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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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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...

Aug 28, 202121 min

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.

Aug 28, 202121 min

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.

Aug 28, 202121 min

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.

Aug 27, 202124 min

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 ...

Aug 27, 202126 min

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...

Aug 27, 202125 min

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.

Aug 27, 202125 min

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 bo...

Aug 27, 202123 min

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.

Aug 26, 202124 min

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.

Aug 26, 202121 min

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.

Aug 26, 202122 min

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.

Aug 26, 202118 min

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.

Aug 26, 202125 min

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.

Aug 25, 202122 min

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.

Aug 25, 202121 min

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...

Aug 25, 202123 min

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 partner...

Aug 25, 202122 min

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.

Aug 18, 202120 min

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.

Aug 17, 202123 min

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.

Aug 10, 202126 min

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).

Aug 10, 202124 min

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 bu...

Aug 09, 202121 min

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 yo...

Aug 09, 202118 min

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.

Aug 08, 202124 min

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.

Aug 08, 202124 min

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.

Aug 07, 202124 min

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...

Aug 07, 202123 min

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 n...

Aug 06, 202122 min

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

Aug 06, 202122 min

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 E...

Aug 05, 202122 min
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