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 h...
Dec 31, 2020•20 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•25 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•23 min
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 + Aust...
Dec 31, 2020•25 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•24 min
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 ...
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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 gover...
Dec 31, 2020•26 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•21 min
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 ...
Dec 31, 2020•25 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•28 min
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 Man...
Dec 31, 2020•23 min
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....
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•23 min
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....
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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 We...
Dec 31, 2020•23 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•23 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•24 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•23 min
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 Eng...
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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....
Dec 31, 2020•23 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•23 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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...
Dec 31, 2020•26 min
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.
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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).
Dec 31, 2020•22 min
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 im...
Dec 31, 2020•21 min
