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 af...
Apr 10, 2021•26 min
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 le...
Apr 08, 2021•23 min
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.
Apr 08, 2021•21 min
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.
Apr 06, 2021•21 min
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 cou...
Apr 06, 2021•23 min
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.
Apr 05, 2021•22 min
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 ...
Apr 04, 2021•26 min
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.
Apr 04, 2021•22 min
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...
Apr 03, 2021•21 min
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 Ins...
Apr 03, 2021•21 min
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 ...
Apr 02, 2021•21 min
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 Univ...
Apr 02, 2021•24 min
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...
Apr 01, 2021•22 min
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 Techno...
Apr 01, 2021•24 min
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 ...
Mar 31, 2021•22 min
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 h...
Mar 31, 2021•23 min
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.
Mar 30, 2021•21 min
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.
Mar 30, 2021•22 min
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.
Mar 29, 2021•25 min
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 le...
Mar 29, 2021•24 min
"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."
Mar 28, 2021•23 min
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,...
Mar 28, 2021•24 min
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.
Mar 27, 2021•22 min
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.
Mar 27, 2021•22 min
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.
Mar 26, 2021•21 min
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.
Mar 26, 2021•21 min
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, rel...
Mar 25, 2021•23 min
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...
Mar 25, 2021•22 min
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 ...
Mar 24, 2021•22 min
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.
Mar 24, 2021•21 min
