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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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Ep471: Zachary Mannheimer | CEO and founder of Alquist

Zachary Mannheimer is the CEO and founder of Alquist, a 3D printing construction company that uses cutting-edge technology to create houses, buildings, and other structures aimed at dropping the cost of homes and solving the housing crisis. After a road trip from NYC to 22 cities around the country, Zachary chose and settled in Des Moines in 2007 founding the Des Moines Social Club, an art and educational non-profit. In 11 years of operations, DMSC hosted over 10,000 events for over 1,000,000 pa...

Jul 04, 202122 min

Ep512: Ronen Luzon | Founder & CEO, My Size Inc.

Ronen is a serial entrepreneur and a skilled manager with a track record of success across various industries. Prior to founding MySize, he established and led startups in the medical devices and communication sectors. Among his other endeavors, Ronen founded Malers, a company that has grown to be a leader in the global security solutions market and provides some of the most advanced technological solutions for integrated communication infrastructures, security, and control systems. Prior to tha...

Jul 04, 202125 min

Ep470: Ori Yankelev | Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and founding team member, OwnBackup

Ori Yankelev is the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and founding team member of OwnBackup where he leads the company's global go-to-market strategy. Based in Tel Aviv, Ori led the expansion of OwnBackup’s global sales organization from 1 employee to what is today over 200 employees globally with a presence in the US, UK, France, Israel, and Australia.

Jul 03, 202122 min

Ep469: Ana Bas Lapique and Belén De Jaime | Co-Founders, Flipeat

We are Belen and Ana, two very enthusiastic 25-year-old friends from childhood with previous experience in banking, consulting and Amazon, who always knew wanted to create a business together. We co-founded Flipeat 6 months ago with the aim of creating a more efficient restaurant reservation process through digitalization, adding a social component that allows creating a personalized network of friends to share culinary experiences and recommendations. We are present in Madrid and soon to open B...

Jul 02, 202127 min

Ep468: Itamar Ben Hemo | Co-Founder and CEO, Rivery

Itamar Ben Hamo is co-founder and CEO at Rivery, a DataOps platform that streamlines data integration, transformation, and orchestration. A seasoned business executive, Ben Hamo was co-founder and CEO of Vision.BI, a leading data consulting firm acquired by Keyrus Group. At Keyrus, Ben Hamo was group vice president for North America. Itamar holds a BSc in Computer and Information Systems Security from Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Jul 01, 202121 min

Ep467: Chemi Katz | Co-founder and CEO, Namogoo

Chemi Katz is the current CEO and Co-Founder of Namogoo, a Digital Journey Continuity platform serving over 250 global brands in eCommerce. With over 17 years of experience in the eCommerce, security, commerce, and advertising spaces, Chemi is an experienced visionary and serial entrepreneur who builds disruptive technologies. Prior to co-founding Namogoo, Chemi was General Manager of DoubleVerify Israel and co-founded Seapai and Reissod. Earlier in his career, Chemi led Production Operations at...

Jun 30, 202123 min

Ep466: Michael Eisenberg | Equal Partner, Aleph VC

Michael Eisenberg is an Equal Partner at Aleph, an early-stage venture capital fund with over $500M under management. Aleph focuses on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in more than 40 companies including Melio, Lemonade, Bringg, JoyTunes, Healthy.io, and Nexar.

Jun 29, 202124 min

Ep465: Dana Zelitzki | VP of Marketing, Valens

With more than 10 years of experience in the hi-tech industry in various business development, marketing, and product management roles, Dana is responsible for the Valens’ marketing activities. Dana leads the company’s messaging, positioning, go-to-market, and general marketing activities, including communications, tradeshows, media, digital marketing, and more. Dana has contributed to building the Valens and HDBaseT brands and establishing the company’s leadership in both the audio-video and au...

Jun 28, 202123 min

Ep464: Yonatan Geifman | Co-founder and CEO of Deci

Yonatan is co-founder and CEO of Deci, the deep learning company building the next generation of AI. He co-founded Deci after completing his Ph.D. in computer science at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His research focused on making Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) more applicable for mission-critical tasks. Yonatan was also a member of Google AI’s MorphNet team where he worked on developing an automated machine learning algorithm based on neural network pruning.

Jun 27, 202120 min

Ep463: Gadi Gidor | Artistic Director and Career Manager

Gadi was born in Israel right before they put a man on the moon. He Moved to NY upon completing his three years of mandatory military service and graduated with a Bachelor's degree from NYU (Stern school of business) as well as with an MBA degree from Harvard University. He had been working his entire professional life in the music industry, assuming various roles in Major Record companies. Currently, he is enjoying his independence as a freelance artists' manager/consultant. Gadi is married to ...

Jun 26, 202135 min

Ep462: Omry Ben David | General Partner, Viola Ventures

Omry is a General Partner at Viola Ventures. He joined the fund in 2017 bringing with him 15 years of technology-focused experience across investment banking, startup operations, and both institutional and private venture investments. Prior to Viola Omry was a Senior Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the tech, media, and telecom (TMT) investment banking group. Omry’s areas of investment at Viola Ventures include FinTech and insruTech as well as Enterprise and SME Software.

Jun 25, 202124 min

Ep461: Robby Nissan | Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer, Fetcherr Ltd

Robby brings 22 years of experience in the advertising and marketing industry in Israel. Former Chief Creative Officer in TBWA/Tel Aviv, and Former founder and Head of Strategy & Creative in HAVAS/Tele Aviv. Robby has vast experience in Commercial and Political campaign management and as a senior strategy consultant in the Wolfson foundation and other international organizations.

Jun 24, 202122 min

Ep460: Ofir Bar Levav | Chief Business Officer, Indoor Robotics

Ofir started his career in Procter & Gamble where he spent 12 years in various management roles in Finance, strategy, BD, and M&A working on many P&G brands (Pampers, Haircare, Gillette, etc) and including 2 relocations periods in Europe (Belgium, Switzerland). He moved to Tyco running finance for the security products division and later on BD & M&A for the division. He joined Johnson Controls as it acquired Tyco and was the general manager for the global open innovation plat...

Jun 23, 202128 sec

Ep459: Yariv Bash | Co-founder and CEO, Flytrex, Founder, SpaceIL

Yariv Bash is the CEO and co-founder of Flytrex, a drone technology company providing comprehensive, autonomous drone delivery solutions that enable any business, from SMBs to e-commerce giants, to integrate instant, autonomous drone delivery into their offering. Flytrex is an end-to-end drone logistics solution spearheading the drone revolution. Prior to Flytrex, Yariv was the Founder and CEO of SpaceIL, a $100M Israeli non-profit organization that attempted to land Beresheet, the first private...

Jun 22, 202123 min

Ep458: Song Toh | VP of Product Management, Tata Communications

Song is the VP of Product Management at Tata Communications, a global telecommunications managed service provider. He runs a global business connecting the offices and users of multinational enterprises, to their critical business applications, using the latest programmable network and IT infrastructure technology. At global companies like Cisco and Tata Communications, Song has delivered products that make enterprise IT infrastructure more agile, cost efficient and easy to use, allowing my cust...

Jun 21, 202121 min

Ep457: Yossi Naar | Chief visionary officer and Co-founder, Cybereason

Yossi Naar, Chief Visionary Officer and Co-Founder of Cybereason - a leader in EDR and next-generation antivirus solutions for enterprises. Yossi is an accomplished software developer and expert in technology architecture, machine learning, big data analytics, and visualization. During his 20 years of industry experience, Yossi has designed and built many products, from cutting-edge security platforms for the defense industry in Israel to big data platforms. His products have been deployed world...

Jun 20, 202124 min

Ep456: Barak Rabinowitz | Managing Partner, F2 Venture Capital

Barak is Managing Partner of F2. Previously, Barak was a Partner at Genesis Partners where he focused on early-stage investment opportunities and The Junction seed investment program. Prior to Genesis Partners, Barak led three startups in the UK and Israel as Co-Founder & CEO, including Mytopia, acquired by 888 Holdings (LSE: 888), and supported numerous successful technology companies as an angel investor.

Jun 19, 202121 min

Ep455: Takeshi Shinoda | Chairman & CEO, Aristagora Group

Takeshi Shinoda is, based in Japan and Singapore, CEO of Aristagora Group including Asset management, Private Equity, Venture capital, and Wealth management firms. He has more than 30 years of a rich background in the fields of investment banking and private banking.

Jun 18, 202128 min

Ep454: Avishay Cohen | Co-founder & CEO, Anima

Avishay Cohen is the Co-founder & CEO at Anima. After leading multiple tech teams, Avishay had the first-hand experience of the difficulties in the handoff process between design and development. That’s why he started Anima - a design-to-code platform. Allowing designers to create responsive prototypes from inside their designs tool, and translate these designs into developer-friendly React/HTML code.

Jun 17, 202123 min

Ep452: Sandeep Aggarwal | Founder, Droom & ShopClues

Sandeep Aggarwal is the only Indian technology founder who's created two Unicorns back-to-back – Droom, India’s first online automobile marketplace, and ShopClues, India’s first-ever managed online marketplace. Before his journey into entrepreneurship, he was a former top Wall Street tech analyst in the US who worked with Microsoft and Charles Schwab. During that time, he was often sought as an expert source on TV networks like CNBC. Insider trading charges (later dropped) derailed his life, but...

Jun 16, 202127 min

Ep453: Avi Gabay | CEO & Co-Founder, Opticity

Avi Gabay is the CEO and Co-Founder Opticity. In 2017 he founded LS Techs company, which provides third-party development services to companies and organizations. The company today employs close to 70 developers. Previously, he served in the IAF 108 unit, as Head of QA and System Architect.

Jun 15, 202120 min

Ep451: Amy Francetic | Founder and Managing General Partner, Buoyant Ventures

Amy is the founder and Managing General Partner of Buoyant Ventures, a new venture fund in Chicago that aims to invest in digital climate solutions. Her career spans over 20 years of high technology entrepreneurship, private equity, and research. Amy previously founded and led Energize Ventures, a venture fund that invests in digital energy and industrial automation. She also co-founded and served as CEO of technology accelerator Clean Energy Trust, which has invested in dozens of early-stage cl...

Jun 14, 202124 min

Ep450: Yoni Tserruya | Co-founder & CEO, Lusha

As Lusha’s co-founder and CEO, Yoni first developed Lusha as a side-project, during his first job as an iOs developer. After one year, his pet project exploded, and he decided to turn his passion into his profession. Today, Yoni helps create the vision and strategy that informs all product and business decisions at Lusha. He focuses on hiring the right team, anticipating the future needs of customers, and envisioning the future of the data world. A software engineer by trade, Yoni graduated with...

Jun 13, 202122 min

Ep449: Udi Nessimyan | CEO and Co-Founder, Sealed

Udi Nessimyan takes a vision and makes it a reality through sound strategy development. As a savvy entrepreneur, He intuitively sees the threads of opportunity that wind through an organization, brings them together into a coherent whole, helps others extend their thinking, and drives material business advantage. He is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the Cloud, Cyber Security, and telecommunications industries. Skilled in Government, M&A’s, Pu...

Jun 12, 202121 min

Ep448: Noga Kap | Managing Partner, i3 Equity Partners

Ms. Noga Kap is bringing over twenty years of hands-on experience in executive positions in the high-tech industry as well as one of the most prominent women- investors in the Israeli ecosystem. Ms. Kap is Managing Partner of i3 Equity Partners, an early-stage Deep Tech-focused fund invested by the largest corporations such as Microsoft, Qualcomm, GE, Tata, and others.

Jun 11, 202121 min

Ep447: Christopher Coultas | Vice President of Product Innovation and Senior Leadership Consultant, Leadership Worth Following, LLC.

Christopher Coultas is the Vice President of Product Innovation and a Senior Leadership Consultant at Leadership Worth Following, LLC. He personifies the scientist-practitioner model in the fast-growing field of industrial-organizational psychology. He has coached hundreds of leaders and dozens of teams on how to leverage enhanced self-awareness for optimal leadership impact. His book with Leadership Worth Following, Driven Not Drained: Discover Your Path to Career Happiness, Effectiveness, and ...

Jun 10, 202122 min

Ep446: Haim Carmel | Chief Technology Officer, HomeConnex

From my early days of programming, I was an entrepreneur and a software company owner. I finished my computer science bachelor's degree in 1999. since then, I've participated in many big projects for government offices, private sector companies and even sold one of them to a huge software company in the states. Nowadays I'm the head of the R&D department at HomeConnex, a startup that was founded in 2015 as an idea to help to develop the low tech construction and building market. With great s...

Jun 09, 202120 min

Ep445: Jason Sundby | CEO/Chairman, Verde Technologies Partner, Atlas Capital Partners

Since 2015, Jason has served as CEO of Verde Environmental Technologies Inc., maker of the Deterra® Drug Deactivation and Disposal System. He has over 30 years of experience in operations, risk management, administration, and IT leadership. Sundby is a founding partner of Atlas Capital Partners, a venture capital firm investing in companies that are post-revenue, on the verge of rapid growth, and possessing a defensible competitive advantage. Sundby completed his undergraduate studies at the Uni...

Jun 08, 202122 min

Ep444: Irit Singer | VP of Marketing, Windward

Irit is a seasoned executive with a demonstrated history of developing and growing businesses in the high-tech industry for both B2B and B2C products. Currently, she is VP of marketing at Windward, the leading maritime AI company. Prior experiences include senior director at Microsoft, VP marketing at Here Technologies, Mobility division, and CMO at Mobli Media.

Jun 08, 202122 min

Ep443: Gal Oz | CTO & Co-Founder, Pixellot

Gal is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pixellot, the world-leading company of fully autonomous video and data production for sports events. Pixellot produces a new game around the globe every 30 seconds! He served for 10 years with an elite R&D unit in the Intelligence Corps of the IDF, during which Gal worked with a different visual platform to capture information, from UAV to satellites. Prior he was in the founding group of SportVU and served as the CEO and R&D Manager of the company until ...

Jun 07, 202125 min
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