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.
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 gro...
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 ser...
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 Micro...
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.
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 i...
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.
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.
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 Fortu...
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, oc...
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 t...
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...
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 leader...
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...
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 I...
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 compa...
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 t...
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 we...
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.
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.
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 n...
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...
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...
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 Intell...
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.
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...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
