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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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Ep682: Yossi Wolf | Co-Founder and Chairman, temi

Yossi Wolf is the Chairman and Co-Founder of temi the personal robot, with 15 years of experience in the field of robotics and unmanned vehicles. After serving in the special forces as an officer, Wolf partnered with Elad Levi to build Roboteam defense. Today, hundreds of Roboteam's robots are in daily practice saving lives around the globe. In 2016 Yossi left the defense company for his dream initiative, temi, set to shake up the market of personal robotics. temi is a premium designed, video-or...

Dec 19, 202121 min

Ep681: Sagi Eliyahu | Co-Founder and CEO, Tonkean

Tonkean is the OS for Business Operations, transforming operations teams from facilitators into makers with an enterprise-grade, no-code process orchestration platform. By abstracting the technical knowledge required to automate, monitor, and manage mission-critical business processes, while still maintaining compliance and security, Tonkean enables enterprises to accelerate operational velocity at scale. Founded in 2015, Tonkean is headquartered in San Francisco with R&D in Tel Aviv. To lea...

Dec 19, 202122 min

Ep680: Kevin Hancock | Chief Executive Officer at Hancock Lumber Company

Kevin Hancock is an award-winning author and speaker. The CEO of Hancock Lumber Company, one of the oldest and best known family businesses in America, he is a recipient of the Ed Muskie Access to Justice award, the Habitat for Humanity Spirit of Humanity award, the Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen award, and the Timber Processing Magazine Person of the Year award. Kevin is also a member of the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission. A frequent visitor to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservati...

Dec 17, 202122 min

Ep679: Edouard Cukierman | Founder and Managing Partner, Catalyst Investments

Edouard Cukierman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Catalyst Investments and serves as the Chairman of Cukierman & Co. Investment House. Since its establishment in 1993, Cukierman & Co. Investment House has been engaged in more than € 8 billion cross-border transactions across industries. Catalyst Investments was established in 1999 by Edouard Cukierman, Yair Shamir and Boaz Harel. With over $300 million under management, the fund supports the long-term growth of medium-sized Israel...

Dec 16, 202122 min

Ep678: Alon Arvatz | Co-founder, IntSights

Alon co-founded IntSights, a startup focused on providing intelligence about adversaries and preventing cyber attacks before they take place. It was sold this year for $350M to Rapid7. During this time he took various leadership roles in strategy, product, business and engineering. He is also involved in social impact, founding "Kanfey Kesef" a non-profit that promotes financial literacy, and lately "Step2Tech" that brings diversity to the high-tech industry. Alon is an active angel investor, in...

Dec 15, 202124 min

Ep677: Ronen Slavin | Co-Founder and CTO, Cycode

Ronen Slavin is Co-Founder and CTO of Cycode, a startup that secures software delivery pipelines and provides full visibility into enterprise development infrastructure, a serial entrepreneur and former Unit 8200 officer of the Israel Defense Forces. Prior to Cycode, Ronen Co-Founded FileLock, which was acquired by Reason Security in 2018 where he led the research and endpoint protection development.

Dec 14, 202119 min

Ep676: Ran Kern | Co-founder & CEO, Augmind

From BA in Computer Science and Business in Israel to Masters in CS from BU, Ran then spent a decade on Wall Street and then back to Israel for another decade in technology startups, focusing on creating unique and strategic alliances. Ran is now geared at setting new boundaries for Augmented Reality content and apps, and set new standards for what you are about to see, digitally, with the goal of paving the way for mass AR adaption.

Dec 14, 202121 min

Ep675: Ron Reinfeld | Chief Financial Officer, Morphisec

Ron Reinfeld, CFO @ Moprphisec- Prior to joining Morphisec, Ron served as Chief Financial Officer at IntSights (acquired by Rapid7) where he oversaw global finance, legal,HR and planning operations. Ron brings over 15 years of financial leadership experience at SaaS companies. He was VP of Finance & Operations at Zooz (acquired by PayU), and has held various financial and operations roles at Cloudshare, Clarizen and Ernst & Young, where he specialized in technology IPOs and M&A. In a...

Dec 14, 202126 min

Ep674: Shelly Hod Moyal | Founding Partner and Co-CEO, iAngels

An international finance and investment expert, Shelly leads iAngels with a compelling and hands-on approach to the firm’s investment due diligence process, investor relations and portfolio management of the iAngels platform, and institutional fund, iNgenuity. Shelly’s experience as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, and research analyst at Avenue Capital, equip her to reality-test the growth plans of early-stage innovative companies, make data-driven investment decisions, and architect de...

Dec 13, 202122 min

Ep673: Bianca Meger | Co-CEO, Shelfy.io

Bianca brings more than 18 years of experience to the Metro One team. With extensive global experience in marketing, business development and sales, she holds a proven track record of establishing data-driven, customer-centric companies. Over the past nine years, Bianca served as Chief Marketing Officer of various leading tech companies in Israel and was nominated for the esteemed “Globes 40 under 40” award. Originally from Africa, Bianca strongly believes in the notion of "it takes a village", ...

Dec 12, 202121 min

Ep672: Mati Gill | Chief Executive Officer, AION Labs

Mati is the CEO of AION Labs, an Israel-based innovation lab using AI for drug discovery and development, a coalition between Pfizer, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AstraZeneca, Teva, Merck and the Israel Biotech Fund (IBF). Mati has held leadership roles within the biopharma industry for over a decade, formerly serving as a senior executive at Teva Pharmaceuticals. Prior to his term in industry, Mati was Chief of Staff for Israel’s Minister of Public Security.

Dec 11, 202122 min

Ep671: Ruslan Tovbulatov | Vice President of Global Marketing, Gloat

Ruslan is the Vice President of Global Marketing at Gloat, the world’s first AI-powered Talent Marketplace platform. In his role, Ruslan oversees a global team of marketers across Brand, Demand, Product Marketing, and Content, bringing the Gloat story to the world’s largest enterprises. Prior to Gloat, Ruslan has a storied career across Product, Partnerships, Research, and Marketing at companies including Thrive Global, Google, YouTube, and Kantar Retail. He is a 30 under 30-recognized creative,...

Dec 10, 202123 min

Ep670: Yuval Rachlin | CEO, GlobalDots

Yuval is a technology entrepreneur, living and breathing the tech world for over 25 years. He is the founder and CEO of GlobalDots, a global web & cloud technology partner helping companies embrace innovation for over 17 years, now trusted by over 400 global enterprises including Lufthansa, Bosch, Wix, Playtika, AppsFlyer, Payoneer and more, providing them access and support for the most cutting edge technologies out there. Yuval resides in Israel, he is married with two kids and a dog. As a...

Dec 09, 202120 min

Ep669: Amos Haggiag | CEO and Co-founder of Optibus

Amos Haggiag is the CEO and co-founder of Optibus, a software platform that nourishes freedom of movement and sustainable cities by bringing much-needed innovation to public transportation. Before co-founding Optibus in 2014, Amos led the development of large-scale personalization engines as a senior software development engineer at Microsoft and designed machine learning algorithms at Siemens. He is the recipient of several prestigious math and technology awards, including the Intel Prize (for ...

Dec 08, 202123 min

Ep668: Dan Mano | General Manager, Perion Network

An entrepreneur with a big passion for product development. Dan brings 18 years of C-level experience from MyHeritage.com, 888.com, Reach, SWIFT SHIFT and Rocket Internet. Dan is a licensed lawyer, holds an MBA from UCLA (Entertainment Management), an MBA from London Business School with a concentration in finance, and a dual major in law and business (cum laude) from Reichman University. Dan took part in the Zell entrepreneurship program, NFX and Upwest Labs accelerators. Dan is a sought-after ...

Dec 08, 202125 min

Ep667: Adam de la Zerda | CEO, Visby Medical

Adam is CEO of Visby Medical (formerly Click Diagnostics), which he founded in 2012 to develop easy-use diagnostic tests. In March 2020, the company pivoted from work on a sexual health test to tackle the coronavirus, and in July received FDA emergency authorization approval for its portable COVID-19 test. He is also an associate professor in the Departments of Structural Biology and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University School of Medicine, with research interests spanning a broad field ...

Dec 07, 202123 min

Ep666: Yotam Manor | R&D Manager, Versatile

Yotam Manor, 33 years old, lives in Tel Aviv with his wife Hili and their 6 months old baby boy Carmel. He is an 8200 Alumni and a Hebrew University Graduate in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE), and is self-trained as a Software Engineer. An experienced Tech Leader combining expertise in software, data, product & people, Yotam was until recently the Head of Engineering at Trellis.ai, and not too long ago joined Versatile as an R&D Manager. He volunteers for almost a decade in t...

Dec 06, 202122 min

Ep665: Dror Berman | Managing Partner, Innovation Endeavors

Dror is a Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors, which he cofounded with Eric Schmidt. He invests in early-stage startups that are driving exponential rates of change in their industries, leading to a Super Evolution. Dror has invested in over 100 different companies from Seed through Series B. He led the firm’s investments in Uber, SoFi, Planet, Zymergen, Freenome, Blue River Technologies, and others. Before becoming an investor, he was a team leader of R&D at NICE Systems (Nasdaq: NICE)...

Dec 04, 202131 min

Ep664: Dotan Nahum | CEO & Co-founder, Spectral

Dotan is an experienced multidisciplinary leader in tech, 4x published author, and an avid open source contributor. He is the CEO & Founder at Spectral, a devsecops startups, and previously was CTO at HiredScore, Klarna TLV, and Como (Conduit). With a solid background in hacking, reverse engineering, and software engineering, Dotan has spent years bridging the gap between developers, security, and productivity, from a developer's point of view.

Dec 03, 202123 min

Ep663: Minal Bopaiah | Founder and Principal Consultant, Brevity & Wit

Minal Bopaiah is the author of Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives. She is the founder of Brevity & Wit, a strategy + design firm that combines human-centered design, behavior change science and the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility to help organizations transform themselves and the world. Bopaiah has written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Hill and has been a featured guest on numerous podcasts and shows, including the Kojo...

Dec 03, 202118 min

Ep662: Orly Glick | Partner, Vintage Investment Partners

Orly joined Vintage in 2016. Before joining Vintage, she worked for McKinsey & Co. in Belgium, France and Israel in the Fast Growth Tech division. Prior to McKinsey, Orly lived for 10 years in California, USA where she worked for Merrill Lynch in wealth management and private banking. Orly started her career as a mechanics and electronics engineer for Indigo, an Israeli startup in the printing industry that was later acquired by HP. Orly has also managed and advised technology startups....

Dec 01, 202121 min

Ep661: Chanan Schneider | CEO, Millennium Food-Tech

Entrepreneur, CEO and experienced investor in startup companies. CEO and co-founder of Millennnium Food-Tech, a traded (TASE) venture capital fund. Before establishing Millennium he initiated, established and managed the Food-Tech incubator in Kiryat Shmona, Israel. Chanan was the entrepreneur of IndaMed, and managed start-up companies such as Beta-o2, Nitiloop and others, from the initiation to market penetration. As CEO of these companies, he raised significant amounts from VC funds and strate...

Dec 01, 202122 min

Ep660: Guy Horowitz | Partner, Growth Equity, DTCP

Guy is a Partner at DTCP in the Growth Equity team in Silicon Valley. Guy led DTCP's investments in Replay Technologies (acquired by Intel), FireGlass (acquired by Symantec), and Dynamic Yield (acquired by McDonald’s). He also led DTCP’s investments in SafeBreach, Morphisec, AppsFlyer, and PerimeterX and represents it as board member/observer.

Dec 01, 202121 min

Ep659: Carson Tate | Managing Partner, Working Simply, Inc.

Carson serves as a consultant and executive coach to executives at Fortune 500 companies including (but not limited to) AbbVie, Deloitte, FedEx, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Heinz, Synchrony and Wells Fargo. The author of Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style (Penguin Portfolio, 2015) and Own It. Love It. Make It Work: How to Make Any Job Your Dream Job (McGraw-Hill, 2020) her views have been included in top-tier business media including Bloomberg Businessweek, Bus...

Nov 30, 202115 min

Ep658: Raz Golan | Co-Founder & CEO, Shopic

A veteran of the 8200 unit of the Israeli Intelligence Corps, Raz is a seasoned product leader with over a decade of experience in research, product management, intelligence and R&D. Prior to his army service, Raz started a Bachelor’s degree in the age of 14, during high school, and co-founded Sikumuna.co.il, Israel’s largest studying materials website. After completing the army service, Raz has joined Checkpoint as a Security Researcher, then joined Semanix’s (a start up developing NLP algo...

Nov 30, 202122 min

Ep657: Yifeng Zhou | VP Partnerships, Xinergy Global

VP Partnerships at Xinergy Global. With her rich experience in Fortune 500 companies and various business and communication sectors over the years, Yael is an expert in cross-border branding and marketing strategy, market-entry, and business development and has much insight into global corporate strategy upscaling and communication of Chinese companies. Before joining Xinergy Global, Yael was the Director of Business Development at Haier Israel Innovation Center, the frontline innovation arm of ...

Nov 30, 202122 min

Ep656: Yaacov Cohen | Chairman & CEO, harmon.ie

Yaacov Cohen, founder and CEO of harmon.ie (pronounced ‘harmony’) is a driving force for humanizing technology. By emphasizing devotion to core values to enable a productive work environment, Yaacov believes technology should work for people, rather than the other way around. Yaacov leads the product design, go-to-market strategy, and company strategy for harmon.ie, one of the most successful software vendors in the Microsoft eco-system, with 1500+ subscription-based enterprise customers, 97% re...

Nov 29, 202122 min

Ep655: Danny Atsmon | CEO, Cognata Ltd.

Danny Atsmon is a seasoned technologist and subject matter expert in the domains of machine learning, computer vision, and automated driving. Leveraging this unique expertise, Danny has been in the business of launching high-tech products for more than 20 years. He served as Harman’s (NYSE:HAR now Samsung) Director of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Senior Director of Machine learning, and has co-founded several successful technology companies operating at the intersection of artificial i...

Nov 29, 202119 min

Ep654: Gal Rimon | CEO & Founder, Centrical

Gal is the CEO and founder of Centrical, an Employee-Centric Success Platform. Using advanced gamification, personalized microlearning, and real-time employee performance management holistically, Centrical helps companies help their employees perform their best. Gal is a Mamram graduate with an MBA from Tel Aviv Recanati, and previously was the CEO of Gilon, a leading big data company which was acquired by Ness Technologies.

Nov 29, 202124 min

Ep653: Yaron Ben Nun | Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Nostromo Energy

Yaron is passionate about the environment and is an activist for the proper use of natural resources. Before Co-Founding Nostromo, Yaron spent several years in managerial positions at software companies leading in clean-tech and industrial performance efficacy. Served in the Israeli Defense Force Air Force pilot, Yaron experienced the importance of a cleaner planet from a birds-eye view. Trained in electrical studies and granted a certificate of ‘Energy conservation master’ from the Israeli Mini...

Nov 27, 202123 min
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