A seasoned high-tech executive with over 30 years of experience combining technical, operational, and leadership roles. Expertise spanned across large, medium, and start-up organizations in both private and public companies. Held varied positions across the solution value chain from product definition, through go-to-market, business development, and operations. Passionate for building high performing teams with a focus on execution excellence.
Jan 03, 2021•30 min
Shai is the VP of Innovation and Ventures at Orbia, the world leader in Building & Infrastructure, Datacomm, Precision Irrigation, Fluor, and Polymers. Amongst his responsibilities, Shai is leading Orbia's corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, startup partnerships, new venture development, advanced analytics, internal innovation, and circular economy. Previously he led the Product Management, Product Marketing, and Strategic Crops units at Netafim, the largest irrigation company in the world...
Jan 03, 2021•23 min
As the founder of GetUplift, Talia and her team provide conversion optimization services for high-growth companies using customer-centric methods, emotional targeting strategies, and data-driven analysis. Talia has been invited to teach conversion optimization on hundreds of stages such as Google, MozCon, Call To Action Conference, SearchLove, and many more and was recently listed as one of the most influential experts in conversion optimization.
Jan 03, 2021•23 min
Mike Tung is the CEO and Founder of Diffbot, an adviser at the Stanford StartX accelerator, and the leader of Stanford's entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. In a previous life, he was a patent lawyer, a grad student in the Stanford AI lab, and a software engineer at eBay, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Mike studied electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley and computer science at Stanford.
Jan 03, 2021•21 min
Steph’s love for storytelling started at a very young age, writing stories, and creating small film projects. She founded Origins Magazine, a platform that shared the raw realities of entrepreneurial journeys, and in 2018 Steph saw the need for audio-first content and fell in love with podcasting as a way for brands to conveniently build strong relationships with their customer base. She pivoted Origins Magazine to Origins Media Haus, a boutique podcast and video agency focused on helping brands...
Jan 03, 2021•23 min
Dotan is a computer vision and image processing professional with over 20 years of experience transforming hard problems into usable solutions. He has lived and worked with Israeli, US, Japanese and Swiss teams, and is a researcher in Samsung Research America. His current passion is leading a team that develops computer vision, graphics, and algorithms for AR and VR.
Jan 03, 2021•22 min
Laura is the Founder & CEO of Tattd, an app that connects users to their perfect Tattoo Artist that just launched. She's been working for early-stage tech companies for almost a decade now, is a mentor to other Founders for various accelerator programs, teaches Entrepreneurship, and is an active voice for women in tech.
Jan 03, 2021•24 min
David Weekly is the founder & CEO of Medcorder, a free app to help patients and families better understand their doctors. He previously founded Ohana (exited to Facebook) and PBwiki (still running 15 years later) and has led product teams at Facebook and Google. David is the founding chairman of Hacker Dojo, a non-profit community center, and graduated from Stanford University with a CS degree as a President Scholar. He lives in Redwood City, CA with his wife Rebecca and two sons Max and Cyr...
Jan 03, 2021•25 min
Yair is the former VP Product at Quora where he led the product org for four years, overseeing internationalizing the product into ~30 languages, the launch of Quora Spaces, and the launch of Quora's ads platform. Before heading product management, Yair co-founded and led the company's data science team. Prior to his run at Quora, Yair attained a Ph.D. from Stanford GSB where he was doing research into network theory, matching markets, and protests in authoritarian regimes. Yair is now looking i...
Jan 03, 2021•20 min
Ilana Golan is a well-known growth strategist in Silicon Valley helping individuals & businesses grow. Selected top 40 women to watch in 2016, Business Insider Silicon Valley Women of influence in 2017, and CEO World Award 2020. Entrepreneur turned tech investor, Forbes Contributor & Public Speaker. Ilana is the inventor of CareerLeap, the program, and network that has been transforming countless careers and lives. She is also Board Director and General Partner at Homrun, a network-based...
Jan 03, 2021•19 min
Stephen is the CTO of PubNub and invests in AI and API companies. PubNub provides a real-time communication infrastructure for telemedicine apps, online learning, on-demand delivery, shared Peloton exercise experiences, and more. They built a replicated Multi POP Realtime Data Stream Network written in C for reliability and speed. Combining artificial intelligence and petabytes of data marks an advantage over AI companies with less data.
Jan 03, 2021•21 min
Minette brings decades of leadership experience in the software industry to her consulting business, which is focused on developing transformational leaders who create inclusive working environments. She was recently Vice President of Engineering Practice at Autodesk, where she transformed how Autodesk developed software. Responsible for influencing more than 3,500 engineers around the globe, she focused on state-of-the-art engineering practices while nurturing a collaborative and inclusive cult...
Jan 03, 2021•22 min
Ben is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, author, executive, and investor. He is a co-founder and partner at Village Global (a $100M VC fund) and is the co-author of two New York Times bestselling books: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age and The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. Ben started and scaled several ventures, including an e-government software company, an online education business, and a management training business....
Jan 03, 2021•22 min
Jennifer is the CEO of American Friends of Tel Aviv University. She was previously Vice President of UJA-Federation of New York, overseeing its Affinity Campaign, which raised over $78 million annually. .Before joining UJA professionally in 2014, she was a principal and managing director at Archview Investment Group, an event-driven credit opportunity hedge fund seeded by Blackstone. She is a chair of AIPAC’s Women’s Division, a member and past chair of Hadassah’s Investment Group, and a board m...
Jan 03, 2021•20 min
Valentin Perez is the co-founder of Monthly, a venture-backed, fast-growing company revolutionizing online education. They've partnered with some of the biggest creators, artists, and experts to create one-month online learning experiences. Valentin grew up in Cancun, Mexico, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Valentin loves to learn and create.
Jan 03, 2021•26 min
Céline Williams (ACC, CCUG) is an international speaker and the founder of reVisionary, a boutique consulting firm providing executive coaching, leadership development, and culture services to human-focused businesses around the world. Céline has almost 20 years’ experience working with growing organizations to help them navigate change and build leadership capacity and is the trusted advisor to leaders and executives in a variety of industries. She is sought after for her expertise in acceler...
Jan 03, 2021•23 min
Mine is a personal data assistant, enabling digital users to discover and manage their personal data online. Gal Ringel is an accomplished leader with a rare fusion of technology (cybersecurity, six years in the 8200 Elite Intelligence Corps, Captain rank), Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital experience (4.5 years, 20+ investments with Nielsen and Verizon Ventures), strategic thinking, and unique business skills. Ringel was chosen to Forbes 30 under 30 in 2017.
Jan 03, 2021•24 min
Amy Wyron Robinson is COO of Nemodata, where she is on a mission to help fleets prevent breakdowns before they happen. She has spent the last 10+ years launching, scaling, and learning from new mobility ventures including @Waze (Acq. by GOOGL), @Moovit (Acq. by INTEL), and most recently @Gett, where she was Global VP of B2B ($100M+ ARR). Previously at Gett, she led Gett Delivery, a "startup with a startup", through hyper-growth from 0-$10M ARR and to profitability in <2 years. Originally from...
Jan 03, 2021•21 min
Y. Dan Rubinstein is CEO/co-founder of Physera (acquired by Omada Health) which is focused on using data and technology to develop innovative care pathways to drive better health outcomes at lower costs. Previously he was the head of product at Palantir, a Director of Product Management at Facebook and Google and was the founding CEO of Reflectivity (acquired by Texas Instruments). He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics, an MS in EE from Stanford, and a BSc in EE from Princeton.
Jan 03, 2021•21 min
From the olden days of DOS, Gil was, is, and always will be a software dev. He has co-founded WebCollage and designed cloudy projects at Wix. His current passion is figuring out how to test software as the Senior Architect at Applitools.
Jan 03, 2021•23 min
Sharona has worked in the NGO sector for more than a decade, focusing on the initiative, establishment, and project management on missions related to culture and to Israel and Diaspora Jewry relations. She holds a BA in Communications from the Open University of Israel, and an MA in Public Policy from Tel Aviv University. Sharona is a graduate of the World Zionist Organization’s Leadership Seminar Program, a mentor in the U.S. Embassy-supported Women Leaders in the Circles of Life women empowerm...
Jan 03, 2021•22 min
Saket Agarwal is the Founder and Managing Partner of "Onnivation", which invests in deep tech Israeli SAAS companies and drives their business for Asia. Within 3 years, Saket has grown Onnivation as a front runner to the growing relations between Israel and India. He advises multi-nationals and Tech Unicorns on their Digital transformation and Tech strategy. He was recently awarded the Business World Young Entrepreneur Award for his work in helping with the growth of Digital India. Saket is the ...
Jan 03, 2021•21 min
Lilia is a CEO, Author, Investor, and Board Advisor who drives revenue and shareholder value growth for B2B tech companies. As CEO of The Shirman Group, she has shaped Go-to-Market strategies that generated tens of millions in revenue for VMware, EMC, Amazon, Oracle, and others. She was a turnaround CMO at MariaDB, and led solutions marketing and strategic alliances at BEA. Her current focus is on the enterprise AI and data activation markets. Lilia literally wrote the book on customer-relevant ...
Jan 03, 2021•21 min
Yoav is the Co-founder and CEO of Walnut, a promising startup in the sales space backed by leading SF investors. Previously he was a founding member of an anti-bullying startup, and was the CEO of Israel's first startup marketing company. Yoav was named "Tech Marketer to Watch" by Forbes in 2017, and has been mentoring startups in accelerators by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and the United Nations.
Jan 03, 2021•21 min
Yali is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tailor Brands, an AI driven branding platform that helps 21M businesses launch and run their businesses with easy-to-use branding and design tools. Before starting Tailor Brands, Yali founded and was the chief creative officer for Raising the Bar, a worldwide educational initiative helping people to acquire education in New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and more. Yali is a Forbes 30Under30 alumni, a former agency creative, journalist and...
Jan 03, 2021•24 min
Donna Griffit, Corporate Storyteller, has worked globally for over 16 years with Fortune 500 companies, Start-Ups, and investors in a wide variety of industries. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries, helping them create, edit, and deliver verbal and written presentations, pitches, and messages. Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive to results. Through her guidance clients have raised over half a billion d...
Jan 03, 2021•22 min
A childhood dominated by dinner table conversations around ion-channels, power-microscopy, nuclear war and ecosystems-collapse left its marks. Instead of becoming a rockstar, which had been the original plan, Thomas became an entrepreneur driven by applying the power of science and technology towards making the planet a good place. This led to a series of for-profit and non-profit organisations, initiatives and projects towards that objective which can be explored on his website https://thomas.c...
Jan 03, 2021•22 min
Yael Wissner-Levy is the Vice President, Communications at Lemonade ($LMND) a digital insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics and driven by social good. Previously, Yael was a speechwriter and communications consultant for political and business leaders, having written for heads of state, CEOs of multibillion-dollar corporations, and non-governmental organizations. Prior to that, she worked as a journalist at various media outlets, including Ha'aretz and Isr...
Jan 03, 2021•24 min
As a creative technology pioneer (18 patents, several publications) and an entrepreneur, Ramesh launched & exited four start-ups: three were acquired, the latest one gives a "play" button for enterprise data. He created the market categories of “cloud management platforms”, “conversational analytics” and now looking to grow “click-less intelligence”. His focus has always been to develop market-leading innovations and breakthroughs, to make a case for them, organize and lead inspired teams, a...
Jan 03, 2021•18 min
Rachel is the Chief Executive Officer of Intrinio, a disruptive financial data platform launched in 2016. Intrinio’s mission is to use data to power a new generation of innovation in financial services, focusing on reinventing the financial data supply chain. Previously, Rachel became a self-taught web developer and is a member of the Forbes Finance Council, Forbes 30 Under 30, and XBRL US (eXtensible Business Reporting Language. She sits on the board of CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse), the ...
Jan 03, 2021•23 min
