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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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Ep634: Rob Huntington | CEO, Metric Collective

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...

Nov 09, 202122 min

Ep633: Shay David | Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Retrain.AI

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...

Nov 09, 202122 min

Ep632: Evyatar Ben Artzi | Co-Founder & CEO, Darrow.ai

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...

Nov 09, 202124 min

Ep631: Amit Rapaport | Co-founder & CEO, Compete

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...

Nov 08, 202122 min

Ep630: Tony Gambill | Founder and CEO, ClearView Leadership, LLC

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...

Nov 08, 202122 min

Ep629: Jeremy Lustman | Partner and Head of Israel Country Group, DLA Piper US LLP

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...

Nov 08, 202123 min

Ep628: Yorai Fainmesser | General Partner, Disruptive AI

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...

Nov 07, 202127 min

Ep627: Mark Babbitt | President, WordIQ, Co-Author, Good Comes First

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...

Nov 06, 202122 min

Ep626: Chris Edmonds | President, CEO, and Founder, The Purposeful Culture Group, Co-Author, Good Comes First

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...

Nov 05, 202123 min

Ep625: Guy Yamen | Managing Partner, TPY Capital

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...

Nov 04, 202123 min

Ep624: Jonathan Geifman | Co Founder & CEO, Helios

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.

Nov 04, 202122 min

Ep623: Clelia Morales | Co-founder and COO, WOOM

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.

Nov 04, 202122 min

Ep622: Lior Klisman | Co-founder, Sentant

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...

Nov 03, 202122 min

Ep621: Jeffrey Travis | CEO, Positron

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...

Nov 03, 202122 min

Ep620: Demi Ben-Ari | Co-founder & CTO, Panorays

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...

Nov 03, 202122 min

Ep619: Omer Keilaf | CEO and Co-Founder at Innoviz Technologies

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...

Oct 27, 202134 min

Ep618: Guy Bloch | CEO & Board Member, Bringg

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.

Oct 27, 202123 min

Ep617: Simon Severino | CEO and Founder, Strategy Sprints

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...

Oct 27, 202123 min

Ep616: Yossi Bahagon | Founder & Active Chairman, Sweetch

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 ...

Oct 27, 202122 min

Ep615: Dr. Ofer Sharon | CEO, OncoHost

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.

Oct 26, 202122 min

Ep614: Floretta Mayerson | Co-Founder en Violetta

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.

Oct 24, 202123 min

Ep612: Seth Spergel | Managing Partner, Merlin Ventures

Seth Spergel is Managing Partner at Merlin Ventures, where he is responsible for identifying cutting-edge companies for Merlin to partner with and invest in. Seth has more than 20 years of experience building, selling, and investing in software and startups. Most recently, Seth was VP for Infrastructure Technologies at In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment firm of the US Intelligence Community. Prior to In-Q-Tel, Seth was the VP of Engineering for ThinkGeek, an online seller and manufacturer of “ge...

Oct 23, 202121 min

Ep611: Rajkumar Venkatesan | Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Rajkumar is the Ronald Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia. Raj has written about and taught quantitative marketing to MBA and executive education students worldwide. At Darden, he has taught a course on marketing analytics for more than ten years, and a course on marketing technology products for five years. His experience in these courses he translated into the books, Cutting Edge Marketing Analytics, published by Pearson E...

Oct 21, 202123 min

Ep610: Yair Tal | CEO, BLEND Localization Services

I'm a seasoned executive with extensive‌ 2B2B‌ ‌and‌ ‌enterprise‌ ‌experience, passionate about developing long-term solutions for strategic partners and customers. My interest lies in connecting local talent with global companies and removing cross-border barriers to empower growth. I joined BLEND (formerly OneHourTranslation) as a CEO in 2020, with a strong passion to transform the localization industry and remove cross-border barriers for growth-stage companies and brands. Before joining BLEN...

Oct 20, 202123 min

Ep609: Radhika Dutt | Author, Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter

Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. An entrepreneur and product leader, she has participated in four acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. Dutt advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies on building radical products that create a fundamental change instead o...

Oct 20, 202123 min

Ep608: Noam Toister | CEO & Co-Founder, Bookaway.com

Noam is the co-founder and CEO of Bookaway, a ground and sea transportation platform, basically a Booking.com for travel transportation. The company has recently raised a B round and acquired several of its competitors in order to grow during covid. He started Bookaway after a bad travel experience in the Philippines during his honeymoon, and the company is now one of the leading travel transportation companies in the world.

Oct 19, 202121 min

Ep607: Dikla Czaczkes Akselbrad | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, PolyPid

Dikla Czaczkes Akselbrad is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PolyPid, a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing novel, locally administered therapies to improve surgical outcomes. Before joining PolyPid seven years ago, she served as CFO at both Compugen and Packet Technologies and as Audit Manager at Ernst & Young Israel. She holds an MBA in Finance and a BA in Accounting & Economics, both from ...

Oct 15, 202122 min

Ep606: Ian Cook | Vice President of People Analytics, Visier Inc.

Ian Cook is recognized for his leadership and insight in the area of workforce analytics and planning. Ian is currently the vice president of people analytics at Visier where he helps customers drive organizational change through linking workforce analysis to business outcomes. He is responsible for the workforce domain expertise within the Visier solutions. Prior to joining Visier, Ian built Canada's leading source of HR Benchmarking data. His knowledge and expertise come from 10+ years of cons...

Oct 14, 202121 min

Ep605: Rani Plaut | CEO & Co Founder, AIR

Rani Plaut is CEO and Co-Founder of AIR, the startup reimagining air mobility with eVTOLs for mass personal use. With a rich background in mathematics and physics, automotive and aerospace technologies, Rani’s impressive experience has led him to work with several OEMs and serve on the boards of multiple tech companies and venture funds. Prior to co-founding AIR, he was CEO and Co-Founder of Bmax, a leading provider of advanced metal processing solutions.

Oct 14, 202121 min
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