives after their primary careers. He works with people - who aren’t done yet – to figure out What’s Next? It’s not theoretical for Joe. He’s done this himself, becoming a coach 13 years ago after a 26-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President & Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking. Business Insider named Joe as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference.
Fri, August 19, 2022
Ep889: Ronny Schwartz-Dgani | Co - Founder & CMO, Expecting
Ronny Schwartz-Dgani is the co-founder and CMO of expecting.ai - a full stack marketer with 15 years experience In marketing, brand building and CRO in enterprise and startup environments spanning across various industries such as online-marketplace, automotive, retail and more. Ronny leads brand and product strategy and seeks to combine traditional marketing concepts alongside generating a transformation in customer engagement achieved with data-driven marketing methods. Ronny has a masters degree in communication and management from Tel Aviv University, she started her career at Adler Chomski/ Grey, one of Israel’s largest advertising agencies managing global accounts and then switched to the client side as the head of marketing for Switch, the online marketplace startup by Colmobil Corp. Following her startup experience, Ronny led Hyundai’s marketing in Israel where she initiated a digital transformation across the distribution chain, transforming the brand to a data-driven operation.
Thu, August 18, 2022
Ep888: Michael Reddington | President, InQuasive, Inc.
Michael Reddington, CFI is a certified forensic interviewer and president of InQuasive, Inc., which integrates key components of effective non-confrontational interview techniques with current business research for executives. In his new book, The Disciplined Listening Method: How a Certified Forensic Interviewer Unlocks Hidden Value in Every Conversation (Per Capita Publishing, March 2021), Reddington draws on his background in forensics and his understanding of human behavior through interrogation to teach readers how to improve their listening, communication and relationship-building skills—and how to use the truth to their advantage.
Wed, August 17, 2022
Ep887: Asaf Shamly | Co-founder & CEO, Browsi
I’m a results-driven Product Director with an agile approach to developing, delivering, and marketing amazing products. With a technical background and passion for cutting-edge technology, I can lead a startup company to a winning product. Direct and immediate relations with clients enabled me to conceive ideas and new products to provide better value to clients and create new and winning products and features to generate new revenue streams and a better world. Fields of expertise: SaaS, B2B, Web, Ad tech, Publishers and Advertising strategies, Agile development of data-driven products.
Tue, August 16, 2022
Ep886: Alon Gilady | Co-Founder & CEO, Renovai
Alon Gilady graduated with a BA in economics and philosophy from TAU, a serial entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. During his last year at university, Alon founded a start-up company in the sports & entertainment collectibles industry. Alon signed big licensing deals with notable brands such as FC Barcelona and Man. City, NBA, WWE, and Disney, selling over 1.5M units through major retailers in Europe and the USA. In 2017 he co-founded a 3D-rendering studio creating virtual reality experiences for architects and interior designers. From the knowledge and experience gained in this venture, the idea of renovai was born with an ambitious mission: to empower online retailers with AI to make professional design and stylist services affordable and accessible for all.
Mon, August 15, 2022
Ep885: Matt Darrow | CEO & Co-Founder, Vivun
Matt's an enterprise software leader with experience growing businesses, building global teams, and delivering products. Before founding Vivun, he worked at Zuora, BigMachines, and Deloitte.
Sun, August 14, 2022
Ep884: Manik Suri | Founder and CEO, Therma
Manik is the Founder and CEO of Therma, a technology startup whose mission is to help protect our food, health and planet. Therma builds safety and sustainability tools to eliminate food waste, improve energy efficiency and reduce refrigerant emissions — protecting consumers and combating climate change. Therma is deployed across restaurants, retailers, distributors and manufacturers worldwide, with leading brands including Mcdonald's, Starbucks, NOW Foods, 7-Eleven and Marriott Hotels. Previously, Manik co-founded the Governance Lab (GovLab), an innovation center at NYU that develops technology solutions to improve government. He has been recognized amongst the Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology, a past Affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and previously held positions at global investment firm D. E. Shaw & Company and the White House National Economic Council.
Sat, August 13, 2022
Ep883: Justin Hayet | COO, Bnai Zion
Justin Hayet is the COO of Bnai Zion, aiming to accelerate Israel's growth and perpetuate social impact through partnerships and meaningful projects. He is a very young leader (28) who made an aliya a year ago and currently lives in Tel Aviv. Previous to that he worked at the UN as a senior strategic consultant for Dani Danon. He used to give him tips before meetings, comments on his speeches and had a major input in building strategic plans. Justin describes those years as "the proximity of power".
Fri, August 12, 2022
Ep882: Aran Erel | Country Manager Israel, Greece & Cyprus, F5 Networks
Aran Erel, senior high-tech leader by day, best-selling author by night. Aran Erel is the Country Manager of F5 in Israel, Greece and Cyprus and a respected author whose books have reached the top of the bestseller list. Aran published his first novel, "Foretelling Yesterday" in 2011 by Yedioth Ahronot, and last year he has published his second novel "The Human Element" by Kinneret Zmora (also known as “A Plan to Kill”). His writing work is influenced and driven by the changes and experiences in his career path. On the other hand, he brings the creative world into his role and management strategies, as well as to the content worlds in which he operates.
Thu, August 11, 2022
Ep881: Amir Zolty | Partner, Lipa Meir & Co. Advocates
Amir Zolty is a lawyer and the head of Lipa Meir & Co. Advocates ' Hightech practice. Over the last 20 years, he's been dealing with high-tech, corporate finance, privacy, and data security. Prior to that, he worked closely with the President of the Supreme Court of Israel and before that - with the Attorney General. Amir is also n 8200 (semi-techie) alumnus.
Wed, August 10, 2022
Ep880: Nina Rauch | Senior Social Impact Lead, Lemonade
At age 16, I founded a breast cancer charity in memory of my late mother - that sparked my passion for social impact, and making a dent in our universe. My campaign has since raised over $500,000 (including $48,000 in under an hour), and spread nationwide. In 2018, I joined insuretech Lemonade to lead Social Impact and ESG. I have distributed over $4M in donations to our 100 partners organizations and our impact has grown 4,232% higher. I was named one of the 100 women to watch by Barclays, and have written for the Telegraph, Guardian and Forbes.
Tue, August 09, 2022
Ep879: Joshua Broggi | Founder and CEO, Woolf
Dr. Joshua Broggi is the founder and CEO of Woolf, a platform that makes it possible for companies and academic groups to launch branded degree programs with the same accreditation as major universities – in weeks, not years. He was previously a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford and a member of the governing Congregation of the University. He also held a Humboldt Fellowship, during which he worked the role of modern universities in support human progress.
Sun, August 07, 2022
Ep878: Inbal Glantser | Co-Founder and CEO, Homaze.com
Inbal is a graduate of the programing course in Mamram and 8200 alumni as an officer. She had 20 years in tech executive positions in local and global companies before deciding to be an entrepreneur. Inbal is a mother of 3 teenage boys. Homaze is a unicorn from the beginning; it's so rare to find a construction-tech company founded by women only.
Sat, August 06, 2022
Ep877: Oshik Efrati | CEO, HomeBiogas
Oshik Efrati is the CEO, Co-Founder and Board Member at HomeBiogas. Oshik graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Sciences, specializing in water treatment. Oshik led the product development team at Shoresh, Israel’s largest tactical gear manufacturer and exporter, where he launched an innovative product, sold on a global scale. His next entrepreneurial endeavor was founding HomeBiogas together with his co-founders Yair Teller and Erez Lanzer in 2012.
Fri, August 05, 2022
Ep876: Malcolm Hawker | Head of Data Strategy, Profisee
Malcolm is a thought leader in the field of Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Governance and has consulted to some of the largest businesses in the world on their enterprise information management strategies. He is a frequent public speaker on data and analytics best practices and cherishes the opportunity to share practical and actionable insights on how companies can achieve their strategic imperatives by improving their approach to data management.
Thu, August 04, 2022
Ep875: Drew Glover | Co-Founder, Fiat Growth + Fiat Ventures
Drew is a Founding Partner of Fiat Growth and General Partner at Fiat Ventures. He is no stranger to the world of growth, technology, and marketing. From his time at Steady where he led marketplace development and growth to Namely, Fjord, and Portal A, he navigated the ins and outs of Go-to-Market strategies and user acquisition.
Wed, August 03, 2022
Ep874: Nihal Advani | Founder & CEO, QualSights
Nihal Advani is a product and marketing expert and the founder and CEO of QualSights. Nihal combined his entrepreneurial spirit and interest in seeing/understanding the world by launching QualSights – an immersive consumer insights platform that helps companies understand human behavior authentically and efficiently at global scale.
Tue, August 02, 2022
Ep873: Orr Hameiri | Global Tech Innovation Director, Procter & Gamble
As Global Tech Innovation Director @ Procter & Gamble, Orr’s key goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for P&G by partnering with top entrepreneurs, VCs, and researchers worldwide, in order to incorporate their disruptive technologies within P&G Global Business Units. His broad span of interests includes Cybersecurity, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Infrastructure, industry 4.0, Sustainability and more. A former accountant, Orr serves on the boards of startups and nonprofit organizations alike, where his financial expertise and innovation management experience develop strategic direction and enable operating efficiencies. Additionally, he is the co-host of “The Digital Transformers” podcast, where he interviews innovation leaders from large multinational corporates.
Mon, August 01, 2022
Ep872: Sapir Hadad | Co-Founder & CEO, FinityX
Sapir Hadad was born and raised in Ashkelon, and is currently living in Tel-Aviv. She is the Co-Founder & CEO of FinityX, a deep tech startup developing AI solutions for investment professionals. Finityx helps investors implement AI tools as part of their investment process to save time and resources and improve quality.
Mon, August 01, 2022
Ep871: Jay Jubas | Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Jay Jubas is a Senior Partner at McKinsey. Jay is a leader in McKinsey’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice, and global leader of Fuel by McKinsey, which serves the start-up and scale-up ecosystem. He is also a leader of McKinsey Israel TechHub, which provides services to startups, scale-ups, and VCs in multiple tech sectors in Israel. During the last year, Jay did Aliyah due to the huge potential McKinsey has recognized in the Israeli tech ecosystem. Jay holds a BS with highest honors and MS in materials science from Columbia University, and a PhD in physics from MIT. Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked as a research associate at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Sun, July 31, 2022
Ep870: Slava Bronfman | CEO, Cybellum
Slava is an experienced cybersecurity leader and entrepreneur. As CEO of Cybellum he is responsible for the business, sales, and marketing operations, working with manufacturers and asset owners worldwide on implementing risk assessment solutions. As part of founding Cybellum’s development of a novel Product Security technology, Slava is the official representative of the Standards Institution of Israel in the ISO 21434 standard technical committee, leading ISO21434 Use-Case TF. He’s also a member of the CISA Software Component Transparency committee, working on the future standardization of Software BoM. I hold an M.Sc. In Computer Science, Cum Laude, and a B.Sc. in Information Systems, Cum Laude.
Sat, July 30, 2022
Ep869: Miri Berger | CEO and Co-Founder, 6Degrees
Founder and CEO, Miri Berger, is an industrial designer by training completed a master's degree from the Pratt Institute and a B.F.A in Ceramic Design from the Bezalel Academy of Arts. She holds patents for her work in design and has over 15 years of experience in a wide variety of projects in the fields of toys, furniture, electronics, and soft goods. Miri specializes in designing products that consider unconventional needs, materials, and uses.
Fri, July 29, 2022
Ep868: Aliza Knox | Bestselling Author, Speaker, Tech Exec, Non Exec Director, Sr Advisor, BCG
Aliza built and led APAC businesses for Google, Twitter and Cloudflare. Prior to that, she was in banking and consulting. She is now a senior advisor for BCG, a Forbes columnist, a Non Executive Director on both public and private boards, and an Angel Investor. Once called a ”Kick Ass Woman Slaying the World of Tech”, Aliza is the author of Don't Quit Your Day Job, outlining 6 mindshifts you need to rise & thrive at work as part of her commitment to empowering the next generation of leaders. Recently listed in the Top 100 Women in Tech (Singapore, 2021), she's also been named the IT Woman of the Year (Asia, 2020).
Thu, July 28, 2022
Ep867: Yoav Shoham | Co-Founder, AI21 Labs
Yoav Shoham is professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University. A leading AI expert, Prof. Shoham is Fellow of AAAI, ACM and the Game Theory Society. Among his awards are the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award, and the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. His online Game Theory course has been watched by close to a million people. Prof. Shoham has founded several AI companies, including TradingDynamics (acquired by Ariba), Katango and Timeful (both acquired by Google), and AI21 Labs. Prof. Shoham also chairs the AI Index initiative ( www.AIindex.org ), which tracks global AI activity and progress, and WeCode ( www.wecode.org.il ), a nonprofit initiative to train high-quality programmers from disadvantaged populations.
Wed, July 27, 2022
Ep866: May Piamenta | Co-Founder & CEO, Vee
22-year-old May Piamenta, co-founder and CEO of Vee founded Vee together with her two partners Gil and Avi to make social impact easier than ever. Since her teenage years, May has been passionate about volunteerism. Before founding Vee in 2019, she led a global non- profit team, where she managed 10 million volunteers in over 32 countries. All the work was done manually, and she found existing technological solutions to be enterprise-oriented and difficult to use. So, May decided to act.
Tue, July 26, 2022
Ep865: Startup Snapshot Panel | Ido Almany, Carine Schneider, Nimrod Vromen and Yael Benjamin
Participants: Ido Almany, CEO, American Express Israel Carine Schneider, FGE, President, AST Private Company Solutions, Inc. Nimrod Vromen, CEO Consiglieri Yael Benjamin, Founder, Y. Benjamin Strategic Marketing
Mon, July 25, 2022
Ep864: Israel Krush | CEO & Co-Founder, Hyro
Israel founded Hyro in 2018 with the goal of simplifying digital interactions for patients by enabling providers and payers to deploy conversational AI interfaces at scale. Since then, he has raised over $15 million towards bringing that vision to life, building a team of 56 people in New York, California and Tel Aviv who serve dozens of leading healthcare networks including Weill Cornell Medicine, Mercy Health and Novant Health. Before building Hyro, Israel accumulated over 15 years of experience in the emerging technologies space, including Intel. Starting out as a software developer, Israel quickly moved up the ladder to manage engineering and product teams in various Israeli startups eventually ascending to Head of Product at Zeekit, a computer vision company which was recently acquired by Walmart. Israel began his career in 8200, IDF’s elite technology unit, and holds an MBA from Cornell University and a B.Sc in Computer Science and Statistics from Tel Aviv University (magna cum laude).
Sat, July 23, 2022
Ep863: Kanad Bahalkar | CPO and Co-founder, Potion
Kanad is the CPO and Co-founder of Potion. Kanad is an ex-Googler and was an early employee at Knit Health, a camera that could detect sleeping and breathing disorders using AI.
Fri, July 22, 2022
Ep862: Yariv Geller | CEO and co-founder, vHive
Yariv Geller, CEO and co-founder of vHive brings years of expertise in developing markets for innovative products, technology strategy and execution. Geller was previously CMO of Comverse (NASDAQ: CNSI), a large IT corporation for the telecom industry. Before that, Geller managed marketing and business development of Polychromix (acquired by Thermo-Fischer Scientific), a technology startup in the domain of advanced material sensing. Before that, he was a Team-Leader at POC Consulting, managing strategy, marketing and business development for tech startups and corporations. Geller holds degrees in Physics and Business Administration from Tel-Aviv University (TAU) and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Wed, July 20, 2022
Ep861: Colin Tai | CEO, Alcove
Colin Tai is the co-founder and CEO of Alcove, a platform that enables shared living in any rental propert. The platform invites people in search of their new home and community to find rooms to rent and allows for homeowners to list available bedrooms in their homes.
Sun, July 17, 2022
Ep860: Doron Frenkel | CEO, Driivz
Doron is an experienced entrepreneur with over 25 years’ international management experience in the EV charging, telecommunications and fleet industries. Prior to Driivz, Doron was co-founder and CEO of We!Secure and before that he held the position of GM of Israeli operations at Sphera. As a Director at Amdocs (NYSE:DOX), Doron led business relationships worth hundreds of millions of dollars with top customers such as Nextel and T-Mobile.
Sat, July 16, 2022
Ep859: Liran Hason | Co-Founder and CEO, Aporia
Liran Hason is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aporia, a full-stack ML observability platform used by Fortune 500 companies and data science teams across the world to ensure responsible AI. Prior to founding Aporia, Liran was an ML Architect at Microsoft-acquired Adallom, and later an investor at Vertex Ventures. Liran created Aporia after seeing first-hand the effects of AI without guardrails.
Fri, July 15, 2022
Ep858: David York | Attorney, CPA, Author and Speaker
David R. York is an Attorney and CPA who practices law in the area of estate planning, with extensive experience in designing advanced strategies for high-net-worth clients. David has spoken to hundreds of public groups and professional organizations, including the TedXSaltLakeCity, Q Commons, the Hawaii Tax Institute, the Purposeful Planning Institute, Investments and Wealth Institute, Valmark Member Summit, Southeastern Family Office Forum, and the Million Dollar Roundtable. David has also written three books, Entrusted, Riveted, and The Gift of Lift.
Thu, July 14, 2022
Ep857: Aaron Bours | VP Marketing, Hyro
Aaron is the VP Marketing at Hyro, where he has helped lead the company from pre-seed to Series A since 2019. He has over 7 years of business development, marketing and product experience, mainly within emerging technologies such as conversational AI. Prior to Hyro, Aaron helped develop and launch Duplex at Google which broke boundaries in the natural language space, and started his career at CheckPoint, helping to grow enterprise mobile security. Aaron completed a BA in Business Administration at IDC Herzliya, with a specialization in marketing, after serving in the IDF's Givati Brigade as a lone soldier. When out of the office, you’ll get his attention with hosting events, good B2B branding and the New York Knicks.
Wed, July 13, 2022
Ep856: Daniel Kligler | Senior Partner, Kligler & Associates Patent Attorneys
Daniel is the senior partner at Kligler & Associates Patent Attorneys. He has a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and before becoming a patent attorney he was a founder, inventor, and manager in two high-tech startups. He has a law degree and is licensed as a patent attorney in both Israel and the US. Since the founding of Kligler & Associates in 2008, clients of the firm have been acquired for a cumulative total of more than $20 billion. The firm specializes in deep tech - computers, communications, electronics, AI, and high-end medical devices - with clients ranging from start-ups, through unicorn ventures, to Fortune 500 companies.
Tue, July 12, 2022
Ep855: Eliron Ekstein | Co-Founder & CEO, Ravin.ai
Eliron has dedicated his work in the past 10 years to digitizing the automotive and transportation sectors. Before founding Ravin, Eliron was Head of New Business Development at Shell’s Digital Ventures unit in London, investing and incubating new businesses that could leverage Shell’s global footprint of retail locations for the benefit of fleets, motorists, and smart cities. Prior to that, Eliron served as the CEO of FarePilot.com, a startup using machine learning to help taxi and Uber drivers find their next passenger by predicting demand patterns in local areas. Eliron has an MBA from London Business School and is the proud father of 2 boys and one adorable girl.
Mon, July 11, 2022
Ep854: Eynat Guez | CEO, Papaya Global
Eynat is the CEO of Papaya Global. An entrepreneur with 15 years of experience, she is a leading expert in global payroll and global workforce management. She co-founded Papaya after seeing the technology gap in global payroll. The company combines her twin passions – technology and global HR – to start a revolution in global payroll management. Papaya’s innovative software provides a total workforce solution, allowing companies to manage all of their global people, payroll, and payments operations through a single dashboard.
Sun, July 10, 2022
Ep853: Ran Ilany | Co-Founder, CEO, Portshift (Cisco company)
Ran Ilany is Head of Emerging Technologies & Innovation (ET&I) at Cisco Israel. Ran is also Co-Founder of Portshift.io acquired by Cisco a pioneer in the Cloud Native Security market. Prior to Portshift, Ran held executive leadership position w/Check Point software technologies leading network security appliances business line. Earlier, Ran co-founded BladeFusion the first industry standard for Multi Bladed Security appliance for enterprise and prior to that he managed an Engineering team of exceptional researchers and developers in distributed computing at MainControl (acquired by IBM). Ran is the inventor and author of more than ten patents, most of which are in the field of cyber security. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Computer Sciences with Honors from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.
Sat, July 09, 2022
Ep852: Henrik Johansson | CEO, Gembah
Henrik Johansson is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded and built the product company Boundless into a $100M company. Currently he is the co-founder and CEO of Gembah, a product development platform and marketplace, and the Executive Producer of Final Product, a reality TV show incubated at Gembah. He was previously a co-founder and board member of OutboundEngine, and before that the president of EverydayWealth, and co-founder and president of Creditland. Johansson specializes in technology-enabled services, marketplaces, and software as a service. He is an expert on scaling startups, building world-class teams, culture, and scalable processes and infrastructure and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Austin Business Journal, and was named Counselor's 2017 Person of the Year."
Fri, July 08, 2022
Ep851: Kison Patel | Founder and CEO, M&A Science
Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of M&A Science, with a passion to drive the M&A industry forward. He was an M&A advisor for ten years in which he sold larger companies such as commercial banks and hotel chains. In 2012, he noticed teams lacked efficient technology to manage deals and created DealRoom, an M&A lifecycle management platform. In 2016, he started the M&A Science podcast devoting his time to creating a platform where all the best practitioners could share their best practices and lessons learned from real-life deals. Kison then created The M&A Science Academy in 2020 to offer step-by-step training to those looking to master M&A featuring courses created by top-level practitioners. Through developing technology, educational content, and industry training, Kison aims to bring better practices to an industry with growing market pressures, transaction values, and competition.
Thu, July 07, 2022
Ep850: Shauli Rozen | CEO & Co-Founder, ARMO
Shauli has over 15 years of technology, B2B management, and business development experience, with a B.Sc. Major in Communication Systems Engineering and MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, securing cloud-native frameworks, and my amazing founding team. His primary interests are building products, businesses, and teams - the latest is the fantastic ARMO. Army brings promise to cloud-native environments – embedding visibility & security into every workload and building security products that DevOps love. Prior to founding ARMO, Shauli was the Chief Strategy Officer in startup company Optimove where I built the Go-To-Market Strategy, sales department, and business team, and raised $20M growth round from Israel Growth Partners. Before that, he was a management consultant in the Boston Consulting Group, and a New Product Initiatives director within Amdocs, building startups within the company in Security, Virtualization, Cloud, and Big Data.
Wed, July 06, 2022
Ep849: Ofir Dubovi | Co Founder, OpenValley Israel
An active technology investor in Israel, Ofir is a CEO, founder, board member, and was previously a corporate manager. He served as C level in several startups, until mid-2015 when he turned his vision to expand the Startup Nation boundaries into his full-time job by founding OpenValley- a chain of Innovation centers in the northern part of Israel with over 150 Startups. OpenValley also established an Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation which support various organizations, corporates, NGOs, Government and municipals, Army units, school chains and more to implement entrapreneurship tools and methods within their organizations. Prior to OpenValley initiation, Ofir served as co-founder and COO of Kaminario, a successful startup which became a world leading Data Storage system. Earlier he held various roles in Israel tech companies such as Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) and Nice Systems (Nasdaq: NICE). Ofir is married to Hadas and they have 4 children and live in the Jezreel valley in Israel.
Tue, July 05, 2022
Ep848: Dr. Arin N. Reeves | President and Managing Director, Nextions LLC
As a researcher, author, and leading advisor to many of America's top executives, Dr. Arin N. Reeves offers expertise and insights on a wide range of leadership and workplace culture topics. For over 20 years, corporate leaders have turned to Arin to consult on their most formidable challenges, both in the workplace and the court of public opinion. Arin is a best-selling author of three books: The Next IQ, One Size Never Fits All, and Smarter Than A Lie. Her latest book, In Charge: The Energy Management Guide for Badass Women Who Are Tired of Being Tired, will be released on March 15, 2022.Arin has designed and led comprehensive research projects on topics including gender equity, generational diversity, LGBTQI diversity, racial/ethnic, diversity, cultural integration, implicit bias, transformational leadership, and working through generational differences.She is the founder and Managing Director of the research and advisory firm Nextions, which specializes in workplace culture change. Arin began her career as a practicing attorney.
Mon, July 04, 2022
Ep847: Dvir Milo | GM IL & CTO, Home365 Property Management
Dvir started his career in corporates like Partner and Comverse. Dvir was the co-founder and CTO for Eventim Israel the 2nd largest ticketing platform and company in the world selling 300 million tickets a year. In the last 5 years at Eventim he was the VP ML product for the entire group, building complex products based on Big data and ML and leading as CTO the first ever offshore R&D center for Eventim. For the last 2 years I've been the CTO for home365 growing from 4 developers to 40 emp. Dvir is thrilled to have the option to change completely the property management market and make it tech based, accurate , easy and transparent.
Sun, July 03, 2022
Ep846: Joshua Bremmerer | Chief Executive Officer, Komodo Covers
Josh is the CEO and Co-Founder of Komodo Covers, a marine accessories company, that is bringing a new wave of innovation to the marine industry.
Fri, July 01, 2022
Ep845: Arona Maskil | CEO, TrainingCQ
Arona is a cross-cultural business consultant, trainer, mentor, and coach with extensive experience in working with global companies. American by birth, Israeli by choice, and Finnish at heart, Arona is a fan of building bridges and not enthusiastic about walls. With her team at TrainingCQ she helps close the gap between cultures so people can work together more efficiently.
Thu, June 30, 2022
Ep844: Ifty Kerzner | Co-Founder & President, Kissterra
Ifty is Kissterra's co-founder and active president since 2015, he is passionate about business, innovation, and people. Ifty is a skilled tech entrepreneur, the majority of his career he invested in founding and managing several companies focused on financial services and data management. Prior to his business career, Ifty was a successful Israeli entertainer known for his music and TV show. Ifty holds an L.L.B degree with distinction, a master's degree in Political Science, and he is a graduate of the Linden B. Johnson school of public affairs' leadership program.
Wed, June 29, 2022
Ep843: Hilla Ovil Brenner | Managing Director, Techstars Tel Aviv
Hilla Ovil-Brenner is managing director of the Techstars Tel Aviv Accelerator. Having led her first company, White Smoke, to a successful IPO, for the past 20 years, Hilla has grown into a serial entrepreneur, investor, and mentor in the high-tech industry, specializing in early-stage startup development and growth. She has been named a 'Top 100 Influential People in the Israeli Hi-Tech Ecosystem' by Israeli technology site, Geektime. Additionally, Hilla is the founder of Yaazamiyot, the largest female founders group in Israel, with over 4000 founders located throughout the country and dozens of global projects in the works.
Tue, June 28, 2022
Ep842: Ofer Gayer | VP of Product, Hunters
Ofer Gayer is VP of Product at Hunters, a SOC Platform which aims to disrupt the SIEM category. His role includes overseeing all aspects of product vision, strategy, roadmap, and user experience, collaborating with leaders across the company to make the vision a reality. Ofer recently returned to Israel after spending 6 years in San Francisco. Prior to Hunters, Ofer managed a variety of cybersecurity product lines and teams at Exabeam and Imperva. Before transitioning into product, he was a security researcher at Incapsula and an IDF intelligence officer.
Mon, June 27, 2022
Ep841: Hany Lynn | Product Lead, Fundbox
Hany is a Product Lead at Fundbox, a fintech company providing an embedded working capital platform for small businesses in the US market. She currently leads two of the company’s core product domains: the customer experience and journey of Fundbox’s credit products, as well as Fundbox’s innovative Payments products, focusing on B2B Buy Now, Pay Later solutions. Hany’s passionate about building new products and exploring innovations that drive more engagement, delight customers, and establish product market fit. Hany lives in Tel Aviv with her partner, daughter and furry daughter. When she’s not busy solving customer needs, Hany enjoys crossfit, surfing, hiking and traveling.
Sat, June 25, 2022
Ep840: Aayush Kumar | CEO, OpsLyft
Aayush is the CEO and Founder of OpsLyft. Before OpsLyft, Aayush worked as a Lead DevOps Engineer at Indix. There he was given the responsibility to handle the whole cloud infrastructure which had a budget of upwards of $5 million. This rigorous exercise made him realize the fundamental problems with cloud cost optimization and how it is an ongoing exercise. When Aayush researched the market of cloud management platforms, he found out that even though there are a plethora of cloud solutions existing, most of them were just focused on providing analytics or just using “best practices” to provide short-term solutions. This made him pivot from being a developer to an entrepreneur and he started OpsLyft with the goal to help organizations manage their cloud operations the right way.
Fri, June 24, 2022
Ep839: Amit Kurz | General Partner, Sweetwood Ventures
Amit is a General Partner at Sweetwood Ventures, an Israel focused venture capital fund of funds. Prior to co-founding Sweetwood Ventures, Amit was a lawyer at APM & Co. where he represented private equity and venture capital funds, and high-tech companies in all of their corporate and commercial affairs. Amit was previously recognized by Forbes as one of Israel's brightest leaders under the age of 30 (Forbes 30 Under 30). Amit graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya where he was also a member of the Rabin Leadership Program. Amit also holds a Master's degree in Business Administration majoring in Management of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Tel-Aviv University.
Thu, June 23, 2022
Ep838: Andriy Sambir | CEO, LinkUp Studio
Andriy Sambir is the CEO of a top software development company located in Ukraine. In his 20 Andriy founded and led LinkUp Studio, product-driven software development & design company, that today are one of the best Saas companies in Ukraine. Having gained over 8+ years of working on digital projects, he fond in important to share the expirience - that's how was founded the Building Digital Product podcast - the show for sturtups and entrepreneurs about the things Andriy would like someone to tell him at the beginning.
Wed, June 22, 2022
Ep837: Guy Nirpaz | Founder & CEO, Totango
Guy Nirpaz is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and the CEO of Totango, the leading Customer Success solution. A pioneer in the Customer Success field, Guy is a well-regarded industry speaker and community contributor. Guy is also the author of “The Definitive Guide to Customer Success,” and established the Customer Success Summit. He’s passionate about people and technology and has dedicated his career to improving the way in which business is done through innovation.
Mon, June 20, 2022
Ep836: Rachel Caplin | Business Development, Team8 Fintech
Rachel Caplin leads Business Development for Fintech at Team8. In 2019, she accidentally wrote a novel and was just shortlisted for the 2022 Vogel Literary Award, one of Australia's most prestigious literature prizes. Rachel made Aliyah to Israel in 2015 from her hometown Perth in Western Australia, sits on the Board of two non-profit organizations, and is a Fellow in the Nevo Network - an exclusive program for top-talent OIim in the Israeli tech ecosystem.
Sun, June 19, 2022
Ep835: Shay Levy | Co-Founder & CTO, Noname Security
Shai Levy, was born in Ramat Gan, and from a very young age he learnt to adapt to challenging life situations. He paved the way for the 8200 after studying physics and computers in high school and hurried to finish his matriculation in physics in tenth grade. From the Sisyphean classifications to the specific section to which he was admitted in the army which lasted 7 months he no longer recoiled. There he met Oz and even then they had signed together on a project that won them a 'Source of Life' award after they managed to convince their commander to promote a project that initially encountered opposition - and gained recognition for thinking outside the box. After military service he moved between start-ups and large companies when his last job was on Facebook. About a 2 years ago, he took part in the establishment of a Noname Security company that provides cyber solutions for APIs.
Sat, June 18, 2022
Ep834: Daniel Lischinsky | Founder & CEO, Ohh-Med Medical Ltd.
Daniel is the Founder and CEO of Ohh-Med Medical. He is an Computer Science Engineer from the Technion Technological institute at Israel and specialist in VLSI technologies. He has few patents in the field of anti aging and urology more specifically, in the field of Erectile Dysfunction (ED). He was one of the first employees in startups companies like Saifun Semiconductor, Mellanox Technologies (today Nvidia), Syneron, Founder of Endymed Medical (ENDY:tlv) acting as VP R&D and CTO. He is father of 3 boys, two of them are stundents at Technion institute, and he is married to Ora a distinguished lawyer at Israel.
Fri, June 17, 2022
Ep833: Dana von der Heide | Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Parcel Perform
Dana is the Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Parcel Perform, the leading delivery experience platform for businesses covering 800+ logistics carriers worldwide. She leads the global go-to-market strategies and expansion efforts alongside the growth and commercial strategy within the company. The German-born entrepreneur and e-commerce logistics enthusiast worked in global strategy and regional business development roles for international logistics companies in Europe and Asia. Dana is a member of the distinguished eFounder Fellowship program by Alibaba, a network of international entrepreneurs and business leaders passionate about driving digital transformation. She also co-hosts the logistics podcast series ‘The Logistics Tribe’ and is an advisory board member of the German Logistics Association (BVL - Bundesvereinigung Logistik).
Thu, June 16, 2022
Ep832: Yariv Omer | Founder and CEO, REIGO
Yariv is the Co-Founder and CEO of Reigo. He brings 22 years of software development and product management experience and more than 17 years of leadership of software groups and companies. Before joining Reigo, Yariv server as the GM and founder of Technicolor Israel, in addition he held positions of Head of R&D at Jungo, managing software deployed in more than 70 millions home.He was also an R&D and product executive in Cisco and Radcom. Yariv holds a Bsc. in computer science from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA in philosophy (as well from TAU)
Wed, June 15, 2022
Ep831: Tzahi Weisfeld | Vice President - Intel Ignite: Intel for Startups, Intel Corporation
This is a seasoned executive, serial entrepreneur, Intel Vice President, and General manager of Ignite. His career span of 25 years in tech consumer and enterprise markets. President of ASN (Accelerating Startup Nations), Tzahi was one of the founders of the Microsoft Israel R&D site and a member of its management team for eight years. This was also Head of Microsoft for Startups and Founder of the Microsoft Accelerators. His responsibilities span across 110 countries and included Microsoft BizSpark, a Global startup accelerator partnership with 200+ accelerators in 47 countries, Microsoft Later Stage Accelerators in Seattle, Bangalore, Beijing, Shanghai, Berlin, London, and Tel Aviv, as well as post acceleration programs and VC engagement. Prior to Microsoft for Startups, Tzahi co-founded a few startups, including Sequoia-backed Mintigo (Acquired by Anaplan), Vice President of Marketing & Strategy at Modu, the Israeli personal communications startup (IP sold to Google Corp). Tzahi held the position of Sr. Director of Business Management at Microsoft Corp. Prior to his period at Microsoft, Tzahi was the General Manager Americas and Corporate Vice President for the Mobile Market at Msystems (NSDQ: FLSH), which was acquired by SanDisk Corp (NSDQ: SNDK) for 1.6B at the end of 2006. Additionally, Tzahi is among the 10 topmost Influential Israelis In Tech Worldwide (Business Insider 2014), and was also named one of the top influencers on Israeli Tech by NewsGeek magazine (Dec. 2015).
Tue, June 14, 2022
Ep830: Lisya Bahar Manoah | Partner, Catalyst Investments
Lisya is the Senior Partner at Catalyst Funds since 2019. Lisya holds over 15 years of investment and management experience in PE and global leading corporations, in particular in the context of M&A transactions, post-merger integration and raising capital. Lisya has previously led the operational due diligence for the acquisition of Keter Group by BC Partners and managed post-acquisition integration. Prior to Keter, Lisya held management positions in one of the world's leading crop protection companies, ADAMA, and at Magna Steyr/BMW. Lisya has a multicultural background speaking fluent German, Turkish, English and Hebrew. She earned an MBA from Tel Aviv University, M.Sc. from Vienna University of Technology, and Harvard executive.
Mon, June 13, 2022
Ep829: Eran Ben Shmuel | CEO and Co-Founder, Juganu
Eran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Juganu. Beginning his career, unconventionally, as a classical violinist, he changed direction and earned his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology. Eran has over 15 years of experience building high-tech companies from zero to mass production. Eran is an expert in solid-state electronics and high-speed control systems, and he holds numerous patents in physics and algorithms. Juganu is his second start-up with his partner, Alex Bilchinsky. The first start-up of the two was RF Dynamics (goji). The invention was the magical oven. A technology that allows a high degree of control on rapid energy transfer to food products based on digital high-power RF components capable of modifying the frequency, amplitude, and phase of radio waves transmitted in ovens. He always brings together a wide range of tech fields to solve unmet needs - Just like he did in Juganu, which significantly impacts people's lives - for example, what they are doing lately in Philadelphia, Arlington, Mexico, Guatemala, and Brazil
Fri, June 10, 2022
Ep828: Guy Melamed | Co-Founder & CEO, Exberry
Guy Melamed is the co-founder and CEO of Exberry, the exchange technology pioneer that is revolutionising the tradional capital markets and digital assets. Guy is also a Venture partner in the only Blockchain Hedge Fund in Israel (Finova Capital). Guy is experienced in developing go to market strategies, product market fit and business strategies. Guy is a seasoned expert, blend of entrepreneurial pedigree with corporate strength. He launched Exberry to reshape opportunities for all market models from the biggest exchange in the world to start-ups and anything in between.
Thu, June 09, 2022
Ep827: Mati Lerner | Co-founder and CEO, Ridge
Mati Lerner is co-founder and CEO at Ridge, the world's most distributed public cloud. Mati invests and advises early-stage companies. He has an MBA from London Business School, Mati Lerner is Co-founder and CEO at Ridge, the world's most distributed public cloud. Mati invests and advises early-stage companies. He has an MBA from London Business School.
Wed, June 08, 2022
Ep826: Oren Razon | Co-founder and CEO, Superwise
Oren is the co-founder and CEO of Superwise, the leading platform for model observability. With over 15 years of experience leading the development, deployment, and scaling of ML products, Oren is an expert ML practitioner specializing in MLOps tools and practices. Previously, Oren managed machine learning activities at Intel’s ML center and operated a machine learning boutique consulting agency helping leading tech companies such as Sisense, Gong, AT&T, and others, to build their machine learning-based products and infrastructure.
Tue, June 07, 2022
Ep825: Eran Polack | CEO and Co-Founder, HAP Investments
As CEO and Co-Founder of HAP Investments, Eran Polack oversees a diverse portfolio of residential and commercial real estate that is renowned for its location, proximity to mass transit, and innovative construction and design. Mr. Polack is an established entrepreneur with a long history of successful real estate ventures in Eastern Europe, Israel, and the United States. Mr. Polack’s strengths are the early identification of emerging regions and the development of projects tailored for those markets. Mr. Polack was one of the first developers to identify East Harlem as well as the Journal Square neighborhood of Jersey City as areas in preliminary stages of urban revitalization. He was also an early leader in the revival of Neve Tzedek, a highly coveted neighborhood in the heart of Tel Aviv.
Sun, June 05, 2022
Ep824: Sharon Alalouf | Vice President Of Business Development APAC, Cellwize
Sharon, a mother to 3 amazing boys and a spouse who’s a successful artist, fortunate with them, follow her to the other side of the world to explore the global business scene while enjoying the multicultural experience of ASIA. She is proud that she moved from her comfort zone and manage to have a triple career transformation : local to global, technology to business and customer side to vendor side. More than 20 years of divertive career, inspired by leaders that shape and highlight the importance of believing in herself and her achievements. Currently the VP of business development at Cellwize.
Fri, June 03, 2022
Ep823: Micheal Peled | CEO and Founder, Singit
As a child diagnosed with dyslexia Michael Peled, CEO, and founder of SingIt, struggled to learn English at school. His father told him that he learned English using the Beatles and Pink Floyd songs, and that is how the idea was born, learning English through the power of music. During his military service in the Ofek unit of the Air Force, Peled and his partner, Benny Rosner, CTO, and founder, decided to turn the idea into reality. In 2020, they began developing the SingIt app and created a unique platform that allows each student to learn English in the best and most effective way by listening to students' favorite songs.
Thu, June 02, 2022
Ep822: Dror Glass | Co-Founder, Israel Secondary Fund
Co-founded Israel Secondary Fund (“ISF”), Investing in the Israeli secondary market since 2001 with 25 years of investment experience. Previously Managing Director at Nexus Global Partners, a global management consulting firm. Former Managing Director, Orama Investments, member of the IDB group, Senior Investment Manager Israel Corportaion and the Executive Director, the Wharton – Recanati Program at the Tel Aviv University. Served on the boards of various private and public companies, both in Israel and abroad. Registered C.P.A.(Isr) and holds a B.A. in Accounting and Finance and an M.B.A. in International Business and Finance from the University of Southern California (Dean’s List).
Tue, May 31, 2022
Ep821: Sophie Wade | Founder, Flexcel Network, LLC
Sophie Wade is a work futurist, international keynote speaker, author, and authority on Future-of-Work issues. She is the host of the widely popular Transforming Work podcast and over 450,000 learners have taken her four LinkedIn courses which cover empathy, Future-of-Work skills, and Gen Z. Sophie is the Founder and Workforce Innovation Specialist at Flexcel Network, a Future-of-Work consultancy. Sophie’s executive advisory work and transformative workshops help companies adapt and update their work environments and attract, engage, and retain their multigenerational and distributed talent. She helps corporations maximize the benefits and minimize the disruption in their transition to talent-focused, digitalized work environments.
Mon, May 30, 2022
Ep820: Oren Toledano | CEO & Co-founder, Swimm
Oren Toledano is the CEO and Co-Founder of Swimm, making Continuous Documentation an integral part of the development lifecycle. An accomplished leader in the hi-tech industry, Oren has led numerous international technological training hubs over the past ten years, including co-founding Israel Tech Challenge (ITC) in 2012 and serving as the CEO until 2019. Oren has a BA in Political Science from the Hebrew University and an MA in Security Studies from the Tel Aviv University.
Sun, May 29, 2022
Ep819: Didi Gurfinkel | Co-Founder and CEO, DataRails
Didi Gurfinkel is the Co-Founder and CEO of DataRails. Didi was previously the GM at Cisco and has extensive senior management experience with a focus on growth and innovation. Did holds B.Sc in economics and computer science, and an MBA. DataRails is the leading FP&A solution for Excel users. The cloud-based platform automates the process of consolidating and analyzing financial data, while allowing users to stay in Excel. Founded in 2015, DataRails is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit DataRails.com.Didi Gurfinkel is the Co-Founder and CEO of DataRails. Didi was previously the GM at Cisco and has extensive senior management experience with a focus on growth and innovation. Did holds B.Sc in economics and computer science, and an MBA. DataRails is the leading FP&A solution for Excel users. The cloud-based platform automates the process of consolidating and analyzing financial data, while allowing users to stay in Excel. Founded in 2015, DataRails is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit DataRails.com.
Sat, May 28, 2022
Ep818: Gerald Leonard | CEO, Principles of Execution, LLC
A professional bassist, Gerald J. Leonard offers a unique approach to accomplishing more productivity in the workplace. Gerald is an international Keynote Bassist and Culture Change Expert. His programs integrate music, productivity, workplace culture and neuroscience. Gerald Leonard is the author of “Culture Is The Bass: 7 Steps to Creating High Performing Teams,” listed on Entrepreneur magazine as one of the “Top 15 Books on Business Culture That You Need to Read Today,"" and the book, ""Workplace Jazz: How to Improvise,” listed on Human Resources Online as one of the Top 10 must-read HR books. Gerald is the CEO of Principles of Execution, dba Turnberry Premiere, a Strategic Project Portfolio Management, Culture Change and IT consulting firm with over 20 years' experience working with large Federal and State Governments and Multi-National Corporations.
Fri, May 27, 2022
Ep817: Julie Winkle Giulioni | Author, Promotions Are So Yesterday & Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
Julie Winkle Giulioni is a champion for workplace growth and development and helps executives and leaders optimize talent and potential within their organizations. One of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 speakers, she’s the author of Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive and the co-author of the international bestseller, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want, translated into seven languages. Julie is a regular columnist for Training Industry Magazine and SmartBrief and contributes articles on leadership, career development, and workplace trends to numerous publications including The Economist. You can keep up with Julie through her blog, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Wed, May 25, 2022
Ep816: Dan Brahmy | CEO, Cyabra
Dan Brahmy is the co-founder & CEO of Cyabra, a disinformation platform working with governments and consumer brands to uncover the 'real' online. The intentional spread of false information is now prevalent in our society. Living our lives on social media makes it easier for bad actors to spread any piece of content with damaging consequences to individuals, government entities, public figures, and brands.
Wed, May 25, 2022
Ep815: Asaf Toker | CEO, Matricelf
Asaf is a medical doctor and the CEO of Matricelf, an Israeli biotechnology company that regenerates the future of medicine, developing tissues and organs from the patients own bio material.
Tue, May 24, 2022
Ep814: Peter Reynolds | CRO, Thetaray
An accomplished fintech executive and global sales leader with extensive experience building world-class and high performing revenue organizations that achieve hyper-growth. Peter brings two decades of experience selling enterprise software into financial institutions, fintech’s and global corporations and has end-to-end accountability for ThetaRay’s revenue organization. Prior to joining ThetaRay as Chief Revenue Officer, Peter started his career at HSBC before holding senior sales leadership positions at Earnix, Fundtech, Reval and Thomson Financial. Peter is a regular contributor to the industry dialogue as a well-respected thought leader he holds a law degree from London Guildhall University.
Tue, May 17, 2022
Ep813: Henry Barclay | CEO & Co-Founder, Pallo
Henry spent 6 years growing technology startups in the Financial Technology and Cybersecurity domains from conception to 9-figure valuations, gaining a wealth of experience in sales ops and product design having managed large technology and sales teams. During this time he went through Telefonica’s accelerator Wayra, 3 investment rounds, closed 40 deals with the likes of Dominos & Nike, and built B2B2C banking software in collaboration with a Tier 1 bank. Henry was a Freelancer for 5 years prior to Pallo. During this time he advised family offices on investing into startups and advised many Seed-Series B stage companies on business strategy, investment strategy, product market fit, and sales operations. In addition to Pallo, he presently advises UN Habitat on their Cities Investment Facility, sitting on their investment advisory committee and is trustee to a UK foundation.
Mon, May 16, 2022
Ep812: Leon Kuperman | Chief Technology Officer, CAST.AI
Leon Kuperman is a co-founder and CTO at CAST AI. Formerly Vice President of Security Products OCI at Oracle, Leon’s professional experience spans tech companies such as IBM, Tuition, and HostedPCI. He has 20+ years of experience in product management, software design, and development, all through production deployment.
Sat, May 14, 2022
Ep811: Mark Zides | CEO, CoreAxis Consulting
Mark is the founder and CEO of CoreAxis Consulting, an award winning Learning and Development and Talent Management firm. He is also the founder of Katama, an agency specializing in sales strategy, marketing, and customer success for small-to-medium sized businesses, and Recipi, a digital marketing agency for rental event equipment companies. He has a LET’S GO mentality followed with a positive and all-inclusive demeanor because Mark wants everyone to enjoy what they do, where they are, and the experiences they have. Mark is a connector who loves to coach and mentor, network, and find opportunities for those he sees potential in. All while maintaining a strong family balance with his wife, three kids, and two dogs.
Fri, May 13, 2022
Ep810: Ehud Yalin-Mor | SVP WiseStamp, vcita
Ehud Yalin-Mor is SVP @ vcita, the leading business management app for SMBs. Ehud joined vcita as the first employee, a long journey from the first line of code to serving hundreds of thousands of businesses. After 7 years as vcita's VP R&D, Ehud led the acquisition of WiseStamp and its merger into vcita. Since then, under Ehud's management, WiseStamp, one of the leading email signatures solutions, has rapidly accelerated its growth. With over 10 years of experience in startups, Ehud's passion lies in the intersection of tech, business and management, especially in the SaaS world. Ehud holds an MBA from the Kellogg-Recanati joint program, a BSc in Computer Science and is a graduate of 8200.
Thu, May 12, 2022
Ep809: Hila Goldman-Aslan | CEO & Co-Founder, DiA Imaging Analysis
Hila holds a dual bachelor's degree in Law (LLB) and Business Administration (BBA), along with a Master of Law (LLM) from Tel Aviv University specializing in Commercial Law. After years of leading high-tech companies focused on medtech, Hila founded DiA Imaging Analysis. She has led the company from the idea through proof of concept, product development, building a team, regulation, raising capital, and validation to commercial partnerships with leading vendors, such as GE Healthcare, Philips, and IBM.
Wed, May 11, 2022
Ep808: Dana Bash Shelach | CEO, iTalent
Dana is the CEO of iTalent A leader in the Tech Recruitment field. We’re committed to leaving organizations and their people in a truly better place – more changeable, more engaged and better equipped for creating a better future.
Mon, May 09, 2022
Ep807: Amnon Avi-Guy | General Manager, Robotize
Amnon Avi-Guy is a well experienced manager in the fields of IT, organizational processes and automation. Amnon is the General Manager of Robotize, the robotics division of Mittwoch. Amnon established Robotize 2 years ago together with Amir Mittwoch, the company's Business Development Manager. Now, after two extensive years Amnon and Robotize are recognized in the Israeli market as market leaders in the cobotic field.
Sun, May 08, 2022
Ep806: Dr. Roni Dodiuk-Gad | Head, Inflammatory and Autoimmune Skin diseases Unit, Emek Medical Center
A clinician, researcher, educator, and global opinion leader in Dermatology specifically on the topics of adverse cutaneous drug reactions and Darier disease. She mentors students and residents both in Israel and Canada and leads several research teams focusing specifically on these topics. Dr. Dodiuk-Gad graduated from the Technion and conducted clinical and research fellowships in the University of Toronto. She is currently an Assistant Professor in both these institutes, the Head of the Dermatology Program Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Institute of Technology, Israel and the Head of Inflammatory and Autoimmune Skin diseases Unit, Dermatology Department, Emek Medical Center, Israel. Dr. Dodiuk-Gad is engaged in major international collaborations, initiated and leads global educational platforms in Dermatology and she is a member of 8400 The Health Network.
Sat, May 07, 2022
Ep805: Sharonna Karni Cohen | CEO & Co-Creator, Dreame
Sharonna is an activist and entrepreneur. She is the CEO and Co-Creator at Dreame: A platform for commissioning art with over 500 artists around the world; inspired by a vision, memory, story or goals. She also works with the leading companies and hosts guided meditations to the future. She is the co-creator of The Big Dream; one global art installation envisioning the future of the world that has travelled to 20 countries so far and in April to the International Space Station with The Rakia Mission. She is an advocate of utilizing our imagination more.
Fri, May 06, 2022
Ep804: Mendel Gniwisch | CEO, stor.ai
Mendel Gniwisch is CEO of Stor.ai, a leading provider of end-to-end digitization solutions for grocers. He moved to Israel in 2018 because of his passion for Israeli innovation, with the intention of helping Israeli startups go global – a passion which has directly contributed to his success at stor.ai. Prior to being appointed CEO, he was the company’s EVP Business Development, spearheading stor.ai’s 300% year-on-year growth in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, he was VP Business Development and VP Retail Development at Impax Media, a digital communications company for grocers, where he was responsible for the company’s strategic positioning in the grocery and advertising industries and working with retailers and engineers to tailor products to the company’s network. Throughout Mr. Gniwisch’s career he has been at the forefront of building new organizations from the ground up, as both a strategic developer and a marketer, challenging the status quo to make a positive impact on people’s lives. He is also actively engaged in pro bono work to help other Israeli companies expand outside the country.
Thu, May 05, 2022
Ep803: Ziv Yekutieli | CEO, Mon4t
Dr. Ziv Yekutieli is the CEO of Mon4t, a start that provides standard neurological assessment in the clinic and home. Dr. Yekutieli holds a Bachler's and Master's degree in electrical engineering, and a PhD in Brain Science. Dr. Yekutieli has been connecting between neurology and technology for over 20 years, and has been working in the Israel high-tech industry, primarily in Intel's Design Center in Haifa, Israel.
Tue, May 03, 2022
Ep802: Alon Fliess | Founder & Chief Technology Officer, ZioNet
Alon is a global authority on multiple technologies and platforms – Cloud Computing, Windows internals, C++ Windows programming, .NET with C# or C++/(CLI/CX). He is also the co-author of the Windows 7 Microsoft Training Program and the books Introducing Windows 7 for Developers published by Microsoft Press. For his proven expertise and community leadership, Alon was awarded Microsoft Regional Director (MRD) and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP VC++) status. Beyond heading up most of CodeValue's complex, strategic consulting and development projects, Alon is a CodeCollege top faculty member, bringing to the job many years of training experience both in Israel and abroad. Alon built a computer museum in CodeValue Northern offices containing all of his old 8-bit computers, peripherals, programming books and other old devices that he collected since he was a little boy and used them to decorate the room.
Mon, May 02, 2022
Ep801: Jeff Williams | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast
Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. Previously, Jeff was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by Ernst & Young. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for eight years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects. Jeff has a BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.
Sat, April 30, 2022
Ep800: Rob Volpe | CEO, Ignite 360
Rob Volpe is an astute observer of life and a master storyteller who brings empathy and compassion to the human experience. As CEO of Ignite 360, he leads a team of insights, strategy, and creative professionals serving the world’s leading brands across a range of industries. He is the author of Tell Me More About That: Solving the Empathy Crisis One Conversation at a Time. As a thought leader in the role of empathy in marketing and the workplace, he is a contributor to Entrepreneur’s Leadership Network and frequently speaks on the topic at conferences, corporations, colleges, podcasts and with the media. He is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and lives in San Francisco with his husband and 3 cats.
Fri, April 29, 2022
Ep799: Bentsi Ben-atar | Chief Marketing Officer, Sepio
Bentsi Ben-atar is the Chief Marketing Officer of Sepio, and one of its co-founders. He has a strong intelligence community background and over 25 years of experience, winning multiple professional and innovation awards. Further, Bentsi has a BSC in Electrical Engineering and is a MBA Graduate. He is a hardware security expert, as well as an expert on Rogue Device Detection, supply chain attacks, internal abusers, and is a leader in Zero Trust Hardware Access. Bentsi Benatar leads Sepio’s marketing activities and boosts Sepio’s brand awareness.
Thu, April 28, 2022
Ep798: Steve Pockross | CEO, Verblio
Steve Pockross brings more than 20 years of stratup, Fortune 500, and nonprofit experience to his role at Verblio. As CEO, he applies leading marketplace and SaaS principles to create an industry-leading content creatino platform. Steve was part of the early management team at LiveOps, growing the company into the largest virtual contact center in the world and filling roles across marketing, strategy, operations, and partnerships. Steve received his MBA from Kellogg School of Business and his MA in history from Wesleyan University. Outside the office, Steve is a Devner native and enjoys ultimate frisbee and playing guitar.
Wed, April 27, 2022
Ep797: Guy Goldman | Founder and CEO, Olive Diagnostics
Guy Goldman is the CEO and Founder of Olive Diagnostics, 100% passive continuous urinalysis sensor that mounts to any toilet, and can be used to early detect thousands of diseases. Prior to establishing Olive, Guy was the CEO of a number of technology and Data Science companies. Most recently Guy was managing a large transportation service provider company in London. Of the data science companies, Guy pioneered the advancement of churn modeling for telecom companies, and software licensing optimizations. Both companies were bought out, one by a publicly traded company on NASDAQ. Guy holds a B.S in computer science from the university of San Francisco.
Tue, April 26, 2022
Ep796: Liron Azrielant | Managing Partner, Meron Capital
Liron is a General Partner at Meron Capital and has over 10 years of experience in the venture capital, private equity and tech industries. Liron also manages the Young Venture Capital Forum in Israel - a professional organization connecting over 250 young partners, principals and associates from all VC firms in Israel. Prior to joining Meron Capital, Liron was a Principal at Blumberg Capital and led Cyber, SaaS, Marketing-tech and Infrastructure IT deals. Prior to that, she was a Strategy and M&A consultant at Bain Capital and PwC's PE group in New York, where she leads commercial and operational due-diligence projects for the largest private equity firms in the US. Before moving to the US, Liron was a technical Applications Engineer at Agilent Technologies, where she worked with blue-chip clients in Europe, Asia and the US. Liron holds an MBA from MIT-Sloan, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from MIT and a B.Sc. in Math and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At 25, she was the youngest student ever to graduate MIT's dual MBA / M.Sc. degree program. She started her bachelor’s degree at Talpiot, the elite Israeli Defense Forces program, and completed it while serving full-time as a technology analyst and researcher at the Israeli intelligence unit 8200.
Tue, April 26, 2022
Ep795: Ifat Bechor | CEO, Unistream
Ifat is the CEO of Unistream, an organization that provides entrepreneurship education and innovating thinking for youth in Israel’s geographic and social periphery, in order to reduce socioeconomic disparity and ensure equal opportunities for all. Ifat joined Unistream after serving as the Head of Business Development and Innovation for Birthright Israel. Her career started at Publicis Worldwide, then moving to the marketing team at Loews Cineplex. She discovered the world of philanthropy through Friends of the IDF where she served as VP Marketing. Ifat joined Birthright as the Executive Director of Birthright Excel, the lifelong leadership and business fellowship. She is a member of the Maoz Leadership fellowship and the Schusterman Fellowship. She lives in Israel with her husband and three children.
Mon, April 25, 2022
Ep794: Mike Watson | President, Ignite Management
Mike Watson is the President at Ignite Management Services and is Co-Author of Rise Up: Leadership Habits for Turbulent Times. He is on a mission to change how business is done by encouraging leaders to adopt the habits of resilient leadership. He has embraced a journey of pursuing the best version of himself—and helps leaders do the same—to be more inclusive, inquisitive, and humble. Mike’s personal goal is to make the world a better place, one interaction at a time. This has guided him in his many roles, including directorships at all levels of Chambers of Commerce in Canada.
Thu, April 21, 2022
Ep793: Eyal Niv | Managing General Partner, Pitango First
Eyal Niv is a Managing Partner at Pitango First, having joined in 2015. Prior to joining Pitango, Eyal was Managing Partner at Giza VC, where he led the fund operations and focused mainly on IT infrastructure, Semiconductors & Internet. Eyal serves on the Board of Directors of Graphcore, AI21, Lumigo, Optibus and Iguazio. Eyal's investments have a primary focus on Artificial Intelligence. Eyal is also Co-Founder of The Public Knowledge Workshop – a leading non-profit organization for freedom of information, as well as Take – an innovative, impact-driven delivery service which helps the needy by providing them with food and delivery service on top of an on-demand delivery service.
Wed, April 20, 2022
Ep792: Sandy Saper | ASIC Design Manager, Ready Group
Sandy Saper joined Ready in 2020 as ASIC & FPGA Design Manager. Sandy brings over 20 years of experience in managing complex SOC’s for wireless, communications & automotive applications. His experience encompasses all aspects of the SOC development cycle from requirements, specifications, architecture, design, verification, circuit, backend and silicon validation. Sandy has a proven record of managing multidisciplinary development teams and execution of projects efficiently and effectively. Prior to joining Ready Sandy was Director of Engineering at Verisense, before that he was R&D Department Manager at Freescale Semiconductors. Sandy holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel
Mon, April 18, 2022
Ep791: Stephen Rozen | Partner and Head of International Relationships, Amit, Pollak, Matalon & Co.
Stephen is a partner at the law firm Amit, Pollak, Matalon & Co., and also a senior reserves officer at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the IDF.
Sun, April 17, 2022
Ep790: Rani Shifron | CEO, Healthier Globe
Rani is the CEO of Healthier Globe, a consulting firm and the Israeli representative of Taiwanese Based Innovation To Industry, running launchpad programs for Israeli companies into Taiwan.
Sat, April 16, 2022
Ep789: Matt Auron | Co-founder, Evolution
Matt Auron is a master coach who supports leaders in fast-growing companies scale into their potential with long-term, sustainable success. As co-founder of Evolution, Matt’s deep intuition, organizational experience and behavioral science expertise allow him to design powerful and customized development solutions for clients. He has worked with organizations like Slack, Snapchat, change.org, Coursera, Tile, Eero, Collective Health, Dropbox and Radiology Partners. Prior to co-founding Evolution, Matt served as the Wisdom Team’s Senior Director and Global Lead at DaVita HealthCare Partners, a culture-focused Fortune 500 healthcare company. There, Matt served as the steward for the culture globally, developing leaders, and facilitating change through coaching, facilitation and training.
Fri, April 15, 2022
Ep788: Daniel Avital | Chief Strategy Officer, CHEQ
Daniel is the Chief Strategy Officer, and Global Head of Marketing at CHEQ, the leader in Go-to-Market Security. His role spans across company positioning, market and category building, brand and product marketing, comms and demand-generation. Prior to CHEQ, Daniel served as a Senior Director of Strategy at Grey, where he led brand and marketing strategy for leading global brands, including P&G, Fiat Group, GSK and others.
Wed, April 13, 2022
Ep787: Gary Hagmueller | CEO, Arcion
Gary Hagmueller is the CEO of Arcion, the world’s first true data mobility platform. Gary is a proven CEO who has created over $7.5B in enterprise value through two IPOs and four M&A exits over his 20+ years in the tech industry. Gary holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where he was named Sheth Fellow, as well as a bachelor’s in Business Administration from Arizona State University. As the father to twin teenage boys, he is clearly experienced in project management and negotiation skills.
Tue, April 12, 2022
Ep786: Leonardo Marcovitz | Founder, More Foods
After finishing high school in Venezuela, Leandro moved to the USA to study Biomedical Engineering; a degree he pursued as it delivered on his ambitions/cravings for multidisciplinary fields. This interest in varied topics would then become evident by my founding of startups in different fields which include medical devices and management software for groups of farmers. His underlying driver has always been a desire to somehow do good. Then he founded More Foods over 2 years ago when he became obsessed with the idea that we can serve people delicious meats without the need to use animals.
Mon, April 11, 2022
Ep785: Mike Hollenstein | CEO, eyebobs
Mike Hollenstein is CEO at eyebobs, leading the company in direct, retail and wholesale growth. He was appointed to the CEO role in December 2017 after joining the organization in July 2016 as VP of Direct & Operations. Prior to joining eyebobs, Hollenstein was Vice President, Merchandising for Sportsman's Guide. As leader of the product management team, he helped Sportsman's Guide deliver over $300M in annual volume. Previously, Hollenstein led the direct purchase division at G&K Services, and from 2000 to 2008 he helped build the Duluth Trading Co. business as Vice President of Product Development.
Sun, April 10, 2022
Ep784: Michal Gutman | CTO & CISO, Hello Heart
Michal Gutman is the CTO & CISO at Hello Heart, a healthcare startup that helps patients track, understand, and improve their chronic conditions. Before joining Hello Heart, Michal worked as R&D manager at Trusteer, an Israeli cyber security company acquired by IBM for nearly 1 billion dollars. Michal has over 15 years of software development and research experience, which enabled her to lead (along with her colleagues) the largest Peer-reviewed research on digital health that was conducted by the company. Michal holds a B.Sc. in computer science and biology, with an emphasis on bioinformatics. Before that, Michal served in the elite unit 8200.
Sat, April 09, 2022
Ep783: Pete Sickle | Co-Founder & CEO, Tel Aviv Heat Rugby
Pete Sickle is a co-founder and the CEO of the Tel Aviv Heat, Israel’s first professional rugby team that was formed in 2021 upon winning an invitation to join the newly formed Rugby Europe Super Cup. Pete draws upon experience in business development in Israeli tech startups along with coaching positions with the Israeli national team, Dartmouth College, and Harvard Business School. A graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, Pete previously served in the U.S. State Department in Bosnia Dan Washington, DC and taught international relations at George Washington University, William & Mary, and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Fri, April 08, 2022
Ep782: Cynthia Owyoung | Vice President of Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging, Robinhood
Cynthia Owyoung, Vice President of Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging for Robinhood, drives the company’s approach to enhancing its culture of diversity and inclusion. She’s also the founder of Breaking Glass Forums, where she develops strategies to accelerate more diverse leaders and inclusive organizations. A recognized diversity leader, Cynthia was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Women of Impact in 2021. Cynthia serves on the Board of Directors for AbilityPath, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering people with special needs to achieve their full potential.
Thu, April 07, 2022
Ep781: Ziv Shor | Country Manager, JLL Israel
Ziv is responsible for JLL’s activities in Israel expanding its business and client base. He develops and manages strong working relationships with clients and executive management teams throughout the world. Ziv is a commercial real estate, proptech and tech expert with over 15 years of international experience having worked in the US, EMEA and APAC, successfully delivering projects and sales of critical initiatives for global clients through operational excellence and client management
Wed, April 06, 2022
Ep780: Roee Raz | Co-founder & CEO, OVIVO Games
Roee is an entrepreneur, a veteran within the mobile gaming industry with over 8 years of experience, a founder & CEO of OVIVO Games, and holds a B.Sc in Industrial Engineering.
Tue, April 05, 2022
Ep779: Tal Wilk-Glazer | CEO, Saffron Tech
Tal has over 20 years of experience in leading international technology and communications companies. Tal Served as Salesforce Industries Regional Director of Eastern Europe, Africa, and Israel, and accompanied large companies in the process of digital transformation. Prior to Salesforce she served in executive positions in Vlocity and is one of the founders of Vibo. Tal holds a bachelor’s degree in medical sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a master’s degree in business administration from the Technion Institute of Technology.
Mon, April 04, 2022
Ep778: Vivian James Rigney | President, Inside Us LLC
Vivian James Rigney is President and CEO of Inside Us LLC, a global executive coaching consultancy operating throughout five continents, where he has helped implement leadership development initiatives for some of the world’s leading companies and their executive teams. He has also climbed the Seven Summits – the highest peak on all seven continents. On March 8th, his book ‘Naked At The Knife Edge’, was published – a book about his climbing of Everest and an epic story of fear, resilience and the power of vulnerability.
Sun, April 03, 2022
Ep777: Zohar Halachmi | Chairman, CEO & Co-founder, D-Fend Solutions
Zohar Halachmi is the Chairman and CEO at D-Fend Solutions. Before co-founding D-Fend Solutions, he was the founder and CEO of two mobile and enterprise application start-up companies. He also held VP and C-level positions at Amdocs and ECI Telecom (global and public telecommunication enterprises). While managing multi-disciplinary large- and small-scale organizations, Zohar created fast-growth and profitable businesses, bringing innovative solutions and services to the market. He graduated cum laude with a B.Sc. from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and M.Sc. from Tel Aviv University, and was a lecturer at both institutions.
Sun, April 03, 2022
Ep776: Latonya Wilkins | Founder, Change Coaches Author, Leading Below the Surface
Founder of Change Coaches and Author of Leading Below the Surface, LaTonya Wilkins partners with executives, upwardly-mobile professionals, and teams to build cultures of belonging through highly customized coaching and learning experiences. She is a sought-after keynote speaker and has inspired audiences around the world. She built her career working in HR, talent management and learning & development at Fortune 500 companies before teaching and taking on progressive leadership roles at the University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business. LaTonya’s book Leading Below the Surface: How to Build Real (and Psychologically Safe) Relationships with People Who Are Different from You was an Amazon bestselling new release in multiple categories. All of her work is based on below the surface leadership principles.
Sat, April 02, 2022
Ep775: Jonathan Wasserman, Co-founder & CTO at Compete and Amit Rapaport, Co-founder & CEO, Compete
Participants: Jonathan Wasserman, Co-founder & CTO at Compete and Amit Rapaport, Co-founder & CEO, Compete
Fri, April 01, 2022
Ep774: Dr. Gal Aviv | Founder and CEO, Blender Financial Technologies
Dr. Gal Aviv is the Founder and CEO of Blender financial technologies. He holds a PhD in Physics from Nottingham University, UK and is a specialist in quantum optics. Gal has over a decade of experience as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
Thu, March 31, 2022
Ep773: Maxim Melamedov | CEO, Zesty
Maxim is a husband and father of two sons. He aims to surround himself with people who are passionate about shaping the future, love to learn about work and life, and see the joy of being part of a great team. Today he is the CEO of Zesty, and started it with a clear mission to help engineers automatically keep their cloud infrastructure up and running while staying within budget. On a personal note, Maxim definitely curses too much and waffle between believing that it’s a gross deficiency or a great trait for which his grandchildren will fondly remember him.
Wed, March 30, 2022
Ep772: Carolina Cruz-Letelier | Partner & Managing Director, MUH-TAY-ZIK / HOF-FER
She’s been with the agency for nearly nine years, starting out in 2011 as an Account Manager, and now serving as Managing Director and Partner. Prior to joining M/H, Carolina had a two-year stint at Goodby Silverstein & Partners working on Chevrolet and Denny’s. Before her time at GS&P, she worked at Fuse TV in Ad Sales helping to create and build integrated programs for clients such as Burger King, Kia Motors, and Mars. Carolina is passionate about leading her teams and being an empathetic leader is ingrained in who she is, so I think she would be a great guest to speak to how marketing/agency teams should be treating each other and their relationships with clients and on her career and how she rose to become a partner at the agency.
Thu, March 24, 2022
Ep771: Tanvir Banghoo | Bestselling author, Acclaimed speaker, Team coach
Tanvir Bhangoo is a #1 bestselling author, acclaimed speaker, and team coach. He is a former Digital Executive and college football national champion. Today, Tanvir helps leaders worldwide build championship teams in disruptive and uncertain environments. Tanvir's latest book, The P.R.O. Business Mindset: How to Lead Amid Disruption and Chaos, breaks down his unique leadership framework. This framework helped Tanvir win championships in the boardroom - based on what he had learned on the football field. Tanvir gets quoted in major media outlets, and often teaches guest lectures at leading business schools.
Tue, March 22, 2022
Ep770: Gil Horsky | Senior Director of Venture Investments, Mondelēz
Gil Horsky's passion is investing-in and building new snacking & foodtech ventures that are good for people, kind to the planet and deliciously fun! Gil is part of the SnackFutures founding team, the ventures & innovation hub from Mondelēz International, the largest snacking company in the world. Gil is the Senior Director of Venture Investments at Mondelēz , leading the company’s global venture investments in foodtech, supply chain and digital capabilities. Prior to joining Mondelēz Gil worked for PepsiCo in the US, and throughout his career, Horsky had the privilege to work on some of the most iconic global brands: Milka, Pepsi, Quaker Oats, Toblerone, Cadbury, Oreo, Tropicana & Nestle Purina, and leveraged strong business & consumer insights to develop and launch over $800 of new food products and businesses around the world.
Mon, March 21, 2022
Ep769: Peter Docker | Co-Founder, Why Not Un Limited
Peter Docker teaches people how to navigate the challenge of leadership. His latest book, Leading from the Jumpseat, delivers the message that leadership is about lifting people up and giving them the space they need so that, when the time is right, they can take the lead. Co-author of Find Your Why and formerly a founding Igniter at Simon Sinek Inc., Peter draws on his 25-year career in the Royal Air Force, and over 14 years spent partnering with businesses around the world, to inspire others to Lead from the Jumpseat. To learn more about Leading from the Jumpseat, go to www.LeadingfromtheJumpseat.com.
Sun, March 20, 2022
Ep768: Andrew Chan | Co-Founder and CPO, AfterShip
Andrew Chan is the Co-Founder and CPO of AfterShip, a leading post-purchase and tracking platform for e-commerce businesses. Andrew has more than 10 years of experience in SaaS product development and sales. He manages the company’s product managers, sales teams, and marketing teams. Before launching AfterShip, Andrew worked for Accenture as a business analyst.
Thu, March 17, 2022
Ep767: Avi Gabay | Chief Architect, Placer.ai
Avi Gabay joined Placer.ai in August 2020, as Chief Architect in order to help build a world-class Physical Market Intelligence Platform which helps businesses make data-based decisions. Avi was born and raised on a Moshav in the center of Israel, then moved with his family to Shanghai China where he spent his teenage years. In high school Avi became fascinated by computers, programming and technology. He later returned to Israel as a lone soldier and served in 8200 as a Group Leader of Intelligence Analysts. Avi is an experienced Software Engineer and Architect and has worked in many enterprises and early-stage startups. Avi holds a MSc in Computer Science and a Global MBA majoring in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from IDC Herzliya.
Wed, March 16, 2022
Ep766: Liav Rafael Chen | Co-Founder & CEO, Humanz AI
Liav Chen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Humanz, an AI-powered platform that makes influencer marketing accessible, reliable and trustworthy for marketers and influencers. He has extensive experience in devops, big data and machine-learning—all of which was acquired through his five-year military experience with the esteemed intelligence Unit 8200 of the Israeli army.
Tue, March 15, 2022
Ep765: Omri Hurwitz | CEO, Omri Hurwitz Media
Omri Hurwitz is a Tech Marketer and Media Strategist. His client portfolio consists of some of the leading companies and start-ups in Tech. He writes for several media channels including Forbes, The Times Of Israel, New York Tech, Newsbreak, The VentureCation, Hackernoon, Vocal Media, Benzinga, and more.
Sun, March 13, 2022
Ep764: Gal Aviv | CTO, App Growth, Digital Turbine
Gal Aviv is the CTO of Digital Turbine’s (NASDAQ:APPS) App Growth platform, and the General Manager of the company’s Israeli site. In his role, Aviv leads the global R&D teams developing Digital Turbine’s mobile monetization and UA solutions, a key part of the company’s independent mobile growth platform. Gal joined start up company Inneractive in 2013, and has led the building and scaling of the company’s technology through two exits and acquisitions. Innearctive became Fyber in 2018. He kicked off his tech career in the Israeli Air Force as a Software Engineer and Engineering Manager, serving as a Captain in the R&D unit (OFEK 324). Gal is the founder of the non-profit DevOps training program Cloud School, an early stage investor and serves on several advisory boards, including OFEK 324 Alumni Association, The Appleseeds academy, Joyned and Spot.io, which was recently acquired by NetApp. He studied Software Engineering and holds an Executive MBA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Sat, March 12, 2022
Ep763: Keren Tsuk | CEO & Founder, Wisdom to lead
Keren Tsuk, Ph.D. is a sought-after speaker, consultant, and thought leader in 21st-century leadership. As founder of the consulting firm Wisdom To Lead, she specializes in the development of senior management teams and corporate leadership. Tsuk guides companies and senior management teams to reach their full potential using various techniques in the field of mindfulness. She is also the author of Mindfully Wise Leadership: The Secret of Today’s Leaders.
Fri, March 11, 2022
Ep762: Amnon Bar-Lev | Co-Founder & CEO, Alike.Health
Amnon Bar-Lev, co-founder and CEO of Alike Health was the former President at Check Point Software Technologies. Prior to joining Check Point, Amnon was the founder and CEO of Xpert Integrated System Ltd. Amnon began his career in the Israeli Air Force and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Management from Tel-Aviv University and has continued his studies at the faculty of medicine, school of graduate studies.
Thu, March 10, 2022
Ep761: Inbal Perlstein Mandelbaum | Senior Partner, Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz
Inbal Perlstein-Mandelbaum is a Senior Partner in the Corporate and Licensing Groups at Pearl Cohen’s Tel Aviv office. Inbal’s practice focuses on representing private technology companies in private financings and general corporate and commercial matters.
Wed, March 09, 2022
Ep760: Amir Tzach | VP Investments & Business Development, Lamed Holdings
Amir is a VP Investments & Business Development at InNegev Incubator which invests in promising ventures in the fields of Climate Tech, Food Tech, Agritech, Prior to that Amir was Investment banking Manager leading major transactions. Also as a student Amir was the president of the Student board of the Management school in the Hebrew university.
Tue, March 08, 2022
Ep759: Keren Pakes | VP of Brand Marketing and Communications, Bright Data General Manager, The Bright Initiative
As a former award-winning BBC News and Current Affairs journalist, Keren covered the top news and current affairs stories for more than a decade and led the news, political and social agenda during her tenure. Leaving the BBC after 14 years, Keren moved to marketing leadership roles in the technology space and volunteered as the spokesperson for various non-profits to help advance their valuable goals. Today, Keren serves as both the VP of Brand Marketing and Communications at Bright Data and the General Manager of The Bright Initiative and is driven by the mission of using technology to enhance our economy and society.
Mon, March 07, 2022
Ep758: Tamara Harel-Cohen | Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer, RiseUp
A Harvard graduate, Tamara held Producer and Executive Producer roles at production companies in London, NYC and LA. Producing content for global brands and artists such as Converse, MasterCard, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. She launched the Digital division of Pulse Films and their NYC operation. In 2015 VICE Media acquired Pulse. Tamara has won awards from Webby's to Gold Cannes Lions. Tamara moved to Israel in 2016. She consulted for Impact organizations, including the G8 Global Steering Group on Social Impact. In 2017 she co-founded riseup a technology platform which proactively helps people get out of debt and reach financial health, where she is CGO.
Thu, March 03, 2022
Ep757: Bill Berman | Founder, Berman Leadership
Bill has 30+ years’ experience as an executive coach, senior line manager, clinician (licensed in NY and CT) and academic. Bill has advised executives from multiple industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, publishing, and technology companies, and worked with CEOs and teams at the C-suite, managing director, and general/functional management levels. Bill started his own software company in 1994 to track healthcare outcomes, which he subsequently sold to an enterprise healthcare information system company. He is the author of more than 50 research articles and books, including "Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs from You The Most," published by Wiley in 2021.
Mon, February 28, 2022
Ep756: VC Board Members Panel | Yael Benjamin, Nimrod Vromen, Liat Aaronson, Timor Arbel-Sadras
Participants: Yael Benjamin, Founder, Y.Benjamin Strategic Marketing Nimrod Vromen, CEO, Consiglieri Liat Aaronson, Co-Founder, Horizen Labs, Prev. Exec Director of Zell (IDC) Timor Arbel-Sadras, CEO, LeumiTech
Sun, February 27, 2022
Ep755: Guy Franklin | Founder and General Partner, ‘Israeli Mapped in NY’ Ventures
Guy Franklin is the founder and General Partner of ‘Israeli Mapped in NY’, an interactive platform of the Israeli startups operating in NY. The platform serves as a one stop shop which connects the startups to the local ecosystem in NYC including investors, corporates and business opportunities. The platform Franklin created received several awards and recognitions, as this was something that changed the conversation about Israel and continues to promote the Israeli startup community in the world. Guy was named recently in the “10 Most influential Israelis in tech in America'' by Yediot Ahronoth, the leading newspaper in Israel.
Sat, February 26, 2022
Ep754: Taly Nechushtan | CEO, Innovopro
Taly is an experienced CEO and strategy leader in global companies. She brings over 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and in expanding product lines using innovative strategies and brand management. Taly holds a BA in Economics and an MBA, both from Tel-Aviv University
Fri, February 25, 2022
Ep753: Yael Fainaro | EVP Security, Synamedia Israel
Yael is an EVP of Synamedia Security Business and the head of Synamedia Israel. Synamedia is a leading technology company working with the world’s leading streaming platforms, studios, and sports leagues to protect their content from industrialized piracy and to provide consumers the best possible experience for consuming the video content. Yael has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry in the areas of strategy, M&A, innovation, business development & post-merger integration. Prior to joining Synamedia, Yael served as VP Corporate Development of CyberArk Software (NASDAQ: CYBR) where she was responsible for leading the company’s strategy and for generating new growth activities through organic and in-organic initiatives.
Thu, February 24, 2022
Ep752: Micha Breakstone | Co-founder and CEO, NeuraLight.ai
Micha is a repeat entrepreneur who’s founded a few great businesses (e.g. chorus.ai acquired for $575M by ZoomInfo), and a few less successful ones. He’s currently Co-founder and CEO of NeuraLight.ai – a venture-backed startup on a mission to transform the lives of more than 1 billion people suffering from neurological disorders by digitizing neurological insights and care – a venture he hopes becomes his magnum opus.
Thu, February 24, 2022
Ep751: Ralf Specht | Co-founder and CEO, Spark44
Ralf is a visionary business leader and creator of the Soul System™, a framework that aligns value-creating employee action with broader corporate strategy through shared understanding and shared purpose. As a founding partner of Spark44, he was the architect of an innovative, industry-first joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover, which grew under his leadership as CEO to a global revenue of $100+m and 1,200 employees. Previously, he consulted with global brands for 22 years with McCann Erickson. During his 25 years in executive roles, one key question kept him awake at night: How do we build and sustain a human-centric performance culture? His driving vision is to make soulless companies a thing of the past.
Wed, February 23, 2022
Ep750: Eyal Amir | CEO, Parknav
Eyal Amir is the CEO and founder of Parknav, a growing startup that offers AI technology to find parking in real-time.
Tue, February 22, 2022
Ep749: Shiran Weitzman | Co-Founder & CEO, Shield.
Shiran is the CEO and Co-Founder at Shield. He has over 20 years of technology and management expertise, mainly in the Financial Services vertical. Prior to Shield Shiran was the Head of Sales at TM-Group, managing the company’s major tier 1 bank accounts. Shiran brings to Shield many years as a trusted advisor and a subject matter expert in the financial compliance market. In early 2018, Shiran created Shield, a regtech company specializing in communications compliance with his long-time friend Ofir Shabtai. Shield is now 60 people spread across Israel, London, and New York.
Mon, February 21, 2022
Ep748: Or Haviv | Partner and Head Of Global Innovation, Arieli Capital
Or is the Partner and Head Of Global Innovation at Arieli Capital. Arieli Capital is a successful venture capital firm, that operates in a very different model from its industry – the investment model is "evergreen", not looking for fast exits. It is a combination of a private equity and VC. Their investors are mostly wealth management entities and family offices. They have a unique investment approach and equity holding structure with a diverse investment portfolio – from accelerators in Ocean-Tech, Agro-Tech, to direct investment in many start-ups.
Sun, February 20, 2022
Ep747: Avishay Bransky | CEO and Co-founder of PixCell Medical
Avishay Bransky, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of PixCell Medical, is an expert in microfluidics, with extensive industrial experience in applied physics, software, and systems engineering. He is one of the inventors of the Viscoelastic Focusing technique, cell analysis methods, and the microfluidic-based cartridge. Dr. Bransky holds a B.A. in Physics, B.Sc. in Materials Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, all from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
Sat, February 19, 2022
Ep746: Adi Barel | Managing Director, EIT Hub Israel
Adi is an internationally renowned expert in innovation and business development, specializing in strategy, partnership building, and global networking. Today, Adi is Managing Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Israel Hub, an organization that aims to create synergies between the European innovation community and the Israeli ecosystem, founding strong collaborations and international partnerships. The EIT Hub that was established in 2019, is focusing on strategic domains such as Health, Climate, Energy, Digital, Manufacturing and Mobility.
Fri, February 18, 2022
Ep745: Gareth Shaw | President, UK & Europe, Doceree
Gareth is the President UK&EU at Doceree, the world’s first global platform for programmatic physician marketing. Prior to Doceree Gareth worked on the senior leadership team at PulsePoint where he helped scale the business to the point where they were strategically acquired by WebMD. Gareth has over 15 years experience in digital holding roles at Yahoo and Experian. It was at PulsePoint that he began his journey into the Health vertical, he has lofty aspirations for the role Doceree can play in improving Healthcare globally through more effective physician engagement.
Thu, February 17, 2022
Ep744: Yotam Hod | CEO & Co-Founder, Gynica
Yotam is the CEO & Co-Founder Gynica, a medical company at the forefront of therapeutic cannabis research & development in the field of women’s health. Previously, Yotam was the CEO & Co-Founder of Lumir Lab, a global leading cannabis research & development laboratory, aimed to provide evidence-based cannabis solutions. Both companies are subsidiaries of Asana Bio Group, a holding company specializing in scientific advancements in the field of cannabis, which Yotam serves as its CEO.
Wed, February 16, 2022
Ep743: Ari Goldfarb | CEO, KANDO
Ari is the Co-founder and CEO of KANDO, protecting public health and the environment though wastewater. Ari is an expert in wastewater and environmental technologies with more than 15 years’ experience in the field of wastewater management. As the VP of DHVMED, Ari led multidisciplinary environmental projects, while managing international teams. Environmental Technologies at the Ministry of Environment, Ari, was responsible for national and international consulting projects and Israeli environmental policy. As the Process Manager and CTO of Jerusalem Wastewater Treatment Plant, Ari was in charge of field operations. Ari holds a B.SC in Biology and Environment from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel’s.
Tue, February 15, 2022
Ep742: Yanir Calisar | CEO & Co-Founder, Whatslly
Yanir is CEO and co-founder of Whatslly. He has more than 12 years of entrepreneurship background and vast experience in the management and development of B2B SaaS Solutions. In 2009, Yanir became the first employee of an Israeli startup called Insightera, which was acquired by Marketo, the leading Marketing Automation solution in 2013. He later founded Calisar Solutions LTD, a marketing solutions company that aimed to solve marketing teams’ tech pain points by building integrative tools that help them automate their business and marketing operations.
Mon, February 14, 2022
Ep741: Moran Leshem Bar | Vice President of Global Operations, Semperis
Moran is the Vice president of Global operations at Semperis, assigned to support the continued growth of Semperis’ global organization. She has been the chief of staff of Izhar Shay in the ministry of science and technology since 2020. Prior to this, Moran was the co-founder and CEO of the largest tech media brand in Israel “Geektime”, for 11 years. She also co-founded in 2011 the first start up accelerator in Israel, Venturegeeks, which successfully invested in pre-seed / seed and nurtured startups. She served as an instructor in the Computers Unit (Mamram). Moran also completed her law degree (L.L.B) at the College of Management and has been accepted as an Advocate by the Israeli Bar Association.
Sun, February 13, 2022
Ep740: Jeff Shardell | Founder and CEO, Humble Brands, Inc.
During his career working in the high-tech corporate world, Jeff Shardell learned that the deodorant he used daily was filled with harmful chemicals linked to cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and other illnesses. He realized his body was likely absorbing these nasty chemicals and decided something had to change. Jeff wanted to see if he could make a truly natural deodorant that actually worked, with as few ingredients as possible. After extensive research and a lot of trial and error in his San Francisco kitchen, Jeff stumbled onto a magic formula. Just 4 clean and simple ingredients would change the world of all-natural deodorants for good. Not only was Jeff's formula made from ingredients found in his own kitchen, but it was more effective at naturally beating odors than anything else out there.
Thu, February 10, 2022
Ep739: Anat Tila Cherni | Managing Partner, Aristagora VC
Anat is co-founder and managing partner at Aristagora VC. Prior to establishing Aristagora VC, Anat was a VP, head of the Asia Practice at Discount Capital Underwriting, a subsidiary of Discount Bank. Prior to that, Anat led the Asia Practice at one of Israel's largest law firms. Anat has expensive experience in advising Asian based investors and leading investment transactions in the Israeli tech market. Anat also has broad familiarity in Asian capital markets, assisting Israeli tech companies tapping into these markets for funding and for exposure to Asian partnerships. Anat holds a bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a bachelor of Eastern Asian Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also a graduate of Beijing Language and Culture University, where she majored in Chinese Studies.
Wed, February 09, 2022
Ep738: Emmanuel Cohen | Head of Marketing, Walnut.io
Manu leads the marketing at Walnut.io. He worked for 7 years at Wix, where he managed the social presence and blogs - and took part in 5 Super Bowl campaigns. He has also spoken about social media content at many marketing events, including Social Media Week. Most recently, Manu created an employer branding video for Walnut that went viral in Israel (and did it in less than a week).
Tue, February 08, 2022
Ep737: Miriam Mark | CRO, Compete
Miriam Mark serves as CRO of Compete, a company revolutionizing the world of HR Tech. Prior to that as an executive member of the core sales team at WeWork she was instrumental in building their global sales organization from acquisition to retention and growth. Miriam began her career at Shopping.com, an online comparison shopping company which was acquired by ebay. Prior to her current position, she led sales at Farmigo, an online farmers market, with the mission to transform and accelerate global adoption of an alternative food system. Before entering the business world Miriam was an educator and that passion drives the training of her teams in all her positions. Miriam lives with her husband, Ari, and their four children, ages 7 to 16 in Los Angeles, CA.
Sun, February 06, 2022
Ep736: Ziv Binyamini | CEO, Foretellix Ltd
Ziv Binyamini is the CEO of Foretellix, a company dedicated to autonomous vehicles verification and safety. He is a world-renowned verification visionary with more than 30 years of experience. Previously, Ziv served as Corporate VP at Cadence, running its simulation and verification business. He also served as VP of R&D at Verisity and at Intel, leading the development of Coverage Driven Verification solutions that changed the way semiconductors are tested.
Sun, February 06, 2022
Ep735: Amalia Adler | VP, Global Head, Environment, Social & Governance (ESG), Teva Pharmaceuticals
Amalia is a seasoned global leader in ESG, healthcare strategy, and communications. She is a strategic planner, executer and a visionary manager who effectively drives organizational change aligned with business strategy. Amalia established and leads Global Health and Environment, Social Governance (ESG) unit at Teva Pharmaceuticals (Tel Aviv, Israel) and has recently led the issuance of Teva's 5 billion ESG Sustainability Linked Bond – the largest such bond ever.
Fri, February 04, 2022
Ep734: Yochay Ettun | Co-founder & CEO, cnvrg.io
A developer, entrepreneur and a CEO. Yochay is CEO of cnvrg.io which he co-founded to provide data scientists and developers with an end-to-end platform to build and deploy machine learning models. cnvrg.io was acquired by Intel in 2020 as part of its strategy to get into AI software. Prior to cnvrg.io, Yochay was a data scientist providing machine learning consulting services, Ex-IDF Intelligence, A Forbes 30 under 30 and a coder since the age of 7.
Thu, February 03, 2022
Ep733: Doug Ludlow | CEO, MainStreet
Doug Ludlow is CEO of MainStreet, a company that helps small businesses and startups claim tax credits most accountants never claim. Before MainStreet, he served as Chief of Staff for Google's SMB and NBU Ads, was Founder of Hipster (acquired by AOL in 2012) and Happy Home (acquired by Google in 2016). Doug has a BA in History and Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and currently lives in San Jose with his wife Sara and two children Charlotte and William.
Wed, February 02, 2022
Ep732: Edo Yahav | VP R&D, GM Israel, SafeBreach
Edo is SafeBreach's VP of R&D and IL GM, before SafeBreach, Edo served as Mintigo's VP of R&D (Acquired by Anaplan) where he lead the development of the company's engineering and research groups. Prior to Mintigo, Edo was an engineering manager in Microsoft working on several areas such as Telecom, Windows security, and Azure. Edo has also spent time in his career leading teams at several start-ups mostly in networking and network security. Edo holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Bar-Ilan.
Tue, February 01, 2022
Ep731: Or Lifshitz | CEO & Founder, Sidelines
Or was drafted into the Israeli Air Force in 1999 and served as an F-16 fighter pilot for 10 years. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Haifa and an Executive Master of Public Administration from NYU. Upon completing his EMPA, Or joined Supersonic ( Iron Source ) to head their East Coast office. He later on moved back to Israel to join Google as an Industry Manager. Believing that upcoming changes in the regulatory space around the US sports industry will create massive business opportunities, Or decided to start a venture in this market and founded Fantasy Advantage in 2017.
Mon, January 31, 2022
Ep730: Akiva Armon | CEO & Founder, Wisesight Technologies Ltd.
Akiva was born in Jerusalem and is married with 4 children, currently living in Ness Harim, as close as possible to nature. He holds a master's degree in physics and electro-optics, and worked in a classified position in the defense industries and was the key engineer of the "Arrow 3" missile and of many and varied classified projects. Since 216, he is the founder of Wisesight, a smooth and straightforward smart parking technology for a better parking experience.
Sun, January 30, 2022
Ep729: Elay de Beer | CEO, BUFF
Elay is the CEO and co-founder @ buff.game, an Israeli based company that completed its IPO in the Tel aviv stock exchange during August 2021. BUFF have developed a loyalty program for video gamers, its a fast growing technology platform. Elay is a father of 3, 44 years old.
Sat, January 29, 2022
Ep728: Ron Gonen | Founder & CEO, Closed Loop Partners
Ron is the Founder and CEO of Closed Loop Partners, a New York based investment firm comprised of venture capital, growth equity, private equity, project finance and an innovation center focused on building the circular economy. Prior to Closed Loop Partners, Ron was the Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation, Recycling and Sustainability in New York City in the Bloomberg Administration, and the Co-Founder and CEO of RecycleBank. Ron received an MBA from Columbia Business School, and has been an Adjunct Professor at his alma mater since 2010.
Sat, January 29, 2022
Ep727: Tal Cohen | Founding Partner, Drive and Next Gear Ventures
Tal is a visionary entrepreneur and investor and is considered one of the leading innovation experts in smart mobility. He is the founding partner of DriveTLV, Israel’s leading smart mobility innovation hub, and Next Gear Ventures. For the past 20 years, Dr. Cohen has been involved with many startups, helping to create companies with billions of dollars in value. Among others, he co-founded and headed ClickFox Inc., currently valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. The company is a global market leader in providing Customer Behavior Intelligence software and services to Fortune 1000 companies.
Fri, January 28, 2022
Ep726: Omri Katz | Founder & CEO, Dialogue
Omri is an entrepreneur by heart, and tech has been a part of his life since he was a teenager. Omer served in a tech unit in the army and later went to study Law & Business. Shortly after, he founded his first company that failed, but his second company was acquired. Dialogue was founded 3 years ago.
Fri, January 28, 2022
Ep725: Ofir Chakon | CEO and Co-founder, Datagen
Ofir is an entrepreneur with over a decade of software experience combined with computer vision and deep algorithmic research. Ofir received his B.Sc and M.Sc in Engineering with honors from the Technion under the Brakim elite program with a research focus on robotic simulations and dynamic systems. Ofir is the CEO and Co-founder of Datagen, the leading synthetic data company which creates the next generation of data for Computer Vision AI.
Wed, January 26, 2022
Ep724: Adesuwa Rhodes | Founding Partner & CEO, Aruwa Capital Management
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes is the Founder of Aruwa Capital Management, one of the few women owned and led private equity funds in Africa. leading investment professional and CEO with over 13 years of experience in investment banking and private equity in developed and emerging markets across a number of sectors including healthcare, financial services, technology and consumer goods. Adesuwa is an entrepreneur, CEO, mother, investor and women’s empowerment advocate. She is one of the youngest female private equity fund managers running her own fund in Africa, having launched her fund at 29 years old.
Tue, January 25, 2022
Ep723: Omer Shirazi | Co-Founder and COO, EasySend
Omer Shirazi, 32, is the Co-Founder and COO of EasySend, a no code platform that transforms any manual process into a digital customer journey . Omer Leads EasySend’s go to market teams globally, but still enjoys running a sales demo on his own every week or two. He is passionate about products, data and integrating innovative software solutions with business processes and human teams.
Tue, January 25, 2022
Ep722: Leor Ben-Yakov | Chief Innovation Officer TLV, Head of Partnerships & Ventures, Mitsubishi Corporation
Leor is Chief Innovation Officer, Head of Partnerships and Ventures at Mitsubishi Corporation’s (MC) Tel-Aviv Office. Its history dating back to the 19th century, MC is one of the largest Japanese General Trading companies - active in virtually every industry. He joined MC’s new outpost to help effectively connect the vast footprint and resources of a global and traditional corporation with the innovative ecosystem that has developed in Israel. He is Israel’s advocate within the group, identifying synergetic opportunities for collaboration or investment in verticals such as AgriFoodTech, Industry 4.0, Mobility, CleanTech and others.
Mon, January 24, 2022
Ep721: David Siegel | Co-Founder, Solvd4
David Siegel is the co-founder of startup dispute mediation platform Solvd4, and a partner at Grellas Shah. David is an unusual startup lawyer in having done sophisticated legal work in both transactional and litigation matters: he is an accomplished startup lawyer and litigator who has extensive experience in handling a broad range of corporate, transactional, and intellectual property matters, including work on multi-million dollar financings and acquisitions, all in addition to having a deep expertise in handling complex intellectual property, corporate, and commercial litigation matters.
Mon, January 24, 2022
Ep720: Yoel Tzion Israel | Founder and CEO, WadiDigital
Yoel Israel is the founder and CEO of WadiDigital, the world's leading tech marketing agency, and Cyfluencer, the only B2B Tech Influencer Marketing Platform. Yoel is also the founder and host of the youtube channel Israel Unfiltered, a platform for Israeli news and culture. Yoel is passionate about sales, LinkedIn, entrepreneurship.
Fri, January 21, 2022
Ep719: Ronen Yochpaz | Vice President of Information Technology, Bank Hapoalim
Ronen is an entrepreneur and information technologies expert, combines practical and theoretical knowledge in advanced technologies, with proven experience in leading complicated projects in innovative technologies.
Thu, January 20, 2022
Ep718: Timor Arbel-Sadras | CEO, LeumiTech
Timor has recently joined Leumi Group as Leumitech’s CEO. LeumiTech is the banking arm for high tech companies. Timor has over 20 years of experience in the high tech industry and held a variety of senior management positions among them Managing Partner at Viola Credit and Chief Operating Officer of EverC, an Israeli fintech startup. At earlier part of her career, Timor was Strategy and Management Consultant at Valoris Consulting and worked with Europe’s large telecom operators. Timor also worked at Intel’s Design Center in Haifa in various project leader and project management roles in the Mobile processors division. Timor holds a BSc (Cum Laude) in Industrial Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from ESADE Business School.
Wed, January 19, 2022
Ep717: Renika Smiley | Founder and CEO, Generation NOW
Founder Renika J. Smiley first launched Generation NOW as a LinkedIn Networking Happy Hour Event, hosted at local bars. Her first events featured a diverse speaking panel and began with an audience of 40-75 young professionals in Igby's private second floor. Fortune 500 corporate offices soon replaced Igby’s when attendance grew to 200+.
Tue, January 18, 2022
Ep716: Maroua Ameziane | Executive Director, Youth SDG Action Campaign
Maroua is Sustainable Development Project Manager at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. She is in charge of sustainability community engagement as well. She has been mentoring young leaders and startupers (400+) for more than 5 years now. She is currently the Executive Director and youth mobilizer at Youth SDG Action campaign in Morocco with the sustainable development’s youth organization and was president and co-founder of World Merit Rabat, an international organization that works on the SDGs and youth empowerment where she always conducted projects for youth empowerment and provided impactful opportunities for her members.
Tue, January 18, 2022
Ep715: Karina Rubinstein | Director of Business Development, Start Up Division, Israel Innovation Authority
Karina is a senior director of business development at the Israel Innovation Authority and has a vast experience in helping Israeli startups and companies build innovation strategies and their global presence.
Mon, January 17, 2022
Ep714: Doron Pryluk | VP of Customer Experience, GlassesUSA.com
Doron Pryluk is a leader in customer experience. With over a decade of experience scaling up customer solutions and professional services teams for companies such as WIX, Guesty, and now GlasssesUSA as an entrepreneur and business owner himself, Doron brings an array of knowledge about how to create outstanding customer experiences and teams.
Sun, January 16, 2022
Ep713: Myriam Glez | Founder and CEO, Athletes Soul
Myriam Glez is the founder of Athletes Soul, a non-profit organization which supports athletes as they transition away from sports and the co-founder of the Women's Sports Forum which promotes the well-being of female athletes. Glez is a former Olympic synchronized swimmer, she competed for France at the 2000 Olympics and for Australia at the 2008 Olympics. She has worked in marketing and sponsorship for Accorhotels in France, Thailand, Australia and French Polynesia. She was a High Performance consultant and coach for British swimming before London 2012. She became the High Performance Director and then CEO of USA Synchronized Swimming after moving to the US in 2012. Glez is passionate about sports and wellness. She lives in Venice,CA with her husband and 11 year old daughter.
Sun, January 16, 2022
Ep712: Nir Gold | CEO, Deeb
Before starting Deeb, Nir was a project manager for several startups, then later decided to transition into Business Development roles. He was humbled to get the opportunity to work at Pearl-Cohen Law Firm as an Investment Banker where he launched an initiative to make better connections between startups and investors. A year ago, Nir was reminded of an old idea he had, that started out as a small initiative in the field of employment, that later grew and evolved into Deeb: the idea to fundamentally change the way employment is perceived, and the way people think about employment in the 21st century.
Sat, January 15, 2022
Ep711: Reuben Braham | VP Marketing, Cyberint
Reuben is an experienced marketing executive with an extensive background in building brands and developing sales pipeline via structured demand generation that includes an ABM strategy. He's been with many key organizations like SailPoint, CheckPoint, Comverse, Microsoft and Formula and more recently as VP Marketing for Cyberint. Reuben specialized in B2B enterprise marketing of technology products with focus on cybersecurity during the last 10 years. He built, managed and scaled marketing teams globally and brings a rich knowledge of sales, business development, building partner channels and technology alliances.
Fri, January 14, 2022
Ep710: Noam Rabinovich | CTO & Founder, EverC
Noam Rabinovitch is EverC's CTO and co-founder. EverC’s mission is to reduce online payment cyber crimes by developing technology that will enhance the transparency of the internet. Noam has extensive experience in leading development teams, as well as building technology for sophisticated data mining algorithms, machine learning models, and AI. He has recently launched EverC's newest solution for ecommerce, MarketView. This solution is set to eliminate hazardous and counterfeit products sale on marketplaces. Noam is a TAU graduate with a BSC in Computer Science and Economics.
Thu, January 13, 2022
Ep709: Kyle Detwiler | CEO, Clever Leaves
Kyle Detwiler is CEO of Clever Leaves. Prior to the integration of Northern Swan and Clever Leaves in 2019, Detwiler served as CEO and co-founder of Northern Swan Holdings as well as co-founded Silver Swan Capital, an investment firm focused on niche and underfollowed sectors. He was also a Principal at The Blackstone Group, a leading alternative investment manager with $619 billion in assets under management. As an early member of the Tactical Opportunities Fund, Mr. Detwiler was involved in the management and served as a board member of seven investments with roughly $1 billion of Blackstone capital. Mr. Detwiler was previously a member of the private equity practice at KKR, focusing on transactions in the oil and gas, energy, natural resource and health care sectors. He began his career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Detwiler graduated with distinction from Harvard Business School and cum laude from Princeton University.
Wed, January 12, 2022
Ep708: Guy Flechter | Co-Founder & CEO, Cider Security
Guy has a rich 18+ years background of cybersecurity and management expertise with vast experience in SaaS and AppSec. An IAF Major (retd.), Guy held the position of Appsflyer CISO for 3 years prior to founding Cider, and before that worked for LivePerson as part of the security team.
Wed, January 12, 2022
Ep707: Shahar Botzer | Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Good Company VC
Father of four and one of Israel's first and leading Impact investors. Co-Founder and Managing Partner at 'Good Company VC', a mission-driven early stage VC fund. I held various leading positions in the business and social sectors, among others as Managing Partner at 2B-Community and as the Chairman at Issta Lines (a publicly traded holding company).
Sat, January 08, 2022
Ep706: Roy Dagan | CEO of SecuriThings
Roy Dagan, CEO of SecuriThings, is a security and IoT expert with over 15 years of experience in product management and business development from various high-tech companies. Prior to co-founding SecuriThings, Roy led product groups and successfully launched multiple product lines in the Cybersecurity, Risk-Management and Intelligence domains at companies including RSA (The Security Division of EMC), NICE Systems and Payoneer. Roy served in various positions at the IDF elite technological unit, and holds a BSc in computer science and management from Tel Aviv University.
Fri, January 07, 2022
Ep705: Anna Radulovski | Founder & CEO, WomenTech Network
Anna is a mother, an award-winning entrepreneur and advocate for diversity in tech. She is also the Founder of WomenTech Network & Tallocate - connecting diverse professionals with companies that put diversity and inclusion first. As a Regional Director at the Silicon Valley-based Founder Institute Anna helps founders to start and launch impactful companies.
Thu, January 06, 2022
Ep704: Yariv Dror | Co-Founder & CEO, StoreYa.com
Yariv is the co-founder & CEO of StoreYa.com for the past 10 years; A profitable startup that automated performance-based advertising on behalf of eCommerce SMBs and is serving 400,000 merchants from 186 countries. Yariv shifted his career 15 years ago from a law internship for Judge Ester Hayut to an online advertiser for 888.com and for Minovus.com.
Thu, January 06, 2022
Ep703: Adi Itach | Chief Marketing Officer, Sayollo
Adi has more than 10 years of end-to-end marketing experience in B2C&BTC in some of the leading companies in IL and is now a leading global CMO at Sayollo. Adi is also a business & marketing consultant to start-ups from North America and Europe and has her own podcast called ""Gluten-Free Marketing"" where she connects business, strategy and spirituality. Her strengths are strategic-creative thinking, demand gen, brand building, strategic business development, start-ups scaling and creating high-impact multi-channel global campaigns.
Wed, January 05, 2022
Ep702: Omer Efrat | VP Product, Torq
Omer is a seasoned product leader with a 10-year track record in delivering successful world-class products. An alum of Kellogg School of Management and an elite military tech unit. He is currently the VP Product at Torq, a groundbreaking cyber security startup. Formerly the Head of Product at AppsFlyer, and VP Product at Fyber (today Digital Turbine). Omer entered Product Management after seven years as a software engineer.
Wed, January 05, 2022
Ep701: Yariv Bash | Co-founder and CEO, Flytrex, Founder, SpaceIL
Yariv Bash is the CEO and co-founder of Flytrex, a drone technology company providing comprehensive, autonomous drone delivery solutions that enable any business, from SMBs to e-commerce giants, to integrate instant, autonomous drone delivery into their offering. Flytrex is an end-to-end drone logistics solution spearheading the drone revolution. Prior to Flytrex, Yariv was the Founder and CEO of SpaceIL, a $100M Israeli non-profit organization that attempted to land Beresheet, the first private interplanetary robotic mission, on the Moon.
Tue, January 04, 2022
Ep700: Ofer Ben-Noon | Co-Founder and CEO, Talon Cyber Security
Ofer is a seasoned entrepreneur with vast cyber security experience. He is the founder and CEO of Talon Cyber security. Talon is reinventing cybersecurity for the distributed workforce by creating a secure and isolated browser-centric work environment for enterprises. Prior to Talon, he was the founder & CEO of Argus, the global leader in automotive cyber security, which was acquired by Continental in 2017. Following the acquisition, he served as a member of senior management at Continental and as CEO of Argus, leading it to protect over 60 million vehicles globally. Ofer served as Captain in the IDF Cyber Intelligence Unit 8200 and was a team member of two Israel Defense Prize winning projects.
Mon, January 03, 2022
Ep699: Ezra Daya | Founder & CEO, Aspectiva
Ezra is the co-founder and CEO of Aspectiva, a startup company acquired by Walmart in 2019 to establish its first R&D and innovation center in Israel. Ezra is an entrepreneur at heart, constantly striving to connect the dots between technology and business, with a special focus on AI for eCommerce and consumer applications. Prior to founding Aspectiva, Ezra managed the Text Analytics group at NICE Systems. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is the owner of publications and patents in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Mon, January 03, 2022
Ep698: David Howland | Chief Marketing Officer, Earnix
As CMO of Earnix, David is responsible for extending awareness and adoption of Earnix’s compelling value proposition into new and existing markets while promoting the success of its customers. Before joining Earnix, David served as CMO for Questback followed by Longview Solutions, helping each SaaS company scale by transforming their brand, marketing and go-to-market strategies. Previously, David led the global brand and digital marketing for Nasdaq, helping drive its growth and transition from a traditional financial services company into a FinTech pioneer.
Sun, January 02, 2022
Ep697: Sarah Levy | CTO, Sight Diagnostics
Sarah joined Sight to build and lead its technology dream team. She is responsible for Sight's Product and its medical-regulation activities. Top of her class at the elite Talpiot program, Sarah gained her technology leadership experience during a brilliant military career, where she commanded elite cyber security and intelligence special technology units. Sarah holds as M.Sc. in Condensed Matter Physics from the Weizmann Instituter of Science, and a B.Sc in Physics & Mathematics (magna cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Sat, January 01, 2022
Ep696: Shahar Silis | Managing Director, Power In Diversity
Shahar is the Managing Director of Power in Diversity, an initiative founded by a group of leading VCs to promote diversity and inclusion in the startup ecosystem. Her previous roles include managing the 9900 Alumni Association and working as a Process Engineer in the Semiconductor industry. Shahar holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, as well as a certification in Strategy Consulting.
Sat, January 01, 2022
Ep695: Omri Segev Moyal | CEO, Profero
Omri Segev Moyal is a highly successful entrepreneur, nationally recognized speaker and as of recently, a Forbes 30 under 30 achiever. He is also the Co-founder of Profero . Omri’s passion for empowering others through public speaking, stems from the many years of experience building successful companies of his own. He is dedicated to sharing his knowledge and proven skills with others in hopes that he can provide them with simple solutions that can solve complex problems and help to remove any barriers that stand in their way. His intense focus and drive for success has positioned him to be one of the top thought leaders in the entrepreneurial and start-up space.
Fri, December 31, 2021
Ep694: Avihay Feld | Co-Founder & CEO, Browzwear
Avihay Feld has been pioneering the development of digital technologies that enable the fashion industry to thrive in the increasingly virtual world since the late 1990s. As Co-Founder and CEO of Browzwear, he leads the company’s strategy and vision while also spearheading the creation and delivery of solutions that are making the apparel businesses more efficient and sustainable, both economically and ecologically. In addition to his experience working with fashion design and manufacturing, Avihay previously led startups with technologies for eCommerce and gaming. He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University, where he studied physics, computer science, and mathematics.
Wed, December 29, 2021
Ep693: Shellie Hunt | CEO and Founder, Success is by Design LLC
Dame Shellie Hunt’s gift of transformational impact has taken her clients beyond motivation, to lasting results through teaching the precise “How to” in the designs of your success from the inside out! Global Entrepreneur, Business Strategist, International Motivational Speaker, Trauma Expert, Author of the “Success is by Design” Series and TV executive producer.
Tue, December 28, 2021
Ep692: Regev Gur | Founder & CEO, Narrative Group
Regev Gur is a businessman, entrepreneur, and pioneer in the influencer and tech marketing arenas. In 2018 he founded ״Narrative Group״, which has since become one of the largest influencer marketing agencies in North America. He is a leading figure in the emerging tech Advertising industry and in 2021 was recognized by Forbes as one of the top young entrepreneurs under 30.
Tue, December 28, 2021
Ep691: Sagi Gidali | Co-founder and CPO, Perimeter 81
Sagi has been a serial entrepreneur since he was nine years old. But instead of printing and selling stickers, he creates, scales, and optimizes SaaS solutions. Before he established Perimeter 81—and SaferVPN with Amit—he worked as a UX consultant for Siemens. Today, Sagi leads all of Perimeter 81’s demand generation, marketing, and design. During his army service, he worked in the IDF’s elite visual intelligence unit and later was a software developer at Imperva. He has a patent for the security of public Wi-Fi networks and received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University.
Mon, December 27, 2021
Ep690: Amir Orad | CEO of Sisense
Amir is Sisense CEO and chairman of the board - focusing on infusing analytics and business intelligence in every application and every user. Amir has led startups to become industry leaders with hundreds of millions in revenue and multiple M&As. He is a serial entrepreneur, specializing in growing big data and cybersecurity businesses, with over 25 years of experience as a leader in these fields. During his previous tenure at NICE Actimize, he grew the business 10x to a $200M revenue run rate. Previously he was co-founder of Cyota, which he sold to RSA Security. He lives in New York, father of three, holds an MBA from Columbia University and has been acknowledged as a Top 50 SaaS CEO.
Sun, December 26, 2021
Ep689: Keren Marom | Co-Founder & COO, Beach Bum
Keren Marom is a Co-Founder and COO of Beach Bum, a social gaming company. Keren was born and raised in New York to Israeli parents and decided at the age of 22, following her studies, to move to Israel on her own (family is still in NY). She has a pre-law BA degree and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from New York. Keren manages Beach Bum’s operations, including its HR, Finance, Legal, as well as its Marketing activities.
Sat, December 25, 2021
Ep688: Gal Carmel | Executive VP, GM Automotive, proteanTecs
Gal is an Automotive entrepreneur with a proven track record of over 15 years in rapidly honing emerging technologies, markets and opportunities, both on business and diverse R&D aspects. Before joining proteanTecs, Gal served as Chief Technology and Production Engineering of Samsung Smart Machines, building from the ground-up Samsung’s ADAS/AV technology, focusing on full-stack platforms for automated driving systems. Prior to that, he held key roles in some of the most innovative pillars of autonomous driving at Mobileye (acquired by Intel), a leading supplier of Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS). Including the first production of Mono Vision Camera AEB (Autonomous Emergency Braking), reaching 5 Star Euro NCAP rating for the most advanced production programs OEMS .
Fri, December 24, 2021
Ep687: Gal Rotman | Co-Founder & CEO, Sency
Gal is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sency, which is on a mission to drive people around the world to become more active, balanced, and healthy. As a marathon runner by himself and a major rank from the IDF special forces, he is motivated by combining his biggest passion - physical activities and deep technology. Gal holds a B.Sc in Physics and Economics, 1 out of 2 in the whole year, and prior to Sency was involved in closing multi-million dollars deals in Fortune500 companies.
Thu, December 23, 2021
Ep686: Abbey Onn | Executive Director, Nevo Network
Abbey builds networks and believes that cohort based experiences can be transformative. She has spent the better part of the last 20 years creating programs that impacted hundreds of students and fellows' personal and professional journeys, whether it be putting a roof on a home in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina or directing leadership fellowships at Duke and Harvard. Since moving to Israel in 2015, Abbey has built two nonprofits that impact the Israeli tech ecosystem. Currently, she is the Executive Director of Nevo Network, a professional development fellowship that helps Olim (new immigrants) amplify their tech careers in Israel, and is backed by Michael Eisenberg (Aleph VC).
Thu, December 23, 2021
Ep685: Nimrod Kramer | CEO and Co-Founder, daily.dev
Nimrod Kramer is a serial tech entrepreneur based in Israel. Nimrod is the CEO and Co-Founder of daily.dev, a community-driven startup that's building the homepage for every developer in the world. Additionally, Nimrod sits on the board of Valega Chain Analytics. He is passionate about Japanese culture, coffee, table tennis, and helping developers stay up-to-date, not necessarily in that order.
Tue, December 21, 2021
Ep684: Yoav Machlin | VP Marketing, Atera
Yoav has over 10 years of experience leading multi-channel marketing, performance and growth operations. Today, Yoav is the VP of Marketing at Atera which recently raised more than $100M to help SMBs to proactively manage their networks, maintaining them problem free.
Mon, December 20, 2021
Ep683: Dani Shpakovsky | Group Leader, WekaIO
Dani is originally a systems developer and security researcher, having served in various roles in the technological unit and 8200. He then pivoted from cyber and for the last four years has been working in Weka.IO, a storage startup developing the fastest distributed filesystem in the world which enables modern workloads to reach their full potential. He first joined as a developer, and in the last couple of years as a team and group leader. Weka, he is managing the product’s control plane, bridging the gap between a highly-complex and hard-to-understand product and end-users who want simplicity, usability, and UX.
Sun, December 19, 2021
Ep682: Yossi Wolf | Co-Founder and Chairman, temi
Yossi Wolf is the Chairman and Co-Founder of temi the personal robot, with 15 years of experience in the field of robotics and unmanned vehicles. After serving in the special forces as an officer, Wolf partnered with Elad Levi to build Roboteam defense. Today, hundreds of Roboteam's robots are in daily practice saving lives around the globe. In 2016 Yossi left the defense company for his dream initiative, temi, set to shake up the market of personal robotics. temi is a premium designed, video-oriented, autonomous personal robot platform for businesses and homes. Recently temi has been selected by TIME Magazine for inventions of the year 2019.
Sun, December 19, 2021
Ep681: Sagi Eliyahu | Co-Founder and CEO, Tonkean
Tonkean is the OS for Business Operations, transforming operations teams from facilitators into makers with an enterprise-grade, no-code process orchestration platform. By abstracting the technical knowledge required to automate, monitor, and manage mission-critical business processes, while still maintaining compliance and security, Tonkean enables enterprises to accelerate operational velocity at scale. Founded in 2015, Tonkean is headquartered in San Francisco with R&D in Tel Aviv. To learn more, visit www.tonkean.com, or follow Tonkean on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Fri, December 17, 2021
Ep680: Kevin Hancock | Chief Executive Officer at Hancock Lumber Company
Kevin Hancock is an award-winning author and speaker. The CEO of Hancock Lumber Company, one of the oldest and best known family businesses in America, he is a recipient of the Ed Muskie Access to Justice award, the Habitat for Humanity Spirit of Humanity award, the Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen award, and the Timber Processing Magazine Person of the Year award. Kevin is also a member of the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission. A frequent visitor to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Kevin is an advocate of strengthening the voices of all individuals—within a company or a community —through listening, empowering, and shared leadership. Kevin is also the founder of The Seventh Power, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing economic sovereignty for native communities across America.
Thu, December 16, 2021
Ep679: Edouard Cukierman | Founder and Managing Partner, Catalyst Investments
Edouard Cukierman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Catalyst Investments and serves as the Chairman of Cukierman & Co. Investment House. Since its establishment in 1993, Cukierman & Co. Investment House has been engaged in more than € 8 billion cross-border transactions across industries. Catalyst Investments was established in 1999 by Edouard Cukierman, Yair Shamir and Boaz Harel. With over $300 million under management, the fund supports the long-term growth of medium-sized Israeli companies, with innovation in global markets.
Wed, December 15, 2021
Ep678: Alon Arvatz | Co-founder, IntSights
Alon co-founded IntSights, a startup focused on providing intelligence about adversaries and preventing cyber attacks before they take place. It was sold this year for $350M to Rapid7. During this time he took various leadership roles in strategy, product, business and engineering. He is also involved in social impact, founding "Kanfey Kesef" a non-profit that promotes financial literacy, and lately "Step2Tech" that brings diversity to the high-tech industry. Alon is an active angel investor, investing and advising founders in various sectors.
Tue, December 14, 2021
Ep677: Ronen Slavin | Co-Founder and CTO, Cycode
Ronen Slavin is Co-Founder and CTO of Cycode, a startup that secures software delivery pipelines and provides full visibility into enterprise development infrastructure, a serial entrepreneur and former Unit 8200 officer of the Israel Defense Forces. Prior to Cycode, Ronen Co-Founded FileLock, which was acquired by Reason Security in 2018 where he led the research and endpoint protection development.
Tue, December 14, 2021
Ep676: Ran Kern | Co-founder & CEO, Augmind
From BA in Computer Science and Business in Israel to Masters in CS from BU, Ran then spent a decade on Wall Street and then back to Israel for another decade in technology startups, focusing on creating unique and strategic alliances. Ran is now geared at setting new boundaries for Augmented Reality content and apps, and set new standards for what you are about to see, digitally, with the goal of paving the way for mass AR adaption.
Tue, December 14, 2021
Ep675: Ron Reinfeld | Chief Financial Officer, Morphisec
Ron Reinfeld, CFO @ Moprphisec- Prior to joining Morphisec, Ron served as Chief Financial Officer at IntSights (acquired by Rapid7) where he oversaw global finance, legal,HR and planning operations. Ron brings over 15 years of financial leadership experience at SaaS companies. He was VP of Finance & Operations at Zooz (acquired by PayU), and has held various financial and operations roles at Cloudshare, Clarizen and Ernst & Young, where he specialized in technology IPOs and M&A. In addition, Ron has held multiple advisory roles at early stage tech startups.
Mon, December 13, 2021
Ep674: Shelly Hod Moyal | Founding Partner and Co-CEO, iAngels
An international finance and investment expert, Shelly leads iAngels with a compelling and hands-on approach to the firm’s investment due diligence process, investor relations and portfolio management of the iAngels platform, and institutional fund, iNgenuity. Shelly’s experience as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, and research analyst at Avenue Capital, equip her to reality-test the growth plans of early-stage innovative companies, make data-driven investment decisions, and architect deal terms to ensure equitable profitability between investors and entrepreneurs. She is an active investor who accelerates companies’ enterprise growth with marketing, finance, recruiting, fundraising and business development efforts.
Sun, December 12, 2021
Ep673: Bianca Meger | Co-CEO, Shelfy.io
Bianca brings more than 18 years of experience to the Metro One team. With extensive global experience in marketing, business development and sales, she holds a proven track record of establishing data-driven, customer-centric companies. Over the past nine years, Bianca served as Chief Marketing Officer of various leading tech companies in Israel and was nominated for the esteemed “Globes 40 under 40” award. Originally from Africa, Bianca strongly believes in the notion of "it takes a village", and is convinced that sophisticated technology, unique business models and a proactive regulatory approach, can make financial inclusion a reality for all.
Sat, December 11, 2021
Ep672: Mati Gill | Chief Executive Officer, AION Labs
Mati is the CEO of AION Labs, an Israel-based innovation lab using AI for drug discovery and development, a coalition between Pfizer, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AstraZeneca, Teva, Merck and the Israel Biotech Fund (IBF). Mati has held leadership roles within the biopharma industry for over a decade, formerly serving as a senior executive at Teva Pharmaceuticals. Prior to his term in industry, Mati was Chief of Staff for Israel’s Minister of Public Security.
Fri, December 10, 2021
Ep671: Ruslan Tovbulatov | Vice President of Global Marketing, Gloat
Ruslan is the Vice President of Global Marketing at Gloat, the world’s first AI-powered Talent Marketplace platform. In his role, Ruslan oversees a global team of marketers across Brand, Demand, Product Marketing, and Content, bringing the Gloat story to the world’s largest enterprises. Prior to Gloat, Ruslan has a storied career across Product, Partnerships, Research, and Marketing at companies including Thrive Global, Google, YouTube, and Kantar Retail. He is a 30 under 30-recognized creative, a native Russian speaker, and a proud Dartmouth grad (go Big Green!) currently based in New York City.
Thu, December 09, 2021
Ep670: Yuval Rachlin | CEO, GlobalDots
Yuval is a technology entrepreneur, living and breathing the tech world for over 25 years. He is the founder and CEO of GlobalDots, a global web & cloud technology partner helping companies embrace innovation for over 17 years, now trusted by over 400 global enterprises including Lufthansa, Bosch, Wix, Playtika, AppsFlyer, Payoneer and more, providing them access and support for the most cutting edge technologies out there. Yuval resides in Israel, he is married with two kids and a dog. As a seasoned skipper, Yuval enjoys sailing, traveling, cooking and music.
Wed, December 08, 2021
Ep669: Amos Haggiag | CEO and Co-founder of Optibus
Amos Haggiag is the CEO and co-founder of Optibus, a software platform that nourishes freedom of movement and sustainable cities by bringing much-needed innovation to public transportation. Before co-founding Optibus in 2014, Amos led the development of large-scale personalization engines as a senior software development engineer at Microsoft and designed machine learning algorithms at Siemens. He is the recipient of several prestigious math and technology awards, including the Intel Prize (for software engineering), the Elkin Prize (for information technology) and the Wolf Prize (for mathematics).
Wed, December 08, 2021
Ep668: Dan Mano | General Manager, Perion Network
An entrepreneur with a big passion for product development. Dan brings 18 years of C-level experience from MyHeritage.com, 888.com, Reach, SWIFT SHIFT and Rocket Internet. Dan is a licensed lawyer, holds an MBA from UCLA (Entertainment Management), an MBA from London Business School with a concentration in finance, and a dual major in law and business (cum laude) from Reichman University. Dan took part in the Zell entrepreneurship program, NFX and Upwest Labs accelerators. Dan is a sought-after public speaker and appears regularly in the Israeli prime time media.
Tue, December 07, 2021
Ep667: Adam de la Zerda | CEO, Visby Medical
Adam is CEO of Visby Medical (formerly Click Diagnostics), which he founded in 2012 to develop easy-use diagnostic tests. In March 2020, the company pivoted from work on a sexual health test to tackle the coronavirus, and in July received FDA emergency authorization approval for its portable COVID-19 test. He is also an associate professor in the Departments of Structural Biology and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University School of Medicine, with research interests spanning a broad field of molecular imaging. His lab is developing new optical imaging tools with applications to cancer and ophthalmic diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration.
Mon, December 06, 2021
Ep666: Yotam Manor | R&D Manager, Versatile
Yotam Manor, 33 years old, lives in Tel Aviv with his wife Hili and their 6 months old baby boy Carmel. He is an 8200 Alumni and a Hebrew University Graduate in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE), and is self-trained as a Software Engineer. An experienced Tech Leader combining expertise in software, data, product & people, Yotam was until recently the Head of Engineering at Trellis.ai, and not too long ago joined Versatile as an R&D Manager. He volunteers for almost a decade in the Civic-tech NGO "The Public Knowledge Workshop" (Hasadna), as an Open Source Project Leader and Board Chairman, among other roles.
Sat, December 04, 2021
Ep665: Dror Berman | Managing Partner, Innovation Endeavors
Dror is a Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors, which he cofounded with Eric Schmidt. He invests in early-stage startups that are driving exponential rates of change in their industries, leading to a Super Evolution. Dror has invested in over 100 different companies from Seed through Series B. He led the firm’s investments in Uber, SoFi, Planet, Zymergen, Freenome, Blue River Technologies, and others. Before becoming an investor, he was a team leader of R&D at NICE Systems (Nasdaq: NICE). Dror earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University. He is an ML7 Associate at Creative Destruction Lab and a member of the Steering Committee of Israel Collaboration Network.
Fri, December 03, 2021
Ep664: Dotan Nahum | CEO & Co-founder, Spectral
Dotan is an experienced multidisciplinary leader in tech, 4x published author, and an avid open source contributor. He is the CEO & Founder at Spectral, a devsecops startups, and previously was CTO at HiredScore, Klarna TLV, and Como (Conduit). With a solid background in hacking, reverse engineering, and software engineering, Dotan has spent years bridging the gap between developers, security, and productivity, from a developer's point of view.
Fri, December 03, 2021
Ep663: Minal Bopaiah | Founder and Principal Consultant, Brevity & Wit
Minal Bopaiah is the author of Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives. She is the founder of Brevity & Wit, a strategy + design firm that combines human-centered design, behavior change science and the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility to help organizations transform themselves and the world. Bopaiah has written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Hill and has been a featured guest on numerous podcasts and shows, including the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU. She has also been a keynote speaker for many conferences, inspiring thousands with her credible, authentic, and engaging talks. For more information, please visit https://theequitybook.com
Wed, December 01, 2021
Ep662: Orly Glick | Partner, Vintage Investment Partners
Orly joined Vintage in 2016. Before joining Vintage, she worked for McKinsey & Co. in Belgium, France and Israel in the Fast Growth Tech division. Prior to McKinsey, Orly lived for 10 years in California, USA where she worked for Merrill Lynch in wealth management and private banking. Orly started her career as a mechanics and electronics engineer for Indigo, an Israeli startup in the printing industry that was later acquired by HP. Orly has also managed and advised technology startups.
Wed, December 01, 2021
Ep661: Chanan Schneider | CEO, Millennium Food-Tech
Entrepreneur, CEO and experienced investor in startup companies. CEO and co-founder of Millennnium Food-Tech, a traded (TASE) venture capital fund. Before establishing Millennium he initiated, established and managed the Food-Tech incubator in Kiryat Shmona, Israel. Chanan was the entrepreneur of IndaMed, and managed start-up companies such as Beta-o2, Nitiloop and others, from the initiation to market penetration. As CEO of these companies, he raised significant amounts from VC funds and strategic partners in Israel and abroad. In addition, Chanan was a managing partner at the VC fund, Agate.
Wed, December 01, 2021
Ep660: Guy Horowitz | Partner, Growth Equity, DTCP
Guy is a Partner at DTCP in the Growth Equity team in Silicon Valley. Guy led DTCP's investments in Replay Technologies (acquired by Intel), FireGlass (acquired by Symantec), and Dynamic Yield (acquired by McDonald’s). He also led DTCP’s investments in SafeBreach, Morphisec, AppsFlyer, and PerimeterX and represents it as board member/observer.
Tue, November 30, 2021
Ep659: Carson Tate | Managing Partner, Working Simply, Inc.
Carson serves as a consultant and executive coach to executives at Fortune 500 companies including (but not limited to) AbbVie, Deloitte, FedEx, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Heinz, Synchrony and Wells Fargo. The author of Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style (Penguin Portfolio, 2015) and Own It. Love It. Make It Work: How to Make Any Job Your Dream Job (McGraw-Hill, 2020) her views have been included in top-tier business media including Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider, CBS Money Watch, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review blog, The New York Times, USA Today, Working Mother and more. Carson is also the creator of the Productivity Style Assessment®, a professional tool featured in Harvard Business Review’s 2017 Guide to Being More Productive.
Tue, November 30, 2021
Ep658: Raz Golan | Co-Founder & CEO, Shopic
A veteran of the 8200 unit of the Israeli Intelligence Corps, Raz is a seasoned product leader with over a decade of experience in research, product management, intelligence and R&D. Prior to his army service, Raz started a Bachelor’s degree in the age of 14, during high school, and co-founded Sikumuna.co.il, Israel’s largest studying materials website. After completing the army service, Raz has joined Checkpoint as a Security Researcher, then joined Semanix’s (a start up developing NLP algorithms) founding team as VP Product.
Tue, November 30, 2021
Ep657: Yifeng Zhou | VP Partnerships, Xinergy Global
VP Partnerships at Xinergy Global. With her rich experience in Fortune 500 companies and various business and communication sectors over the years, Yael is an expert in cross-border branding and marketing strategy, market-entry, and business development and has much insight into global corporate strategy upscaling and communication of Chinese companies. Before joining Xinergy Global, Yael was the Director of Business Development at Haier Israel Innovation Center, the frontline innovation arm of Haier, the largest home appliances group from China. Before Haier, she was the chief editor at The Times of Israel Chinese edition, covering news of high-tech and innovation between China and Israel. Yael holds degrees of Master of Art (International Journalism and Communication) and Bachelor of Laws (International Relations and Diplomacy).
Mon, November 29, 2021
Ep656: Yaacov Cohen | Chairman & CEO, harmon.ie
Yaacov Cohen, founder and CEO of harmon.ie (pronounced ‘harmony’) is a driving force for humanizing technology. By emphasizing devotion to core values to enable a productive work environment, Yaacov believes technology should work for people, rather than the other way around. Yaacov leads the product design, go-to-market strategy, and company strategy for harmon.ie, one of the most successful software vendors in the Microsoft eco-system, with 1500+ subscription-based enterprise customers, 97% retention rate, and a consistently profitable business. Three years ago, Yaacov led a management buy-out transforming harmon.ie into an employee-owned company empowering every contributor to act as a company owner.
Mon, November 29, 2021
Ep655: Danny Atsmon | CEO, Cognata Ltd.
Danny Atsmon is a seasoned technologist and subject matter expert in the domains of machine learning, computer vision, and automated driving. Leveraging this unique expertise, Danny has been in the business of launching high-tech products for more than 20 years. He served as Harman’s (NYSE:HAR now Samsung) Director of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Senior Director of Machine learning, and has co-founded several successful technology companies operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and automotive technology.
Mon, November 29, 2021
Ep654: Gal Rimon | CEO & Founder, Centrical
Gal is the CEO and founder of Centrical, an Employee-Centric Success Platform. Using advanced gamification, personalized microlearning, and real-time employee performance management holistically, Centrical helps companies help their employees perform their best. Gal is a Mamram graduate with an MBA from Tel Aviv Recanati, and previously was the CEO of Gilon, a leading big data company which was acquired by Ness Technologies.
Sat, November 27, 2021
Ep653: Yaron Ben Nun | Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Nostromo Energy
Yaron is passionate about the environment and is an activist for the proper use of natural resources. Before Co-Founding Nostromo, Yaron spent several years in managerial positions at software companies leading in clean-tech and industrial performance efficacy. Served in the Israeli Defense Force Air Force pilot, Yaron experienced the importance of a cleaner planet from a birds-eye view. Trained in electrical studies and granted a certificate of ‘Energy conservation master’ from the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructure, energy and Water Resources.
Fri, November 26, 2021
Ep652: Edit Goldberg | CEO, Escala Medical
Over 20 years of medical device industry experience in development, marketing and senior management positions. Diverse background in all stages of product development of medical devices concept to commercialization. I’m a trained dentist, I practiced dentistry for a few years before joining the industry. In a few months I’ll have three kids serving in the army at the same time.
Thu, November 25, 2021
Ep651: Irad Eichler | Founder and CEO, Circles
Irad Eichler, lives in a kibbutz, married+4, Serial entrepreneur, was announced by the world economic forum as a social entrepreneur of the year, Winner of the Bar Ilan university social leadership award, and social impact hero by Medium magazine. Founder and chairperson of "Shekulo Tov", Israeli leading organization for vocational recovery, founder of "Circles", an online platform for coping circles in life crises, founder of "Israeli social business school", Israeli third age festival and a podcaster.
Wed, November 24, 2021
Ep650: Ori Manor Zuckerman | Co-Founder & CEO, SubStrata
Meet Ori Manor Zuckerman, serial entrepreneur, born & raised in Israel. Served in a special Naval Intelligence unit in the IDF. Founded several companies including Valueshine Ventures, DiscoverCloud, Dadaviz (acquired by Vocativ) and Unomy (acquired by WeWork). Today he's leading SubStrata a nonverbal communication AI startup that helps dealmakers get a unique advantage in complex deals (through innovative social signal processing technology).
Fri, November 19, 2021
Ep649: Gilad Talmon | CEO, TetaVi
Gilad Talmon, 46, married to Gali and father to Zoe and Hili. Has been a gamer since the early 1980s and that is why he shifted from a 20-year long career in defense, aerospace, and cyber to immersive media. Gilad has senior management experience in both a startup and corporate setting, spanning a variety of technological disciplines. Gilad is the CEO of Tetavi, a pioneering immersive social entertainment for consumers and professionals by introducing volumetric video to the masses and shaping the future of the "Metaverse".
Thu, November 18, 2021
Ep648: Carl Padilla | Owner and CEO, Celeb Gap
Carl Padilla is the CEO and owner of Celeb Gap. Carl created Celeb Gap as a way to bridge the gap between celebrities and their biggest fans. On this platform, Carl has created a way to be able to send an amazing gift or give yourself a unique moment with the celeb of your choice. From actors and musicians to reality stars and authors, Celeb Gap makes it easy to connect with just a press of a button.
Wed, November 17, 2021
Ep647: Guy Bar Sade | Co Founder & CEO, Simpool.io
Guy is passionate about data and the hidden gold inside of it. He is dealing with data for the past 18 years ( business intelligence, analytics, and data science) and in the gaming space since 2010. Before founding Simpool, Guy led Plyatika's data unit on its data revolution time. Guy has a Bachelor of Science In Engineering of Industrial Management.
Wed, November 17, 2021
Ep646: Idan Tendler | Co-founder & CEO of Bridgecrew
Idan is a serial entrepreneur, VP of the DevSecOps product line in the Prisma Cloud Business Unit at Palo Alto Networks. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Bridgecrew, a pioneer in cloud security solutions for developers, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in March 2021 for $200M, less than two years after it was founded. Idan was also the co-founder and CEO of Fortscale, a leading User Behaviour Analytics startup, which was acquired by RSA Security in 2018. Before that he was founder and head of the cybersecurity business unit at Elbit Systems, Israel's leading defense integrator, and served in the IDF's elite Intelligence & Cyber Unit, 8200.
Tue, November 16, 2021
Ep645: Marc Gaffan | CEO, Hysolate
Marc is a successful CEO, Entrepreneur and Cyber security veteran. Prior to joining Hysolate, Marc was the Chief Business Officer at Nexar and an Executive in Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners. In 2009, Gaffan co-founded Incapsula and after its acquisition by Imperva, led the Incapsula business as CEO to $100 million in run rate, protecting millions of websites worldwide and many of the world’s largest enterprises and Telcos. Marc is a thought leader and has appeared before the US Congress, FDIC and Federal Trade Commission on cyber security and identity theft topics. He holds an MBA and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University.
Tue, November 16, 2021
Ep644: Laurence Girard | Chief Executive Officer, Fruit Street Health
Laurence Girard is the CEO & Founder of Fruit Street Health, which is a telehealth company that delivers the CDC's diabetes prevention program via live group video visits on Zoom with registered dietitians. He has raised more than $25 million in funding for the company via crowdfunding from more than 500 physician investors. Laurence completed his Bachelor's Degree at the Harvard Extension School and was recently accepted to the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. While Laurence was originally planning to go to medical school, he decided to pursue a career using technology and entrepreneurship to have a social impact on public health.
Tue, November 16, 2021
Ep643: Mark Minukas | Managing Partner, Co-Creation Partners
Mark is the managing partner of Co-Creation Partners. An engineer by training, he began his career as a Navy officer and member of the US Naval Construction Battalions (Seabees) and the Navy Dive Community. In 2005, he brought his experience and insights on human and organizational factors in engineered systems to McKinsey and Company, where he worked as a consultant and member of the Operations Practice. Since leaving McKinsey to join Co-Creation Partners, Mark has worked across multiple industries, including financial services, technology, manufacturing, IT services, and governmental offices to deliver both top- and bottom-line improvements and build high-performing cultures.
Sun, November 14, 2021
Ep642: Oren Marmur | SVP & General Manager, Payments, Finastra
Oren Marmur is the SVP & General Manager of the Payments Line of Business at Finastra. Oren is leading the Payments Growth business, delivering end-to-end Payments solutions to customers globally, and promoting the product modernization journey towards a cloud-based platform and ecosystem. Oren is a Talpiot alumni, the IDF elite technology training program.
Sun, November 14, 2021
Ep641: Sharon Vanek | Executive Director, CICC - California Israel Chamber of Commerce
Sharon is the Executive Director of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC) where she brings her remarkable 20 years career with significant expertise in international business & marketing. Throughout her career, Sharon showed an enterprising attitude from the start. In 1997 she moved to S. Korea, where she started her long career in a traditionally male-dominated, technical fields of infrastructure and homeland security. She was asked to become the first foreign CEO of the fast growing BERMAD China, and brought the company to be a leader in waterworks infrastructure in the entire South East Asia. She then worked with the US Army, Border Control and highly secured facilities to create, enhance and implement advanced solutions to existing and future problems. During 2008-10 Sharon held VP Homeland Security and Infrastructure position in BDO-I2I, which is part of the BDO Israel Consulting Firm and focused on the Indian market.
Fri, November 12, 2021
Ep640: David Drai | Co-Founder & CEO, Anodot Ltd.
CEO and Co-Founder David Drai started Anodot out of his frustration with not being able to get real-time insights in spite of having access to real-time big data. With Anodot, he stands committed to helping companies, from digital to fintech to telecom, illuminate business blind spots with AI analytics. He previously was CTO at Gett, an app-based transportation service used in hundreds of cities worldwide. Prior to Gett, he co-founded Cotendo, a content delivery network and site acceleration services provider that was acquired by Akamai Technologies, where he also served as CTO.
Thu, November 11, 2021
Ep639: Robbie Bach | Author, Speaker, and Civic Engineer, Xbachs LLC
Robbie Bach is best known for founding and leading the team that created the Xbox. Today he is an entertaining storyteller and catalyzing voice who writes books and speaks to audiences on leadership, creativity, strategy, and civic issues. During his twenty-two years at Microsoft, Robbie worked in various marketing and business management roles—including supporting the successful launch and expansion of Microsoft Office and leading the creation and development of the Xbox business. Then as Microsoft’s President of the Entertainment and Devices Division, he was responsible for the company’s worldwide gaming, music, video, phone, and retail sales businesses until he retired in 2010. The Wilkes Insurrection is his first novel. For more information, please visit https://wilkesinsurrection.com
Thu, November 11, 2021
Ep638: Tracy Werner | Head of Communications & Employer Brand, Cognyte
Tracy Werner is a passionate communications leader, obsessed with getting the right message to the right people at the right time. Every touchpoint in her career has entailed storytelling and raising the bar of communications in corporate settings. In her current role, she leads the team responsible for communication (internal and PR), employer brand, social media and video. Tracy grew up in South Africa and now lives in Israel with her husband and three kids.
Wed, November 10, 2021
Ep637: Tom Foley | Chief Growth Officer, GenieMD
Tom has over 30 years of experience in information technology. He has led many transformative initiatives in and out of healthcare. His strategic thinking and innovative approaches span across the wrist-to-cloud continuum to affect the manner in which delivery of care is imagined globally. Foley also moderated the Health Innovation Think Tank (HITT), an executive collaborative made up of 50 healthcare delivery systems, payer organization and healthcare IT vendor thought leaders who offer their insights leading to the establishment of best practices on a variety of issues associated with value-based care, connected health and virtual care.
Wed, November 10, 2021
Ep636: Sharon Brizinov | Vulnerability Research Team Lead, Claroty
Michael is Co-Founder and CTO at Five Sigma, an InsurTech company helping insurers optimize claims handling processes using data. Previously, Michael was leading R&D teams within the Prime Minister's office. Michael worked on multiple groundbreaking projects, including one that has received the "Israel Defense Prize". Michael is a data science and math enthusiast with a BSC and MSC in mathematics from Bar Ilan University.
Wed, November 10, 2021
Ep635: Michael Krikheli | Co-Founder and CTO, Five Sigma
Michael is Co-Founder and CTO at Five Sigma, an InsurTech company helping insurers optimize claims handling processes using data. Previously, Michael was leading R&D teams within the Prime Minister's office. Michael worked on multiple groundbreaking projects, including one that has received the "Israel Defense Prize". Michael is a data science and math enthusiast with a BSC and MSC in mathematics from Bar Ilan University.
Tue, November 09, 2021
Ep634: Rob Huntington | CEO, Metric Collective
Rob Huntington is CEO of Metric Collective. Before Metric Rob was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for multiple Fortune 500 companies. He also received a BCG Social Impact Fellowship and served in Nicaragua. He led a turnaround of the Huntington Learning Centers (HLC) as the SVP of Development and Operations. Prior to that, he was an HLC franchisee. Additionally, he has been a franchise broker with the Franchise Consulting Company and managed a $50M P&L for DaVita, a Fortune 200 company.
Tue, November 09, 2021
Ep633: Shay David | Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Retrain.AI
Dr. Shay David is a serial entrepreneur known for previously co-founding the video enterprise Unicorn - Kaltura where he served as CTO, CRO, and GM of Media and Telecom from inception to exponential growth. Prior to Kaltura, Shay was a co-founder of Destinator Technologies, a leader in mobile GPS navigation software. Shay founded retrain.ai to address what he finds as one of the biggest challenges of the workforce today, the skills gap. Shay and his team created a platform that analyzes jobs, occupations and skills, and recommends personalized training pathways to bridge the skills gap.
Tue, November 09, 2021
Ep632: Evyatar Ben Artzi | Co-Founder & CEO, Darrow.ai
Evyatar Ben Artzi, or Evya, is the Co-Founder & CEO of Darrow, an AI startup on a mission to uncover injustice. Evya served as a Combat Officer in a special unit of the IDF and later on went to study Law & Cognitive Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court for Justice Uzi Vogelman, where he met co-founder Elad Spiegleman. Evya is also one of the founders of “Yahav”, an Israeli youth movement for social change, teaching young activists about the Democratic values of Zionism.
Mon, November 08, 2021
Ep631: Amit Rapaport | Co-founder & CEO, Compete
After many years working across most HR roles in the tech and more specifically the cyber sector, Amit left her job to address the biggest pain point that she had experienced, namely a lack of visibility into real-time compensation data. Now the CEO & co-founder of Compete, a fast-growing early-stage company, she is dedicated to solving this daily problem affecting all tech companies of every size. Compete provides hundreds of tech companies with immediate insights into complete compensation package data – at the click of a button. An energetic and inspiring leader, Amit is equally adept at addressing a conference hall of HR execs as she is in a room of Compete employees working on the next killer feature to solve the issue of salary and benefits benchmarking.
Mon, November 08, 2021
Ep630: Tony Gambill | Founder and CEO, ClearView Leadership, LLC
Tony Gambill brings more than 20 years of executive experience delivering impactful leadership and talent solutions for global organizations. Tony recently published a new book named, Getting It Right When It Matters Most: Self-Leadership For Work & Life. He is also a contributor for Forbes where he writes on the topics of Self-Leadership and Leading Others. Tony is the president of Clearview Leadership which provides innovative leadership and talent development consulting services to leaders worldwide.
Mon, November 08, 2021
Ep629: Jeremy Lustman | Partner and Head of Israel Country Group, DLA Piper US LLP
Jeremy is the founder of the Israeli office for one of the world’s largest global law firms. Lustman advises more than 70 Israeli tech companies a month. His office has advised more than half of Israel’s unicorn and soonicorn companies worth more than a billion dollars, and many of the companies have gone public on the Nasdaq market in New York. He currently coordinates and helps lead DLA Piper's development efforts and initiatives cultivating international business emanating from Israel, serves as a liaison for Israeli clients seeking legal guidance in non-Israeli jurisdictions where DLA Piper has a presence and provides guidance to non-Israeli clients evaluating business relationships and strategic partners within Israel. Jeremy maintains a focused US component of his practice that operates at the intersection of corporate, real estate and hospitality law. He assists public and private companies, private equity funds and cash flow lenders in business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, senior and mezzanine debt financings, equity investments and joint ventures.
Sun, November 07, 2021
Ep628: Yorai Fainmesser | General Partner, Disruptive AI
Yorai is the co-founder and General Partner at Disruptive AI Fund, investing in early-stage startups with great entrepreneurs and remarkable AI. He also founded AI-SQUARE Forum Arab & Israeli AI community. In 2019 he retired as a Colonel from the IDF, as head of a Technological R&D unit (3060/8200) in the Intelligence Corps, responsible for developing modern Data Science systems and AI applications, acting as an exclusive center for Computer Vision and imaging technology, receiving the Israel Defence Prize Award.
Sat, November 06, 2021
Ep627: Mark Babbitt | President, WordIQ, Co-Author, Good Comes First
Employees of all generations desire—and deserve—workplaces where they feel respected and are validated for their ideas, efforts, and contributions, every day. As we're witnessing right now, when a company culture falls short of those expectations, top talent is cutting the lifeline that has tethered them to their old employers and old, autocratic leaders (often afflicted with what we call Boomer Male Syndrome or BMS). In record numbers, good people are leaving bad companies—or at least bad company cultures. To retain and attract top talent, today's leaders must now work with all stakeholders (not just shareholders) to co-create an uncompromising company culture where employees can expect respect while helping drive results. In other words, they must ensure good comes first.
Fri, November 05, 2021
Ep626: Chris Edmonds | President, CEO, and Founder, The Purposeful Culture Group, Co-Author, Good Comes First
For decades, talented people have tolerated old-school leaders who put results before respect, toxic company cultures, and workplaces that suck. But those days are over, and if leaders want to attract and retain the best employees—while improving productivity, customer service, employee satisfaction, and profits—it’s time for them to create work cultures where good comes first. The problem is that because the corporate world has too often been driven primarily by results, we seldom ask leaders to change their work cultures. Even if we did, most leaders don’t have the know-how. This book provides the actionable inspiration and practical direction needed to make that change happen. In Good Comes First, Chris and his co-author Mark S. Babbitt present proven strategies that help senior leaders define, align, and refine a purposeful, positive, and productive work cultures - cultures where good comes first for employees, customers, leaders, and stakeholders—and where improved business outcomes quickly follow."
Thu, November 04, 2021
Ep625: Guy Yamen | Managing Partner, TPY Capital
Guy is co-founder and managing partner of TPY Capital, an early stage Israel based VC which is in its second fund, of +$100m. Prior to launching TPY, he spent a few years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, in the New York and Tel Aviv offices. As part of Guy’s commitment to societal change, he co-founded Prize4Life, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the discovery of treatments and cures for ALS. Guy received an MBA from Harvard Business School (with distinction) as well as a BA in economics and an LL.B (magna cum laude), both from Tel Aviv University.
Thu, November 04, 2021
Ep624: Jonathan Geifman | Co Founder & CEO, Helios
Jonathan Geifman, born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, married to Adi, father to Dean. Spent nearly a decade in the Israeli armed forces. Co-founded a product design studio that operates in the USA, and in the past 5 years been pursuing a childhood dream to enable the expansion of humanity beyond earth with his company Helios.
Thu, November 04, 2021
Ep623: Clelia Morales | Co-founder and COO, WOOM
Clelia Morales is co-founder and COO at WOOM, a women’s health data science-driven company, that empowers women to understand their bodies better and faster, to increase their wellbeing and help them make informed decisions in case needed. She is a digital marketing professional with +15 years of experience, focused on how technology improves people’s lives, and how innovation and a diversified team can transform traditional businesses and create new ones.
Wed, November 03, 2021
Ep622: Lior Klisman | Co-founder, Sentant
Lior is an entrepreneur at heart, Co-founder of Sentant, a successful and unique IT, security and compliance firm for startups and emerging businesses. He takes great pride in his achievements working with and advising hundreds of expanding companies with sensitive compliance requirements through their journey of explosive growth to acquisition. The Sentant team supports their clients with everything from cloud and application security to day-to-day IT operations. Lior is a lifelong technology nerd specializing in automation, infrastructures, and physical security systems.
Wed, November 03, 2021
Ep621: Jeffrey Travis | CEO, Positron
Jeffrey is an entrepreneur, filmmaker, and engineer. He is the founder of Positron, where leads a team that is building the future of immersive cinemas with Voyager®, the world’s first full-motion chair for cinematic VR. He has worked closely with studios such as Universal, Dreamworks and Disney and companies such as Intel, Verizon and Walmart to integrate VR content into multisensory experiences for audiences around the globe. Jeffrey is passionate about elevating storytelling through VR/AR and immersive technologies.
Wed, November 03, 2021
Ep620: Demi Ben-Ari | Co-founder & CTO, Panorays
Demi started his military service in the IDF elite programming course in Mamram, afterwards serving in Ofek for seven years, the software unit of the IAF, where he developed a missile defense system and was in charge of various intelligence and security-related tasks during his service. After being a Senior Data Engineer at Windward, Demi helped co-found Panorays and serves as its CTO, responsible for managing the company’s technical infrastructure, responding to marketplace developments related to third-party security, and directing the company’s analyst relations program, among many other things.
Wed, October 27, 2021
Ep619: Omer Keilaf | CEO and Co-Founder at Innoviz Technologies
Omer Keilaf is the co-founder and CEO of Innoviz Technologies, a leading provider of LiDAR sensing solutions. Mr. Keilaf is helping to enable the mass commercialization of autonomous vehicles and under his leadership, the company has won a program with BMW for the industry’s first series production of autonomous vehicles as well as a number of partnerships with leading Tier 1 solution providers. Prior to co-founding Innoviz, Omer served as an officer in the elite technological unit of the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), 81, and held senior leadership roles in various companies. Omer holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, all from Tel Aviv University.
Wed, October 27, 2021
Ep618: Guy Bloch | CEO & Board Member, Bringg
Guy has nearly 20 years of experience leading large organizations in the global enterprise software market, transforming them into highly successful hyper-growth environments. He joined Bringg after spending 6 years in senior leadership roles at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) including COO EMEA and Area VP of Sales, after previously serving in leadership positions at HP Enterprise, Appilog and Emblaze. Guy has an MBA from New York Institute of Technology and a BA from Ben-Gurion University.
Wed, October 27, 2021
Ep617: Simon Severino | CEO and Founder, Strategy Sprints
Simon Severino helps business owners in SaaS and Services run their company more effectively which results in sales that soar. Trusted by Google, Roche, Consilience Ventures, Amgen, AbbVie. He created the Strategy Sprints™ Method that doubles revenue in 90 days by getting owners out of the weeds. Simon is the CEO and founder of Strategy Sprints, a global team of Certified Strategy Sprints™ Coaches that help clients gain market share in weekly sprints which results in fast execution. TEDx speaker, Contributor to Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine, member of the SVBS Silicon Valley Blockchain Society. www.strategysprints.com
Wed, October 27, 2021
Ep616: Yossi Bahagon | Founder & Active Chairman, Sweetch
An internationally recognized leader in the field of digital health, Dr. Yossi Bahagon is an active family physician who founded and managed the digital health division at Clalit Health Services, the second-largest health maintenance organization in the world. Following the acquisition of his first digital health company, Yossi founded Qure Ventures – Israel’s first digital health fund. In 2013 after witnessing the impact of patient non-engagement on the individual and nation-wide levels, Yossi co-founded Sweetch. Today, Yossi serves as the company’s active chairman.
Tue, October 26, 2021
Ep615: Dr. Ofer Sharon | CEO, OncoHost
Dr. Ofer Sharon is a physician and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in clinical research, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology, and has made vital contributions to the acceleration of personalized medicine and oncology drug development. A former Merck executive, Ofer is the current CEO of OncoHost, a global leader in host response profiling for improved personalized cancer therapy.
Sun, October 24, 2021
Ep614: Floretta Mayerson | Co-Founder en Violetta
Floretta was born and raised in Mexico City, and at the age of 18 moved to Israel to study her B.A in Political Communications. She is always aligned by the 2030 Agenda (SDGs), has participated in many projects and initiatives with a social and environmental perspective, such as MESS (Movement for Sexual Equity and Safety), YK Center, an incubator and accelerator of the SDGs, and have volunteered for CADENA, Natural Disaster Assistance Committee, and a girl's orphanage since 2012.
Sat, October 23, 2021
Ep613: Shay Michel | General Partner, Merlin Ventures, Managing Partner, toDay Ventures
Shay is a serial entrepreneur who has founded 4 companies in the CDN and IT world, and for the last 5 years has been the managing partner of toDay Ventures, an Israeli seed-stage fund. In December 2020 he joined Merlin Ventures to stand up and run its efforts in Tel Aviv.
Sat, October 23, 2021
Ep612: Seth Spergel | Managing Partner, Merlin Ventures
Seth Spergel is Managing Partner at Merlin Ventures, where he is responsible for identifying cutting-edge companies for Merlin to partner with and invest in. Seth has more than 20 years of experience building, selling, and investing in software and startups. Most recently, Seth was VP for Infrastructure Technologies at In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment firm of the US Intelligence Community. Prior to In-Q-Tel, Seth was the VP of Engineering for ThinkGeek, an online seller and manufacturer of “geeky” toys and clothing, and also spent 12 years at IBM in roles ranging from software developer to sales manager.
Thu, October 21, 2021
Ep611: Rajkumar Venkatesan | Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
Rajkumar is the Ronald Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia. Raj has written about and taught quantitative marketing to MBA and executive education students worldwide. At Darden, he has taught a course on marketing analytics for more than ten years, and a course on marketing technology products for five years. His experience in these courses he translated into the books, Cutting Edge Marketing Analytics, published by Pearson Education in 2014 and AI Marketing Canvas in 2021. More than 250,000 individuals have participated in his Coursera course on marketing analytics.
Wed, October 20, 2021
Ep610: Yair Tal | CEO, BLEND Localization Services
I'm a seasoned executive with extensive 2B2B and enterprise experience, passionate about developing long-term solutions for strategic partners and customers. My interest lies in connecting local talent with global companies and removing cross-border barriers to empower growth. I joined BLEND (formerly OneHourTranslation) as a CEO in 2020, with a strong passion to transform the localization industry and remove cross-border barriers for growth-stage companies and brands. Before joining BLEND I served as Senior Vice President, Head of Payoneer Enterprise at Payoneer, a leading cross-border payment platform.
Wed, October 20, 2021
Ep609: Radhika Dutt | Author, Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter
Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. An entrepreneur and product leader, she has participated in four acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. Dutt advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies on building radical products that create a fundamental change instead of optimizing the status quo. She also teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
Tue, October 19, 2021
Ep608: Noam Toister | CEO & Co-Founder, Bookaway.com
Noam is the co-founder and CEO of Bookaway, a ground and sea transportation platform, basically a Booking.com for travel transportation. The company has recently raised a B round and acquired several of its competitors in order to grow during covid. He started Bookaway after a bad travel experience in the Philippines during his honeymoon, and the company is now one of the leading travel transportation companies in the world.
Fri, October 15, 2021
Ep607: Dikla Czaczkes Akselbrad | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, PolyPid
Dikla Czaczkes Akselbrad is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PolyPid, a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing novel, locally administered therapies to improve surgical outcomes. Before joining PolyPid seven years ago, she served as CFO at both Compugen and Packet Technologies and as Audit Manager at Ernst & Young Israel. She holds an MBA in Finance and a BA in Accounting & Economics, both from Tel Aviv University, and is a certified public accountant in Israel.
Thu, October 14, 2021
Ep605: Rani Plaut | CEO & Co Founder, AIR
Rani Plaut is CEO and Co-Founder of AIR, the startup reimagining air mobility with eVTOLs for mass personal use. With a rich background in mathematics and physics, automotive and aerospace technologies, Rani’s impressive experience has led him to work with several OEMs and serve on the boards of multiple tech companies and venture funds. Prior to co-founding AIR, he was CEO and Co-Founder of Bmax, a leading provider of advanced metal processing solutions.
Thu, October 14, 2021
Ep606: Ian Cook | Vice President of People Analytics, Visier Inc.
Ian Cook is recognized for his leadership and insight in the area of workforce analytics and planning. Ian is currently the vice president of people analytics at Visier where he helps customers drive organizational change through linking workforce analysis to business outcomes. He is responsible for the workforce domain expertise within the Visier solutions. Prior to joining Visier, Ian built Canada's leading source of HR Benchmarking data. His knowledge and expertise come from 10+ years of consulting with global companies. Ian holds an MA from Edinburgh University (UK), an MBA from Lancaster University (UK).
Wed, October 13, 2021
Ep604: Dan Dobry | Chairman Of The Board, Global net Israel
Dan Dobry was the founder of the Union of Financial Planners in Israel (UFPI), served as the first Chairman and President of UFPI. Dan was the Global Council Representative for Israel for the Global Community (FPSB) from 2012 - 2018 and from January 2019 is a member of the Committee for Standards and Qualifications for the European Union (SQC).
Mon, October 11, 2021
Ep603: Adi Engel | Chief Marketing Officer, vcita
As Chief Marketing Officer, Adi is responsible for leading vcita’s strategic thinking and global marketing objectives in supporting micro and small businesses on their journey to success and digital transformation. Coupled with her business acumen, Adi has a host of experience and customer-centric product knowledge, which she constantly brings into new, innovative, company-wide, initiatives that are guided by her passion for enabling the inclusion of the underserved. Driving a growth culture and mentality, Adi, together with her team, is helping to positively impact hundreds of thousands of small businesses around the world to build businesses they are proud of.
Sun, October 10, 2021
Ep602: Yuval Passov | Regional Partner Manager, Marketing Partners APAC, Founder, Game On! ASIA
Yuval Passov is the regional partner lead, managing Google's relationships with the biggest media agencies across Asia. Prior to his move to Singapore, he was leading the gaming team in Google Israel, working with the leading gaming companies in Europe and the US to develop their marketing strategy, including Playtika, Miniclip, Epic Games, Zynga and many more. He is also the founder of Game On! Asia, the leading podcast in Asia focusing on the mobile gaming ecosystem in Asia. In his free time, he volunteers as a mentor in Google for Startups: Southeast Asia Accelerator
Sun, October 10, 2021
Ep601: Avi Feldman | Founder and Managing Partner, Mobilion Ventures
Avi has broad experience and a proven track record in building innovative startups from the bottom up as well as leading venture capital investments. Before founding Mobilion Ventures, Avi served as the CEO of Capital Nature, an early-stage investment company that focuses on green energy and smart mobility and led the fund’s notable investments of millions of dollars in leading startups. Avi founded the Regional Development Center at the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor and served as its first director. Prior to that, he was senior deputy legal adviser for the Ministry. Avi Feldman has an LL.M from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an EMPA from Syracuse University in NY.
Sat, October 09, 2021
Ep600: Jennifer Schear | Founding Partner, Schear Immigration Law Firm
Jennifer Schear is the Founding Partner of Schear Immigration Law Firm, a boutique immigration firm in Tel-Aviv. SI represents Israeli and foreign corporations ranging from Start-Ups through publicly traded companies in securing work authorization for key personnel. SI works closely with local hi-tech accelerators and incubators and the international venture capital community with regard to corporate immigration issues and compliance strategies.
Sat, October 09, 2021
Ep599: Dganit Vered | CEO, Smart Agro R&D Partnership
Bio: An experienced investor in Agritech and Food tech companies. Until recently was a Venture Partner at Entrée Capital, responsible for AgriTech and FoodTech investments. Invested in 4 Agritech startups. An active Chairwoman of the board at ViAqua and board members in additional startups. Dganit brings over 20 years of senior management experience as Intel Israel CS site manager and VP R&D with Perrigo and Hazera.
Fri, October 08, 2021
Ep598: Avi Golan | VP Engineering & GM Israel, ZipRecruiter
Avi Golan is ZipRecruiter Israel General Manager and VP Engineering, leading the Israeli engineering site with a data-driven focus on delighting both job seekers and employers and fundamentally improving the hiring experience. Prior to joining ZipRecruiter, Avi is a Mamram alumnus and served in an intelligence unit. Avi has over two decades of experience in the software industry - building and leading R&D organizations.
Fri, October 08, 2021
Ep597: Moshiel Biton | CEO & Co-Founder, Addionics
Dr. Moshiel Biton, Addionics's co-founder & CEO is a pioneer entrepreneur and a materials scientist- He is one of the only experts in Future energy research. He did his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Post-doctoral research at Imperial College. He founded Addionics with two of his professors from Imperial College in 2017. In addition to the business side, he has volunteered over the years as a Co-Chair and as a board member at the Israeli Business Club London (IBC)
Thu, October 07, 2021
Ep596: Michael Basch | Managing Partner, Atento Capital
Michael Basch leads Atento Capital, the Venture Arm of the George Kaiser Family Foundation based in Tulsa, OK. Born in California, and living in NYC, London, and Tel Aviv prior to moving to Tulsa, Michael has spent most of his life on the operating side of startups. 4 years ago he moved to Tulsa to work with GKFF to look at ways at deploying capital that not only drives returns but also creates jobs and upward mobility in Tulsa. Outside of work, Michael is married with a beautiful 8-month old baby, his first, named Leo!
Thu, October 07, 2021
Ep595: Nadav Zafrir | Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Team8
Nadav Zafrir is Co-founder of Team8 and Managing Partner of Team8 Platform. Nadav is focused on driving global growth for Team8 and is the architect of Team8’s relationships across the business, academic and technology worlds. Nadav’s experience has positioned him well to help define the opportunities and challenges in today’s technology marketplace.
Wed, October 06, 2021
Ep593: Shy Peleg | Director of Software Engineering, New Relic for Applied Intelligence
Shy is a Director of Software Engineering at New Relic for Applied Intelligence. Shy started his career at the Israeli Intelligence Corps as a software developer and team leader. He continued working in cybersecurity while completing a BSc in Mathematics and Philosophy. He then served four years as a founder and CTO for the twenty-person startup OMGWhen, which created a global search and personalization engine for leisure events. Next, Shy worked at Wix.com as a front-end staff engineer. He completed an MBA at IE University in Madrid before joining New Relic.
Wed, October 06, 2021
Ep592: Lauren Guy | CTO & Co-Founder, Utilis Corp.
Lauren is an entrepreneur by heart, and an avid fan of using the power of remote sensing to achieve the impossible. Lauren co-founded Utilis in 2013 with a novel approach to finding water leaks from space. With a master in geophysics and a bachelor in hydrology and geomorphology, Lauren wrote and executed algorithms being used in Utilis. He possesses seven patents in remote sensing and SAR.
Tue, October 05, 2021
Ep591: Leor Perl | Chief Innovation Officer, Rabin Medical Center at Clalit Health Services
Leor is a senior cardiologist and the founder & director of the Rabin Medical Innovation Center. He also serves as the medical director of Vectorious Medical Technologies and as the chairman of Powerful Medical’s scientific board. Before these roles, Leor completed his fellowships in interventional cardiology and the Biodesign innovation program at Stanford University. Leor is a dedicated physician who complements his work with research and innovation, striving to identify global medical needs and implement solutions for these within the vibrant Israeli ecosystem.
Tue, October 05, 2021
Ep594: Dr. Rami Aqeilan | Chairman, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC)
Born in East Jerusalem, Dr. Rami Aqeilan is a Full Professor of Immunology and Cancer Research at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. He began his academic career at the University of Jordan where he received a B.Sc. in biology, followed by an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School. In 2008 he joined the faculty of Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently, he is the Head of the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada.
Tue, October 05, 2021
Ep590: Shimon Elkabetz | CEO, Tomorrow.io
Shimon served in the Israeli Air Force for 11 years in several managerial and commanding positions. Multiple near-death weather-related experiences during his service stoked a fascination with the weather, that little thing that affects us all. He’s also passionate about soccer and can recall any statistic whether you ask him to or not. Shimon holds a BA in economics from Ben Gurion University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Mon, October 04, 2021
Ep589: Noa Asher | CEO, NTT Innovation Laboratory Israel
Noa Asher was appointed as CEO of NTT Innovation Laboratory Israel on July first. NTT Israel serves as the focal point for NTT Group companies in Israel and their mission is to bring value to NTT by collaborating with Israeli companies and academia in various fields. NTT is one of the major players in the Japanese communication market and is considered a Fortune 100 company, with over $ 100 billion annual sales, more than 300,000 employees worldwide, operating in 80+ countries. From 2014-2020 Noa served as the Economic Minister at the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo where she was in charge of promoting trade and investments between Israel and Japan, supporting the revolution that happened during this time in the business relations between Israel and Japan. Noa joined the ministry of Economy in 2002 and held several positions at the foreign trade administration and the innovation authority including the commercial attaché in Chicago. Previously she was a legal advisor in a group of start-up companies.
Wed, September 29, 2021
Ep588: Yoav Levy | Co-Founder, CEO, Upstream Security
Yoav is leading Upstream's strategic direction, culture and business execution, with over 17 years of experience in multi-national high-tech companies and start-ups. He brings rich leadership experience in management, marketing and business development of IT and security products spanning over a dozen years of experience in category-leading vendors such as Check Point, Juniper Networks and Broadcom.
Tue, September 28, 2021
Ep587: Yair Benyamini | Co-founder and CEO, Lendai
Yair Benyamini is the Co-founder and CEO of Lendai. Prior to founding Lendai, Yair headed the Cross Border Transactions and the Business Development of one of Israel's leading law firms. In that capacity, he took part in global multi-million dollar transactions in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Yair has more than 15 years of experience leading large-scale operations, including in the IDF and several NGOs. Yair is also the Chairman of SpaceGirlz, a non-profit organization promoting space and science studies for young girls aiming to build the next generation of women scientists.
Tue, September 28, 2021
Ep585: Lotan Levkowitz | General Partner, Grove Ventures
Lotan has been an early-stage technology investor since 2012, with a special interest in IoT, Digital Health, Trust and Safety, Cloud Infrastructure and Enterprise IT. He currently serves on the boards of ActiveFence, 3DSignals, Lumigo, RapidAPI, BeyondMinds and Navina. Lotan is also the founder of the Israeli Industrial IoT Forum and the II4 Conference. Prior to joining Grove Ventures, Lotan was a Strategic Consultant at TASC, an international management consultancy firm, where he focused on the Telecommunication sector. Lotan served as a commander in an elite Israeli Air Force Intelligence unit, where he was honored with an Award of Excellence. He holds a Bachelor of Law degree (LLB) and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree (BA) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Mon, September 27, 2021
Ep584: Chen Admati | Platform General Manager and VP product, Explorium
Chen Admati, Platform General Manager and VP product @ Explorium. Explorium provides an External Data Platform that automatically discovers relevant data signals to improve advanced analytics and accelerate business outcomes. Prior to joining Explorium, Chen was a staff member at Intel’s AI internal unit and the founder of Intel® Pharma Analytics Platform. Chen holds a BSc. in Information System Engineering from Ben-Gurion University. Honorably listed in ’40 under 40’ by Globes magazine in 2018
Mon, September 27, 2021
Ep583: Robert Cohen | Managing Partner, Benson Oak Ventures
Robert Cohen is Managing Director of Benson Oak Ventures, an early-stage VC fund based in Israel focused on B2C, Digital SMB and all things related to the passion economy (what it dubs "passionware"). Benson Oak has deployed capital across Europe, the US and Israel for 20 years, and Robert enjoys a deep understanding of the technology market for consumers and small businesses, including operational experience in building global brands and developing and scaling business models, including one of most successful venture capital investments in consumer security - AVG. A dual US-Israeli citizen, Robert is originally from Philadelphia, spent 18 years in Prague before moving to Israel almost a decade ago.
Sun, September 26, 2021
Ep582: Yoni Shtein | CEO & Co-Founder, Laguna
Yoni is a serial entrepreneur who started his journey as a software engineer at Microsoft. Having completed his MBA at Harvard, Yoni joined RPX Corp as a founding member of the insurance business. After RPX went public, Yoni left RPX to co-found and merge a fund into Fortress Investment Group where he spent six years as an investor. Yoni moved to Israel and launched Laguna Health, a digital recovery assurance company, with his longtime friend and colleague from Microsoft Yael Peled Adam.
Sun, September 26, 2021
Ep581: Pini Yakuel | Founder and CEO, Optimove
Pini Yakuel is the founder and CEO of Optimove, provider of the leading CRM Marketing platform. Pini’s extensive experience in analytics-driven marketing, business consulting and sales, along with his innovative approaches to entrepreneurship and business-building, have earned him recognition as a thought leader. Pini has led Optimove to become a market leader, with hundreds of brands using his company’s software and services to orchestrate and automate highly effective personalized CRM.
Sat, September 25, 2021
Ep580: Lior Shalev | CEO, Algaemor - Simpliigood
Lior Shalev is one of Israel’s most passionate voices for transforming society through the combination of tech and social entrepreneurship and promoting the double impact ecosystem in Israel. He is the CEO and co-founder of Algaemor an Agritech startup that grows fresh Spirulina –microalgae as a sustainable food source and plant-based protein. Algaemor is addressing the most fundamental global issues of the Foodtech and Agritech sectors: from malnutrition and food insecurity to the protein gap and implication of industrialized food.
Sat, September 25, 2021
Ep579: Vanessa Perumal | Managing Director, JT Communciation Solutions
Vanessa Perumal is a leading South African strategist, former journalist, media and communications specialist and social entrepreneur who is currently using her rare cancer to highlight the importance of resilience, community and African excellence during a time of unprecedented challenges for the world.
Fri, September 24, 2021
Ep578: Jeff Shapiro | Senior Partner at Kingsley Gate Partners, LLC
Jeff Shapiro is a Senior Partner with Kingsley Gate Partners. Over a 25-year career in executive search, Jeff has placed Board Directors, C-level and VP-level executives for clients across the US, Europe and Israel. For the past fifteen years, he has focused on partnering with a number of VC and PE investors across hi-tech and life sciences, working with Israeli-founded early and mid-stage companies to recruit senior talent around the world. Jeff has a particular specialty in software & infrastructure, digital health and medical device companies.
Thu, September 23, 2021
Ep577: Ilan Peleg | Co-Founder and CEO, Lightrun
Ilan used to be a professional athlete who represented Israel in the biggest international scenes out there. Retired at the age of 21 and started his first entrepreneurial journey with his partner Leonid. They founded Hommyfood which was a small Israeli startup that was acquired after 8 months of activity. From that point, they focused on becoming better developers and technologists - working in both enterprise environments and small successful startups. At the age of 27, he co-founded Lightrun which is in the mission of becoming the best friend of a developer to allow him to observe, understand and debug live applications. They raised almost $30M from great angel investors, Glilot Capital and Insight Partners.
Thu, September 23, 2021
Ep586: Mor Assia | Founding Partner and Co-CEO, iAngels; General Partner, iNgenuity Fund
An Israeli high-tech insider, a graduate of the IDF’s elite intelligence unit 8200, Mor leads iAngels’ investment committee, deal screening, due diligence and portfolio management activities. Mor’s tech background with SAP, IBM and Amdocs has proven invaluable in assessing new technologies and her ability to deep dive with entrepreneurs into their business strategy and solution has created a strong foundation for relationship building. Mor has been instrumental in structuring and pricing investment rounds and consistently brings value add partnerships to help portfolio companies.
Sun, September 19, 2021
Ep576: Lirone Glikman | Global Business Development, Keynote Speaker, The Human Factor
Lirone Glikman turned her passion for people, marketing and global travels into a thriving business is a global business development expert and an international keynote speaker. She is the founder of ‘The Human Factor by Lirone Glikman’ - a global business development boutique firm that helps tech companies grow and expand to new global markets.
Sun, September 19, 2021
Ep575: Alexander Konoplyasty | General Partner / Co-founder, Flashpoint
Alexander Konoplyasty is co-founder and General Partner at Flashpoint. Alex and his business partner, Michael Szalontay, set up the investment firm in 2012, having met during their time at Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Alex holds a degree in international economic relations and has previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Morgan Stanley, and UBS. He serves as a board member of several companies, including ivi, a Russian streaming service, and Guesty, property management software.
Sat, September 18, 2021
Ep574: Marcus Sheridan | Co-Owner and Partner, IMPACT
Marcus Sheridan is a highly sought-after international keynote speaker known for his unique ability to excite, engage and motivate audiences. He is co-owner and partner at IMPACT, one of the most successful digital sales and marketing agencies in the country, and author of They Ask, You Answer – once touted by Mashable as the “#1 Marketing Book” Dubbed a “web marketing guru” by the New York Times and, in 2017, named one of 20 “Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss” by Forbes, his philosophy has helped countless marketing and sales teams around the world connect with buyers online and achieve astounding revenue growth. In fact, Marcus saved his swimming pool company, River Pools and Spas, from the economic collapse of 2008 and adapted, not only to stay afloat but to thrive.
Sat, September 18, 2021
Ep573: Lee Moser | Managing Partner and Founder, AnD Ventures
Lee is the Managing Partner and founder of AnD Ventures. As a former partner at iAngels VC, Lee headed partnerships and investor relations for the organization, worked with hundreds of investors, family offices, and corporations worldwide. Prior to that, Lee was Chief of Staff to the Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren in Washington, DC, and a senior consultant to Blackrock. Lee holds a Bachelor’s degree from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Kellogg Northwestern.
Fri, September 17, 2021
Ep572: Enis Abo Alhasan | Business Development Manager, Siraj Technologies
Enis is the business development manager at Siraj technologies, a startup specializing in connectivity allowing seamless adoption of industry 4.0 technologies. Enis graduated from Sapir college with a bachelor's degree in technology marketing with health technology specialization and currently studying for a master's degree in health systems management at Ben Gurion University. Also, Enis is also a researcher of the economic evaluation of pharmaceutical interventions with published articles.
Thu, September 16, 2021
Ep571: Gidi Stein | Co-Founder and CEO, MedAware
Dr. Gidi Stein is a practicing physician, researcher, and serial entrepreneur. Early in his career, he served as CTO and Chief Architect of several algorithm-rich startup companies in Israel. In 2002, he graduated from Tel Aviv University Medical School and went on to specialize in internal medicine, treating patients and teaching students and residents in one of Israel’s largest hospitals. He received his PhD in Computational Biology from Tel Aviv University, harnessing mathematical and biological models to help fight breast cancer. In 2012, he co-founded MedAware, a startup that utilizes machine learning algorithms to eliminate prescription errors and promote patient safety.
Thu, September 16, 2021
Ep570: Dotan Asselmann | Co-Founder & CTO, Theator
Dotan Asselmann is CTO and Co-Founder of leading Surgical Intelligence platform Theator and has a rich background in entrepreneurship, machine learning technologies and software engineering. Prior to co-founding Theator, he was Co-Founder and CTO of computer vision startup EyeOnn and previously served in the elite Israeli 8100 unit where he spent several years as a Computer Vision Team Leader.
Sat, September 11, 2021
Ep569: Shay Grinfeld | Managing Partner, Greenfield Partners
Shay is an experienced entrepreneur and investor. Currently, he is the Managing Partner of Greenfield Partners, a technology Investment Fund focused on Growth stage technology companies. He serves as Senior Advisor to TPG and previously was Managing Director of NJ-based family office Thylacine Capital. Prior to joining Thylacine, Shay was VP Corporate Development at ad-tech firm WebCollage (Acq. by Answers.com), CEO of eGlue (Acq. by NICE), and VP Product at Alfy. Shay is a former Israel Air Force (IAF) F-16 Fighter Pilot.
Thu, September 09, 2021
Ep568: Diogo Cunha | Co-Founder & CEO, Katoo
Diogo is a Portuguese operator turned founder. After starting his career at Boston Consulting Group in Spain, Diogo joined Uber on the Driver Growth team for Spain, Italy, Portugal and Croatia. He launched new cities, increased driver conversion by +50% and led efforts for the launch of new products. He’s a travel fanatic (+65 countries visited), always looking for the best street food wherever he goes.
Wed, September 08, 2021
Ep567: Sandiso Sibisi | Open Innovation Studio Director, COOi Studios
Sandiso is an innovator and entrepreneur, with over 10 years experience in technology consulting. She is the former Head of Open Innovation (Africa) at Accenture and has led tech implementations, data strategy, cost reductions assignments in the Consumer Goods sector. She is the founder of COOi Studios, an innovation lab for corporations. Amongst other accolades, she is a Sustainable Development Goals ambassador, Mzansi’s 100 Inspiring and Aspiring Leaders, a Play Your Part Ambassador with Brand South Africa, an Inspiring Fifty Women in Tech and a Mandela Washington Fellow.
Wed, September 08, 2021
Ep566: Mira Brancu | Founder & CEO, Brancu & Associates
Dr. Mira Brancu is a consulting psychologist, leadership coach, writer, and speaker. She leads Brancu & Associates, a boutique consulting firm that aims to help leaders lead teams and navigate large, complex organizations and helps organizations make it easier to navigate. She has a special passion for helping women gain the influence, power, leadership, and resiliency skills needed in today’s diverse, complex, and ever-changing workplace. She has written about this in her new book, Millennials' Guide to Workplace Politics. Dr. Brancu is also an Associate Professor at Duke University, an Associate Editor of the Consulting Psychology Journal, and has a Psychology Today blog focused on women's leadership.
Tue, September 07, 2021
Ep565: Tiah Goldstein | Founder, Interwoven
Tiah believes that business has the power to make the world a better place and that understanding and operating with congruence, kindness and curiosity makes for a more interesting and worthwhile life journey. For the past 25 years, she has been skipping across the globe, exploring and developing practical frameworks, strategies, tools and programs around sustainability, impact tech, scaling social impact, ESG, SDG and any other random combination of the alphabet that means doing good.
Tue, September 07, 2021
Ep564: Navrina Singh | Founder & CEO, Credo AI
Navrina Singh is the Founder & CEO of Credo AI and a technology leader with over 18+ years of experience in Enterprise SaaS, AI and Mobile. Navrina has held multiple product and business leadership roles at Microsoft and Qualcomm. Navrina is an executive board member of Mozilla focused on their trustworthy AI charter. Navrina is also a young global leader with the World economic forum & was on their future council for AI guiding policies & regulations in responsible AI. Navrina holds a Master’s in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MBA from the University of Southern California and a Bachelors in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from India.
Mon, September 06, 2021
Ep563: Yaron Gilboa | President & CEO, TurboGen
A veteran of the aerospace industry, with extensive experience of over 40 years in operations, manufacturing, engineering, R&D, business development, sales, and marketing. In his previous role, he served as VP of marketing and business development in “Ashot Ashkelon". Israeli Naval Academy graduated (Submarine Officer & Chief Engineer). BSc. mechanical engineering
Sun, September 05, 2021
Ep562: Matan Liberman | Co-Founder, Semperis
Matan is a co-founder of Semperis and leads the company’s Israeli arm, as well as business development. He began his career as a software engineer in the Israel Defense Force, implementing mission-critical systems for the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, prior to getting promoted to Development Team Leader. In this role, Matan gained extensive Microsoft experience and was charged with leading the development of the organizational identity management system from the ground up.
Sat, September 04, 2021
Ep561: Shy Datika | Founder & President, INX
Mr. Datika is the founder and president of INX, a fully regulated digital asset trading platform, for listing and trading cryptocurrencies, security tokens, and their derivatives. INX was the first company in history to file an F1 prospectus with the SEC for a registered security token IPO. Mr. Datika has over 25 years of capital markets experience, trading and building networks, and technology play in the banking and financial industries.
Sat, September 04, 2021
Ep560: Amir Shevat | Head of Product for the Developer Platform, Twitter
Amir is the Head of Product for the Developer Platform at Twitter and a Venture Partner at Innovation Endeavors. Previously Amir held executive roles at Amazon, Slack, Google, and Microsoft. He is the author of two books, on designing bots and building APIs that developers love.
Fri, September 03, 2021
Ep559: Ory Weihs | Founder, Team Odeon
Ory is an experienced founder, executive, and investor. He founded XLMedia PLC, a London-listed performance marketing company in 2003, led it through its IPO, and ran it until 2019. Ory is an investor in companies such as Mews, Medorion, Gigantic and more. His focus is on strong founder-led teams with disruptive technology and sector-specific expertise.
Fri, September 03, 2021
Ep558: Aviv Shapira | Co-Founder & CEO, XTEND
Aviv is an Aerospace Engineer and holds two Emmy Awards for the best broadcasting technology of 2013 and 2015. He co-founded Replay Technologies, which invented a new volumetric video format that has been used at major sports events around the world. After winning two Emmy Awards, Replay was acquired by Intel in 2016. Today he is the CEO of XTEND, in the field of Extended Reality, which aims to give people the ability to fly (!) through an immersive experience using VR and Drones.
Fri, September 03, 2021
Ep557: Yotam Tzuker | Head of Business Development, CQ Global
Yotam Tzuker is the Head of Business Development at CQ Global A leading global search firm located in Israel, helping Israeli-based companies expand globally by finding the best talents for their team. Prior to this role, Yotam has founded Tech7, an NGO that promotes the tech & entrepreneurship ecosystem in Beersheva and the south region of Israel. We have managed to build the largest startup community in Israel with over 15,000 members, and hundreds of activities in our track record. Today Yotam is an active chairman of the board. Yotam holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Ben Gurion University and a GMBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from the IDC.
Thu, September 02, 2021
Ep556: Shahar Cohen | Founder & CEO, Lucid Capital
Shahar Cohen, a software engineer by training, has served in executive product and strategy positions at Tech in Israel and Silicon Valley. Several years ago, he founded Lucid Capital, a tech fund that specializes in global tech stocks as well as late-stage startups. Lucid Capital is a close partner of the leading Israeli institutional investors and assists them in accessing and qualifying direct tech investments both on the global public markets as well as the private ones.
Thu, September 02, 2021
Ep554: Dina Fine | VP R&D, TailorMed
I am Dina Fine, VP R&D at TailorMed Medical, a comprehensive software solution with a mission to help patients and healthcare providers tackle the financial challenges of care delivery. Prior to Tailormed, I was VP R&D Data Collection and B2C at SimilarWeb. I bring almost 20 years of experience in building high-performance, scalable and robust systems. I am passionate about leading high-paced RnD departments, setting up solid and effective development life cycles, with a focus on technological excellence and high standards.
Thu, September 02, 2021
Ep553: Gil Ben-Artzy | Founding Partner, UpWest
Gil is the Founding Partner of UpWest, the only Seed fund that's purposefully designed to help Israeli startups break into the US market. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and operating since 2012, UpWest was the first investor in SentineOne, HoneyBook and 80 other startups that raised over $2B in follow-on funding from top US VCs. Prior to UpWest, Gil was the VP of Operations Management at Yahoo! after working with the company's Corporate Development group. Gil also served as a consultant advising Fortune 500 companies for the Boston Consulting Group in New York.
Wed, September 01, 2021
Ep552: Massimiliano Magrini | Founder and Managing Partner, United Ventures
Massimiliano Magrini has always worked at the intersection of business and technology, that being the thread across his career from launching the operations of Altavista and Google Italy as founding country manager to creating an avant-garde VC studio in 2009 and then co-founding in 2013 United Ventures, the Milan-based independent venture capital firm investing in digital technologies. Today, Massimiliano’s mission is to back extraordinary founders along their journey to build great companies, from the early to the growth stage. He provides strategic guidance to portfolio companies and leads the investment thesis on game-changing technologies, aimed at the creation of long-term value.
Wed, September 01, 2021
Ep551: Eli Bejerano | CEO, Bit2C
Eli is the CEO of Bit2C, a company that has developed a trading platform that enables the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies against the shekel, along with the management and preservation of digital currencies and the realization of large-scale transactions. 8 years ago he sat on the sofa playing video games with a friend and thought about opening a company that will make Bitcoin accessible.
Wed, September 01, 2021
Ep550: Gad Allon | Director of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology
Gad Allon is the Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, and the director of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning educator, teaching courses on scaling technology ventures and operations strategy. Gad’s recent research primarily considers gig workers, quick decision-making, and the communication between firms and customers. He is the co-founder of ForClass, helping professors drive higher student engagement and accountability in the classroom.
Tue, August 31, 2021
Ep549: Baratang Miya | CEO, GirlHYPE
Baratang is an award-winning tech founder and a self-taught software developer with robust problem-solving skills and proven experience in building tech startups, incubators, co-working spaces, and creating, designing software in a test-driven environment. She is the founder of the first African software engineering school focusing on women and girls and worked tirelessly to mobilize governments, corporations, and civil society to invest in women and girls education.
Tue, August 31, 2021
Ep548: Ouriel Ohayon | CEO, ZenGo
Ouriel is the CEO of ZenGo, a new generation of All-in-one crypto wallet focused on simplicity and safety. He’s a former executive at ICQ/AOL, founder of TechCrunch France (sold to AOL), Isai.fr (leading French VC) and was general manager of the internet Lab of Gemini and Lightspeed Ventures. Ouriel is French and Israeli, based in Tel Aviv
Tue, August 31, 2021
Ep547: Nobukhosi Dlamini | Founder, Bahati Tech
Nobukhosi Dlamini is a tech founder of Bahati Tech - a cybersecurity and data protection company with headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the GIFT Foundation, which is a non-profit organization focused on assisting rural and informal settlement-based young women to acquire technical and digital skills to improve their livelihoods and break the cycle of poverty.
Sun, August 29, 2021
Ep546: Tomer Kashi | Co-Founder & CEO, VOOM Insurance
Tomer Kashi is CEO and Co-Founder of VOOM, an InsurTech company for next-gen mobility insurance products. Previously, Tomer spearheaded interdisciplinary technology projects from within the Prime Minister’s Office in Israel, including a project that has received the "Israel Defense Prize". Tomer is a "Talpiot" graduate and has a BSc in computer science and physics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. Tomer is based in Tel Aviv and is a proud father of two little daughters.
Sun, August 29, 2021
Ep545: Sepideh Nasiri | Founder & CEO, Women Of MENA In Technology
Sepideh Nasiri is the CEO and Founder of Women of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in Technology (previously known as Persian Women In Tech). She is an award-winning serial entrepreneur with over 16 years of experience in the Tech Industry, and a lifetime advocate for women, diversity, and inclusion. Prior, she was Co-founder and Managing Editor of a digital and print Los Angeles Magazine, and later as the Vice President of Women 2.0, with over 250,000 members worldwide and partnerships with many tech companies and Corps, which was acquired in 2016.
Sun, August 29, 2021
Ep544: Alaina Percival | CEO and co-founder, Women Who Code
Alaina Percival is CEO and co-founder of Women Who Code. Under Alaina’s leadership, the organization has grown to serve 290,000 members in 134 countries. Alaina is an accomplished tech speaker, appearing at WSJ.d Live, CodeMotion Milan, Grace Hopper, Columbia University’s Social Enterprise, and more. Alaina has been published by Forbes, Huffington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Alaina holds a Master’s in Organizational Management and an MBA. She is also an Angel Investor, a Venture Partner at Valor Ventures, serves on the Board of ATLFamily meal, and is a CodePath Advisor.
Sat, August 28, 2021
Ep543: Arik Faingold | Chairman, Comm-IT
Arik is an entrepreneur and advisor to startups and capital fund groups, and the President of Commit. He has over 20 years of business development experience in the global technology sector, combined with a vast knowledge of software design, development, and system architecture. Arik successfully completed a number of exits and co-founded several ventures, including Pentera (formerly Pcysys) a fully automated, self-learning penetration tests solution that mimics the hacker's mindset, and Betting Corp which provided gaming platforms and real-time transaction management.
Sat, August 28, 2021
Ep542: Omri Paz | Founder & CEO, Vegan Friendly
Omri Paz has a Law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2012 he founded Vegan Friendly which is the leading vegan organization in Israel. Since it was established, Vegan Friendly launched many campaigns that reached millions of people including the biggest animal rights march in history, massive billboards, vegan ads on prime time, and the 10 million lecture.
Sat, August 28, 2021
Ep541: Roman Itskovich | Founder and Chief Risk Officer, At-Bay
Roman is the co-founder and chief risk officer of At-Bay, A cyber Insurer. Digital risk is complex and constantly evolving, with breaches in the news all the time driving trillions of annual losses to society. At-Bay helps businesses prevent cyber loss before it happens, and insure them for when the loss couldn't be avoided. Our modern approach to risk management has kept At-Bay ahead of the pack, anticipating new threats and identifying vulnerabilities to help keep insureds secure.
Fri, August 27, 2021
Ep540: Antonio Franchino | Director, Art & Luxury Investments Fund
Antonio is a lawyer and in the last 25 years has managed the criminal litigation of an important banking and financial group. He also managed all the compliance activities with particular reference to the activity of the Anti-Money Laundering and fight against terrorism activities. In the last years, he has been a member of the Board of several Reserved Alternative Investment Funds. Today, he is the Managing Director of Art & Luxury Investment Fund.
Fri, August 27, 2021
Ep539: Maurizio Rossi | Founder and CoCEO, H-FARM
Pioneer in the startup business and Venture Capital in Italy, Maurizio is cofounder of H-FARM, having incubated and invested in over 140 companies. The organization went public in 2015 and has expanded to an education hub of 51 hectares for 3000 students. In his previous experiences, Maurizio worked in the luxury and sporting goods industries, some involving acquisitions by global leaders such as LVMH fashion holding and other majors sports brands. If in the past Maurizio managed to distinguish himself in the world of sports as a champion in offshore racing, today Maurizio is committed to running after his 4 children and more than 350 startuppers.
Fri, August 27, 2021
Ep538: Eyal Gruner | CEO & Founder, CYNET
Eyal Gruner founded Cynet in 2015. He started his journey in the cybersecurity world when he was 15 when he uncovered a breach in the ATM machine of a large Israeli bank and a high-tech company. They both eventually hired him as a cybersecurity expert while he was still in high school. At the age of 16, he founded his first cybersecurity consultancy company, BugSec, which become one of the biggest consulting companies in Israel. After his military service, he founded a startup called Versafe and sold it to F5 Networks at the age of 24 for $100 million. Eyal founded Cynet with the goal of building a “truly big company”."
Fri, August 27, 2021
Ep537: Dotan Bar Noy | Co-founder & CEO, Authomize
Dotan is Authomize's Co-Founder & CEO. Prior to co-founding Authomize, Dotan led the product management for the “Infinity Next” platform at Check Point Software, following the successful acquisition of ForceNock Security, where he served as Co-founder & CEO. He also founded and served as CEO at ReSec Tech. Dotan is also a member of the Technion Board of Governors - Israel Institute of Technology.
Fri, August 27, 2021
Ep536: Ami Aharonovich | General Manager, Aerospike Israel
I’m a technology Geek with over 20 years of experience in the world of databases. I’m eager to continuously learn and improve while removing obstacles out of the way. I’m keen to reach success and always strive to achieve a true win-win. I believe that doing business is “all about the people”, and finding the shared road to success. For 8 years, I worked for John Bryce and delivered technical database training for thousands of people globally, following that I founded my training and services boutique company and after 10 years I had the opportunity to kickstart the Aerospike Israel entity, which I’ve been leading since 2018.
Thu, August 26, 2021
Ep535: Nimrod Vax | Cofounder and Head of product, BigID
Nimrod is a co-founder and Head of Product at BigID. He is experienced in enterprise product and a security executive and served in various capacities ranging from engineering, product and business management. Prior to founding BigID, Nimrod served as VP Product Management, Product Line Manager for CA Identity Management product line and as an advisor to security startups in the area of identity management and user behavior analytics.
Thu, August 26, 2021
Ep534: Chen Sagiv | Co Founder & Co CEO, DeePathology.ai
Chen is co-founder and co CEO of DeePathology, and also co-founder of SagivTech and SurgeonAI. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Math from Tel Aviv University specializing in Computer Vision. Chen loves Math and the mix of algorithms and healthcare. She lives in Gaash with her husband, twin girls, and two dogs.
Thu, August 26, 2021
Ep533: Eran Fine | CEO and Co - Founder, NanoLock Security
Eran is the co-founder and CEO of Nanolock security from day 1. He was a consultant to Cimagine that was sold to Snapchat and was the co-founder and CEO of OREE that were acquired in 2015. He was a senior consultant to Tel Aviv University Nanolock Science center and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China’s MIT. Eran was also the co-founder of On-Eden that was sold to the formula group and created 5 comedy shows among them the highly successful show, The Leash.
Thu, August 26, 2021
Ep532: Isaac Heller | CEO, Trullion
Isaac is the co-founder and CEO of Trullion, an AI-powered SaaS platform that automates financial workflows for CFOs, accountants, and auditors. Trullion unifies the unstructured and structured worlds of accounting by reading PDFs and Excel and translating them into financial workflows, such as Lease Accounting and Revenue Recognition.
Thu, August 26, 2021
Ep531: Idan Hershko | Co-Founder, Avo
Idan is a co-founder at Avo, a fast-growing e-commerce startup focused on reducing costs for consumers by aggregating demand. Before starting Avo Idan started a couple of other companies and was also an early employee at Monday.com. He was also the founder of a podcast called startup camel, where he interviewed over 80 founders from the Israeli start-up scene.
Wed, August 25, 2021
Ep530: Marius Hanganu | Managing Partner, Tremend
Marius Hanganu has been a manager in the software industry for over 20 years. He has been overseeing complex projects from sales to deployment and support. He serves as the Managing Partner of Tremend, with a focus on operations and shaping the organization to become a top software Romanian provider.
Wed, August 25, 2021
Ep528: Anna Collard | SVP of Content Strategy & Evangelist, KnowBe4 Africa
Anna is currently SVP of Content Strategy & Evangelist for KnowBe4 Africa where she drives security awareness across the African continent. Collard founded security content publisher Popcorn Training, now part of KnowBe4, which is a South African company that promotes cybersecurity awareness by using innovative, story-based techniques and gamification to make complex content simple to understand and easy to remember.
Wed, August 25, 2021
Ep529: Jessica Richman | Trade and Investment Director, The Australian Trade Founder and CEO, The Visible Collective
Jessica Richman serves as a San Francisco-based Trade and Investment Director for The Australian Trade and Investment Commission. In this role, Jessica helps US-based tech companies launch and expand in Australia. She also assists Australian tech companies with their US expansion. Additionally, Jessica acts as Founder and CEO of The Visible Collective® where she advises companies on product development, marketing, and new business development to better serve customers labeled overweight or obese by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Ms. Richman previously held roles in marketing, growth and strategy at Walmart.com. One of her greatest achievements was a 10-month solo around-the-world trip.
Wed, August 25, 2021
Ep527: Rachel Diamant | Chief IP officer & Head of Pipeline Development, Emendo Biotherapeutics
Emendo was founded in 2015 by Rachel and a group of classmates from Weizmann. Her role at Emendo as Chief Intellectual Property Officer & Head of Pipeline Development includes building is to design an IP strategy for Emendo that both generates an extensive patent portfolio to cover various novel aspects of the technology and products and also navigates the IP space. Additionally, she is building Emendo’s pipeline of clinical programs and the academic and industrial collaborations and partnerships for the pre/clinical development of Emendo’s selected indications and genomic targets.
Wed, August 18, 2021
Ep526: Tomer London | Co-founder and CPO, Gusto
Tomer is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Gusto, a software company helping hundreds of thousands of businesses start, build and grow their teams. He's optimistic, easily excitable, chronically impatient, and a loving father of 3.
Tue, August 17, 2021
Ep525: Amitai Ratzon | CEO, Pentera
Amitai is an experienced CEO, specializing in growing early-stage tech ventures from no revenue / early revenue to tens of millions in ARR across regions and verticals. As Pentera CEO, he's led exponential growth since January 2018, to becoming the de-facto market leader in Automated Security Validation, through 3 funding rounds, from AWZ Ventures, The Blackstone Group, and Insight Partners, the most prominent cybersecurity investor of our times.
Tue, August 10, 2021
Ep524: Oded Hermoni | Managing Partner, J-Ventures VC fund
Oded is an investor, entrepreneur and journalist. Since 2005, he has invested in over 70 companies (5 of which became Unicorns), as is currently the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of the J-Ventures Fund (a "Capitalist Kibbutz") in Silicon Valley. Oded is active in philanthropic organizations and has been a Board Member at the Jewish Federation SF, JFCS, Friends of Hebrew University, ICON, Intro, and more.
Tue, August 10, 2021
Ep523: Amit Daniel | Chief Marketing Officer and Strategy, Cognyte
Amit Daniel is a Marketing leader with two decades of experience in global high-tech companies. Since joining the Cognyte business in 2015, Amit has been responsible for global marketing, employer brand, and demand generation for driving business growth. Prior to joining the Cognyte business, Amit was EVP Marketing and Products at cVidya (now an Amdocs company) and VP Marketing, Business Development and Products at Starhome (now TOMIA).
Mon, August 09, 2021
Ep522: Limor Segev | VP Product, Pecan
Limor is a proud mother of 4 and very happily married. She has over 18 years of experience in tech, last 11 years in product management in startups, eBay and WeWork. During her career, she was always attracted to data and ways to leverage it to make a business impact. Her last two roles before joining Pecan were eBay where she led the product team for the eBay catalog and in WeWork billing and payments. Today she leads Product at Pecan, with the mission to empower every data analyst to create business impact using ML and predictive analytics.
Mon, August 09, 2021
Ep521: Maor Farid | Postdoctoral Fulbright and ISEF Fellow, MIT
Dr. Farid is a lecturer and Fulbright scholar at the Technion and MIT, and a member of Harvard’s Leadership Program. He completed his Ph.D. with honors as the youngest graduate at the Technion at the age of 24, focusing on seismic protection of nuclear reactors. He served as a Captain and AI researcher in Unit 8200 and was acknowledged as an excellent Scientist (top 3 academics in the IDF). Farid is the founder and CEO of 'Lilmod Lehatsliach' (Hebrew: Learn to Succeed) – an NGO for empowering youth at risk from the Israeli periphery, and the author of the top seller “Learn to Succeed”.
Sun, August 08, 2021
Ep519: Dekel Persi | Co Founder and Managing Partner, TPY Capital
Dekel Persi is a founding partner at TPY Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund with over $135M under management. TPY Capital partners with both serial and first-time entrepreneurs seeking partners who share similar values and hands-on support. TPY Capital invested in more than 20 companies including AI21, UniPaaS, H2Pro, Qedma, Pasqal, Paramount Data, TabNine, Signals, Seebo and Enzymotec.
Sun, August 08, 2021
Ep520: Sreeram Ravinoothala | Director of R&D, VMWare
Sreeram is Director of R&D at VMWare a cloud computing and virtualization company. He runs an R&D team across Geos that provides connectivity and services for workloads that run on multi-clouds using NSX orchestrator or that works based on K8s orchestration. Sreeram has delivered products that help customers to focus on the workloads or apps than on the underlying infrastructure. Sreeram's focus has now been to look at SaaS-based infrastructure services in a multi-cloud scenario.
Sat, August 07, 2021
Ep518: Ziv Peled | Chief Customer Officer, AppsFlyer
Ziv knew he wanted to work in hi-tech since he was 13, he got closer and closer every summer break. Year after year people gave him a chance to do more and learn more, he hopes he's paying his debt today. In his 20+ years, he mostly worked customer-facing and he truly loves the relationship companies develop with their customers and the importance of it in B2B SaaS.
Sat, August 07, 2021
Ep517: Shimon Tolts | CEO & Co-Founder, Datree
Shimon established and managed the Software Engineering Infrastructure department for 400 engineers at ironSource. Also, as an AWS Community Hero, Shimon runs the largest AWS user group worldwide and is an avid speaker at conferences. Today, Shimon is the CEO & Co-Founder at Datree, an automated policy enforcement solution for Kubernetes. The CLI tool prevents Kubernetes misconfigurations by ensuring the manifests and Helm charts follow best practices, as well as your organization's policies.
Fri, August 06, 2021
Ep516: Tato Bigio | Co-Founder and CEO, UBQ Materials Ltd.
Co-Founder and CEO of UBQ Materials, Tato is redefining household waste as a valuable material feedstock for the manufacturing industry. Prior to UBQ, he co-founded and managed Merhav Renewable Energies (MRE), where he developed and implemented large-scale wind, solar, and bioethanol projects around the world. Before selling MRE in 2008, Tato served as the President and CEO of Ampal-American Israel Corporation, an investment company traded on both the NASDAQ and the Tel Aviv stock exchanges. A native of Lima-Peru, Bigio grew up in the shores of the Pacific Ocean with a passion for diving and sailing which he carries till today.
Fri, August 06, 2021
Ep515: Adam Kogan | Co-founder and head of Product, PayMe
Adam is the co-founder and head of Product of PayMe, an Israeli FinTech company providing financial services to micro-businesses. PayMe is his 3rd company since leaving the military as an officer in military intelligence
Thu, August 05, 2021
Ep514: Sonwabise Mzinyathi | Senior Manager: Global Policy and Government Affairs, Global Citizen
Sonwabise Mzinyathi started her career in diplomacy and was posted as a Diplomat for South Africa in New Delhi, India. She left diplomacy to join corporate and has worked for PR agencies, tech and FinTech companies including TBWA’s Magna Carta, Cisco, and Refinitiv - a London Stock Exchange Business. Currently, she is in the NGO space working for global advocacy NGO, Global Citizen. She also serves on several Boards and Committees including the SA Women in ICT Forum, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment ICT Sector Council and the Cisco Charitable Foundation Trust and owns several companies. Her passion is using technology to address social ills.
Thu, August 05, 2021
Ep513: Shlomi Kofman | Consul General of Israel to the Pacific North-West
Consul General of Israel to the Pacific North-West, Mr Shlomi Kofman is a 25 years career diplomat with vast experience in diplomacy, tech relations, and public policy. Prior to his posting in San Francisco, Consul General Kofman served as served Policy Advisor to the Deputy Foreign Ministers, as Israel’s Deputy Consul General in New York City, Chief of Staff to Ambassadors in Washington D.C., Deputy Ambassador in Thailand, and Deputy Consul General in Shanghai.
Wed, August 04, 2021
Ep512: Ronen Luzon | Founder & CEO, My Size Inc.
Ronen is a serial entrepreneur and a skilled manager with a track record of success across various industries. Prior to founding MySize, he established and led startups in the medical devices and communication sectors. Among his other endeavors, Ronen founded Malers, a company that has grown to be a leader in the global security solutions market and provides some of the most advanced technological solutions for integrated communication infrastructures, security, and control systems. Prior to that, he held several senior marketing, sales management, and professional services positions in a variety of international high-tech companies. Ronen graduated from Middlesex University in London with a B.sc in IT and Business Information Systems.
Tue, August 03, 2021
Ep511: Eran Horowitz | CEO and Co-Founder, Credit24
Credit24 is a Fintech company, which aims to create a One-Stop-Shop for the online lending industry. The company has developed a turnkey solution, which allows fully automated underwriting, operation, and collection, alongside KYC and a sales\retention platform. The company uses a proprietary solution that allows partnerships with various companies, from insurance companies to retail giants to offer loans, credit lines, or POS payments, without the need to develop anything on their end nor setting up a call center. The company was established in 2016 by Eran Horowitz, Asaf Iofe, and Ziv Rossbach.
Mon, August 02, 2021
Ep510: Elnor Rozenrot | CEO, Jasper (formerly CreditStacks)
Elnor is the CEO and Co-Founder of the credit card company Jasper, formerly known as CreditStacks. Previously, Elnor was Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising platform Pingjam and VP of New Growth Platforms at LG Electronics. Elnor holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Academic College of Law in Tel Aviv.
Sun, August 01, 2021
Ep509: Melissa Slaymaker | Women in Tech Country Director for South Africa
Melissa is a speaker, moderator, and advocate for Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace and helps to empower women through connecting them to various programs, events, and opportunities - created to give access to investors, mentors, networking, quality education, or job opportunities.
Sat, July 31, 2021
Ep508: Miki Shifman | Co-Founder and CTO, Cylus
Miki Shifman is the CTO and co-founder of Cylus, which provides cybersecurity solutions for the rail industry. Miki is a veteran leader in the development of complex cyber security projects, with over ten years of experience in software engineering, research, and management. Prior to co-founding Cylus, Miki served as an R&D leader in the Cyber R&D Division of the Israel Defense Force’s Elite Technological Unit. He led teams awarded the Israel Defense Prize for exceptional technological breakthroughs and received high military honors for extraordinary achievement and exceptional contributions to national security. Miki has been recognized as an expert for Smart Mobility and Cyber Security by the World Economic Forum and he was featured on the Forbes “30 Under 30” list of 2020.
Fri, July 30, 2021
Ep507: Aviv Ben Arie | Staff Data Scientist, Intuit
Aviv is a Staff Data Scientist at Intuit, previously a Lead Data Scientist at PayPal. She specializes in fraud prevention and cybersecurity, and in the past worked at the Prime Minister’s Office in the Cyber Security field, focusing on protocol analysis. Aviv graduated from Tel Aviv University with a double BSc in Computer Science and Life Science, while specializing in Bioinformatics.
Thu, July 29, 2021
Ep506: John Rossman | Author, The Amazon Way Managing Partner, Rossman Partners
John Rossman is the author of The Amazon Way book series, a former Amazon leader and Managing Partner at Rossman Partners. John is an expert leveraging the Amazon leadership principles to help others innovate, compete and win in the digital era. John was an executive at Amazon.com where he played a key role in launching the Amazon marketplace business as the Director of Merchant Integration and went on to have responsibilities for the enterprise business at Amazon.
Wed, July 28, 2021
Ep505: Omri Lavie | Co-Founder & CEO, Orchestra Group
Omri Lavie is a serial entrepreneur and an Angel investor. He co-founded NSO Group and is the co-founder and CEO of Orchestra Group, a holistic cybersecurity platform for proactive cyber defense. Omri founded several technology companies in various fields, specializing in Enterprise SW, Telecom, Cyber Intelligence & Cyber Security. He is also the co-founder at Founders Group, a private investment firm that invests in early-stage startups. He is an active philanthropist continuously supporting numerous non-profits in education, cancer wellness, the elderly, and child care.
Tue, July 27, 2021
Ep504: Hanna Yanovsky | GM & CRO (Chief Revenue Officer), Caja Robotics
Hannah started as a commercial lawyer advising and managing transactions in the tech ecosystem. Her curiosity led her to change sides and become an entrepreneur and tech executive, and since 2015 has been focusing on the Robotics and Automation industries. She is the General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer of Caja Robotics, automating solutions for order fulfillment.
Mon, July 26, 2021
Ep503: Yael Benjamin | Founder, Y.Benjamin Strategic Marketing
Yael is the founder of Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform working to increase transparency in the startup ecosystem. Former investment banker turned strategic advisor to innovators, she is on a mission to bring the same level of analysis she saw in the corporate world to startups, but in the flexible timeframe and formats that they need. With over a decade of experience in the industry, she has worked with hundreds of startups, helping them raise over $1B (and counting).
Sun, July 25, 2021
Ep502: Shahar Peled | CEO, Eternity
Shahar is an Israeli Entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He's the CEO of Eternity, a post-investment Israeli startup established to change the way people commemorate and celebrate the life stories of their loved ones in a respectful, accessible, and moving way. Shahar majored in Business and Data Science at IDC and graduated with honors. His managerial approach is "all-around", hands-on involvement, the idea to execution process, and data-driven decision making.
Sat, July 24, 2021
Ep501: Tony Zorc | CEO & Founder, Accounting Seed
Tony is an Iconoclast, Founder, and CEO of Accounting Seed, technology entrepreneur, ForbesBooks author, and CPA for 20+ years. He embodies iconoclasm, the idea of challenging the prescribed way of doing things and coming up with a better, more innovative solution. Accounting Seed – the world’s first accounting platform – is disrupting the cloud accounting industry and has over one thousand customers and fourteen thousand users, and has sustained double-digit growth for over ten consecutive years.
Fri, July 23, 2021
Ep500: Myra Khanna | Founder & CEO, Sama
Myra founded Sama to make the power of excellent executive coaching available to all employees. She trained as an M&A lawyer, but spent most of her career as an investor in private equity and venture capital at PSP Investments and BCI, large institutional asset managers, investing billions globally. She benefited from coaching in her career and believes that it is the best way to unlock potential in people and live a life of purpose.
Thu, July 22, 2021
Ep499: Kyle Lacy | Chief Marketing Officer, Lessonly
Kyle Lacy brings over 14 years of experience in marketing with a slice of revenue. He is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Lessonly. Prior to joining Lessonly, Kyle held senior positions at OpenView, Salesforce and ExactTarget. He is also the author of three books, Twitter Marketing for Dummies, Branding Yourself and Social CRM for Dummies. He wears monotone, loves history and hates onions.
Wed, July 21, 2021
Ep498: Michael Shaulov | CEO, Fireblocks
Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is also a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat and Infosec.
Tue, July 20, 2021
Ep497: Claudelle von Eck | Founder, Brave Inflexions
A former CEO of the Institute of Internal Auditors SA, Dr Claudelle is the founder of Brave Inflexions. Her practice focuses on leadership, governance, change management, ethics, culture and whistleblower support. Her approach is transformative with an emphasis on purpose and empowerment. She is an experienced executive and non-executive director and has served on numerous international committees and task teams. She holds a Master’s in Business Leadership and her doctoral degree is in leadership with a particular focus on change management.
Mon, July 19, 2021
Ep496: Sharel Omer | CEO & Co-Founder, Affogata.com
Sharel Omer is an Israeli entrepreneur whose passion for personal connections and building relationships has made him dedicated to bringing the consumer voice's power to brands and organizations. He's the CEO & Co-Founder of Affogata, a leading Consumer Intelligence Platform that enables brands to be truly customer-obsessed by bringing their customers' voices to the right teams in the organization. Affogata's portfolio of clients includes names like Wix.com, Fiverr, Lemonade, eToro, MyHeritage, Plarium, and more.
Sun, July 18, 2021
Ep495: Jillian Goldberg | VP of Marketing and Investor Relations, GuardKnox
Jillian is the current VP of Marketing and Investor Relations at GuardKnox Cyber Technologies, a world-leading Autotech company and the automotive industry’s first Cybertech Tier, where she was also one of the first employees. Originally from Cincinnati Ohio, she completed her undergraduate work at Tulane University before joining Teach for America as an inner-city high physics and chemistry teacher. She is a mentor in the flagship program through Women in Mobility, an Expert at Quantum Hub Accelerator, Competitive Powerlifter and Crossfitter, Advisor to the Alexander Muss High School in Israel for Entrepreneurship, among others.
Sat, July 17, 2021
Ep494: Raz Bachar | Managing Director - Israel & Global Industry Lead, Microsoft for Startups
Raz Bachar is the Global Lead for Startup Emerging Technologies & Managing Director - Israel at Microsoft For Startups. He is a business development professional and strategist, in generating growth for tech services and products. Before Microsoft, Raz built and drove the growth of AWS across several startup ecosystems in Europe, Middle East, and Africa through strategic planning, community building, and partnerships with VCs and accelerators.
Thu, July 15, 2021
Ep492: Omer Zerahia | Cannabis & Tech Entrepreneur
With 15 years of cross-sector experience in founding, managing and directing private and public companies in the tech and Cannabis industries, Omer has been leading M&A processes, global strategic partnerships, and deal-making worldwide. Omer has also been teaching as a senior lecturer in various academic institutes, both for Computer Science and for Behavioral Sciences, with a specialization in Cannabis.
Thu, July 15, 2021
Ep493: Dmitry Geyzersky | CTO and Founder, Click-Ins Ltd.
Dmitry Geyzersky is a software architect and technology consultant with a proven record of building military-grade intelligence systems. As the Co-founder & CTO of Click-Ins, he has two patents pending and his fields of research include ontology, domain-driven design, graph technologies, link analysis, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Dima has created companies and worked with a wide range of customers from startup companies to government organizations. He holds a B.Sc degree in Economics and Information Systems Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology.
Wed, July 14, 2021
Ep491: Ofer Sinai | Co Founder, HopOn
HopOn is the pioneer app for transit payments in Israel. It serves more than 1M users a month who use our services for navigating and paying through their commute on buses, trains and big taxis. HopOn today has a presence in 5 different countries, which include (Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, UK and Israel). it was founded in 2013 by Ofer Sinai, while he was taking his daily commute from Petah Tikva towards the KPMG office in Tel Aviv.
Wed, July 14, 2021
Ep490: Zviki Ben-Ishay | Co-Founder & CEO, Lightico
Zviki founded Lightico to empower businesses to effectively sell and service customers completely in the first call. Zviki is an expert in contact center management technologies in the field of innovation and analytics. His experiences in contact center management and technologies have sharpened his industry knowledge and his innovations have impacted millions of customer interactions. Prior to Lightico, Zviki led product innovation and deployment across leading CX companies including Nice Systems (NASDAQ), Netcom and Exbee (Cisco solution).
Tue, July 13, 2021
Ep489: Eli Israelov | Co-Founder & CEO, CommBox
Eli can't sleep at night (literally) when an idea is bumped into his mind. He won't relax until he materializes it. He is an entrepreneur since he can remember himself, and raised money for his first startup when he was a cab driver on a ride from Jaffa to Ramat Aviv.
Tue, July 13, 2021
Ep488: Madison Campbell | CEO, Leda Health
Madison Campbell is a trailblazer and sexual assault advocate. After going to college to study epidemiology in space populations, Madison has become a well-seasoned entrepreneur. She led a company prior to Leda Health called “Iyanu,” which was a software development shop based in Lagos, Nigeria. Today, she is working hard to promote the autonomy and self-actualization of sexual assault survivors through Leda Health by developing and providing resources to help them overcome their difficult trauma.
Mon, July 12, 2021
Ep487: Tomer Levy | CEO and co-founder, Logz.io
Tomer is the CEO and co-founder of Logz.io. Before founding Logz.io, he co-founded and was the CTO of Intigua, a company that developed innovative, Docker-like containers designed for large enterprises. Prior to Intigua, Tomer spent six years at CheckPoint, where he led its Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) product from concept to market, generating $100M in revenue in the second year. Tomer has an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University and a B.A. in computer science.
Mon, July 12, 2021
Ep486: Suzan Zaher Kamal | Software Developer & Team Lead, CodeValue
Suzan is a 26 years old Druze Israeli married woman, a software developer and a team lead in the hi-tech industry in CodeValue. She is working on a project of a complex imagery analysis system, integrating solutions for presenting a big amount of 2D and 3D imagery data on web platforms, and seeking to be an influencer in the tech industry.
Sun, July 11, 2021
Ep484: Elram Goren | Co-Founder & CEO, Fabric
Elram Goren is CEO and co-founder of Fabric, a micro-fulfillment company building on-demand fulfillment and customer experience solutions for retailers. He has led the company from its inception in 2015 through its first deployments and now is at the helm of its rapidly scaling operations. Before co-founding Fabric, Elram served as a Major in the Israeli Defence Forces managing R&D teams and multidisciplinary operations in the Intelligence Technology Unit. He is a graduate of the elite Psagot Excellence Program.
Sun, July 11, 2021
Ep485: Dave Harden | Democratic Candidate For Congress, MD 1st
Dave Harden is the Managing Director of the Georgetown Strategy Group, a Washington, D.C. next-generation firm that leverages talent, technology, and capital to help solve some of the world's most complex problems. In May of 2019, President Trump awarded Mr. Harden the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service, the highest award in the Foreign Service, for “sustained extraordinary accomplishment in the conduct of the foreign policy.” He led a bureau focused on global crisis response and political transition with an annual budget of $4.8 billion and a staff of nearly 1,200. He also spearheaded all USAID efforts to respond to global crises and stabilization efforts – including responses in Haiti, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, the West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen.
Sat, July 10, 2021
Ep482: Sabina Iman | Founder, Blink
Sabina is a strategist with eleven years of marketing and sales experience and a master’s degree in Business Administration focusing on tech and entrepreneurship. Her previous experience includes working at Omnicom Group with large companies such as Visa, McDonald's and Wrigley. After completing her MBA, Sabina was consulting B2B tech startups. Recently she founded her own company that is aimed to change online dating habits and create a new dating experience for women.
Sat, July 10, 2021
Ep483: Yaron Bartal | VP Growth, SciPlay Corporation
Yaron's interest in marketing began 15 years ago while researching a McDonald's case study. In 2010 he joined Matomy and four years later founded his own company with two great friends. He later joined Apester and spearheaded the entire business and media operations. He recently joined Sciplay, a social gaming behemoth, as VP Growth and is looking after their global marketing efforts starting from organic and paid user acquisition to marketing tech, art, and innovation.
Fri, July 09, 2021
Ep480: Yair Kuznitsov | Co-Founder & CEO, anecdotes
After building and managing teams in different places in the IDF Intelligence Corps, I was head of the hardcore R&D section at 8200. I then took a giant risk and built a new SaaS product for Intsights, hoping I’d quickly adapt to the modern tech stack and it turned out to be very successful. I started anecdotes with two friends, Roi and Eitan, and we currently have 30 employees in Tel Aviv. Transforming from R&D Manager to CEO means managing Marketing and Sales, which is another big move. But it seems like it’s working so far because modern R&D and modern M&S departments actually are very similar.
Fri, July 09, 2021
Ep481: Tami Golan | Chief People Officer, Bizzabo
Tami's expertise is in driving change and supporting organizations through massive growth and transformation by partnering with leaders, teams, and employees to think through business problems and collaboratively move the businesses forward.
Thu, July 08, 2021
Ep478: Urit Lanzet | Cyber Security Pre-sales Engineer & BizDev, CYMOTIVE Technologies
Urit is originally a low-level security researcher from 49 center in 8200. She has been working in CYMOTIVE since its earlier days as Diskin Advanced Technologies, and among her roles in the company, she served as a Penetration Testing team leader. She is currently leading new opportunities with automotive industry clients from Europe and the USA and supporting the incubation of innovative product ideas inside the company. Her passions include understanding how things work and making them work better. She like understanding motives and seeing through the "outer shell" of either people, animals, and businesses.
Thu, July 08, 2021
Ep479: Jeff Kupietzky | CEO, Jeeng
Jeff serves as CEO of Jeeng, an innovative technology company helping publishers bring their audiences back. Before joining Jeeng, Jeff was President & CEO at Oversee.net and served in leadership positions with X1 Technologies, Digital Insight (Intuit), Siebel Systems (Oracle), Loudcloud/ Opsware (Hewlett-Packard), and McKinsey & Co. A frequent speaker at Digital Media conferences, he has also been featured on CNN & CNBC. Jeff earned an MBA at Harvard Business School and his B.A. in Economics from Columbia University.
Wed, July 07, 2021
Ep476: Inbal Shalev | Head of Solution Engineering, Placer.ai
Inbal Shalev, Head of Solutions Engineering at Placer.ai. I am a creative solution-oriented analytic expert. Experienced in Technology and Intelligence environment. Have performed across the lifecycle from requirements analysis to solution design and implementation. Hands-on experience in Data Analytics and Big Data applications. I have a passion to bridge between end-users and development teams. Technology-oriented Intelligence officer (KABAR), with vast team leader experience.
Wed, July 07, 2021
Ep477: Ofer Schreiber | Partner and Head of Israel Office, YL Ventures
Ofer Schreiber, Partner, and Head of Israel Office at YL Ventures have broad responsibilities across the firm’s portfolio company management, value-add activities, and investment due diligence. Prior to joining YL Ventures, Ofer spent three years at IVC Research Center researching and analyzing the technology and venture capital industry. He also served in the elite technological unit of IDF, Unit 8200. Ofer regularly speaks, writes, and features in interviews about the state of the cybersecurity industry, investment strategies, start-up development, and Israeli cybersecurity innovation.
Tue, July 06, 2021
Ep474: Ron Brightman | Founder and CEO, Gigantic
Ron is the founder and CEO of Gigantic, creators of the Clawee app. Ron (MBA) has been managing online marketing teams for about 19 years, at various companies such as 888, PartyGaming & eToro. For 7 years Ron was the CEO of Performance Revenues – an international mobile marketing firm.
Tue, July 06, 2021
Ep475: Yinnon Dolev | CEO, Sompo Digital Lab Israel, Sompo Holdings
Yinnon is the CEO of Sompo’s Digital Lab in Tel Aviv. Sompo is Japan’s largest insurance company which also operates a chain of nursing homes for the elderly. His group is responsible for partnering and investing in startups in areas such as Insurtech, Digital Health, Smart Mobility, and Agritech. Prior to that, Yinnon spent 13 years at General Electric (GE) in various management positions. He established GE's company’s startups partnership program, which included 26 startups. Yinnon holds a BA in Computer Science from the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel an MBA from Cornell University.
Mon, July 05, 2021
Ep472: Michael Shoham | CEO, Radix
Michael brings with him more than 20 years of experience in business development and a deep understanding of technology. He is passionate about technology, sport, music, and art, especially woodcraft and clay sculpture. Michael holds a BSc from Bar-Ilan University and an MBA from Derby University. He is a loving husband (married to Michal, a Physiotherapist) and a proud father of 4 daughters.
Mon, July 05, 2021
Ep473: Yonit Serkin | Managing Director, MassChallenge Israel
Yonit has spent her career supporting innovators and connecting networks first in the public sector as a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Economic Development team and then as an investor and executive. Today she is the Managing Director of MassChallenge Israel helping startup founders and other stakeholders build groundbreaking solutions.
Sun, July 04, 2021
Ep471: Zachary Mannheimer | CEO and founder of Alquist
Zachary Mannheimer is the CEO and founder of Alquist, a 3D printing construction company that uses cutting-edge technology to create houses, buildings, and other structures aimed at dropping the cost of homes and solving the housing crisis. After a road trip from NYC to 22 cities around the country, Zachary chose and settled in Des Moines in 2007 founding the Des Moines Social Club, an art and educational non-profit. In 11 years of operations, DMSC hosted over 10,000 events for over 1,000,000 patrons. In 2020, Zachary co-founded Atlas Community Studios, a team helping rural communities plan for growth in over 20 states, where the main concern is housing. He lives in Iowa City with his wife Sarah, and their three kids Mira, Benjamin, and Fiona.
Sun, July 04, 2021
Ep512: Ronen Luzon | Founder & CEO, My Size Inc.
Ronen is a serial entrepreneur and a skilled manager with a track record of success across various industries. Prior to founding MySize, he established and led startups in the medical devices and communication sectors. Among his other endeavors, Ronen founded Malers, a company that has grown to be a leader in the global security solutions market and provides some of the most advanced technological solutions for integrated communication infrastructures, security, and control systems. Prior to that, he held several senior marketing, sales management, and professional services positions in a variety of international high-tech companies. Ronen graduated from Middlesex University in London with a B.sc in IT and Business Information Systems.
Sat, July 03, 2021
Ep470: Ori Yankelev | Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and founding team member, OwnBackup
Ori Yankelev is the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and founding team member of OwnBackup where he leads the company's global go-to-market strategy. Based in Tel Aviv, Ori led the expansion of OwnBackup’s global sales organization from 1 employee to what is today over 200 employees globally with a presence in the US, UK, France, Israel, and Australia.
Fri, July 02, 2021
Ep469: Ana Bas Lapique and Belén De Jaime | Co-Founders, Flipeat
We are Belen and Ana, two very enthusiastic 25-year-old friends from childhood with previous experience in banking, consulting and Amazon, who always knew wanted to create a business together. We co-founded Flipeat 6 months ago with the aim of creating a more efficient restaurant reservation process through digitalization, adding a social component that allows creating a personalized network of friends to share culinary experiences and recommendations. We are present in Madrid and soon to open Barcelona and Marbella, but we aim to expand internationally in the upcoming year.
Thu, July 01, 2021
Ep468: Itamar Ben Hemo | Co-Founder and CEO, Rivery
Itamar Ben Hamo is co-founder and CEO at Rivery, a DataOps platform that streamlines data integration, transformation, and orchestration. A seasoned business executive, Ben Hamo was co-founder and CEO of Vision.BI, a leading data consulting firm acquired by Keyrus Group. At Keyrus, Ben Hamo was group vice president for North America. Itamar holds a BSc in Computer and Information Systems Security from Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Wed, June 30, 2021
Ep467: Chemi Katz | Co-founder and CEO, Namogoo
Chemi Katz is the current CEO and Co-Founder of Namogoo, a Digital Journey Continuity platform serving over 250 global brands in eCommerce. With over 17 years of experience in the eCommerce, security, commerce, and advertising spaces, Chemi is an experienced visionary and serial entrepreneur who builds disruptive technologies. Prior to co-founding Namogoo, Chemi was General Manager of DoubleVerify Israel and co-founded Seapai and Reissod. Earlier in his career, Chemi led Production Operations at LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), was Global Business Technology Manager for Aladdin, and managed IT Outsourcing for Bynet.
Tue, June 29, 2021
Ep466: Michael Eisenberg | Equal Partner, Aleph VC
Michael Eisenberg is an Equal Partner at Aleph, an early-stage venture capital fund with over $500M under management. Aleph focuses on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in more than 40 companies including Melio, Lemonade, Bringg, JoyTunes, Healthy.io, and Nexar.
Mon, June 28, 2021
Ep465: Dana Zelitzki | VP of Marketing, Valens
With more than 10 years of experience in the hi-tech industry in various business development, marketing, and product management roles, Dana is responsible for the Valens’ marketing activities. Dana leads the company’s messaging, positioning, go-to-market, and general marketing activities, including communications, tradeshows, media, digital marketing, and more. Dana has contributed to building the Valens and HDBaseT brands and establishing the company’s leadership in both the audio-video and automotive markets.
Sun, June 27, 2021
Ep464: Yonatan Geifman | Co-founder and CEO of Deci
Yonatan is co-founder and CEO of Deci, the deep learning company building the next generation of AI. He co-founded Deci after completing his Ph.D. in computer science at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His research focused on making Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) more applicable for mission-critical tasks. Yonatan was also a member of Google AI’s MorphNet team where he worked on developing an automated machine learning algorithm based on neural network pruning.
Sat, June 26, 2021
Ep463: Gadi Gidor | Artistic Director and Career Manager
Gadi was born in Israel right before they put a man on the moon. He Moved to NY upon completing his three years of mandatory military service and graduated with a Bachelor's degree from NYU (Stern school of business) as well as with an MBA degree from Harvard University. He had been working his entire professional life in the music industry, assuming various roles in Major Record companies. Currently, he is enjoying his independence as a freelance artists' manager/consultant. Gadi is married to Yuri Kato and is the father of Yasmin, Lia, and Eden.
Fri, June 25, 2021
Ep462: Omry Ben David | General Partner, Viola Ventures
Omry is a General Partner at Viola Ventures. He joined the fund in 2017 bringing with him 15 years of technology-focused experience across investment banking, startup operations, and both institutional and private venture investments. Prior to Viola Omry was a Senior Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the tech, media, and telecom (TMT) investment banking group. Omry’s areas of investment at Viola Ventures include FinTech and insruTech as well as Enterprise and SME Software.
Thu, June 24, 2021
Ep461: Robby Nissan | Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer, Fetcherr Ltd
Robby brings 22 years of experience in the advertising and marketing industry in Israel. Former Chief Creative Officer in TBWA/Tel Aviv, and Former founder and Head of Strategy & Creative in HAVAS/Tele Aviv. Robby has vast experience in Commercial and Political campaign management and as a senior strategy consultant in the Wolfson foundation and other international organizations.
Wed, June 23, 2021
Ep460: Ofir Bar Levav | Chief Business Officer, Indoor Robotics
Ofir started his career in Procter & Gamble where he spent 12 years in various management roles in Finance, strategy, BD, and M&A working on many P&G brands (Pampers, Haircare, Gillette, etc) and including 2 relocations periods in Europe (Belgium, Switzerland). He moved to Tyco running finance for the security products division and later on BD & M&A for the division. He joined Johnson Controls as it acquired Tyco and was the general manager for the global open innovation platform. A year ago he joined Indoor Robotics as Chief Business Officer. Ofir also serves as a venture advisor at Spider Capital.
Tue, June 22, 2021
Ep459: Yariv Bash | Co-founder and CEO, Flytrex, Founder, SpaceIL
Yariv Bash is the CEO and co-founder of Flytrex, a drone technology company providing comprehensive, autonomous drone delivery solutions that enable any business, from SMBs to e-commerce giants, to integrate instant, autonomous drone delivery into their offering. Flytrex is an end-to-end drone logistics solution spearheading the drone revolution. Prior to Flytrex, Yariv was the Founder and CEO of SpaceIL, a $100M Israeli non-profit organization that attempted to land Beresheet, the first private interplanetary robotic mission, on the Moon.
Mon, June 21, 2021
Ep458: Song Toh | VP of Product Management, Tata Communications
Song is the VP of Product Management at Tata Communications, a global telecommunications managed service provider. He runs a global business connecting the offices and users of multinational enterprises, to their critical business applications, using the latest programmable network and IT infrastructure technology. At global companies like Cisco and Tata Communications, Song has delivered products that make enterprise IT infrastructure more agile, cost efficient and easy to use, allowing my customers to focus on their business, rather than constrained by the complex technologies they deploy.
Sun, June 20, 2021
Ep457: Yossi Naar | Chief visionary officer and Co-founder, Cybereason
Yossi Naar, Chief Visionary Officer and Co-Founder of Cybereason - a leader in EDR and next-generation antivirus solutions for enterprises. Yossi is an accomplished software developer and expert in technology architecture, machine learning, big data analytics, and visualization. During his 20 years of industry experience, Yossi has designed and built many products, from cutting-edge security platforms for the defense industry in Israel to big data platforms. His products have been deployed worldwide and used by Fortune-500 companies on a daily basis. Since he founded Cybereason in 2012 the company raised almost $400 million from investors like Softbank, Lockheed Martin, CRV, and Spark Capital. Cybereason is privately held with 700 employees, operates in 40 countries, and headquartered in Boston with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo.
Sat, June 19, 2021
Ep456: Barak Rabinowitz | Managing Partner, F2 Venture Capital
Barak is Managing Partner of F2. Previously, Barak was a Partner at Genesis Partners where he focused on early-stage investment opportunities and The Junction seed investment program. Prior to Genesis Partners, Barak led three startups in the UK and Israel as Co-Founder & CEO, including Mytopia, acquired by 888 Holdings (LSE: 888), and supported numerous successful technology companies as an angel investor.
Fri, June 18, 2021
Ep455: Takeshi Shinoda | Chairman & CEO, Aristagora Group
Takeshi Shinoda is, based in Japan and Singapore, CEO of Aristagora Group including Asset management, Private Equity, Venture capital, and Wealth management firms. He has more than 30 years of a rich background in the fields of investment banking and private banking.
Thu, June 17, 2021
Ep454: Avishay Cohen | Co-founder & CEO, Anima
Avishay Cohen is the Co-founder & CEO at Anima. After leading multiple tech teams, Avishay had the first-hand experience of the difficulties in the handoff process between design and development. That’s why he started Anima - a design-to-code platform. Allowing designers to create responsive prototypes from inside their designs tool, and translate these designs into developer-friendly React/HTML code.
Wed, June 16, 2021
Ep452: Sandeep Aggarwal | Founder, Droom & ShopClues
Sandeep Aggarwal is the only Indian technology founder who's created two Unicorns back-to-back – Droom, India’s first online automobile marketplace, and ShopClues, India’s first-ever managed online marketplace. Before his journey into entrepreneurship, he was a former top Wall Street tech analyst in the US who worked with Microsoft and Charles Schwab. During that time, he was often sought as an expert source on TV networks like CNBC. Insider trading charges (later dropped) derailed his life, but he fought through the adversity and never stopped fighting for what he believes.
Tue, June 15, 2021
Ep453: Avi Gabay | CEO & Co-Founder, Opticity
Avi Gabay is the CEO and Co-Founder Opticity. In 2017 he founded LS Techs company, which provides third-party development services to companies and organizations. The company today employs close to 70 developers. Previously, he served in the IAF 108 unit, as Head of QA and System Architect.
Mon, June 14, 2021
Ep451: Amy Francetic | Founder and Managing General Partner, Buoyant Ventures
Amy is the founder and Managing General Partner of Buoyant Ventures, a new venture fund in Chicago that aims to invest in digital climate solutions. Her career spans over 20 years of high technology entrepreneurship, private equity, and research. Amy previously founded and led Energize Ventures, a venture fund that invests in digital energy and industrial automation. She also co-founded and served as CEO of technology accelerator Clean Energy Trust, which has invested in dozens of early-stage clean energy companies across the Midwestern US.
Sun, June 13, 2021
Ep450: Yoni Tserruya | Co-founder & CEO, Lusha
As Lusha’s co-founder and CEO, Yoni first developed Lusha as a side-project, during his first job as an iOs developer. After one year, his pet project exploded, and he decided to turn his passion into his profession. Today, Yoni helps create the vision and strategy that informs all product and business decisions at Lusha. He focuses on hiring the right team, anticipating the future needs of customers, and envisioning the future of the data world. A software engineer by trade, Yoni graduated with a BSC from Ben Gurion University.
Sat, June 12, 2021
Ep449: Udi Nessimyan | CEO and Co-Founder, Sealed
Udi Nessimyan takes a vision and makes it a reality through sound strategy development. As a savvy entrepreneur, He intuitively sees the threads of opportunity that wind through an organization, brings them together into a coherent whole, helps others extend their thinking, and drives material business advantage. He is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the Cloud, Cyber Security, and telecommunications industries. Skilled in Government, M&A’s, Public Cloud Services, and Sales and Pre-sales.
Fri, June 11, 2021
Ep448: Noga Kap | Managing Partner, i3 Equity Partners
Ms. Noga Kap is bringing over twenty years of hands-on experience in executive positions in the high-tech industry as well as one of the most prominent women- investors in the Israeli ecosystem. Ms. Kap is Managing Partner of i3 Equity Partners, an early-stage Deep Tech-focused fund invested by the largest corporations such as Microsoft, Qualcomm, GE, Tata, and others.
Thu, June 10, 2021
Ep447: Christopher Coultas | Vice President of Product Innovation and Senior Leadership Consultant, Leadership Worth Following, LLC.
Christopher Coultas is the Vice President of Product Innovation and a Senior Leadership Consultant at Leadership Worth Following, LLC. He personifies the scientist-practitioner model in the fast-growing field of industrial-organizational psychology. He has coached hundreds of leaders and dozens of teams on how to leverage enhanced self-awareness for optimal leadership impact. His book with Leadership Worth Following, Driven Not Drained: Discover Your Path to Career Happiness, Effectiveness, and Influence is a candid, engaging, and comprehensive look at both the science and practical application behind human behavior.
Wed, June 09, 2021
Ep446: Haim Carmel | Chief Technology Officer, HomeConnex
From my early days of programming, I was an entrepreneur and a software company owner. I finished my computer science bachelor's degree in 1999. since then, I've participated in many big projects for government offices, private sector companies and even sold one of them to a huge software company in the states. Nowadays I'm the head of the R&D department at HomeConnex, a startup that was founded in 2015 as an idea to help to develop the low tech construction and building market. With great success, we already have thousands of users and most of the big construction companies in Israel are working with us.
Tue, June 08, 2021
Ep444: Irit Singer | VP of Marketing, Windward
Irit is a seasoned executive with a demonstrated history of developing and growing businesses in the high-tech industry for both B2B and B2C products. Currently, she is VP of marketing at Windward, the leading maritime AI company. Prior experiences include senior director at Microsoft, VP marketing at Here Technologies, Mobility division, and CMO at Mobli Media.
Tue, June 08, 2021
Ep445: Jason Sundby | CEO/Chairman, Verde Technologies Partner, Atlas Capital Partners
Since 2015, Jason has served as CEO of Verde Environmental Technologies Inc., maker of the Deterra® Drug Deactivation and Disposal System. He has over 30 years of experience in operations, risk management, administration, and IT leadership. Sundby is a founding partner of Atlas Capital Partners, a venture capital firm investing in companies that are post-revenue, on the verge of rapid growth, and possessing a defensible competitive advantage. Sundby completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota and continued his education at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mon, June 07, 2021
Ep442: Toot Shani | Co-founder and CEO, Sarona Partners
A thought leader in the startup and innovation arena, Toot is the co-founder and CEO of Sarona Partners, Israel's largest startup ecosystem. Previously, after selling her first business at age 24, she led the initiation and execution of massive Startup and economic development projects for organizations such as World Bank Group, European Commission, World Economic Forum, and others working with +5,000 startups across 4 continents.
Mon, June 07, 2021
Ep443: Gal Oz | CTO & Co-Founder, Pixellot
Gal is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pixellot, the world-leading company of fully autonomous video and data production for sports events. Pixellot produces a new game around the globe every 30 seconds! He served for 10 years with an elite R&D unit in the Intelligence Corps of the IDF, during which Gal worked with a different visual platform to capture information, from UAV to satellites. Prior he was in the founding group of SportVU and served as the CEO and R&D Manager of the company until it was sold to a US-based company, STATS, in 2008.
Sun, June 06, 2021
Ep441: Raj De Datta | Co-Founder and CEO, BloomReach
Raj De Datta is Co-Founder and CEO of BloomReach, a leading software platform for digital commerce experiences that powers brands representing 25% of retail E-Commerce in the US and the UK. Raj is a multiple-time entrepreneur. Before launching Bloomreach, he was entrepreneur-in-residence at Mohr-Davidow Ventures, served as Cisco’s director of product marketing, and was on the founding team of telecom company FirstMark Communications. Raj also worked in technology investment banking at Lazard Freres. Raj serves on the Council for Player Development for the US Tennis Association, as a Founder Partner at seed-stage venture capital firm Founder Collective and an individual investor in over 20 start-ups. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with a certificate in Public Policy and International affairs from Princeton University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
Sat, June 05, 2021
Ep439: Isabelle Kenyon | Founder & CEO, Calibrate
Isabelle is the Founder & CEO of Calibrate. Prior to Calibrate, she led the business operations, growth, and strategic partnerships & communications teams at Capsule, a technology business that has raised $270 million to rebuild the pharmacy from the inside out. Before Capsule, Isabelle worked at beloved consumer brands in London and New York and was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Retail & E-commerce list in 2015. She began her career as an investment banker in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sat, June 05, 2021
Ep440: Ron Asher | CTO, Similarweb
Ron is the CTO of Similarweb, leading the R&D organization of the company. It is one of the best in the world in the domains of big data, data science, and research. They deliver enterprise-class quality and availability and at the same time have agility and development of a small startup. He has experience with global corporates like IBM where he led a large R&D department and also startups where he's been in their inception.
Fri, June 04, 2021
Ep437: Tal Raz | VP of Product Growth, ZoomInfo
Tal Raz is VP Product Growth at ZoomInfo, a leading go-to-market intelligence platform that arms sales, marketing, and recruiting teams with the data, insights, and technology to help them target their next best customers with the right messages at the right times. Tal joined ZoomInfo 4.5 years ago as a marketing analyst when the today-1,800-employee-company had merely 200 employees, 7 of them in Israel.
Fri, June 04, 2021
Ep438: Max Rofagha | Founder, Finimize.com
Max is the founder of Finimize. The brand helping retail investors become smarter investors through bite-sized, jargon-free, expert content. Finimize is the world’s largest and most engaged finance community, with over 1m users. Before Finimize, Max co-founded an e-commerce startup with 200 employees and sold it in 2015. He also mentors at Techstars and Startup Bootcamp and was named one of Forbes "30 under 30”.
Thu, June 03, 2021
Ep435: Adi Diner | Co-Founder, CEO, iFocus
Adi Diner is the CEO and co-founder of iFocus, she is a physicist (Ph.D.) with extensive experience in product development in the biotech and medical device industries. 1 in 10 children and adults have ADHD, today- the treatment relies only on subjective feedback- "do you feel it is working" as a result, many do not get treated properly. iFocus will change the way ADHD is treated by providing objective treatment efficacy measures.
Thu, June 03, 2021
Ep436: Avi Snir | Co-Founder & CEO, Elevation
Avi is the Founder & CEO at Elevation. An entrepreneur, husband, father, and believer. Loves Hummus, consistently lives in a village outside of Tel Aviv and spends his spare time wondering about the future of work, skills, careers, and in between.
Wed, June 02, 2021
Ep433: Amanda Lannert | CEO, Jellyvision
Amanda Lannert is the CEO of Jellyvision, maker of benefits engagement platform ALEX. More than 1,500 companies (including 114 of the Fortune 500 and two-fifths of the country's 25 largest companies) use ALEX to help their employees understand complex topics, from choosing a healthcare insurance plan to saving for retirement or navigating a leave of absence.
Wed, June 02, 2021
Ep434: Kathy Henrich | CEO, Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition
Kathy is the CEO of the MKE Tech Hub Coalition, a non-profit focused on inclusively doubling tech talent in the Milwaukee region with over 75 members. Kathy is a long-term tech executive, leading sales and partnerships for $500M+ businesses in hardware, software, and services. After receiving her master's in Workforce and Talent Development, specifically in response to AI and automation, Kathy helped large multi-national organizations transform their talent in alignment with their digital transformation. Kathy also serves on multiple non-profit boards in the Milwaukee region.
Tue, June 01, 2021
Ep430: Tal Jacobson | GM, CodeFuel
Tal is an executive in the Israeli high-tech industry for over 20 years. He was the Chief Revenue & Business Development Officer at SimilarWeb. Tal also held leadership positions as the VP of Business at McCann Erickson and was part of the Business Development team at ICQ / AOL. Tal is now the General Manager at CodeFuel, the Search Technology division of Perion Network.
Tue, June 01, 2021
Ep431: Tal Florentin | CEO, Summurai
For the last decade, Tal Florentin has been one of the leading UX specialists in the Israeli market. Florentin is a published author, speaker, winner of the UX award (San Francisco), and founder of the Israeli UX certification program. After leading more than 180 UX design projects for fortunate - 100 companies - it became clear to him that audio is going to be bigger than video. Florentin founded Summurai – the world’s first branded audio CMS – with the promise to allow busy people to know more with less effort. Summurai allows companies to create branded audio channels, add branded audio content to their customer journeys and promote audio marketing.
Tue, June 01, 2021
Ep432: Boaz Mizrachi | Founder and CTO, Tactile Mobility (formerly MobiWize)
Boaz is the founder and CTO of Tactile Mobility (formerly MobiWize). He is a veteran technologist and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in signal processing, algorithms research, and systems design in the automotive and networking industries. Prior to founding Tactile Mobility, Boaz was System Design Group Manager for Zoran Micro-Electronics (acquired by CSR).
Mon, May 31, 2021
Ep429: Noa Matz | Operating Partner, F2 Venture Capital
Noa is the Operating Partner at F2. She has dedicated her career to understanding startup founding team dynamics and coaching founders for peak performance. She is an expert in performance enhancement and coaching for startup teams and executives, guiding them through change to take high-risk decisions in stressful and uncertain conditions.
Sun, May 30, 2021
Ep428: Racheli Vizman | Co-Founder and CEO, SavorEat
Racheli Vizman has years of experience in the entrepreneurial arena and in leading companies for IPOs in the technology and healthcare industry. Before founding SavoEat, she served as COO at Beyond Air, a clinical-stage medical device and biopharmaceutical American-Israeli company. SavorEat went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in the first IPO of a Food-Tech company in Tel Aviv.
Sat, May 29, 2021
Ep427: Tigran Nazaryan | Co-founder & CEO, 10Web.io
Tigran Nazaryan is the Co-Founder and CEO at 10Web. With a strong background in science and technology, Tigran has vast hands-on experience in software development, machine learning, and bringing AI automation into web development, technologies that can help millions of engineers and designers focus on truly creative and important elements and leave routine and time-consuming tasks to algorithms. He is passionate about building a strong company culture that turns great ideas into powerful technological achievements and at the same time empathizes with the community. With the vision of automaton, he puts his best to lead 10Web's team of 70 professionals on the way to become a unicor.
Fri, May 28, 2021
Ep426: Avi Shabtai | CEO, Ramon.Space
Avi is the CEO of Ramon.Space, a leader in space computing solutions. A seasoned leader, Avi has worked extensively to develop and manage teams, transform organizations into successful environments across multiple industries. Avi’s track record spans over two decades of international experience in business and technology leadership, marketing, strategic sales, channel development, and engineering. Prior to Ramon.Space, Avi was CEO of MultiPhy Inc, specializing in high-speed integrated circuits for the data center market. He also held senior positions at Alvarion Technologies Metalink, Tiaris, and the Intelligence Unit of the Israeli Defense Force.
Thu, May 27, 2021
Ep425: Dionis Teshler | CTO & Co-Founder, GuardKnox Cyber Technologies
Dionis Teshler, Chief Technology Officer of the automotive industry’s first Cybertech Tier supplier, GuardKnox, is one of the central figures propelling Israel forward in the sector. In 2016 Dionis merged his aviation technology experience and his lifelong passion for driving fast cars into producing the cyber technology that serves as the foundation for software-defined and service-oriented vehicles. Prior to this, Dionis worked as an Algorithms Engineer for image-processing startup Transchip, which was acquired by Samsung Electronics. Dionis holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science (thesis in Computational Neuroscience, Cum Laude) and a Global MBA with a focus on Global Strategy from the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya.
Wed, May 26, 2021
Ep424: Roey Mechrez | CTO, BeyondMinds
As a leading AI pioneer and global visionary with extensive innovation experience in various industries, Dr. Mechrez co-founded BeyondMinds to bridge AI theory to practice, with the vision to create the first enterprise AI system that is universally applicable and easily adaptable. He is passionate about fostering a data-driven culture, using AI as a transformational catalyst to address complex regulatory, operational, and business intelligence challenges. Before founding BeyondMinds, Dr. Mechrez held a number of positions in hi-tech companies and academia and conducted research focused on the intersection of computer vision and deep learning.
Tue, May 25, 2021
Ep423: Sarah Wood | Co-founder and former CEO, Unruly Author, Stepping Up
Sarah Wood is the Co-founder and former CEO of Unruly, and author of the best-selling career book Stepping Up. She is an active angel investor in early-stage tech companies, a mentor at UCL Hatchery, and a board member at Tech Nation, City Ventures, and The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, which campaigns for young people's mental health. Sarah is an ambassador for The Prince's Trust Women Supporting Women Programme and was awarded an OBE for services to technology and innovation.
Mon, May 24, 2021
Ep422: Paul Bilodeau | CEO and Founder, Filtered.AI
Paul Bilodeau is the CEO and founder of Filtered, a capabilities-based hiring platform designed specifically for engineers, developers, and tech talent, that helps to remove unconscious bias from the hiring process through assessments and coding tasks. Paul started his professional career as a recruiter for a leading recruitment firm in Boston. It wasn’t long before he identified major disconnects and inefficiencies when it came to the hiring process, so in 2010 he created PangeaConnect, a video interviewing platform. Soon after, he co-founded a data science consulting company refactorED, and built Filtered as an internal tool to ensure candidate authentication and more accurately assess candidates’ technical skills. In 2018, the demand to license Filtered as a standalone product led to the establishment of Filtered, Inc. and the continued drive to radically change the hiring process.
Sun, May 23, 2021
Ep421: Kfir Oved | Founder and CEO, Canopy Immuno-therapeutics
Kfir has a dual background in Medicine and a Ph.D. in Immunology. He is a serial bio-entrepreneur with an endless passion for outcome-driven, personalized, technology-agnostic Medicine. Co-founder, CTO, and Chairman of MeMed Dx that translates our immune response signals into accurate and actionable diagnostics at the point of care. Seeded and serves as Chief Strategy in Navina.ai, and recently founded and serves as the CEO of Canopy Immuno-Therapeutics.
Sat, May 22, 2021
Ep420: Andrew Bach | Global Financial Technologies leader
With over 30 years of experience, Andy specializes in network/telecommunications, security, and financial technologies. Andy has substantial expertise to lead strategic communication technological planning to achieve business goals by prioritizing technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies. As a Global Financial Technologies leader, I establish strategic direction, lead all aspects of technology development and implementation, and provide formal supervision and coaching for the Architectural, Security, and Infrastructure functions while setting the vision to inspire and drive continuous improvements
Fri, May 21, 2021
Ep419: Colin Hunter | CEO and Founder, PotentialSquared International
Colin Hunter is an author, mentor, coach and founder of a business Potential Squared that specializes in creating playgrounds to disrupt the way people are led. He lives with his family, near London, but originally from Scotland and still retains his love of the Scottish mountains and the outdoors. Colin and his team work with their clients to provide leaders and their teams the chance to, as he describes, “Sail their ship out of the harbor and test themselves in rougher seas”. He is a practitioner and his work and his book are based on personal experience and purposeful practice with his clients.
Thu, May 20, 2021
Ep418: Ido Safruti | Co-founder and CTO, PerimeterX
Ido Safruti is the co-founder and CTO at PerimeterX, a behavior-based web security service. At PerimeterX Ido owns the product vision and delivery with Product and R&D reporting to him. Prior to founding PerimeterX, Ido was Sr. Director of Product-Management at Akamai, joining Akamai through the acquisition of Cotendo, where he was VP of product and strategy. He started his cybersecurity career in Israeli intelligence after graduating from the Talpiot program.
Wed, May 19, 2021
Ep417: Uri Gruenbaum | CEO and Co-Founder, TipRanks
Uri is the CEO and Co-Founder of TipRanks, a fast-growing financial accountability engine that helps millions of users make better financial decisions. In high school, he moved to a boarding school in Sde Boker and then served as a drone pilot in the IDF Air Force. After studying computer science at the Hebrew University followed by an MBA from TAU, he worked as a software engineer at Avaya, Convergin (now Oracle), and ARX (now DocuSign).
Tue, May 18, 2021
Ep416: Omer Orlev | Director, Retail Sales and Growth, Wolt
Omer is Director of Retail Sales at Wolt, leading Wolt's global efforts with regards to its expansion from restaurant delivery to new verticals like grocery, florists, electronics and more. Before joining Wolt, he served as a commander in a technology unit in the Israel Army, practiced law as a high tech lawyer in one of the leading law firms in Israel, and spent 5 years in HP Indigo as head of Business Operations in Indigo's Growth Team.
Mon, May 17, 2021
Ep415: David Maman | Founder & CEO, Binah.ai
David is the co-founder and CEO of Binah.ai, an innovative and successful start-up that is transforming the way healthcare services are being delivered and consumed. David is spearheading the Binah.ai team towards its mission to make healthcare services available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Using its award-winning technology, Binah.ai allows users to extract vital signs and mental stress levels just by looking at a smartphone, tablet or laptop camera. A serial entrepreneur, David is currently leading his 13th startup, after driving numerous start-ups from vision to international success, including Hexatier (acquired by Huawei), Precos, Vanadium-soft, GreenCloud, Teridion, and more.
Sun, May 16, 2021
Ep414: Perry Oostdam | Co-Founder, Recruitee
Perry Oostdam is the CEO and Co-Founder of Recruitee, global talent acquisition and candidate experience platform. With a passion for tech and scaling teams, he has been active in the SaaS space as a founder, advisor and investor. Perry believes in the power of HR tech to help revolutionize the way companies and teams grow.
Sat, May 15, 2021
Ep413: Michael Malul | CEO, Shareitt
Michael swam for 20 years his my life. Holding a national swimming record for 18 years to this date (including Israel's athlete of the year 2007 - Ma'ariv). Studied and swam for the Georgia Institute of technology in the states. Spent the last 11 years leading design and development of products using mobile technology for startups and fortune 500 companies. Father of 2 amazing kids, Married to Hen and lives in Tel-Aviv.
Fri, May 14, 2021
Ep412: Dror Benjamin | Founder & CEO, VidiPlus
Dror Benjamin is a serial entrepreneur, visionary, and world-recognized expert in visualization and video content. His concepts are not only unique but also help generate revenue streams for Medical Device giants. Dror’s ability to recognize future trends enabled him to successfully expand Arcreative, a virtual design house specializing in visual content, and also venture off into several other areas. Benjamin’s most recent mission is to help people overcome remote work and digital challenges, by bringing AR videoconferencing software VidiPlus to millions.
Thu, May 13, 2021
Ep411: Ofir Azury | Head of Technology Investments, Gandyr Investment Group
Ofir Azury is a technology and impact investor and serves as the Head of Technology Investments at Gandyr Investment Group, focusing on early-stage start-ups within the areas of AI, SaaS, Digital Health and Corporate SW. Some of its portfolio ventures include companies such as Yotpo, Mobileye, Nutrino, Anyword, NYM, Software, Ecoppia, Eleos Health and others.
Wed, May 12, 2021
Ep410: Sagi Eliyahu | CEO, KMS Lighthouse
Sagi is the CEO of KMS Lighthouse, a global leader in knowledge management software. Over the last 4 years, he managed to take KMS from a small boutique start-up to a company that serves Fortune 500 global brands. Sagi has extensive knowledge in building and scaling up businesses and starting new innovations. He established the international business division of Israeli IT giant Aman Group, from zero, more than 15 years ago and has managed to grow the business year-over-year. Sagi worked at KPMG in the hi-tech group assisting startups in fundraising and go-to-market plans. He also holds a BA in Business Administration, an MBA from the College of Management and is a Certified Accountant.
Tue, May 11, 2021
Ep409: Shai Policker | CEO, MEDX Xelerator LP
In the last 20 years, Shai has been leading the development, clinical validation and commercialization of innovative medical devices for various indications such as heart failure, metabolic and gastrointestinal diseases. Shai holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the Technion, Israel Institute of technology and an MBA from Columbia University. He is an inventor of 40 issued patents. He currently serves as the CEO of the MEDX Xelerator, a leading medical device and digital health incubator, a partnership of Boston Scientific, MEDX Ventures, Intellectual Ventures and the Sheba medical center.
Mon, May 10, 2021
Ep408: Shai Morag | CEO & Co-founder, Ermetic
Previously he co-founded and was CEO of Secdo, a cybersecurity company, that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks and of Integrity-Project, a company specialized in connectivity, networking, and security solutions acquired by Mellanox. Shai served for 10 years as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps Unit 8200, where he held a variety of roles in management and product development and won several national awards for excellence. Shai is a graduate of the Talpiot program and earned an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
Sun, May 09, 2021
Ep407: Mital Makadia | Partner, Grellas Shah LLP
Mital Makadia is a partner at Grellas Shah, and co-founder of Solvd4, a cost-effective alternative dispute resolution service aimed at founders and startups. Her practice is focused on representing technology startups and startup founders. She provides counsel on a variety of corporate and transactional matters and negotiates and structures equity financings, M&A transactions, and commercial and intellectual property transactions for her clients. A TechCrunch Verified Expert Lawyer, Mital is passionate about helping startups succeed by equipping founders with the legal tools and knowledge they need to support their employees, protect business relationships, and drive growth.
Sat, May 08, 2021
Ep406: Mike Silberg | Founding Partner, IS-CL
Since 2002, Mike has worked with companies such as Rebull as a Brand Manager, at KPMG in the Management Consulting team, and at Wework as a CM, but also SMBs, NGOs and Gov. In 2017 he founded the IS-CL Summit (International Startup Community Leaders Summit) the event that brought together 500 startup community professionals from over 50 countries! The event spawned his agency, IS-CL (AKA; The IS-CL Network) a decentralized community agency working with companies and organizations around the world.
Fri, May 07, 2021
Ep405: Vivek Kakkar | Prev Senior Director, Cisco
A technologist, previously Sr Director in Cisco leading a number of big projects in video collaboration devices, wearables, Webex, etc. A lifelong learner now executing his own Leap by helping startups and exploring his own entrepreneurial ambitions. Vivek has a natural passion for improving leadership by understanding the neuroscience behind social dynamics in a workplace.
Thu, May 06, 2021
Ep404: Amir Zwickel | Co-Founder & CRO, SHOWFIELDS
Amir is a serial entrepreneur with a specialization in Real Estate Development. He earned his Bachelor’s in Law and Business and his Masters in Law from IDC, his Masters in Political Science from Tel Aviv University, and his Masters in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in the City of New York. At Showfields, Amir oversees the Revenue team and leads the real estate part of the venture, from Construction to sourcing and negotiating new properties as part of overseeing Showfields growth plans and extension strategy.
Wed, May 05, 2021
Ep402: Neta Rozy | Co-founder & CTO, Parametrix Insurance
Neta was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley), moved to Israel to enlist in the IDF as a lone soldier, and then moved back to the US to work as a software engineer and team lead. What grounded her in Israel was meeting the now co-founders of Parametrix. The company’s mission is to ensure that companies with mission-critical services in the cloud are fully protected from the financial damages of downtime caused by SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS such as cloud, eCommerce, payments, CRM, and CDN service providers.
Wed, May 05, 2021
Ep403: Danielle Blumenstyk Peterman | Head of Corporate Communications, AppsFlyer
Danielle is the Head of Corporate Communications at B2B SaaS unicorn AppsFlyer. A seasoned comms pro, Danielle has spent the past 10 years helping brands shine, working with leading tech companies and organizations to perfectly craft and effectively communicate their messages. Prior to AppsFlyer, Danielle spent several years honing her comms craft at a tech-focused PR agency. Before devoting her life to tech, she started her career managing PR and investor relations for nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions.
Tue, May 04, 2021
Ep400: Liran Grinberg | Managing Partner, Team8 Capital, Co-Founder, Team8
Liran is the co-founder of Team8 and the Managing Partner of its investment fund, Team8 Capital. Liran invests at Seed and A Rounds in enterprise technology, cybersecurity and data companies. He co-founded Team8 in 2014, initially focusing on the design of Team8’s company-building Foundry model, working closely with the founding teams of Curv (acquired by Paypal), Portshift (acquired by Cisco), Sygnia (acquired by Temasek) and others. Liran then transitioned to lead Team8's marketing, business development and market research functions, alongside the formation of the “Team8 Village,” a tight-knit community of hundreds of enterprise executives.
Tue, May 04, 2021
Ep401: Ori Fingerer | Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer, WeissBeerger
In his early 20s, Ori started a company that aimed to monitor kindergartens through on-site cameras to prevent any violent or uncomfortable behavior towards children. This start-up did not evolve as hoped for but did spark the first light for being an entrepreneur. Following that- Ori pursued entrepreneurship in real estate, finished a law degree and internship and went to start up a company in the beer industry alongside his longtime army friend, Omer Agiv. Pre its acquisition. WeissBeerger raised +$15M from TOP investors like Gigi Levy, Innovation Endeavors, ICV (aka 'More VC') and others. Ori enjoys running in his spare time, a football fanatic and a father of two energetic boys.
Mon, May 03, 2021
Ep399: Ben Rabinowitz | Managing Partner and Founder, Amiti Ventures
Ben is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amiti Ventures, a US-Israel venture firm founded in 2010. Amiti has seeded or been an early-stage investor of Innoviz, Cycognito, NextSilicon, Valens, Vayyar, Demostack, Dataloop, and many more. Previously at AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC), Ben had responsibilities that included M&A, product strategy, product marketing, business development and North American operations. He also acted as a GM of acquired companies among other responsibilities. Ben has an MBA from Georgetown University.
Mon, May 03, 2021
Ep398: Avi Shua | CEO & Co-Founder, Orca Security
Avi Shua is the co-Founder and CEO of Orca Security. Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.
Sun, May 02, 2021
Ep396: Ran Korber | CEO and Co-founder, BreezoMeter
Ran is the CEO & Co-founder at BreezoMeter. His burning ambition is to improve the health and quality of life for billions of people across the globe by providing accurate and actionable air quality data. As co-founder and CEO at BreezoMeter, he is proud to be able to work towards bringing dream to fruition each day.
Sat, May 01, 2021
Ep394: Matan Bar | Co-founder & CEO, Melio
Matan Bar is the co-founder and CEO of Melio – an accounts payable/receivable solution designed for small US businesses. Before founding Melio, Matan led PayPal’s Consumer Peer to Peer Payments Group globally, responsible for over $50B in payment volume annually. Matan joined PayPal through an acquisition of his first payments company (The Gifts Project) that he co-founded back in 2009 and got acquired by eBay Inc in 2012.
Sat, May 01, 2021
Ep395: Inbal Landsberg | Chief Business Officer, MEDX Xelerator LP
Inbal has an intensive scientific background with a Ph.D. in bioinformatics at Tel-Aviv University and Post-doc in bioinformatics from Stanford University. She is the Founder of two companies: one in biospecimen procurement and the other in personalized supplement recommendation.
Fri, April 30, 2021
Ep392: Yuval Cohen | Founder and Managing Partner, StageOne Ventures
Yuval Cohen is the Founder and Managing Partner at StageOne Ventures, leading investments across multiple investment sectors. Yuval has a track record of two decades in leading the operations of early-stage VCs. Before founding StageOne, he co-founded and managed two corporate VCs as part of IDB (Israel’s largest conglomerate) estimated at $150 Million in the investment portfolio, and was personally involved in early-stage IT investing totaling over $1 billion in exit value. Yuval currently represents StageOne on several company boards including– Otonomo, Silverfort, Minerva Labs, Model9, CommonGround and EyeZon.
Fri, April 30, 2021
Ep393: Luis Voloch | Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Immunai
Luis F Voloch is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Immunai, where he is helping bring transformational change to immunology, cancer, science, and beyond. Immunai has a team of over 60 experts in machine learning, software, immunology, and genomics technologies and is focused on mapping and reprogramming the immune system, which has allowed his team to build the largest database for immunological data in the world. Previously, Voloch was the Head of Data Science and Machine Learning at Israel Tech Challenge and worked on a variety of Genomics and AI efforts industry (including Palantir) and at MIT.
Thu, April 29, 2021
Ep390: Liron Rose | Founder & CEO, Rose Innovation
Liron is a 3x entrepreneur and investor with several unicorn exits in Tel Aviv's thriving tech scene. His latest startup, AfterDownload, was acquired by Ironsource after 3 years. He later launched and managed Barclays Bank Accelerator with Techstars in Israel. Liron enjoys fostering Israel's brightest entrepreneurs in their quest for vision and leadership, together with a group of HNWI, family offices, investment banks, and Venture Capital. Investments include Ironsource, Fiverr, Armis, Similarweb, and many more.
Thu, April 29, 2021
Ep391: Swati Biwal | Founder & Director, The Cheeky Food Company
Swati is a computer engineer and mathematician by education, food entrepreneur by work and mother at heart. She finished a bachelor's in CS and a master's in Mathematics at one of the leading universities in India; however, 3 jobs, 4 countries and 2 children later, she realized that the corporate tech world was not for her. With a £200 investment, Cheeky Food has now grown into a well-established British Brand of premium Indian condiments.
Wed, April 28, 2021
Ep389: Saloni Bhojwani | Investor, Founders Factory and Co-Founder, Sie
Saloni is an investor at Founders Factory where she leads investments across both Consumer and B2B. Formerly she was a strategy consultant, and more recently worked at Uber and Expedia. Saloni has been angel investing for 3 years, is a part of Backed VC’s community, Alma Angels, and January Ventures’ Operator Network. Most recently, Saloni co-founded Sie Ventures, aiming to close the gender funding gap in the venture capital ecosystem.
Wed, April 28, 2021
Ep388: Gilad Shamri | Founder and CEO, Growth Artists
Gilad is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Growth Artists consulting agency based in San Francisco By the time Gilad was 13 he already established 2 businesses and at the age of 25, he managed to sell his first company. Now with over 12 years of experience in helping startups in SV find PMF he is writing a book about how to adapt his methodology to any type of business and every aspect of life.
Tue, April 27, 2021
Ep386: Roey Eliyahu | Co-Founder & CEO, Salt Security
Roey is a former elite cybersecurity unit veteran that led the development of high-end security systems, to protect the largest network in Israel of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the government. He went to lead the development of security system projects at Cigol Digital Systems, a military-grade security systems company (Acquired by Mellanox). After Cigol Digital Systems, Roey founded the cybersecurity college that trains the next generation of leaders and prepares them for serving in the IDF’s elite security units.
Tue, April 27, 2021
Ep387: Sarah Goehrke | Founder, Additive Integrity LLC
Sarah Goehrke is focused on the industrialization of additive manufacturing. Her journey with 3D printing began in 2014, and in 2018 Sarah founded Additive Integrity LLC, an independent editorial services company targeting the 3D printing industry. She is the Managing Editor of Fabbaloo, on the Board of Directors of Women in 3D Printing, and looks forward to a more equitable future for this industry. She is also a trained thespian and former fiction editor, happily using both her English and theatre degrees in real life.
Mon, April 26, 2021
Ep385: Amit Avner | General Partner, Operator Partners
Amit is a General Partner at Operator Partners, an early-stage fund that was started by Amit and the founders of Flatiron Health to invest and help operators in their journey. Prior to that, Amit was the founder/CEO of Taykey until its acquisition. Taykey was backed by top-tier funds such as Sequoia, SoftBank and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors.
Sun, April 25, 2021
Ep383: Robbie Kellman Baxter | Consultant, Author and Speaker
Robbie Kellman Baxter is a consultant, author and speaker. She is also the author of The Membership Economy and The Forever Transaction and hosts the podcast Subscription Stories. Robbie has more than 20 years of experience providing strategic business advice to major organizations, including Netflix, Fitbit, Microsoft and Consumer Reports. She has been focused on subscription and growth strategies for the past decade. Baxter has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on CNN. She earned her MBA from the Stanford GSB and graduated with honors from Harvard College.
Sun, April 25, 2021
Ep381: Inna Braverman | Co-Founder & CEO, Eco Wave Power Ltd.
Inna founded Eco Wave Power at the age of 24. Under her leadership, the company installed its first grid-connected wave energy array, secured a significant projects pipeline of 254MW, and became the first Israeli company to ever list on Nasdaq Stockholm. She was recognized by Wired Magazine as one of the “Females Changing the World”, by Fast Company as one of the world’s “Most Creative People in Business for 2020” and is the winner of the United Nations “Global Climate Action Award”.
Sat, April 24, 2021
Ep379: Yaniv Rivlin | Director, Regional General Manager, Bird
Yaniv is Bird's General Manager in Israel and a Director in the global company. Bird is the last-mile electric vehicle sharing company dedicated to bringing affordable, environmentally-friendly transportation solutions to communities across the world. Yaniv is responsible for leading the successful adoption of Bird in Israel, which has been acknowledged globally, including by the WSJ, Yahoo and Newsweek.
Sat, April 24, 2021
Ep378: Ariel Avitan | Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Percepto
Ariel is a big data expert with two decades’ experience leading and facilitating team growth in the dynamic startup world. As a co-founder of Percepto, he leads the commercial front, leveraging his deep market understanding and diverse skill set to drive long-term company growth. Prior to co-founding Percepto, Ariel was a founding member and VP Marketing of Sequoia-backed Signals, and Head of Information Security at Frost & Sullivan Europe.
Fri, April 23, 2021
Ep377: Limor Sinay | Director Virtual Sales Engineering, Akamai Technologies
Limor Sinay is an enthusiastic technology leader with extensive experience in Enterprise Software delivery, operations, and product management, currently a pre-sales Director at Akamai Technologies. A graduate of MIT Sloan School of Business, she spent her career building customer technical teams in start-ups. She also served in the IDF and developed drones for the defense industry.
Fri, April 23, 2021
Ep376: Yam Regev | VP of Marketing, Elementor
Yam has 15 years of experience In driving breakthrough marketing that grows companies' profile, profit, and pride at scale. His company Zest was recently acquired by WalkMe and he is now the VP of Marketing at Elementor.
Wed, April 21, 2021
Ep388: Gilad Shamri | Founder and CEO, Growth Artists
Gilad is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Growth Artists consulting agency based in San Francisco By the time Gilad was 13 he already established 2 businesses and at the age of 25, he managed to sell his first company. Now with over 12 years of experience in helping startups in SV find PMF he is writing a book about how to adapt his methodology to any type of business and every aspect of life.
Wed, April 21, 2021
Ep373: Connie Nam | Founder, Astrid & Miyu
Connie Nam started Astrid & Miyu 9 years ago wanting to create a jewellery brand that brings out the sentiment she felt when travelling around the world visiting local boutiques and markets. We are aiming to change the jewellery experience through a unique physical experience, strong community and innovative products. Prior to this Connie was trained as an investment banker in Asia working mainly on tech IPOs. She has an MBA from London Business School.
Tue, April 20, 2021
Ep384: Ben Kovalis | Co-Founder and CMO, ART AI
Ben is a Co-Founder and CMO at ART AI, a start-up that develops unique technology for producing AI-generated artworks, and serves as the world's largest AI-generated art gallery. A tech startup that is also an eCommerce and an art gallery, with the goal of democratizing art by developing and utilizing the technology underlying machine creativity. Ben’s experience as a VP, managing large international operations that deal with eCommerce in the financial education sector, and his fascination with art and technology, was what drove him to co-found ART AI.
Tue, April 20, 2021
Ep371: Yaron Lipshitz | CEO, AllSeated
Yaron Lipshitz, CEO, has led the rapid growth in Allseated for the past six years. Prior to that, he was an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Ridgecrest Capital Partners where he led scores of strategic transactions in the high-tech industry. Yaron served in the 8200 unit and holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon. In his spare time, Yaron enjoys skiing, sailing and spending time with his wife and four kids.
Mon, April 19, 2021
Ep382: Bryan Seely | Senior Security Architect & Evangelist, Cyemptive Technologies Inc
Bryan is an international keynote speaker, world-famous hacker, Cybersecurity expert, author and former U.S. Marine. Seely became one of the most famous hackers in 2014 when he became the only person to ever wiretap the United States Secret Service and FBI. Shockingly he told the 2 agencies before he was caught, and instead of being sent to a maximum-security prison, the Secret Service called him a hero and praised his courage and integrity.
Mon, April 19, 2021
Ep369: Modi Rosen | Managing Partner, Amiti
Modi Rosen has over 20 years of experience as a professional venture investor. He founded Magma Venture Partners in 1999 and led its investment practice. Currently, he invests out of Amiti Ventures where he is a managing partner. Modi was a seed investor in Waze, Appsflyer, Cloudendure, Argus, Innoviz and many more great Israeli companies.
Sun, April 18, 2021
Ep367: Denise Bar-Aharon | CEO & Co-Founder, Make-A-Wish Israel
Denise is an entrepreneur who co-founded Make-A-Wish Israel together with her husband in 1996 in her brother David Spero's name. From Make-A-Wish's inception 23 years ago, over 4000 magical wishes have been granted. Denise was also the owner and President of B.T.C International, a buying agency in Israel that represented top firms such as Macy's, Calvin Klein, The Gap and more.
Sat, April 17, 2021
Ep366: Dov Moran | Managing Partner, Grove Ventures
Dov Moran is the Managing Partner of Grove Ventures and one of the most prominent Israeli hi-tech leaders in the world: An investor, inventor and entrepreneur best known as the inventor of the USB flash drive. Moran founded M-Systems, acquired by SanDisk for $US 1.6 billion in 2006. Today, he is the Managing Partner of Grove Ventures, a leading early-stage venture capital investment firm that places significant emphasis on deep technology and partners with exceptional Israeli entrepreneurs.
Thu, April 15, 2021
Ep374: Roy Hermann | Founder & Chief Engineering Officer, KRE8.TV
Roy Hermann is the Founder & Chief Engineering Officer of KRE8.TV, a digital marketplace that helps turn people into digital empires. He's previously built over 50 apps/products himself (1m downloads) in the last 10 years, and in the last year has been focusing solely on the KRE8.TV mission of building a better world through content (digital information).
Thu, April 15, 2021
Ep375: Alon Brener | CRO & GM of US operations, Sensi A.i
Alon is the CRO & GM of US operations at Sensi A.i, an award-winning, 1st of its kind AI solution that is designed to resolve challenges in the eldercare industry and give your loved ones the opportunity to age with dignity, confidence, happiness, and safety. He is also the founder of Legion Inc. where he was also the CEO from 2008-2020, a company focused on specialized marketing services, from the ground-up to today overseeing an organization with over 600 employees in 30 offices.
Thu, April 15, 2021
Ep364: Chedva Kleinhandler | CEO & Founder, Rooms & Words
Chedva Kleinhandler is the CEO of Rooms and Words, a marketing and strategy consulting agency, and a Future of Work expert. Previously, Chedva was the Co-founder and CEO of Emerj, an award-winning startup that brought micro-mentoring to Fortune 500 companies like Facebook, Siemens and more. She is passionate about the future of learning, diversity and career growth and has given keynote speeches on those subjects and more at Facebook, Microsoft, AllCloud and other leading companies as well as NGOs. Chedva's work has been featured on Huffington Post, Wired, the BBC and more.
Wed, April 14, 2021
Ep372: Sagi Bakshi | CEO, Coinmama
Sagi Bakshi is a computer science engineer with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry and an extensive background in telecommunications, ad-tech, and blockchain technologies. He joins Coinmama from tech unicorn IronSource, which recently announced their IPO intention with an estimated valuation of $6-8B, where he was a member of the founding team and, from 2011-2018, served as General Manager of the company’s biggest division.
Wed, April 14, 2021
Ep363: Aly Madhavji 穆亚霖 | Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund
Aly Madhavji 穆亚霖 is the Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund which invests in and venture builds top-tier startups. He is a Limited Partner on Loyal VC and Draper Goren Holm. Aly consults organizations on emerging technologies such as INSEAD and the UN on solutions to help alleviate poverty. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow at INSEAD and was recognized as a “Blockchain 100” Global Leader by Lattice80.
Tue, April 13, 2021
Ep370: Eytan Peled | American born and raised Israeli singer and songwriter
Eytan is an American born and raised Israeli singer/songwriter who composes and sings in Arabic, Hebrew and English together. After being accepted to the prominent “Galgalatz Playlist”, his first song out, “Where Are The Days”, went viral and has passed 1 million views on YouTube and currently has over 1 million streams across digital streaming platforms (Apple Music & Spotify). He believes that learning each other’s language is the key to emotional connection and mutual understanding of perspective and culture.
Mon, April 12, 2021
Ep368: Alex Oppenheimer | Investor and Advisor
Alex's background is in mechanical engineering at Stanford, investment banking at Morgan Stanley, and then at NEA working on early-stage software investments. While at NEA he became an expert in the SaaS business model and spent significant time with the portfolio companies on key strategic operational initiatives in addition to making investments. He has been able to leverage his network and skillset to get access to great early-stage companies as well, so decided to also raise a small venture fund.
Sun, April 11, 2021
Ep360: Tara Robertson | CMO, Teamwork
Tara joined Teamwork in February 2021 as Chief Marketing Officer and has over 20 years of global experience leading award-winning marketing and sales teams. With a passion for growth and results-driven marketing, Tara is experienced in managing full-funnel marketing strategies that drive both customer acquisition and retention. Before Teamwork, Tara was the Head of Customer Marketing at Sprout Social and helped bring the company public in 2019.
Sat, April 10, 2021
Ep365: Michelle Taylor Willis | Founder, Gagnant Media
Michelle Taylor Willis is the founder of Gagnant Media. A Florida native, she is married with four sons and resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a proud graduate of the University of Florida, and an award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker, and master strategist. Michelle recently launched her first book, “Raising Significance: A Guide to Well-Rounded, Independent, and Confident Kids.” She has appeared on the nationally syndicated Tamron Hall Show on ABC to discuss the book and on the Fox affiliate in Atlanta, as well as being featured in several publications.
Thu, April 08, 2021
Ep361: Elie Wurtman | Managing Partner, PICO Venture Partners
Elie is co-founder and partner at PICO Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund headquartered in Jerusalem. His investments include Vroom (Nasdaq VRM), Spot.io (acquired by NetApp), Gloat, ChargeAfter, and AutoLeadStar. Prior to PICO, Wurtman was a general partner at Benchmark Capital from 2006 to 2012. Prior to that, he worked for three years with JVP, where he led early-stage media technology and enterprise software investments.
Thu, April 08, 2021
Ep362: Linda Cruse | Frontline Humanitarian, Leadership Expert, Author, Inspirational Speaker
After suffering temporary blindness through stress, Linda sold everything she owned and changed her life completely. For over two decades, she has been on the humanitarian frontline, working tirelessly to forge creative and sustainable economic solutions that empower and uplift vulnerable communities around the world. To this day, Linda still only owns the contents of one suitcase. She has also created an innovative platform Race4Good where the best and brightest minds - students and business leaders - compete to solve critical frontline issues, with solutions being implemented within days.
Tue, April 06, 2021
Ep357: Ira Belsky | Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Artlist Ltd
Ira is a self-taught filmmaker who in 2016 co-founded the music licensing platform, Artlist, together with 3 friends. As the company’s Co-CEO, Ira helped develop Artlist into a leader in the creative stock licensing industry. In 2019, The company launched the stock footage site Artgrid, and in 2020 they released a new sound effects library and purchased the creative asset marketplace Motion Array for $65 million. Today, Artlist is the go-to licensing provider for content creators in over 160 countries.
Tue, April 06, 2021
Ep358: Carina Bauer | CEO, IMEX Group
Carina Bauer is CEO of UK-based IMEX Group which organizes the two leading global shows for the international business events industry - IMEX in Frankfurt held in Germany each Spring and IMEX America taking place in Las Vegas each Fall. Each show typically attracts 14,000 business event professionals for the opportunity to do business with 3,400-plus destinations, venues and suppliers from 150-plus countries.
Mon, April 05, 2021
Ep356: Ari Applbaum | VP Marketing, Audioburst
Ari scales Israeli startups globally through brand building. He has successfully positioned countless companies to succeed in crowded markets, land Fortune 500 customers, attract significant funding, and exit. He currently serves as VP Marketing at Audioburst, the Audio Search & Discovery Platform. Before that, he was Head of Communications at marketing analytics leader AppsFlyer, VP Marketing at video platform AnyClip, and VP at leading tech PR firm Finn Partners.
Sun, April 04, 2021
Ep354: Noam Gabison | Vertical Manager, Digital Health, Facebook
Noam Gabison is the Vertical Manager for Digital Health at Facebook, an Ex-Microsoft, Venture Capital Fund (Singulariteam), and startups executive. Passionate about marketing, growth, business development, and purpose-driven companies.
Sun, April 04, 2021
Ep355: Quinn Fitzgerald | Co-Founder, Flare
Quinn Fitzgerald is an entrepreneur, advocate, and co-founder of Flare. Founded in 2016, the company was created from a passion for innovation, breaking down stereotypes and her personal experience with assault. She attended the College of the Holy Cross, where her passions led her to be the first person to design her own major in Conflict Resolution. Quinn later attended Harvard Business School, where she met co-founder, Sara Dickhaus de Zarraga. She previously served as the Assistant Director of the White House Business Council during the Obama administration. She currently resides in Boston.
Sat, April 03, 2021
Ep352: Uri Lavi | CEO & Co-founder, Ride Vision
Uri is a passionate visionary and an experienced motorcyclist. Before Ride Vision, Uri was the CEO at PicScout, which he led the company through multiple pivotal changes leading to industry leadership recognition. Prior to joining PicScout, Uri held leadership positions at a variety of other companies, ranging from startups to multinational corporations. He has also managed teams in the insurance and homeland security sectors. He holds a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
Sat, April 03, 2021
Ep353: Merav Weinryb | Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures Europe & Israel
Merav is the Managing Director of Qualcomm Ventures in Europe and Israel, she has more than 20 years of venture capital and high tech experience. Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures, she was a Director at Intel Capital, and before that a principal at Pitango Venture Capital. Merav holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering (cum laude) from the Technion, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. Merav is also the founder and is on the steering committee of the Women Founder Forum; an organization that encourages and supports female tech entrepreneurs.
Fri, April 02, 2021
Ep351: Rajdeep Gahir | Founder, CoCreations
Rajdeep is the founder of CoCreations a venture builder that consults with corporates & funds to build and grow internal ventures, clients have included PE funds, eBay and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. CoCreations also incubates disruptive live, work and e-commerce concepts. These include Vivahouse – an innovative co-living venture and Wing it Cosmetics – a beauty brand. Previous to this, Rajdeep joined WeWork as an early employee and led the European rollout from 2014 launching the market in London and the Netherlands. She started her career on a trading floor in London, following a degree from the LSE.
Fri, April 02, 2021
Ep350: Moshe Lipsker | SVP Global Product Development, Imperva
Moshe Lipsker is the SVP Global Product Development & Israel GM at Imperva. Imperva is recognized by industry analysts as a cybersecurity leader. Moshe joined Imperva in 2018 as Data Security Vice President Engineering and has held a variety of leadership roles. Prior to joining Imperva, Moshe was Vice President Engineering at Cellebrite and held executive positions at Polycom. Moshe earned Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Sciences from Bar-Ilan University and Executive MBA from The Hebrew University at JLM.
Thu, April 01, 2021
Ep348: Tom Livne | CEO & Founder, Verbit
Tom Livne is the CEO & Founder of Verbit, the world’s leading AI-powered transcription and captioning platform. Tom has vast leadership experience in technology companies, ranging from early-stage startups to enterprises with tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue. Tom served as a board member and investor in Convexum, a counter-drone platform that was acquired for $60M. He holds an L.L.B & B.A (cum laude) from IDC Herzliya and an MBA from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Thu, April 01, 2021
Ep349: Kimberly B. Cummings | Founder, Manifest Yourself
Kimberly B. Cummings is a career + leadership expert whose mission is to help women and people of color navigate the workplace, make more money and become industry leaders. Her personal and professional development company, Manifest Yourself, LLC, provides organizations with tailor-made solutions to hire, develop, engage, and retain women and people of color. . Her work has been featured on Forbes, MONEY Magazine, TeenVogue, Glassdoor, CNBC, Fox 5, and more. Kimberly is a graduate of Long Island University and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Master of Science in Counseling. Her highly anticipated book, Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning Into a Career You'll Love, will be released in Spring 2021.
Wed, March 31, 2021
Ep346: Celine Ivari | Co-Founder & CEO, WholyMe
Having studied Genetics of Human Disease, Celine is well aware of the impact our environment has on predisposition to conditions. When her mother’s autoimmune condition flared up as a result of a highly stressful lifestyle she made it her mission to help her in any way she could. WholyMe stems from this experience. She wanted to revolutionize people’s approach to everyday stresses aches and pains. At WholyMe they offer the healthiest most effective solutions without any compromise on long-term health.
Wed, March 31, 2021
Ep347: Aryeh Green | Author, My Israel Trail Chief Strategy Officer, Energiya Global Capital
Aryeh is the author of My Israel Trail: Finding Peace in the Promised Land about his hike on “Shvil Yisrael”, the 700-mile Israel National Trail, and meeting personal challenges, and is chief strategy officer at Gigawatt Global, a renewable energy platform for Africa based in Jerusalem. Aryeh is a former senior advisor to Natan Sharansky in Israel's prime minister's office and was the founder and director of MediaCentral, a Jerusalem project of HonestReporting providing services for the foreign press in the region.
Tue, March 30, 2021
Ep345: Andreea Ionita | Deputy General Manager and Strategy, Markets and Digitalization Director, E.ON Romania
As Deputy General Manager of E.ON Romania, Andreea coordinates areas of strategy, product innovation and development, market research and customer analysis, as well as digital transformation & development and IT. She has an international experience of over 14 years in the telecom industry, in Romania, Great Britain, Sweden and in several countries in Africa as well, working in different management positions for companies such as Orange, Ericsson and Vodafone.
Tue, March 30, 2021
Ep344: Zohar Bronfman | CEO and Co-Founder at Pecan
An entrepreneur and CEO, with a Ph.D. in computational cognitive neuroscience and a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science. My passion is enabling businesses to drive tangible value with AI. My expertise includes Analytics, AI, Deep Learning and Computational Psychology, as well as a strong background in Data Science, Statistical Data Analysis and Business Analytics.
Mon, March 29, 2021
Ep342: Asaf Nevo | CEO & Founder, Pico
Asaf is CEO & co-founder of Pico - Get personal, a data-driven fan marketing platform helping sports organizations across the globe identify their digital fans. Nevo and his team of founders are revolutionizing fan-marketing and in turn, the fan experience, through Pico's AI and data-capture technology. With more than 50+ international teams, Pico is leading the paradigm shift on fan marketing and data management, creating opportunities for personalized fan experiences that entice greater levels of connection from fans to franchises.
Mon, March 29, 2021
Ep343: Kobi Samboursky | Founder & Managing Partner, Glilot Capital Partners
Kobi is a serial entrepreneur at heart with over twenty-five years of experience in various technology and investment fields, co-founded Glilot Capital Partners in 2011. Kobi’s vision for Glilot was to provide an environment for a solid partnership and investment model between entrepreneurs and investors. Kobi brings his previous experience in building businesses and effective execution to his role in Glilot’s portfolio. His contributions have resulted in ten exits and a strong portfolio.
Sun, March 28, 2021
Ep340: Arnon Kraft | CEO, Big 4 Strategic Consulting Former General Manager, Microsoft
Arnon is a business and operations executive with over 20 years of General Manager & Vice President level experience from Fortune 500 companies (Microsoft, SanDisk) and startups. Until 2018 he was with Microsoft, managing a business scope of multi-billion USD’s and building strategic partnerships with the leading tech companies. In 2018 Arnon moved back to Israel where he currently represents two leading technology MNC's from Asia as their Strategic Advisor and Technology Scout. In addition, Arnon brings his extensive experience and serves as an active advisory board member for start-up companies where he helps CEO’s and COO’s to scale up their growing companies.
Sun, March 28, 2021
Ep341: Ido Sarig | VP, Head of Global Marketing at Ayehu
"Ido is a Product Marketing and Corporate Development executive, and former VC. He was the GM of the Internet of Things Group at Wind River and the VP of Product Marketing for its Testing Business unit. Earlier, he was the CMO of BDNA, and before that, a partner with Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, where he focused on enterprise software. He began his career with Mercury Interactive as a VP of Product Marketing and the VP of Technology Strategy."
Sat, March 27, 2021
Ep338: Romi Davidor | Director, CatalystIL
In 2018 Romi joined the Israel Innovation Institute with a clear vision of forming a professional, first of its kind community in the field of innovation management in organizations, corporates, and on a geographical level. Following this passion, Romi co-founded and today the Director of CatalystIL community, with more than 2300 community members, 200 innovation managers, and 100+ professionals- all part of the ecosystem.
Sat, March 27, 2021
Ep339: Nathan Shuchami | Managing Partner, Hyperwise Ventures
Nathan is a managing partner with Hyperwise Ventures, an Israeli venture capital that leads seed investments in the cybersecurity and enterprise software domains. He co-founded and led as a CEO Sentrigo Inc., acquired by McAfee, where he became VP Database Security. Nathan later co-founded Hyperwise Security, acquired by Check Point Software Technologies, where he became VP of Emerging Products.
Fri, March 26, 2021
Ep336: Seema Johnson | Co-Founder & COO, Nuggets
Seema is Co-Founder & COO at Nuggets, an award-winning, decentralized, self-sovereign identity and payment platform that offers exceptional protection for customer data, as well as a frictionless customer experience. In 2020, Seema won Deutsche Bank’s Female Fintech Competition and Women in Payments’ Unicorn Challenge. She was awarded the Booking.com Technology Playmaker Entrepreneur of the Year, and listed as one of the Most Influential Women in Payments, by PaymentsSource.
Fri, March 26, 2021
Ep337: Badri Rajasekar | Founder & CEO, Jamm
Badri is the founder and CEO of Jamm, a lightweight voice and video collaboration tool for remote and distributed teams. Prior to Jamm, he was CTO and SVP of Engineering at TokBox, now part of Nexmo (Vonage’s API platform), where he led the core engineering and operations teams. Before joining TokBox, Badri worked at Microsoft in the Core Operating Systems Division (COSD). Badri has an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Thu, March 25, 2021
Ep334: Sevda Memet | Co-Managing Director, Cardinal Ventures
Sevda Memet, from Constanta, Romania, is pursuing a master’s degree in Business Administration at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a master’s degree in Public Policy at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar in the inaugural cohort of the scholarship program. She graduated summa cum laude with a medical degree from Ovidius University Constanta and worked as a Chief Resident in Hematology-Oncology and Rare Diseases in the Romanian public healthcare system. She was awarded the 2018 Ten Outstanding Young People of Romania and aspires to help cancer patients by creating the first oncological system in Romania that will focus on integrated medicine and genetic testing. At Stanford, Sevda holds the following roles and distinctions: Co-President of the Graduate Student Council (Stanford Public Policy Program), Co-Managing Director of Cardinal Ventures (Stanford’s non-profit student-led startup accelerator program), 2021 Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health Fellow and 2020 Stanford US-Russia Fellow in the Biosecurity and Public Health Group.
Thu, March 25, 2021
Ep335: Boaz Gaon | Founder and CEO, Wisdo
Boaz is the CEO and Founder of Wisdo, an award-winning platform going beyond the Social Graph by connecting people to others who've "been there", are helpful, and are available to chat within 10 seconds and less. Wisdo reduces feelings of isolation by 70% within the first 2 weeks of using the app. Boaz founded Wisdo after losing his father to cancer and witnessing up close - how unnecessarily impossible it is in times of need, to find someone who ticks all three boxes: someone who's helpful, relevant, and instantly available. Previous to Wisdo, Boaz was a journalist and social activist.
Wed, March 24, 2021
Ep332: Asaf Ezra | Co-Founder & CEO, Granulate
Talpiot program alum, Asaf continued his IDF service as a commander in the elite 8200 intelligence unit. He previously held positions as R&D Team Leader and Project Manager where he led 30+ researchers, engineers and analysts in large-scale projects. Co-founding Granulate, he hopes to democratize performance and build a world without performance loss.
Wed, March 24, 2021
Ep333: Polly Taylor-Pullen | Business Development at Nivo
Polly joined Nivo in 2019 from Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company, where she consulted large corporates and financial services organizations on how to modernize and implement risk (AML/KYC/credit) assessment software. In less than five years, she was promoted from a Business Development Executive role to Account Director, where she managed global FTSE 250 clients. She was listed in Tech Nation’s ’10 inspiring women powering tech in the North West’ and is a regular panelist at fin-tech events in Manchester.
Tue, March 23, 2021
Ep330: Rina Vernovskaya | CEO, 280 Group
Rina Vernovskaya is the CEO of 280 Group, the world’s leading product management training and consulting company. Her team provides custom solutions to help product management teams deliver customer-focused products that matter. Prior to 280 Group, Rina was an analyst in McKinsey & Co’s investment office and in the Leadership Program at MetLife. She holds a BA in Economics and European Studies from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Tue, March 23, 2021
Ep331: Raziel Tabib | Founder and CEO, Codefresh
Raziel Tabib is the founder and CEO of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform designed to help teams confidently ship cloud-native applications faster. Prior to Codefresh Raziel has over 15 years of experience building software and running products in HP, Mercury and more. An entrepreneur, technology enthusiast and a software builder at heart, Raziel holds an MBA from Bar Ilan University in Israel and a BA in Math and Computer Science (cum laude)”
Mon, March 22, 2021
Ep328: Anna Juusela | CEO & Founder, We Encourage
Anna Juusela is an entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience in the retail sector, as a teacher and a consultant in the field of trends, profitability, and marketing. Her ambition and interest in future trends and new technologies, as well as her vision and determination to prevent forced marriages and empower women, led her to build an impact startup: We Encourage. They build a conversational AI tool for the victims of domestic violence and a fundraising platform for causes empowering women and girls.
Mon, March 22, 2021
Ep329: Robert Siegel | Lecturer in Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Robert is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches five different courses on strategy, innovation finance and product management. He is also a General Partner at XSeed Capital and a Venture Partner at Piva. Along with holding executive positions in various startups and enterprises, he is the co-inventor of four patents and served as lead researcher for Andy Grove’s best-selling book, Only the Paranoid Survive. He has a new book coming out later this year on how leading companies are combining the best of digital and physical in products and solutions.
Sun, March 21, 2021
Ep326: Batsheva Moshe | Manager, Poalim Hi-Tech Activity, Bank Hapoalim
Batsheva is the Manager of Poalim HiTech Activity, the banking arm of Bank Hapoalim for startups and high-tech companies. Prior, she served as the Strategic Consultant to the Chairman of Bank Hapoalim. Beforehand, Batsheva was the CEO of Unistream, one of Israel's most influential and impactful NGOs that narrows the socio-economic gaps by empowering youth and young adults from underprivileged communities to establish startups and integrate into the Hitech industry.
Sun, March 21, 2021
Ep327: Nimrod Cohen | Managing Partner at TAU Ventures
Nimrod is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is the Managing Partner at TAU Ventures, the Tel Aviv University Investments vehicle. Previously he was a partner at Plus Ventures. Nimrod has participated in more than 60 investments in portfolio companies over the past eight years, in companies such as Bringg, YOTPO, WSC Sports, Cimagine, HouseParty, Coralogix and more.
Sat, March 20, 2021
Ep324: Margarette Kesselman | Co-Founder & CEO, EvRiVenture Program Manager, Applied Materials
Margarette is a Program Manager and Entrepreneur with over 15 years of project management, sales, marketing, and consulting experience. She led program development initiatives and delivered multiple large-scale programs transforming businesses and operations, and founded a VR device start-up. She holds a Master's in Sociology helping to understand people’s and organizations’ needs. Margarette is leading a large Russian-Speaking Women in the Tech community where she championing their growth and success.
Sat, March 20, 2021
Ep325: Yair Lifshitz | Director, Head of Silicon One SDK
Yair started attending the Technion during high school, then dropped out of both. He became the youngest Principal Engineer at Intel Israel, and later led the design and development of Cisco's Silicon One SDK from inception to production. Yair is now partially retired, dividing his time between family, mentoring, and writing at beyondgoodandevil.org.
Fri, March 19, 2021
Ep322: Emma Jones | Founder, Enterprise Nation
Following a degree in Law and Japanese, Emma joined international accounting firm Arthur Andersen, where she set up the Inward Investment practice that attracted overseas companies to locate in the UK. In 2000, bitten by the dot.com bug, Emma left the firm to start her first business, Techlocate, which was acquired after 15 months. Her current company, Enterprise Nation, has expanded to become a small business membership community of over 75,000 people.
Fri, March 19, 2021
Ep323: Yonatan Raz-Fridman | CEO & Founder, Supersocial
Yon is an entrepreneur and company builder. He's the CEO & Founder of Supersocial, with a mission to inspire people to socialize, play and create in the Metaverse, starting with Roblox. Backed by industry-leading investors, Supersocial's ambition is to play an instrumental role in shaping the next era of interactive entertainment. Prior to Supersocial, he co-founded Kano, a computer company recognized by FastCo magazine as one of the world’s most innovative consumer electronics companies. Israeli born, living in the US with his wife Keri.
Thu, March 18, 2021
Ep320: Jasmine Eskenzi | Co-Founder, The Zensory, Co-Founder, Health Tech Hive
Jasmine is the co-founder of the Zensory, combining the latest neuroscience and cutting-edge sensory experiences to help people tap into chosen mood states and increase performance. Jasmine is also co-founder of Health Tech Hive, a global community of change-makers in health tech and conducting award-winning women’s health research. Prior to this, Jasmine worked as a consultant on projects with NHSx on their latest AI Initiative and with Longevity International to facilitate the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity.
Thu, March 18, 2021
Ep321: Alon Gamzu | CEO, Roundforest
Alon is co-founder and CEO of Roundforest, a global leader in the shopping recommendation space, and an angel investor. Roundforest’s mission is to simplify shopping by helping consumers make better & quicker purchases and ultimately buy with confidence. Over 40 million shoppers rely on Roundforest tools for buying advice every month. Alon founded Roundforest after working at Google, and before that at Intel’s machine learning team. He holds a BSc in Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.
Thu, March 18, 2021
Ep319: Eitan Lavie | Co-Founder & CEO, Zeppi
After a two-year relocation to Canada, Eitan learned how hard it is to keep in touch and care for loved ones, especially when they have difficulties operating smartphones and tablets. That’s why he developed Zeppi, a video call device that floats! It is the only zero effort tech out there for older adults and people with impairments.
Wed, March 17, 2021
Ep318: Ugochi Owo | CEO, Flindel
Ugochi Owo is the founder and CEO of Flindel, a reverse logistics and prop-tech startup focused on automating commerce returns. They make returning anything ridiculously easy for consumers of retail businesses and viable for retailers. They make it possible for consumers of retail stores to drop off their returns from the comfort of their homes, without risking the exposure and inconvenience of venturing outdoors.
Tue, March 16, 2021
Ep317: Elad Wallach | CEO, aidoc
Elad Walach is CEO and co-founder of Aidoc, an AI company that develops radiology triage and notification systems. He’s led the company since its founding in 2016, obtaining 6 FDA clearances, raising $60 million in funding, and creating an install base of over 400 hospitals and imaging centers. Elad began his career in the Israeli Defense Force’s elite Talpiot unit, eventually managing several computer vision and machine learning teams. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
Mon, March 15, 2021
Ep315: Eddy Furbottom | A-List Celebrity Puppet Entrepreneur
Eddy Furbottom is an a-list celebrity Puppetprenuer with a hit Youtube channel of the same name. He is the most well-connected entrepreneur on the planet, and incredibly famous in Hollywood, and is a thought leader on the topics of entrepreneurship, mindset, and coffee that comes out of the butt of a small tiny animal in Bali. He is not yet the author of any books yet, but he will be writing one when he can be bothered. His mission is to make entrepreneurs not take life too seriously and his website can be found at www.puppetpreneurs.com .
Mon, March 15, 2021
Ep316: Raissa De Haas | Co-founder bij Double Dutch Ltd
Joyce and Raissa are the dynamic twin co-founders of award-winning UK premium tonic and mixers brand Double Dutch. Since launching in 2015, they have received numerous accolades with Sir Richard Branson supporting their vision by awarding them a coveted Foodpreneur Award. Additional honors include being featured in The Telegraph’s ‘Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders’ in 2019 and taking a spot on the prestigious Forbes ’30 under 30’ Europe list. In just a few years, they have built a multi-million-pound business where most recently also the family Heineken invested a minority stake in.
Sat, March 13, 2021
Ep314: Dr. Anushka Patchava | Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Vitality
Anushka is an experienced healthcare leader, and customer-focused strategist with over 10+ years of clinical and corporate experience. Her current position is as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Vitality, a large UK-based PMI known for being a pioneer in integrating health technology and insurance. She completed her medical degree from the University of Cambridge and has qualifications from Harvard, Oxford University, Imperial College London, and most recently is studying for her MBA at London Business School.
Fri, March 12, 2021
Ep313: Didi Horn | CEO, SkyX
Didi founded SkyX in 2016 and it currently employs dozens of workers in offices in Canada, the U.S., Romania, and Israel. SkyX develops autonomous aircraft capable of scanning large swathes of land and analyzing the data to offer clients artificial intelligence-generated predictions on infrastructure projects. Its services enable organizations to make calculated decisions on their infrastructure health, reduce risks related to remote holdings, and lower maintenance and insurance costs.
Thu, March 11, 2021
Ep312: Eddie Arrieta | Co-Founder and Partner, Publicize and Global Shaper, World Economic Forum
Eddie Arrieta is a Colombia entrepreneur whose ventures navigate marketing, gastronomy, tourism and agritech. Today he continues to build businesses and help startups and entrepreneurs from around the world understand the importance of communications and purpose when growing ventures.
Wed, March 10, 2021
Ep311: Zvika Orron | General Partner, Viola Ventures
Zvika is a General Partner at Viola Ventures. Prior to joining Viola, he was the co-founder and CTO of Lifebeam, an artificial-intelligence wearables technology company. Since he joined the fund 4 years ago, Zvika has led investments in cutting-edge, innovative, and high-risk domains, from computational biology to deep tech, bringing his unparalleled technological expertise as a CTO and his background in biomedical engineering.
Tue, March 09, 2021
Ep310: Tom Orbach | Growth Marketing Manager, Jolt.io
Tom is a leading behavioral economics specialist. Tom helps startups and non-profits utilize psychological principles in their products. Tom is the founder of Israel's largest professional community of high-tech executives devoted to behavioral economics, which includes over 3,000 members. Tom also created a full animated course about influence techniques and gave it away for free (no upsells). Tom is a former lawyer with an MBA in cybersecurity (He deliberately chose to study fields he knew he'll never practice in real life).
Mon, March 08, 2021
Ep309: Eilon Reshef | Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Gong.io
Eilon is a co-founder and the Chief Product Officer at Gong. Gong is the leading solution provider in the revenue intelligence space, helping revenue teams understand how to help their team members succeed, how to better track deals and how to understand the voice of the market. Gong is a high-growth SaaS vendor and recently announced a funding round with a $2.2b valuation. Prior to Gong, Eilon was a co-founder of Webcollage, a SaaS provider in the marketing infrastructure space, following many years in various roles in the software space. Eilon resides in Tel Aviv, Israel, but used to visit the US often prior to COVID.
Sat, March 06, 2021
Ep307: Matteo Boffa | President, Swiss Business Council Abu Dhabi
Matteo Boffa is a Swiss Social and Environmental Entrepreneur, resident in the United Arab Emirates for 4 years. After dedicating over 9 years of his career in the world of finance (Swiss Private Banker) and nearly 2 years in the Swiss Army (Chief Sergeant Major), he decided to make a radical change in his life and undertake a path linked to sustainability and the protection of the environment. In September 2020 Matteo was awarded as 30 under 30 by Forbes.
Fri, March 05, 2021
Ep306: Kelly Palmer | Chief Learning & Talent Officer, Degreed
Kelly is on a mission to change the way the world learns and builds skills. A well-known thought leader on learning, business, and career development, she is currently on the executive team of Degreed as the chief learning/talent officer and was formerly the chief learning officer of LinkedIn. She is the co-author of the book The Expertise Economy: How the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete, and succeed, which was named one of the best business books of 2019.
Thu, March 04, 2021
Ep305: Vijay Krishnan | Founder & CTO, Turing.com
Vijay Krishnan is the Co-Founder & CTO, of Turing.com. Turing enables US companies to hire and manage the top 1% of over 200,000 registered software developers from all over the world's remote software developers all over the world. The Turing platform vets developers for programming skills, CS fundamentals, tech stack skills as well as communication skills, and soft skills. At Turing Vijay leads data science efforts that drive automation in vetting, matching, and managing remote developers. Previously Vijay founded another AI company, Rover, that got acquired by Revcontent, where he was SVP of Data Science. Vijay was a scientist at Yahoo’s Data Mining and Research group and holds a patent on large-scale text categorization. Vijay has Computer Science degrees (specializing in AI) from Stanford University and IIT Bombay. He lives in Palo Alto, California. You can find Vijay on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Wed, March 03, 2021
Ep304: Alexa Barker | CEO & Co-Founder, tripAbrood
Alexa is the CEO & Co-Founder of tripAbrood, an award-winning tech startup shaping the future of family travel by creating the world's first AI-powered family travel booking experience. Prior to founding tripAbrood, Alexa had a decade-long career in financial services running regional sales and operations divisions for Bloomberg L.P. in Europe and Asia, that sold and scaled technology solutions to the world's learning financial institutions. Prior to Bloomberg, Alexa was the UK & Ireland Diversity Manager for Procter & Gamble. Alexa holds a master's degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University. As a mother of three young children, she has experienced the challenges of family travel first hand and decided to found tripAbrood to solve these challenges through technology.
Tue, March 02, 2021
Ep303: Brett King | Founder and Executive Chairman, Moven, Founder, Provoke Management
Brett is an International Bestselling Author, a world-renowned futurist, and a media personality. President Xi Jinping cited his book Augmented. He has spoken in over 50 countries, given keynotes for TEDx, Wired, Techsauce, Singularity University, Web Summit, and many more. He hosts the world's #1 Fintech Radio Show/Podcast called Breaking Banks (180 countries, 6.5 million listeners) and is the founder of Moven, a globally recognized mobile start-up, which has raised over US$40 million to date, and launched the first in-app mobile bank account offered anywhere in the world.
Mon, March 01, 2021
Ep302: Cindy Gallop | founder and CEO, www.makelovenotporn.com
Cindy is the founder and CEO of www.makelovenotporn.com , launched at TED 2009 – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’. She turned MakeLoveNotPorn into the world’s first user-generated, human-curated social sex video-sharing platform https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/ socializing and normalizing sex in order to make it easier to talk about, to promote consent, communication, good sexual values, and good sexual behavior. Cindy speaks at conferences globally and consults, describing her approach as ‘I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.’
Sun, February 28, 2021
Ep301: Frank Rinderknecht | Founder and Owner, Rinspeed Inc.
Frank is the founder and CEO of Rinspeed Inc., based in Zumikon/Switzerland, which he has established in 1977 as a young student at the Technical University of Zurich. While the import of sunroofs from the USA was his first business activity, Rinspeed soon became a pioneer in the tuning industry. The invention of the steering wheel with integrated controls for radio or other functions, sustainable powertrains and driver assistance systems are amongst noteworthy milestones in the company’s history. Frank’s activities are centered on being a Think Tank of the automotive and other industries and create and promote innovative technologies, materials and mobility means of tomorrow.
Sat, February 27, 2021
Ep300: Olivia Fox Cabane | Co-Founder & Chiep Map Maker, KindEarth.Tech (KET)
Olivia has taught leadership, innovation, genius, and charisma at Harvard, Yale, MIT and the United Nations. She is the co-founder of KindEarth.Tech and former Director of Innovative Leadership for Stanford's startup accelerator as well as a best-selling author and keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies. Olivia’s first book, The Charisma Myth, published by Penguin Random House, went into a second printing before it even launched; her books have been translated into 32 languages, including Mongolian. She is currently writing “The Genius Myth: How Anyone Can Learn To Access Their Inner Einstein.”
Fri, February 26, 2021
Ep299: Andrej Safundzic | Co-Founder of Lumos & Stanford GSB Candidate
Andrej aspires to use technology for the public good, believing that the future is not about giving fish or teaching how to fish, but about inventing an affordable, automatic fishing pole. He founded Tech4Germany, Germany's technology task force under Federal Chief of Staff Helge Braun, and established two startups in East Africa. Andrej received the 40 Under 40 award by Capital as the youngest person on the list, and in 2019 was named #1 Entrepreneur to Watch in the Policy & Social category by Business Punk.
Thu, February 25, 2021
Ep298: Miriam Tocino | CEO & Author, Zerus & Ona
Miriam is a former architect turned software developer and programming teacher. As a result of her recent motherhood, she's passionate about making computers more accessible, friendly, and easy to understand for young children and encourage them to become curious about what technology is and how it works. She's the author of Zerus & Ona, a book series designed to make learning about computers fun and motivating for the whole family.
Wed, February 24, 2021
Ep297: Gil Dibner | Founder & General Partner at Angular Ventures
Gil Dibner is the founder of Angular Ventures, a $41M early-stage venture fund based in London and Tel Aviv, founded in 2018. Angular Ventures backs enterprise-oriented startups building global category leaders. Prior to founding Angular Ventures, Gil established and led the largest AngelList syndicate outside the US that is exclusively focused on European and Israeli enterprise technology. He is an active early-stage investor in European and Israeli technology companies including Aquant, Chorus, Front, Resin, Moltin, Snyk, and many others.
Tue, February 23, 2021
Ep296: Sanja Radlovacki | Executive Director, United Arab Emirates & Serbia Business Club
Sanja has spent 14 years of her professional career in the marketing industry, focused on corporate management, new business development, strategic project management, integrated marketing communication, key government relations, and international affairs & cooperation. She is the Executive director of the United Arab Emirates & Serbia Business Club established by the Embassy of the UAE in Serbia and well-known companies. She was elected as one of the top 100 young leaders of the River Danube Region.
Mon, February 22, 2021
Ep295: Tom Kasten | Former Executive, Levi Strauss & Co
Tom held a variety of executive positions at Levi Strauss & Co., including President of several operating Divisions as well as Executive Vice President of New Business Development. On the public service side, he served two terms as Mayor of the Town of Hillsborough and was the town’s Police Commissioner for 12 years. Tom currently serves on multiple boards, particularly pertaining to Jewish education and culture.
Sun, February 21, 2021
Ep294: Sujata Rastogi | Founder & CEO, You've Got This!
Sujata is the Founder & CEO of You've Got This! A future of work B2B/C SaaS Co changing the way startups hire flexible business talent. Making finding the right person simpler, cheaper & faster; whilst empowering individuals to make the most of their time and skills. Prior to this, Sujata built and launched investment products and digital banking platforms for multinational banks.
Sat, February 20, 2021
Ep293: Jeremy Glassenberg | Product Management & Platform Leader
Jeremy is an experienced Product leader of over 12 years with a proven track record of building APIs and monetizing developer platforms at places like Box and Tradeshift. He has managed and expanded communities of tens of thousands of developers, executed on high profile integrations promoted by Salesforce and Google and established paths to monetization through developer platforms.
Fri, February 19, 2021
Ep292: Zoë Desmond | Founder & CEO, Frolo
Zoë Desmond is the Founder & CEO of Frolo, the first community app of its kind for single parents. The idea for Frolo was born out of Zoë's own struggles with loneliness and isolation when she became a single parent and found it very difficult to find and connect with other like-minded single parents. The Frolo app is now a year old and has 20k members across the UK and Ireland. 2021 is set to be a busy year for Frolo with plans to expand into new territories and launch a Frolo Dating offering.
Thu, February 18, 2021
Ep291: Moshe Friedman | Co-Founder, KamaTech & TicTech
Moshe Friedman belongs to one of the most illustrious rabbinical families in the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) world. At the age of 30, Moshe founded Clipop, a start-up company in the online video field, and later on became a social entrepreneur leading Haredi integration into the Israeli workforce, especially the hi-tech industry. He co-founded KamaTech, a coalition of 80 large hi-tech companies to help Haredis integrate into the hi-tech industry. More than 20,000 Haredi men and women from the Haredi community are part of the KamaTech community, and getting help through KamaTech to get training, placement, and also to become successful entrepreneurs.
Wed, February 17, 2021
Ep290: Paris Petgrave | Co-Founder & CEO, We Love Work
Paris is the CEO and Co-founder of We Love Work, an app that helps companies build happier, more resilient teams by solving their recruitment, engagement and retention problems. She has worked as a consultant and building products and services for a number of large, multi-national organizations including Barclays, Harrods, Virgin, Mastercard and the NHS. In 2017 she was listed as the top 100 EMpower leaders in the Financial Times and a Rising Star in the Power list 2018 and 2019.
Tue, February 16, 2021
Ep289: Chuck Imerson | CEO, Asian Box
Chuck Imerson has over 30 years of Hospitality experience, he has successfully led full-service organizations, fast-casual and everything in between. Chuck joined Asian Box as COO in 2016. As COO he led Asian Box through a growth spurt going from 3 o 10 locations in an 18-month span. In November 2019, he took over as the CEO of Asian Box. Chuck began his restaurant career as a teenager, quickly working his way up through the ranks at Marie Callender’s restaurant group culminating in the position of Senior Area Director in which he oversaw 44 locations in 7 states. From there Chuck helped launch the LYFE Kitchen lifestyle brand as the Vice President of Operations, leading the start-up process and the high-profile – celebrity chef-driven opening of the first three locations. Additionally, Chuck has owned and operated his own full-service restaurant in Northern California. He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children.
Mon, February 15, 2021
Ep288: Sarah Begum | Pioneering Explorer & Journalist, Host of ‘Spaced Out!’ Podcast
Sarah is an explorer and journalist who has immersed with indigenous tribes in jungles, mountains, deserts and caves to understand their cultures and capture their stories. Now, focusing on aviation and space exploration with a focus on sustainability and climate awareness.
Sun, February 14, 2021
Ep287: Marc Cirera | Founder, Companies for Good
Marc Cirera is business ethics and CSR specialist with a clear vision: a world where companies operate in a more sustainable and responsible way. Marc is the Founder & CEO of Companies for Good, a social enterprise designed to help businesses change for good.
Sat, February 13, 2021
Ep286: Amit Tishler | Chief Creative Officer, PopBase
Amit's spent his early career as an animator, director and award-winning filmmaker. For over 6 years he acted as the president of Ten Forward Productions where he produced work on projects for clients like Cartoon Network, HBO, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Hallmark, and more. After moving from TV into software development on games for the Nintendo 3DS as well as educational software for Pangea Tools & Wizdy, Amit climbed up the ladder of the industry as a business development executive for the award-winning Empty Clip Studios, before leaving to his job to co-found PopBase.
Fri, February 12, 2021
Ep285: Tomer Cohen | CEO, BUYME
Tomer Cohen is an Israeli entrepreneur, he is the CEO of BUYME, Israel’s leading digital gift-cards solutions company. Before joining BUYME, Tomer founded 2 companies, held senior roles in the diplomatic and political sector in Israel, including Chief of Staff to the Israeli Mission to the UN. Tomer was chosen for the Forbes 30/30 list of 2018. He is married to Hadas and father to Itay and Mika.
Thu, February 11, 2021
Ep284: Lior Gavish | Co-Founder, Monte Carlo
Lior Gavish is Co-Founder of Monte Carlo, a data observability company backed by Accel and other top Silicon Valley investors. Prior to Monte Carlo, Lior co-founded cybersecurity startup Sookasa, which was acquired by Barracuda in 2016. At Barracuda, Lior was SVP of Engineering, launching award-winning ML products for fraud prevention. Lior holds an MBA from Stanford and an MSC in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.
Wed, February 10, 2021
Ep283: Shahar Erez | Co-Founder & CEO, Stoke
Shahar is a co-founder and the CEO of Stoke, an on-demand talent platform empowering companies to adopt a hybrid workforce model that scales as quickly and efficiently as needed. A tech-scene veteran in Israel and Silicon Valley, Erez has 20 years of executive experience in engineering, product and marketing under his belt at companies like HP, VMware and Kenshoo. He is a proud father of 3, an amateur cyclist and an avid reader.
Tue, February 09, 2021
Ep282: Debbie Wosskow | Co-Founder, AllBright and Former CEO, Love Home Swap
Debbie Wosskow is a British entrepreneur who lives in London, UK. She is the former CEO of Love Home Swap, a subscription-based home exchange business, which she sold for $53m to Wyndham Destination Networks in July 2017. Debbie co-founded AllBright, the global network that celebrates and connects women at work. Wosskow is also an influential advocate of the sharing economy and is the former Chair of Sharing Economy UK. In 2015 she led the independent government review ‘Unlocking the Sharing Economy’ - also known as the Wosskow Report. She is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, a Member of the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board and sits on the Board of the Women’s Fiction Prize. In 2016, she was awarded an OBE for services to business.
Mon, February 08, 2021
Ep281: Chen Shmilo | Managing Director, 8200 Impact
Chen Shmilo is the Managing Director of 8200 Impact, Israel's first and most prominent Impact-tech accelerator in the 8200 Alumni Association. Chen worked in the public and the NGO sector as a lawyer and a public policy advisor focusing on public health and the healthcare system until he pivoted to the world of technological entrepreneurship. He is an 8200 unit alumnus who holds an LL.B. degree (Cum Laude) from Haifa University and an LL.M. degree in Public Law from Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University in Chicago. He is also a graduate of Fulbright's Humphrey Fellowship in public health policy and management. Chen is also a leader in the LGBTQ Community in Israel who established the LGBTQ Medical Society.
Sun, February 07, 2021
Ep280: Anique Drumright | VP of Product, Loom
Anique Drumright works as the VP of Product at Loom, where she oversees product strategy and development. Most recently, she was the Vice President of Product at TripActions, where she built the product and design organization from the ground up and scaled the team over 8x globally during a period of hypergrowth. She has also held multiple roles at Uber in product, partnerships, and operations management. Before entering tech, she served in leadership roles at and taught for Teach for America in Memphis.
Sat, February 06, 2021
Ep279: Ruby Chen | Associate Partner, Drake Star Partners Investor & Advisor, J-Ventures Fund Managing Director, RIA Advisors
Ruby is a Dealmaker with a proven track record in initiating, leading and executing +30 strategic transactions (investments, M&As, divestitures and revenue-generating partnerships) at global, industry-leading companies (Hyundai Motor Company, Amdocs and NICE Systems). Enjoying supporting tech geeks to disrupt conventional industries for over a decade, serving as BoD member, BoD observer and strategic advisor to multiple growth companies. Characterized as highly networked in the Israeli tech scene as well as worldwide corporate investors, with a deep understanding of communication, enterprise software and Autotech technologies.
Fri, February 05, 2021
Ep278: Maya Vishwakarma | Founder & President, Sukarma Foundation
Maya is a social entrepreneur, founder, and president of Sukarma Foundation, also known as "PADWOMAN OF INDIA". Over the past 4 years, she has been working in her hometown district Narsinghpur in a self-sustainable village. Sukarma works on "Menstrual Hygiene Awareness" in the tribal area of Madhya Pradesh. They are manufacturing affordable low-cost sanitary napkins for tribal and rural girls/women named "NO TENSION".
Thu, February 04, 2021
Ep277: Eyal Lifshitz | Founder, BlueVine
A 3rd generation small business entrepreneur, Eyal co-founded BlueVine to provide businesses with an easier way to access financial services. Before BlueVine, he was a Principal at Greylock IL and an Associate at McKinsey. Eyal holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, where he was a Carlton Fellow.
Wed, February 03, 2021
Ep276: Wes Boudville | Founder, Linket
Wes is an inventor with 20 granted US patents on cellphones. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from CalTech, and did a postdoc at Los Alamos under George Zweig, the co-discoverer of quarks. Wes co-founded Metaswarm for antispam, and Linket with 13 patents on branding. He attended Burning Man from 1992 - 1999.
Tue, February 02, 2021
Ep275: Lynn Greenberg | Founder & CEO, Pivt Enterprise
Lynn is the Founder and CEO of Pivt, the company social app designed to reduce turnover and improve the well-being of relocated, remote, and transient employees. Pivt was born out of Lynn's own frustration after relocating to London (a few weeks after graduating from F & M) to work for Bloomberg and not knowing where to start to make her new city feel like home. Prior, Lynn worked at Bloomberg LP in London and then as a Senior Associate at Autonomy Ventures, where she procured startup deal-flow, managed teams, and drove value creation for portfolio companies. She currently serves as the VP of Panels for the New York Venture Community (NYVC), and mentors/advises at Women in Business at Yeshiva University, Astia Angels, and London & Partners, and Athletic Venture Advisors. Lynn is a frequent panelist, startup judge, and speaker, including at SXSW, Franklin & Marshall College, NYU Stern Business School $300K Startup Challenge, Columbia University Business School, Brandeis University Business School, Syracuse University Innovation Competition, NY Venture Summit, and the University of Oxford. Lynn has been featured in publications such as: Forbes, The London Evening Standard, and Digital Trends. She has also been published in: Thrive Global, ERC Worldwide Mobility Magazine, Startup Magazine, and Entrepreneur Podcast Network.
Mon, February 01, 2021
Ep274: Assaf Gil | CEO, Gil Productions Ltd.
Assaf Gil is one of Israel's veteran and most successful television producers. In the course of his 30 years in the TV industry, Gil has consistently produced Israel's highest-rated shows on commercial television as well as created various television formats for the local and international television markets.
Sun, January 31, 2021
Ep273: Tal Zackon | Investment Team, F2 Venture Capital
Tal leads the F2 Venture Capital investment team, managing all aspects of the fund's deal flow with a focus on deal sourcing, due diligence, and value creation. Prior to F2, Tal operated as the General Manager at The Junction and was recognized as one of the 30Under30 by Forbes Magazine. Tal is on the board of Combat Ventures, a non-profit organization assisting IDF veterans' integration into the Israeli startup ecosystem. Previously, Tal served as a Captain in the Israeli Special Forces. Tal holds a BA degree from the IDC and The University of Southern California.
Sat, January 30, 2021
Ep272: Rachel Yarcony-Goldstein | Founder & Co-CEO, myAir foodtech
Rachel is a food and pharma expert, with proven success in bringing new products and breaking-through innovations to fruition in leading companies in highly competitive industries as V.P. Marketing at Teva pharmaceuticals, Business Manager at Nestle and Marketing Manager at Strauss group. She is a Grand EFFI Winner, holds B.A. in Psychology & Communication from Tel-Aviv University, and MBA (with honor) from ESG in France.
Fri, January 29, 2021
Ep271: Oren Dobronsky | Shark Investor, Shark Tank TV show Founder, Oren's Hummus
Oren Dobronsky is an entrepreneur by heart turned into an accomplished angel investor. Oren lives with his wife and two kids in the Silicon Valley and is mostly known as the founder of Oren's Hummus, a local, very famous Israeli restaurant chain. In 2020 Oren and his family moved to Israel for a gap year and were shocked to discover the level of poverty in rural Israel, especially after COVID’s impact on families with young children. Oren is determined to help these families through ClearGiving.com , a non-profit org he had co-founded with a group of other techies.
Thu, January 28, 2021
Ep270: Avi Eyal | Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Entrée Capital
Avi Eyal is co-founder of and managing partner of Entree Capital, a firm with operations in the U.S., U.K., and Israel that manages more than $500 million in assets across 90 portfolio companies. Portfolio startups include Riskified, which raised $165 million in November 2019, and monday.com, an Israel-based work software company that reportedly reached a valuation of $3 billion in 2020, and where Eyal sits on the board. He's also an investor in Cazoo, Glovo, Stash, and Rapyd. Avi is a third time Midas top 25 lister and the Johnnie Walker Entrepreneur of the Year winner in 2010.
Wed, January 27, 2021
Ep269: Lior Grossman | Founder & CEO, Openbase
Lior is the founder & CEO of Openbase, a Y Combinator company that helps developers choose among millions of open-source projects. He previously founded Wikiwand and BookAuthority, both profitable businesses that are used by millions of people. Born and raised in Israel, Lior has been programming since the age of 10, got his first job at Scitex at the age of 16 while in high school, joined the Israel Intelligence Corps (Unit 8200) at the age of 18, and started his first business (a software development business) at the age of 25. In 2018, he moved to the United States with his wife, and they currently live in San Francisco, California.
Tue, January 26, 2021
Ep268: Rachel Trobman | CEO, Upside Health
Rachel Trobman is the CEO of Upside Health, leading the team on business development, strategy and clinical relationships. The company is based on Rachel's personal experience with chronic pain and has worked with more than 15,000 patients and hundreds of clinicians to expand access to chronic pain care. Rachel has nearly two decades of experience building digital products and experiences for Fortune 500 companies and media enterprises including, but not limited to, P&G, Yahoo!, NBC and the New York Times. Most recently, Rachel’s work in the digital health space has earned her recognition by the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Yale School of Medicine, eyeforPharma, and the U.S. Pain Foundation.
Mon, January 25, 2021
Ep267: Zvi Guterman | Chief Executive Officer, CloudShare
Zvi is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience turning novel ideas into successful businesses. As founder and CEO of CloudShare, he started a Sequoia Capital company that provides a public cloud service for software development and testing to over 200,000 subscribers. Prior to CloudShare, he founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution that was acquired by NASDAQ: WAVX.
Sun, January 24, 2021
Ep266: Mike Cassidy | CEO, Apollo Fusion, Inc.
Mike Cassidy is the CEO of Apollo Fusion, Inc. Mike Cassidy was recently a Vice President at Google. He was the Project Leader of GoogleX’s Project Loon (balloon-powered Internet for everyone). Prior to joining Google, Mike was the Co-Founder and CEO of four start-ups: Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Mike has a BS/MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. He graduated from Harvard Business School. He studied jazz piano at Berklee College of Music..
Sat, January 23, 2021
Ep265: Arod Balissa | Manager, Deloitte Catalyst, Deloitte Israel
Arod is a Manager at Deloitte Catalyst, Deloitte Israel's startup practice, focusing on Life Sciences and Healthcare innovation. He also is the co-founder of Wize, one of Israel's largest content platforms, a board member of the 8200 Alumni Association, where he leads the digital transformation project and several other initiatives, and a board member of ISOC-IL, the Israeli Internet Association. Arod is passionate about climate change, an avid reader and a lawyer by training.
Fri, January 22, 2021
Ep264: Tess Manning | Principal, GSV Ventures
Tess is a Principal at GSV Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on education technology. Tess spent time at Pluralsight on their strategy team, was a top sales executive at Andela (start-up transforming talent across Africa), and the Head of Talent at Timehop. Tess holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in International Relations/Economics from New York University. Tess was a Teaching Assistant at Stanford GSB for “Diverse Leadership in Education.” She serves on the Advisory Board for Girl Develop It, a non-profit providing software engineering courses for adult women.
Thu, January 21, 2021
Ep263: Peter Fishman | Co-Founder & CEO, Mozart Data
Peter Fishman is the co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data (YCS20), the easiest way to spin up a modern data stack. Previously, he was the Chief Strategy Officer at Eaze, a cannabis technology platform. He has also worked at fast-growing startups including Opendoor, Zenefits, Yammer/Microsoft, Playdom/Disney. He also has been involved with sports analytics at the Philadelphia Eagles and has run a hot sauce company, Bacon Hot Sauce. He holds a B.S. from Duke University and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley.
Wed, January 20, 2021
Ep262: Spandana Palaypu | Founder & CEO, ZoEasy
Spandana is the Founder & CEO of ZoEasy, an award-winning social enterprise in the MENA Region that focuses on educating and matching migrant blue-collar job seekers to the right employment opportunities using ethical and transparent hiring. She is also the Vice Curator of Global Shapers Dubai, World Economic Forum, where she helps lead the Hub in relation to the WEF's key pillars and has also contributed to many of the hub's education and employment initiatives. Spandana is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Awardee, Expo 2020, and Credit Suisse's Lead 2030 Winner, Speaker, and Ambassador at One Young World and an Enterprise for Peace Scholar with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tue, January 19, 2021
Ep261: Nuri Golan | Co-Founder and CEO, Sosivio
Nuri Golan is a serial entrepreneur and Angel investor. Nuri was the CEO and Co-Founder of the GPS technology startup EXO Technologies which he sold to Lear Corporation, a Fortune 150 company. At Lear, Nuri became the Managing Director of Lear Innovation Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Lear. Currently, Nuri is the CEO of Sosivio, a next-gen observability platform for Cloud Native environments. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Nuri served 6 years in the Israeli Navy Seals as a combat officer and also managed the unit's advanced R&D team. Nuri has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from the Technion in Israel.
Mon, January 18, 2021
Ep260: Orlie (Dahan) Gruper | Executive Director, EcoMotion
Orlie began her path in the industry through her time in the Air Force, where she was recruited to operate a private aviation fleet, then moved on to complete her BA in Business Management at IDC. She became the first female entrepreneur in the community she leads today by founding Blitz Motors, a two-wheeled electric vehicle company. Orlie is the current acting Executive Director at EcoMotion and is the founder of Women in Mobility, a community that aims to grow the number of women in the field by sharing challenges and opportunities while acquiring new tools for professional growth.
Sun, January 17, 2021
Ep259: Ivan Jakovljevic | Chief Development Officer, STV
Ivan is the Chief Development Officer at STV, largest venture capital fund in the Middle East and North Africa region with more than $500M in assets under management. At STV, Ivan is leading portfolio support and value creation, helping STV portfolio companies address key challenges to scale, such as talent, marketing & growth, business development and strategy. Before joining STV, Ivan was Regional Lead for new markets at Google MENA and Principal at Booz & Company, consultants. Ivan holds a Masters in Logistics and Transport Engineering from Belgrade University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Sat, January 16, 2021
Ep258: Tamir Plachinsky | Founder and CEO, Griiip
After founding the first Formula SAE team in Israel (2011), I spent 6 months in Italy working at Dallara - the world's best race car manufacturer. Returning to Israel (2012), I decided to establish a company that will focus on making Motorsport more accessible and affordable, using new technologies and solutions yet to be implemented in the industry. We started by addressing the needs of the driver and developed the G1- a race car that combines extreme performance with affordability, but our true success was uncovering the larger opportunity for smart-connected racecars and a comprehensive data solution for the racing and automotive industries.
Fri, January 15, 2021
Ep257: Jennifer Richard | Principal, Bonfire Ventures
Jennifer Richard is a Principal at Bonfire Ventures. Prior to Bonfire, Jen sourced and executed seed-stage investments at Vitalize VC and Cross Culture Ventures. Before beginning her career in venture, Jen was a founding member of three venture-backed startups and saw two of them through successful acquisitions. She has been responsible for building e-commerce platforms from the ground up and has scaled online commerce to reach over 30 countries worldwide. She has a BA from Emory University and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Thu, January 14, 2021
Ep256: Francis Pedraza | Chief Executive Officer, Invisible Technologies
Francis leads a team of 300 people and has raised $6M in capital to build Invisible, a disruptive work-automation company that provides custom operations support to scaling businesses. Previously, Francis raised $2.6M from top investors to build Everest, a social network based on “what you do” not “who you know.” He worked briefly in consulting and at Google after studying history at Cornell. People who’ve worked with Francis say his strategy comes from “clear, deep thinking,” that he excels at “building models, communicating vision, and motivating his team.” Most importantly he’s refreshingly honest about success, failures, and his learnings along the way. By the time he dies, he hopes to have read all the Penguin classics.
Wed, January 13, 2021
Ep255: Carine Carmy | Co-Founder and CEO, Origin
Carine Carmy is Co-Founder and CEO at Origin, a physical therapy designed for women and mothers. With over 40M women experiencing incredibly common but overlooked health issues from pelvic pain to postpartum recovery, Origin is clinically proven to have life-changing results, helping women build strength and avoid countless unnecessary surgeries. Prior to Origin, Carine has spent her career as a go-to-market leader in healthcare and technology, including at Amino, Shapeways, MarketspaceNext, and Monitor Group. Carine is an advisor to businesses and nonprofits focused on diversity and economic equality, and when she's not in front of a computer, you can find Carine hiking, biking, running, dancing, and generally moving at fast speeds.
Tue, January 12, 2021
Ep254: George Kotsolios | Managing Partner, Leidar
George's career spans over 28 years, as a journalist turned PR (agency and in-house) in the public and private sectors. His primary work is within the United Kingdom, Greece, Cyprus and UAE (Dubai & Abu Dhabi). During the last two years, he has developed a passion for the international tech startup ecosystem, working with entrepreneurs and investors in the UAE and Greece to help them achieve their communications objectives. George is an expert in message development, PR content creation, media training and relations, and crisis management.
Mon, January 11, 2021
Ep253: Yael Kaufmann | Co-founder & COO, Learn In
Yael Gilboa Kaufmann is Co-founder & COO of Learn In, the first comprehensive upskilling-as-a-service platform helping companies solve for every barrier that stands between them and the future of work. She is an investor turned operator and lifelong learner who believes that learning neither begins nor ends with a degree. Yael began her career as an investor in private equity and was an impact investor and fintech entrepreneur prior to co-founding Learn In. Yael earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, her BS in Mathematics and Finance from the College of William & Mary, and her passion for education from a decade of teaching and tutoring.
Mon, January 11, 2021
Ep252: Sleem Hasan | CEO & Founder, Privity
Sleem Hasan is an experienced owner with a demonstrated history of working in venture capital and the Japanese capital markets. He is skilled in investor relations, securities, asset management, investment advisory, and working with technology entrepreneurs. His strong entrepreneur professionalism is with a Part III Mathematical Tripos from Cambridge University and an M.A.(Hons) degree in Mathematics from Oxford University. He’s also the CEO and Founder of Privity, which is an independent Dubai-based advisory firm founded back in 2004.
Sat, January 09, 2021
Ep251: Michal Levin | VP of Product, Hero
Michal is the VP of Product at Hero Health, aiming to help people manage their health better, and live their lives to the fullest. She is passionate about solving hard problems that make a difference in people’s lives, and in a career of over 15 years, led UX and product across Google, Verily Life Sciences, Zoox, modu and more. She authored the book "Designing Multi-Device Experiences" (O'Reilly Media) and several other publications, mentored dozens of startups, and spoke at local and global conferences. Also the mom of two toddlers, an avid audible listener and a big fan of live music shows.
Thu, January 07, 2021
Ep250: Oren Rubin | Founder and CEO, Testim.io
Oren is the Founder and CEO of Testim.io. He has over 20 years of experience in tech, focusing on products for developers at IBM, Wix, Cadence, Applitools, and now Testim.io. In addition to being a busy entrepreneur, Oren is a community activist, the co-organizer of several meetups and conferences, mentored at the Google Launchpad Accelerator, and taught at Technion University.
Wed, January 06, 2021
Ep248: Oron Afek | Co-Founder and CEO, Vim
Oron Afek is the co-founder and CEO of Vim (www.getvim.com) - improving the performance of healthcare networks in the US. Prior to starting Vim, Oron started a telecommunication startup and a gaming company, operating out of Tel Aviv, Israel. Oron received his law and business degrees from IDC Herzliya.
Tue, January 05, 2021
Ep247: Keren Fanan | Chief Commercial Officer, Gett
As the Chief Commercial Officer of Gett (previously Get-Taxi), Keren is leading several revenue streams within the company, including Gett's international b2b division. Prior to this role, Keren established two startups within the company ("startups within a startup") and grew them from nearly a concept into fully profitable business units. Keren began her career in R&D and spent several years as a Product Manager and Technical Project Manager, liaising between technology departments and leading release lifecycles from kickoff to deployment. Keren holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from Tel Aviv University.
Mon, January 04, 2021
Ep246: Noam Segal | Director of User Research, Wealthfront
Noam's first UX role was in the military industries, where he was the UX lead for several of Israel's missile-defense systems. He attended a liberal arts college in Israel, studying Psychology and Media, before moving to the US to get his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then, Noam has worked at Airbnb, Intercom, and these days Wealthfront in UX research roles. He's currently the Director of User Research at Wealthfront, a Fintech company. In addition, Noam is a UX content creator on his Youtube channel "UX Quests", and on the UXR Collective platform. Noam is a UX mentor on UX Coffee Hours, or directly if you get in touch with him on LinkedIn!
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep245: Aliza Peleg | Board Member and High-Tech Executive
A seasoned high-tech executive with over 30 years of experience combining technical, operational, and leadership roles. Expertise spanned across large, medium, and start-up organizations in both private and public companies. Held varied positions across the solution value chain from product definition, through go-to-market, business development, and operations. Passionate for building high performing teams with a focus on execution excellence.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep242: Mike Tung | Founder and CEO, Diffbot
Mike Tung is the CEO and Founder of Diffbot, an adviser at the Stanford StartX accelerator, and the leader of Stanford's entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. In a previous life, he was a patent lawyer, a grad student in the Stanford AI lab, and a software engineer at eBay, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Mike studied electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley and computer science at Stanford.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep243: Talia Wolf | Founder and Chief Optimizer, GetUplift
As the founder of GetUplift, Talia and her team provide conversion optimization services for high-growth companies using customer-centric methods, emotional targeting strategies, and data-driven analysis. Talia has been invited to teach conversion optimization on hundreds of stages such as Google, MozCon, Call To Action Conference, SearchLove, and many more and was recently listed as one of the most influential experts in conversion optimization.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep244: Shai Albaranes | VP Innovation and Ventures, Orbia
Shai is the VP of Innovation and Ventures at Orbia, the world leader in Building & Infrastructure, Datacomm, Precision Irrigation, Fluor, and Polymers. Amongst his responsibilities, Shai is leading Orbia's corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, startup partnerships, new venture development, advanced analytics, internal innovation, and circular economy. Previously he led the Product Management, Product Marketing, and Strategic Crops units at Netafim, the largest irrigation company in the world, and was a Project Manager at McKinsey & Company. He loves sports, nature, off-roading, and his twin kids Ori and Rotem.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep239: Laura Schaack | Founder and CEO, Tattd
Laura is the Founder & CEO of Tattd, an app that connects users to their perfect Tattoo Artist that just launched. She's been working for early-stage tech companies for almost a decade now, is a mentor to other Founders for various accelerator programs, teaches Entrepreneurship, and is an active voice for women in tech.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep240: Dotan Knaan | Senior Staff Software Engineer, Samsung Research America
Dotan is a computer vision and image processing professional with over 20 years of experience transforming hard problems into usable solutions. He has lived and worked with Israeli, US, Japanese and Swiss teams, and is a researcher in Samsung Research America. His current passion is leading a team that develops computer vision, graphics, and algorithms for AR and VR.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep241: Stephanie Andrews | Head of Production, Quill
Steph’s love for storytelling started at a very young age, writing stories, and creating small film projects. She founded Origins Magazine, a platform that shared the raw realities of entrepreneurial journeys, and in 2018 Steph saw the need for audio-first content and fell in love with podcasting as a way for brands to conveniently build strong relationships with their customer base. She pivoted Origins Magazine to Origins Media Haus, a boutique podcast and video agency focused on helping brands create engaging audio experiences. After acquired by Quill, Steph continued on their team as Head of Production.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep212: Nadia Tatlow | CEO of Shift
Nadia Tatlow is the CEO of Shift (tryshift.com). A passionate entrepreneur, marketer, and startup enthusiast, Nadia has taken the company from startup to scaleup with 40X ARR growth between 2018 and 2020. Nadia and her team are on a mission to make the world a more productive place by bringing focus and impact to each work day. Outside of work, Nadia enjoys exploring her home on the beautiful West Coast of Canada, traveling, trying new restaurants, and spending time with her friends and family.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep213: Noa Ohayon Bab | Future of Work Expert and Community Builder
Noa is a Brand Marketing Specialist, an expert in the Future Of Work, and a Community Builder. Currently, she is the Head of the Israeli Delegation Washington DC, and until recently she was Head of Employer Brand & Internal Communication at eBay. Previously she co-founded a leading Job Search platform in Israel (over 90K followers and 250K monthly reach). Noa is a popular speaker at conferences and events, as well as a sought after professional advisor and mentor for several startups and institutes in said fields. She graduated from executive programs from MIT and Princeton University.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep214: Nurit Reder | Future of Work Expert and Community Builder
Nurit has more than 20 years of experience in leading roles in Finance and Operations at high tech companies. She served as VP of Operations at Wix.com for 5 years and also as a CFO as several startups. Today she is the co-founder of DigitalMarking, a startup in the online communities industry.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep215: Rachel Carpenter | Chief Executive Officer of Intrinio
Rachel is the Chief Executive Officer of Intrinio, a disruptive financial data platform launched in 2016. Intrinio’s mission is to use data to power a new generation of innovation in financial services, focusing on reinventing the financial data supply chain. Previously, Rachel became a self-taught web developer and is a member of the Forbes Finance Council, Forbes 30 Under 30, and XBRL US (eXtensible Business Reporting Language. She sits on the board of CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse), the largest domestic violence shelter in Florida, and is an appointed member of the State of Florida Government Efficiency Task Force.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep216: Ramesh Panuganty | Founder and CEO of Macheye
As a creative technology pioneer (18 patents, several publications) and an entrepreneur, Ramesh launched & exited four start-ups: three were acquired, the latest one gives a "play" button for enterprise data. He created the market categories of “cloud management platforms”, “conversational analytics” and now looking to grow “click-less intelligence”. His focus has always been to develop market-leading innovations and breakthroughs, to make a case for them, organize and lead inspired teams, and preempt competition to conquer markets.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep217: Yael Wissner-Levy | VP Communications at Lemonade
Yael Wissner-Levy is the Vice President, Communications at Lemonade ($LMND) a digital insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics and driven by social good. Previously, Yael was a speechwriter and communications consultant for political and business leaders, having written for heads of state, CEOs of multibillion-dollar corporations, and non-governmental organizations. Prior to that, she worked as a journalist at various media outlets, including Ha'aretz and Israel's Channel 10 News, serving also as the channel's correspondent to the UK. Yael also worked with former Congressman Steve Israel (NY, Dem) in DC. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep218: Thomas Schindler | Founder and CEO of delodi
A childhood dominated by dinner table conversations around ion-channels, power-microscopy, nuclear war and ecosystems-collapse left its marks. Instead of becoming a rockstar, which had been the original plan, Thomas became an entrepreneur driven by applying the power of science and technology towards making the planet a good place. This led to a series of for-profit and non-profit organisations, initiatives and projects towards that objective which can be explored on his website https://thomas.cr
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep219: Donna Griffit | Corporate Storyteller
Donna Griffit, Corporate Storyteller, has worked globally for over 16 years with Fortune 500 companies, Start-Ups, and investors in a wide variety of industries. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries, helping them create, edit, and deliver verbal and written presentations, pitches, and messages. Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive to results. Through her guidance clients have raised over half a billion dollars. To learn more, visit DonnaGriffit.com
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep220: Yali Saar | Co-Founder and CEO of Tailor Brands
Yali is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tailor Brands, an AI driven branding platform that helps 21M businesses launch and run their businesses with easy-to-use branding and design tools. Before starting Tailor Brands, Yali founded and was the chief creative officer for Raising the Bar, a worldwide educational initiative helping people to acquire education in New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and more. Yali is a Forbes 30Under30 alumni, a former agency creative, journalist and spokesperson whose work has been covered by Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post, The Guardian and the Harvard Business Review.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep221: Yoav Vilner | Co-Founder and CEO of Walnut
Yoav is the Co-founder and CEO of Walnut, a promising startup in the sales space backed by leading SF investors. Previously he was a founding member of an anti-bullying startup, and was the CEO of Israel's first startup marketing company. Yoav was named "Tech Marketer to Watch" by Forbes in 2017, and has been mentoring startups in accelerators by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and the United Nations.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep222: Lilia Shirman | CEO of The Shirman Group
Lilia is a CEO, Author, Investor, and Board Advisor who drives revenue and shareholder value growth for B2B tech companies. As CEO of The Shirman Group, she has shaped Go-to-Market strategies that generated tens of millions in revenue for VMware, EMC, Amazon, Oracle, and others. She was a turnaround CMO at MariaDB, and led solutions marketing and strategic alliances at BEA. Her current focus is on the enterprise AI and data activation markets. Lilia literally wrote the book on customer-relevant go-to-market, 42 Rules for Growing Enterprise Revenue, She holds a BS from UC Berkeley and an MSE from Stanford so gets to cheer when anyone scores at the Big Game.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep223: Saket Agarwal | Founder and Managing Partner of Onnivation
Saket Agarwal is the Founder and Managing Partner of "Onnivation", which invests in deep tech Israeli SAAS companies and drives their business for Asia. Within 3 years, Saket has grown Onnivation as a front runner to the growing relations between Israel and India. He advises multi-nationals and Tech Unicorns on their Digital transformation and Tech strategy. He was recently awarded the Business World Young Entrepreneur Award for his work in helping with the growth of Digital India. Saket is the Co-chair of Singularity University Chapter in Mumbai and several other prestigious forums.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep224: Sharona Zablodovsky | Member in the Peoplehood Coalition
Sharona has worked in the NGO sector for more than a decade, focusing on the initiative, establishment, and project management on missions related to culture and to Israel and Diaspora Jewry relations. She holds a BA in Communications from the Open University of Israel, and an MA in Public Policy from Tel Aviv University. Sharona is a graduate of the World Zionist Organization’s Leadership Seminar Program, a mentor in the U.S. Embassy-supported Women Leaders in the Circles of Life women empowerment initiative, and a member of a few Leadership groups.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep225: Gil Tayar | Senior Architect at Applitools
From the olden days of DOS, Gil was, is, and always will be a software dev. He has co-founded WebCollage and designed cloudy projects at Wix. His current passion is figuring out how to test software as the Senior Architect at Applitools.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep226: Dan Rubenstein | Co-Founder and CEO of Physera
Y. Dan Rubinstein is CEO/co-founder of Physera (acquired by Omada Health) which is focused on using data and technology to develop innovative care pathways to drive better health outcomes at lower costs. Previously he was the head of product at Palantir, a Director of Product Management at Facebook and Google and was the founding CEO of Reflectivity (acquired by Texas Instruments). He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics, an MS in EE from Stanford, and a BSc in EE from Princeton.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep227: Amy Wyron Robinson | Chief Operating Officer of Nemodata
Amy Wyron Robinson is COO of Nemodata, where she is on a mission to help fleets prevent breakdowns before they happen. She has spent the last 10+ years launching, scaling, and learning from new mobility ventures including @Waze (Acq. by GOOGL), @Moovit (Acq. by INTEL), and most recently @Gett, where she was Global VP of B2B ($100M+ ARR). Previously at Gett, she led Gett Delivery, a "startup with a startup", through hyper-growth from 0-$10M ARR and to profitability in
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep228: Gal Ringel | Co-Founder and CEO of Mine
Mine is a personal data assistant, enabling digital users to discover and manage their personal data online. Gal Ringel is an accomplished leader with a rare fusion of technology (cybersecurity, six years in the 8200 Elite Intelligence Corps, Captain rank), Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital experience (4.5 years, 20+ investments with Nielsen and Verizon Ventures), strategic thinking, and unique business skills. Ringel was chosen to Forbes 30 under 30 in 2017.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep229: Celine Williams | TitleFounder and Chief Strategist, reVisionary
Céline Williams (ACC, CCUG) is an international speaker and the founder of reVisionary, a boutique consulting firm providing executive coaching, leadership development, and culture services to human-focused businesses around the world. Céline has almost 20 years’ experience working with growing organizations to help them navigate change and build leadership capacity and is the trusted advisor to leaders and executives in a variety of industries. She is sought after for her expertise in accelerating team performance, designing culture, navigating change, and facilitating effective communication.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep230: Valentin Perez | Co-Founder of Monthly
Valentin Perez is the co-founder of Monthly, a venture-backed, fast-growing company revolutionizing online education. They've partnered with some of the biggest creators, artists, and experts to create one-month online learning experiences. Valentin grew up in Cancun, Mexico, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Valentin loves to learn and create.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep231: Jennifer Gross | CEO, American Friends of Tel Aviv University
Jennifer is the CEO of American Friends of Tel Aviv University. She was previously Vice President of UJA-Federation of New York, overseeing its Affinity Campaign, which raised over $78 million annually. .Before joining UJA professionally in 2014, she was a principal and managing director at Archview Investment Group, an event-driven credit opportunity hedge fund seeded by Blackstone. She is a chair of AIPAC’s Women’s Division, a member and past chair of Hadassah’s Investment Group, and a board member of the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach, Meir Panim, and Northwestern University Hillel.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep232: Ben Casnocha | Co-Founder and Partner of Village Global
Ben is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, author, executive, and investor. He is a co-founder and partner at Village Global (a $100M VC fund) and is the co-author of two New York Times bestselling books: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age and The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. Ben started and scaled several ventures, including an e-government software company, an online education business, and a management training business.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep233: Minette Norman | Vice President, Engineering Practice, Autodesk
Minette brings decades of leadership experience in the software industry to her consulting business, which is focused on developing transformational leaders who create inclusive working environments. She was recently Vice President of Engineering Practice at Autodesk, where she transformed how Autodesk developed software. Responsible for influencing more than 3,500 engineers around the globe, she focused on state-of-the-art engineering practices while nurturing a collaborative and inclusive culture.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep234: Stephen Blum | Chief Technology Officer of PubNub
Stephen is the CTO of PubNub and invests in AI and API companies. PubNub provides a real-time communication infrastructure for telemedicine apps, online learning, on-demand delivery, shared Peloton exercise experiences, and more. They built a replicated Multi POP Realtime Data Stream Network written in C for reliability and speed. Combining artificial intelligence and petabytes of data marks an advantage over AI companies with less data.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep235: Ilana Golan | Founder and CEO, CareerLeap
Ilana Golan is a well-known growth strategist in Silicon Valley helping individuals & businesses grow. Selected top 40 women to watch in 2016, Business Insider Silicon Valley Women of influence in 2017, and CEO World Award 2020. Entrepreneur turned tech investor, Forbes Contributor & Public Speaker. Ilana is the inventor of CareerLeap, the program, and network that has been transforming countless careers and lives. She is also Board Director and General Partner at Homrun, a network-based venture, accelerating the growth of Israeli companies in North America.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep236: Yair Livne | Former VP Product of Quora
Yair is the former VP Product at Quora where he led the product org for four years, overseeing internationalizing the product into ~30 languages, the launch of Quora Spaces, and the launch of Quora's ads platform. Before heading product management, Yair co-founded and led the company's data science team. Prior to his run at Quora, Yair attained a Ph.D. from Stanford GSB where he was doing research into network theory, matching markets, and protests in authoritarian regimes. Yair is now looking into starting his own venture.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep238: David Weekly | Founder and CEO, Medcorder
David Weekly is the founder & CEO of Medcorder, a free app to help patients and families better understand their doctors. He previously founded Ohana (exited to Facebook) and PBwiki (still running 15 years later) and has led product teams at Facebook and Google. David is the founding chairman of Hacker Dojo, a non-profit community center, and graduated from Stanford University with a CS degree as a President Scholar. He lives in Redwood City, CA with his wife Rebecca and two sons Max and Cyrus.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep201: Emna Ghariani | Co-Founder and CEO of Veamly
Emna Ghariani co-founder & CEO of Veamly, a developer unified workspace for software engineers. As a digital wellbeing activist and productivity guru, She is on a mission to fix our relationship with work and to advocate for a brave new world where wellbeing and work/life balance are celebrated to live a full-filling life. she also brings a hybrid model of remote work that puts people and their own wellbeing at the center. Emna's work has been featured on Gitlab, ThriveGlobal, Hackernoon, etc "
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep202: Sharyn Abbott | Founder and CEO of Ultimate Business University
Speaker, Author and Trainer, Sharyn has worked with entrepreneurs for more than 30 years to help them increase their profitability and their efficiency. Sharyn appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show speaking about unique communications techniques. She has more than 35 training modules and 5 training programs to help guide entrepreneurs.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep203: Eli Barak | Co-Founder and CEO of Yarok Serial Entrepreneur
Eli is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in establishing startups, companies, and community social activities. He is the co-director of Green, an innovative community center in the Hefer Valley for both entrepreneurs and youth. Additionally, he is the Chairman of the board of directors of Ruppin College of Technology as well as two startups (Scentcom and Crumbiz). Eli is passionate about STEM education and providing inspiring opportunities for youth, and is one of the most respected mentors in FIRST Robotics Israel.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep204: Diane Boettcher | Architect Manager at Microsoft
Ms. Boettcher has comprehensive experience in program management of large IT infrastructure projects, implementing ITIL and ITSM, overseeing 230+ staff members. She has a history of delivering results with large-scale, cross-functional teams across multiple cultures and countries. Ms. Boettcher is a recognized Cyber expert, supporting intelligence, information warfare, and network operations. Retired from the US Navy Reserves as a Captain, she is a published Joint author on technical and leadership issues, as well as a polished presenter.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep205: Earle Hall | Chief Executive Officer of Axes.ai
Earle is an internationally recognized entrepreneur, visionary, and innovator in several fields of technology and neuroscience. Earle is the CEO of AXES.ai, a cloud-based information management system for the Casino Industry. Earle is the Vice-Chairperson of the International Gaming Standards Association and Chair of the Blockchain Committee. He focuses on ethical AI, blockchain standards, and integral, traceable data. Earle has done 2 TEDx in the neuroscience field and his passion for technology is only matched by his curiosity about human behavior.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep206: Roy Nicolet | Israeli Entrepreneur, Stanford Business School
Roy is an Israeli entrepreneur and Co-Founder and CEO of a stealth-mode AI startup (soon to be revealed). Previously he was founder and CEO of Openhand, an AI-powered consumer lending startup, was a computer engineer at Intel, served as an Intelligence Officer in the Israel Defense Forces. Roy holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and a BSc. EE from the Technion.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep208: Jill Wesley | Founder of Science + Soul of Speaking
Jill Wesley helps world-class leaders stand out in their industry as the “go-to speakers” for virtual and in-person global events. Her mission is to help people find common ground and work together to find solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. Jill has worked as an executive coach, professional speaker and event producer for over 25 years and has led professional development programs in communication and leadership to over 85,000 leaders and their high-performing employees at some of the world’s top organizations (Panasonic, LinkedIn, NFL Players Association, Salesforce, Stanford Law School, Google, Twitter, Square, Art.com, Lyft). She’s also Head of Speaker Coaching for TEDxSanFrancisco, one of the top TEDx events in the world.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep209: Levy Raiz | Venture Partner at Digital Horizon
Over the last 18 years, Levy has adventured from trading construction materials to selling cars, to running an advertising agency, to building a software company, counseling in youth camps to becoming a VC. His first company (at 17) developed software to run accounting for lotteries was acquired after one year. After a 2008 crisis startup failure, he moved to Israel for an internship with the Israeli Government, volunteered for the IDF combat service, started JSCapital, was a partner with Flint Capital, and most recently joined Digital Horizon as a venture partner.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep210: Lexi Butler | Senior Program Manager, Data & Privacy at Twitter
Lexi is considered one of Silicon Valley’s candid and most prominent voices. Her thought-provoking advice and opinions on how to create a more equitable work environment stem from her own experiences working in companies such as Airbnb, Facebook, and most recently Twitter. In 2017, she founded Sista Circle: Black Women in Tech, a community that supports Black women in tech companies and related professions. This 7200+ international community has partnered with organizations such as Instagram, Youtube, Linkedin, and Slack. Lexi’s main mission is to inspire people to create their desired life journey by understanding their purpose and life goals.
Sun, January 03, 2021
Ep211: Maya Avni | Stanford Business School Candidate
Maya's passion for technology started during her army service in 8200. After completing her engineering degree at Tel Aviv University, she joined Google and managed a $100M eCommerce client portfolio targeting the US market. Today Maya is pursuing her MBA at Stanford and is a student investor at the Impact Fund. During the past 6 months, she worked as a Product Manager at Brex and co-led the Women of Startup Nation Accelerator designed for Israeli women entrepreneurs.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep185: Raz Abramov | Founder and VP R&D of Evercompliant
Raz is a cyber-security expert and has an extensive background in research and development in various fields, including vulnerability assessment and network protocols. He co-founded EverCompliant following a tenure serving in the IDF’s 8200 Unit. To begin with, Raz and the other co-founders started EverCompliant with a motivation to combat terrorist activity. Raz holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the Open University of Israel and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep187: Nikos Psaltopoulos | Chief Operating Officer of MarineTraffic
Nikos is the COO of MarineTraffic, a startup aimed at transforming shipping tech. Previously he founded SpaceNation and 1derground. He is a proud StartUp Grind Ambassador with a passion for politics (working with the Greens). A former journalist, Niko transitioned to a leadership role at a multinational pharmaceutical company before joining the startup community. He was Head of Sales & Innovation for Brand Collective in Australia and New Zealand. Find him somewhere between US + Europe + Australia, speaking at conferences and events.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep188: Russell Rothstein | Founder and CEO of IT Central Station
Russell Rothstein is the founder and CEO of IT Central Station, the leading review site for B2B enterprise technology products. The Wall Street Journal has called it the “Yelp for IT”. Russell began his career at Oracle and subsequently worked at startups in the US and Israel that have been acquired by SAP, CA Technologies, and Dell EMC. Russell holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard, MIT, and MIT Sloan.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep189: Jennifer Kenny | Advisor to Innovation & Transformation Execs
Jennifer has over 25 years of experience in strategy, leadership development and technology driven transformation, after having held senior positions with Accenture, Booz Allen and Gartner, as well as executive roles with Wells Fargo and Cisco, UCSF and Stanford Research Institute. She was awarded the internationally acclaimed IDG DEMO Entrepreneurship Award and the ITLG Silicon Valley Top 50 Award. Today she speaks, writes, and delivers transformational programs globally.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep190: Steve Krawczyk | Strategic Investor and Advisor in Silicon Valley
Steve joined Gilead Sciences, Inc. in 1989 when it was a 30 person antisense company, working over the years on projects which led to Tamiflu, Viread and other breakthrough therapies. Fast forward ~30 years, he earned an MBA and J.D. degrees and is now an Attorney and “Emotional Support Angel” in Silicon Valley. He advises and invests in diverse startups, and specializes in coaching early stage in IP and pitching while investing strategically.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep193: Kiran Chin | Founder and CEO of MKA Insights
Kiran Chin is the Founder and CEO of MKA Insights, a management consulting firm that works with companies in the life science, medical device, cell/gene therapy, clinical diagnostics and healthcare market sectors. Prior to starting MKA Insights, Kiran worked in various roles at large life science companies in M&A, organizational strategy, marketing strategies, business development and commercial market penetration strategies. She is driven by intellectual curiosity and problem solving. She has an MBA, a Masters in Finance and a Bachelors in Economics.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep194: Linda Popky | Founder of Leverage2Market | Author
Linda is the founder of Leverage2Market Associates and is an award-winning Silicon Valley-based strategic marketing expert who helps organizations and individuals use marketing to stand out from the crowd. She is the Executive Director of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC), and the author of the book Marketing Above the Noise: Achieve Strategic Advantage with Marketing that Matters. Along with helping clients, Linda has also written marketing, PR materials and edited books for other authors.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep195: Ayal Yogev | Co-Founder and CEO of Anjuna Security
Ayal is the CEO of Anjuna and has been building enterprise security products for over 20 years. He was previously VP of product management at SafeBreach–a Sequoia-backed enterprise security startup–and led the Umbrella product management team at OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco for $635M). Ayal held senior PM positions at Lookout and Imperva and was a part of Imperva’s IPO in 2011. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a B.Sc in EE and CS from Tel Aviv University.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep196: Omri Kriegel | Founder of Homeward Ventures
Omri is the founder of Homeward Ventures, a fund that invests in early-stage innovative startups with a goal to holistically support bold and ambitious entrepreneurs. His service as a Captain in the Israeli Navy SEALS has shaped his results-driven mentality and dedication to hard work. Omri holds over 15 years of business experience in various sectors, and following several life-changing events, serves as a motivational speaker to different organizations. Omri was the Chairman of the IDC Zell Alumni Organization and was named by Poets and Quants for the Best and Brightest EMBA list.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep197: Anita Kumari | Founder and Chief Strategiest at HappinessFactors
Anita is an award-winning author, coach, and Founder & Chief Strategist at HappinessFactors, a startup that creates an emotional wellness ecosystem. She is the recipient of Innovative Leader and Woman Of Influence Awards in 2020 and is passionate about spreading happiness globally. Anita is an abuse survivor who is passionate about empowering others and creating awareness about emotional wellness, and is the author of “Find your Happy”, a survivor’s guide to happiness in spite of life’s challenges.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep198: David Golan | Co-Founder and CTO of Viz.
David Golan is a co-founder and the CTO of Viz.ai, a digital healthcare company harnessing deep learning to analyze medical data and improve clinical workflow. Viz.ai developed the First ever FDA-approved AI-powered triage system for stroke. Previously he was a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, working on leveraging deep learning for the analysis of medical imaging and genetic data. David holds a Ph.D. in Statistics and Machine learning from Tel-Aviv University, and has co-authored more than 20 scientific papers.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep199: Denise Brosseau | Founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Lab
Denise is the founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Lab where she works with executives and entrepreneurs to build their visibility and credibility. She co-founded Springboard Enterprises, the prestigious women’s start-up launch pad that has led to over $9B in funding for women entrepreneurs. She was recently a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business (where she received her MBA) and is the author of Ready to Be a Thought Leader? In 2012 the White House honored her as a Champion of Change.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep160: Sandra Clark | CEO and Founder of LinkedIn Mentoring
Sandra is a trainer and coach specializing in providing LinkedIn consulting and training. Through her company, “LinkedIn Mentoring”, Sandra offers coaching services for individuals, teams, and companies to help busy professionals build their online brand and showcase their expertise by creating great profiles on LinkedIn®. She understands the finer points of LinkedIn technology, is able to demystify and break down its concepts into consumable pieces, and to teach steps that can be implemented immediately so hey clients get noticed and get results.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep161: Lou Adler | Hiring Expert
Lou is the CEO and founder of The Adler Group – a consulting and training firm helping companies implement "Win-Win Hiring" programs using his Performance-based Hiring℠ system for finding and hiring exceptional talent. More than 40 thousand recruiters and hiring managers have attended his ground-breaking workshops over the past 20 years. He is the author of the Amazon top-10 best-seller, Hire With Your Head and The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired (Workbench Media, 2013).
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep162: Alon Ozer | Chief Investment Officer at Omnia Family Wealth
Alon is the Chief Investment Officer at Omnia Family Wealth, a multi-family office in Florida. Previously he served as the Chief Investment Officer at The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and managed the foreign securities trading desk at Gaon Investment House, one of Israel’s largest investment firms. He is a frequent lecturer and has spoken about Israel’s economy and innovations at events for Israel Bonds, AIPAC, and the Jewish Federations of North America.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep163: Edison Tse | Stanford Professor, Entrepreneurship Strategy
Professor Tse received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT and is an expert in the field. In recent years he dedicated his research effort in dynamic entrepreneurial strategy and transformation of Chinese production economy to innovation economy. He has published over 180 papers on his research activities. Tse developed a framework for analyzing dynamic competitive strategy based on a dynamic model of grabber-holder dynamics that describes the forces that would shape the formation of an ecosystem supporting an exciting vision
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep165: Rebekah Bastian | CEO and Co-Founder at OwnTrail
Rebekah Bastian is an entrepreneur, writer, artist, tech executive, mentor, wife, mother and aerial acrobat. She is the CEO & Co-founder of OwnTrail and was previously vice president of product and vice president of community and culture at Zillow. Rebekah is the author of Blaze Your Own Trail, is a contributor to Forbes and is a frequent speaker on social impact, career navigation and corporate diversity.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep166: Alon Girmonsky | Co-Founder and CEO of UP9
Alon Girmonsky is a serial entrepreneur, a passionate software engineer and the CEO and Co-founder of UP9, a new startup in the field of microservice software reliability. Alon has spent over a decade building developer products and companies. Alon’s previous company, BlazeMeter was acquired by CA technologies, where Alon served as Vice President and Business Unit Executive until the acquisition of CA technologies itself by Broadcom.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep167: Ilan Frank | Vice President, Enterprise Product at Slack
Ilan is the Vice President of Enterprise Product at Slack. In this role, Ilan leads product strategy, direction and delivery for Slack for large and regulated companies. Ilan brings over 20 years of experience in building collaboration solutions for the enterprise where there are specific requirements within administration, security, compliance and scale. Prior to Slack Ilan was an early leader in the cloud transformation at SAP launching both social collaboration and cloud analytics solutions.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep168: Ginny Clarke | Director of Executive Recruiting at Google
Ginny is currently a Director of Executive Recruiting at Google where she leads non-technical executive recruiting, as well as diversity for leadership hiring, and internal mobility for senior Googlers. Previously she was a Partner at Spencer Stuart and co-founded and led their global Diversity Practice for 12 years. She is the host of the Fifth Dimensional Leadership podcast and is the author of Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep169: Alon Halevy | Director at Facebook AI
Alon is a director at Facebook AI and previously held positions at Google, CEO of Megagon Labs, and professor of computer science at the University of Washington. He is the founder of two companies, Nimble Technology and Transformic Inc., the latter of which was acquired by Google in 2005. He is the author of the book "The Infinite Emotions of Coffee" and co-author of "Principles of Data Integration". Alon is an ACM Fellow, and received the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep170: Lee Alpert | Stanford University
Lee is an American-Israeli who served as a medic in the IDF before beginning her studies at Stanford (Computer Science and Philosophy). She has been involved with the instruction of some of Stanford’s most popular CS courses as a Section Leader, was a product manager for Intuit and a software engineer for Project C in Hong Kong. Lee has also served as a Humanitarian Fellow with the NGO IsraAID, aiding their mission to improve the lives of asylum seekers in Lesbos, Greece.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep171: Jordan Blashek | Director and Head of Talent of Schmidt Futures
Jordan is an investor, military veteran, and author from Los Angeles, California. After college, Jordan spent five years in the US Marine Corps as an infantry officer, serving two combat tours overseas in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Currently, he is a Director and the Head of Talent at Schmidt Futures, a new company founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. He holds degrees from Yale Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Princeton University.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep172: Erika Gerdes | Authenticity Advocate, Speaker Former Google Business Executive
Erika is an authenticity advocate speaker, writer and coach. She is the designer of The Art of Undoing, which helps people undo their limiting beliefs to unlock greater confidence, joy and impact. She is a former global business executive at Google, where she worked for 12 years before leaving at the height of her career, as a single mom, to pursue her mission for helping people live into their full range and amplify their impact.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep173: Dadi Perlmuter | Former Chief Product Officer at Intel
David (Dadi) Perlmutter is a technology and social entrepreneur and investor, focusing on social activities to reduce social and economic inequality. Until 2014 he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer of Intel Corporation, responsible for the business and development of Intel’s solutions for computing and communication segments. He is a member of the Board of Governments of the Technion and Chairman of the Board of the Israel Innovation Institute, Tsofen, Teramount and Weebit.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep174: Chana Kanzen | CEO of Jewish Interactive
Chana Kanzen is the CEO of JI (Jewish Interactive) - a global non profit that delivers online education to over 300,000 kids in over 100 countries. Passionate about improving the quality of education, Chana manges a global team in 4 continents, an international board and has initiated projects being used across the world. Chana regularly lectures and has spoken at Oxford University, Google HQ London /Tel Aviv, Apple HQ NY/London and regularly writes educational features in the Jewish press.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep175: Guy Miasnik | Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, the Former Founder/CEO of AtHoc and the CSO of BlackBerry
Guy is a tech entrepreneur, investor and mentor focused on great teams and high impact opportunities. He was co-founder and CEO of AtHoc, which was acquired by Blackberry for $300M after gaining 70% of the U.S. Federal Market share. Post-acquisition, Guy was Division President and Chief Strategy Officer of BlackBerry, reporting to CEO John Chen. Guy holds an MBA from Harvard and has nine patents in crisis communication.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep176: Leor Stern | Product Manager at Google
Leor is an entrepreneur and two-time Google. Since Google acquired his wearable OS company, Cronologics Corporation, Leor has been working in product leadership roles at Google. Prior to founding Cronologics, Leor held senior business development roles at IFTTT and Google. He opened Google's office in Israel and was part of the founding team of Niantic Labs.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep177: Amy Davies | Founder and CEO of First 30 Inc.
Amy is the founder and CEO of tech start-up First 30 Inc. offering advanced onboarding and outplacement services to businesses. She is the author of A Spark in the Dark: Illuminating Your Path to a Brilliant Career in a Reorg World. Before establishing First 30 in North America, Amy lived in the UK and Europe working with global organizations including Unilever, Mars and Grainger. She possesses unique expertise in understanding the impact of corporate and economic flux on individual outcomes.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep178: Andy Cohen | Senior Vice President of Sales at Bill.com
Andy is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Bill.com (NYSE: BILL), which he helped scale to a successful IPO. Previously he founded and sold Caring.com, the nation’s leading online destination for those caring for aging loved ones. Andy grew the company to a profitable business with a team of 150 people. He held various sales and marketing leadership positions at SuccessFactors, Intuit, Instill, Peapod and SC Johnson Wax, and earned an MBA in marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep179: Anne Blum | Head of Platform at Angular Ventures
Anne is the Head of Platform at Angular Ventures, focusing on providing portfolio companies with the connections and resources necessary to achieve their goals and scale globally. Previously she co-founded Ellis Accelerator and worked at Facebook, Goldman Sachs and German Accelerator. She graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and has lived in Silicon Valley, Paris, London and NYC. Anne is also the Co-Chair of the Red Cross Young Patrons Board.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep180: Ofer Wellisch | Chief of Pain Medicine of Stamford Health
Dr. Wellisch is a researcher, educator/mentor, and practicing clinician. He currently serves as Chief of Pain Medicine at Stamford Health and Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his clinical training in Pain Medicine at Stanford University, where he subsequently served as Clinical Instructor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. He is regarded as a key opinion leader in his field and has served in various advisory and collaborative roles with leading pharmaceutical, medical device, and MedTech companies.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep181: Yael Benvenisti | CEO of Mediterranean Towers Ventures
Dr. Yael Benvenisti is the CEO of Mediterranean Towers Ventures, the first and only fund investing exclusively in technologies for aging well. She is the chairperson of technologies for aging well group in the society of electrical and electronics engineering in Israel and represents Aging2.0, an international organization dealing with technology and aging. She was selected in 2019 and 2020 as one of Israel’s top influencers on the longevity spaces.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep182: Dennis Cagan | Serial Board Member (67 corporations)
Dennis is a noted high-technology entrepreneur, executive, and board director. He has founded/co-founded over a dozen different companies, taken some public, been a CEO of both public and private companies, a venture capitalist, a consultant, and a professional board member – 67 fiduciary corporate boards, including ten public companies. Mr. Cagan’s book The Board of Directors of a Private Enterprise, released in 2017, is the authoritative perspective on the widest range of private company governance issues.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep183: Peter Wexler | Startup Investor, Advisor and Board Member
Peter is a startup investor, advisor and board member. He co-founded Spidercloud Wireless, a leader in scalable, multi-access Small Cell network platforms (now part of Corning) Prior to that, he was founding VP Engineering at Juniper Networks, managed their Mobile Business and was a Director of the Ericsson-Juniper joint venture company. His earlier ventures focused on telecom and medical imaging including MRI, optical and ultrasound. Peter holds an MBA from Boston University, an M.S.E from the University of Illinois and a B.S.E.E from SUNY Stony Brook.
Thu, December 31, 2020
Ep184: Anita Koumriqian | Partner and Attorney at Alcorn Immigration Law
Anita is a partner and attorney at Alcorn Immigration Law. She loves using the power of the law to help people erase borders so they can achieve their full potential, assisting both families as well as employers bring individuals to the US to pursue visas, green cards, or citizenship. As an immigrant to the United States, she identifies with her clients and is passionate about helping families stay together and reunite in the U.S.
Wed, December 30, 2020
Ep159: Ron Diamant | Principal Engineer & Lead Architect at Amazon Web Services
Ron did his Bachelors and Masters degrees in EE, at the Technion. He was one of the first employees in Annapurna Labs, a semiconductor startup that was acquired by Amazon Web Services in 2015. After the acquisition, Ron relocated the California, to work closely with the AWS team. More recently, Ron initiated and lead the AWS Inferentia development, a Machine Learning accelerator that provides the best inference price/performance in the cloud.
Wed, October 07, 2020
Ep157: Lior Aviram | Head of Hi-Tech & Venture Capital of Shibolet Law
Lior is the head of Shibolet's Hi-Tech and Venture Capital practice and a senior member of the firm's management committee. He brings 25 years of experience and has earned an outstanding reputation in leading high-end transactions and recognized as a leading expert in venture capital and strategic investments, and in the structuring and establishment of venture capital funds. Lior has vast experience working with the international market, extensive connections in the United States and Europe, and about 15 years of experience working in China.
Tue, October 06, 2020
Ep156: Michael Blumental | Chief Operating Officer of Hyro
Michael is a growth leader with a proven track record of building and scaling successful customer-focused global operations for B2B startups. She is the COO at Hyro, an innovative startup focused on supercharging digital experiences with Conversational AI, where she is leading the company's commercial efforts. Previously she was VP at MCE Systems and then moved to Spot, where she helped increase the organizations’ revenue by 30% Q over Q.
Mon, October 05, 2020
Ep155: Bing Heckman | Corporate Real Estate-Leasing, Investment & Advisory
Bing works with Colliers International, a full service global commercial real estate firm. His focus currently is investment sales and helping firms with leasing and facility needs. Previously, he served a private investment fund as its acquisitions officer, sourcing numerous opportunistic acquisitions exceeding a total of $225M. He was also a national real estate consultant, with an aggregate value of commercial real estate transaction history of over $800,000,000.
Sun, October 04, 2020
Ep154: Sergio Fogel | Co-Founder of dLocal
Sergio is the co-founder of dLocal, a leading payments solution for global companies selling into emerging markets. He previously founded several companies, including Uiotel, Metrocall, JetNumbers and Astropay. He was a sales executive for Oracle and a researcher at IBM. Sergio is an active angel investor in early-stage tech startups and holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MSC from the technion.
Sat, October 03, 2020
Ep153: Rona Segev | Founding Partner at TLV Partners
Rona is a founding partner of TLV Partners, currently focusing on Cloud Computing, AI and Cyber Security. She led the investment and is on the board of various companies that span over a dozen exit events, including Varonis (NSDQ: VRNS), Skycure, Puresec, and SalesPredict. Previously, Rona was a General Partner at Pitango and Evergreen, and was head of the enterprise software sector at both funds. Her journey began as a successful entrepreneur herself, in the gaming industry.
Fri, October 02, 2020
Ep152: Gideon Intrater | Chief Technology Office of Adesto Technologies
Giddy is the CTO of Adesto Technologies, bringing more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor market. Previously he was a member of the advisory board of Think Silicon and Sansa Security (both acquired) and Centipede Semi. He was VP of Marketing at MIPS Technology (acquired Feb 2013) and VP of Architecture for Symwave. Gideon holds over 30 issued patents and BSEE, MSEE and MBA degrees.
Wed, September 30, 2020
Ep150: Josh Becker | Candidate for California State Senate
Josh is a public interest entrepreneur working at the nexus of community activism, technology, and social justice. He co-founded New Cycle Capital and was CEO of Lex Machina, sold to LexisNexis, which pioneered Data/AI for law. He also founded www.fullcirclefund.org to fund non-profit organizations working to build a better Bay Area. Josh earned a joint MBA and Law Degree from Stanford University in 1999. He is presently a candidate for the California State Senate.
Tue, September 29, 2020
Ep149: Rabbi Joey Felsen | Founder of Jewish Study Networks
Rabbi Joey Felsen, Founder and Executive Director of the Jewish Study Network, hails from Toronto, Canada. A skilled educator, Rabbi Felsen teaches classes at the JCCs in Palo Alto and Los Gatos, as well as a host of other venues. He is the founding Board President of Meira Academy and a recipient of the prestigious Grinspoon-Steinhardt National Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.
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