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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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Ep562: Matan Liberman | Co-Founder, Semperis

Matan is a co-founder of Semperis and leads the company’s Israeli arm, as well as business development. He began his career as a software engineer in the Israel Defense Force, implementing mission-critical systems for the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, prior to getting promoted to Development Team Leader. In this role, Matan gained extensive Microsoft experience and was charged with leading the development of the organizational identity management system from the ground up.

Sep 05, 202123 min

Ep561: Shy Datika | Founder & President, INX

Mr. Datika is the founder and president of INX, a fully regulated digital asset trading platform, for listing and trading cryptocurrencies, security tokens, and their derivatives. INX was the first company in history to file an F1 prospectus with the SEC for a registered security token IPO. Mr. Datika has over 25 years of capital markets experience, trading and building networks, and technology play in the banking and financial industries.

Sep 04, 202122 min

Ep560: Amir Shevat | Head of Product for the Developer Platform, Twitter

Amir is the Head of Product for the Developer Platform at Twitter and a Venture Partner at Innovation Endeavors. Previously Amir held executive roles at Amazon, Slack, Google, and Microsoft. He is the author of two books, on designing bots and building APIs that developers love.

Sep 04, 202121 min

Ep559: Ory Weihs | Founder, Team Odeon

Ory is an experienced founder, executive, and investor. He founded XLMedia PLC, a London-listed performance marketing company in 2003, led it through its IPO, and ran it until 2019. Ory is an investor in companies such as Mews, Medorion, Gigantic and more. His focus is on strong founder-led teams with disruptive technology and sector-specific expertise.

Sep 03, 202124 min

Ep558: Aviv Shapira | Co-Founder & CEO, XTEND

Aviv is an Aerospace Engineer and holds two Emmy Awards for the best broadcasting technology of 2013 and 2015. He co-founded Replay Technologies, which invented a new volumetric video format that has been used at major sports events around the world. After winning two Emmy Awards, Replay was acquired by Intel in 2016. Today he is the CEO of XTEND, in the field of Extended Reality, which aims to give people the ability to fly (!) through an immersive experience using VR and Drones.

Sep 03, 202122 min

Ep557: Yotam Tzuker | Head of Business Development, CQ Global

Yotam Tzuker is the Head of Business Development at CQ Global A leading global search firm located in Israel, helping Israeli-based companies expand globally by finding the best talents for their team. Prior to this role, Yotam has founded Tech7, an NGO that promotes the tech & entrepreneurship ecosystem in Beersheva and the south region of Israel. We have managed to build the largest startup community in Israel with over 15,000 members, and hundreds of activities in our track record. Today ...

Sep 03, 202122 min

Ep556: Shahar Cohen | Founder & CEO, Lucid Capital

Shahar Cohen, a software engineer by training, has served in executive product and strategy positions at Tech in Israel and Silicon Valley. Several years ago, he founded Lucid Capital, a tech fund that specializes in global tech stocks as well as late-stage startups. Lucid Capital is a close partner of the leading Israeli institutional investors and assists them in accessing and qualifying direct tech investments both on the global public markets as well as the private ones.

Sep 02, 202124 min

Ep554: Dina Fine | VP R&D, TailorMed

I am Dina Fine, VP R&D at TailorMed Medical, a comprehensive software solution with a mission to help patients and healthcare providers tackle the financial challenges of care delivery. Prior to Tailormed, I was VP R&D Data Collection and B2C at SimilarWeb. I bring almost 20 years of experience in building high-performance, scalable and robust systems. I am passionate about leading high-paced RnD departments, setting up solid and effective development life cycles, with a focus on technol...

Sep 02, 202120 min

Ep553: Gil Ben-Artzy | Founding Partner, UpWest

Gil is the Founding Partner of UpWest, the only Seed fund that's purposefully designed to help Israeli startups break into the US market. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and operating since 2012, UpWest was the first investor in SentineOne, HoneyBook and 80 other startups that raised over $2B in follow-on funding from top US VCs. Prior to UpWest, Gil was the VP of Operations Management at Yahoo! after working with the company's Corporate Development group. Gil also served as a consultant advisin...

Sep 02, 202123 min

Ep552: Massimiliano Magrini | Founder and Managing Partner, United Ventures

Massimiliano Magrini has always worked at the intersection of business and technology, that being the thread across his career from launching the operations of Altavista and Google Italy as founding country manager to creating an avant-garde VC studio in 2009 and then co-founding in 2013 United Ventures, the Milan-based independent venture capital firm investing in digital technologies. Today, Massimiliano’s mission is to back extraordinary founders along their journey to build great companies, ...

Sep 01, 202121 min

Ep551: Eli Bejerano | CEO, Bit2C

Eli is the CEO of Bit2C, a company that has developed a trading platform that enables the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies against the shekel, along with the management and preservation of digital currencies and the realization of large-scale transactions. 8 years ago he sat on the sofa playing video games with a friend and thought about opening a company that will make Bitcoin accessible.

Sep 01, 202124 min

Ep550: Gad Allon | Director of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology

Gad Allon is the Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, and the director of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning educator, teaching courses on scaling technology ventures and operations strategy. Gad’s recent research primarily considers gig workers, quick decision-making, and the communication between firms and customers. He is the co-founder of ForClass, helping professors drive higher stude...

Sep 01, 202122 min

Ep549: Baratang Miya | CEO, GirlHYPE

Baratang is an award-winning tech founder and a self-taught software developer with robust problem-solving skills and proven experience in building tech startups, incubators, co-working spaces, and creating, designing software in a test-driven environment. She is the founder of the first African software engineering school focusing on women and girls and worked tirelessly to mobilize governments, corporations, and civil society to invest in women and girls education.

Aug 31, 202123 min

Ep548: Ouriel Ohayon | CEO, ZenGo

Ouriel is the CEO of ZenGo, a new generation of All-in-one crypto wallet focused on simplicity and safety. He’s a former executive at ICQ/AOL, founder of TechCrunch France (sold to AOL), Isai.fr (leading French VC) and was general manager of the internet Lab of Gemini and Lightspeed Ventures. Ouriel is French and Israeli, based in Tel Aviv

Aug 31, 202124 min

Ep547: Nobukhosi Dlamini | Founder, Bahati Tech

Nobukhosi Dlamini is a tech founder of Bahati Tech - a cybersecurity and data protection company with headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the GIFT Foundation, which is a non-profit organization focused on assisting rural and informal settlement-based young women to acquire technical and digital skills to improve their livelihoods and break the cycle of poverty.

Aug 31, 202121 min

Ep546: Tomer Kashi | Co-Founder & CEO, VOOM Insurance

Tomer Kashi is CEO and Co-Founder of VOOM, an InsurTech company for next-gen mobility insurance products. Previously, Tomer spearheaded interdisciplinary technology projects from within the Prime Minister’s Office in Israel, including a project that has received the "Israel Defense Prize". Tomer is a "Talpiot" graduate and has a BSc in computer science and physics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. Tomer is based in Tel Aviv and is a proud father of two ...

Aug 29, 202124 min

Ep545: Sepideh Nasiri | Founder & CEO, Women Of MENA In Technology

Sepideh Nasiri is the CEO and Founder of Women of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in Technology (previously known as Persian Women In Tech). She is an award-winning serial entrepreneur with over 16 years of experience in the Tech Industry, and a lifetime advocate for women, diversity, and inclusion. Prior, she was Co-founder and Managing Editor of a digital and print Los Angeles Magazine, and later as the Vice President of Women 2.0, with over 250,000 members worldwide and partnerships w...

Aug 29, 202123 min

Ep544: Alaina Percival | CEO and co-founder, Women Who Code

Alaina Percival is CEO and co-founder of Women Who Code. Under Alaina’s leadership, the organization has grown to serve 290,000 members in 134 countries. Alaina is an accomplished tech speaker, appearing at WSJ.d Live, CodeMotion Milan, Grace Hopper, Columbia University’s Social Enterprise, and more. Alaina has been published by Forbes, Huffington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Alaina holds a Master’s in Organizational Management and an MBA. She is also an Angel Investor, a Venture Partner a...

Aug 29, 202121 min

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
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