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20MinuteLeaders

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20MinuteLeaders features the world's prominent leaders for short conversations about their journeys and insights.
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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...

Jun 01, 202123 min

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.

Jun 01, 202123 min

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.

May 31, 202123 min

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.

May 30, 202122 min

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 techno...

May 29, 202122 min

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 f...

May 28, 202122 min

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, ...

May 27, 202123 min

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. Mechre...

May 26, 202125 min

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 innov...

May 25, 202122 min

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...

May 24, 202123 min

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.

May 23, 202124 min

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 implementa...

May 22, 202126 min

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 practitio...

May 21, 202124 min

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.

May 20, 202123 min

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).

May 19, 202122 min

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.

May 18, 202123 min

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 ...

May 17, 202124 min

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.

May 16, 202121 min

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.

May 15, 202124 min

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, b...

May 14, 202122 min

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.

May 13, 202124 min

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...

May 12, 202122 min

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,...

May 11, 202121 min

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 Te...

May 10, 202125 min

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...

May 09, 202123 min

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 worl...

May 08, 202126 min

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.

May 07, 202124 min

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 gro...

May 06, 202122 min

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 a...

May 05, 202122 min

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, ...

May 05, 202121 min
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