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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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Ep844: Ifty Kerzner | Co-Founder & President, Kissterra

Ifty is Kissterra's co-founder and active president since 2015, he is passionate about business, innovation, and people. Ifty is a skilled tech entrepreneur, the majority of his career he invested in founding and managing several companies focused on financial services and data management. Prior to his business career, Ifty was a successful Israeli entertainer known for his music and TV show. Ifty holds an L.L.B degree with distinction, a master's degree in Political Science, and he is a graduat...

Jun 30, 202228 min

Ep843: Hilla Ovil Brenner | Managing Director, Techstars Tel Aviv

Hilla Ovil-Brenner is managing director of the Techstars Tel Aviv Accelerator. Having led her first company, White Smoke, to a successful IPO, for the past 20 years, Hilla has grown into a serial entrepreneur, investor, and mentor in the high-tech industry, specializing in early-stage startup development and growth. She has been named a 'Top 100 Influential People in the Israeli Hi-Tech Ecosystem' by Israeli technology site, Geektime. Additionally, Hilla is the founder of Yaazamiyot, the largest...

Jun 29, 202222 min

Ep842: Ofer Gayer | VP of Product, Hunters

Ofer Gayer is VP of Product at Hunters, a SOC Platform which aims to disrupt the SIEM category. His role includes overseeing all aspects of product vision, strategy, roadmap, and user experience, collaborating with leaders across the company to make the vision a reality. Ofer recently returned to Israel after spending 6 years in San Francisco. Prior to Hunters, Ofer managed a variety of cybersecurity product lines and teams at Exabeam and Imperva. Before transitioning into product, he was a secu...

Jun 28, 202221 min

Ep841: Hany Lynn | Product Lead, Fundbox

Hany is a Product Lead at Fundbox, a fintech company providing an embedded working capital platform for small businesses in the US market. She currently leads two of the company’s core product domains: the customer experience and journey of Fundbox’s credit products, as well as Fundbox’s innovative Payments products, focusing on B2B Buy Now, Pay Later solutions. Hany’s passionate about building new products and exploring innovations that drive more engagement, delight customers, and establish pr...

Jun 27, 202222 min

Ep840: Aayush Kumar | CEO, OpsLyft

Aayush is the CEO and Founder of OpsLyft. Before OpsLyft, Aayush worked as a Lead DevOps Engineer at Indix. There he was given the responsibility to handle the whole cloud infrastructure which had a budget of upwards of $5 million. This rigorous exercise made him realize the fundamental problems with cloud cost optimization and how it is an ongoing exercise. When Aayush researched the market of cloud management platforms, he found out that even though there are a plethora of cloud solutions exis...

Jun 25, 202226 min

Ep839: Amit Kurz | General Partner, Sweetwood Ventures

Amit is a General Partner at Sweetwood Ventures, an Israel focused venture capital fund of funds. Prior to co-founding Sweetwood Ventures, Amit was a lawyer at APM & Co. where he represented private equity and venture capital funds, and high-tech companies in all of their corporate and commercial affairs. Amit was previously recognized by Forbes as one of Israel's brightest leaders under the age of 30 (Forbes 30 Under 30). Amit graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Bachelor’s degre...

Jun 24, 202220 min

Ep838: Andriy Sambir | CEO, LinkUp Studio

Andriy Sambir is the CEO of a top software development company located in Ukraine. In his 20 Andriy founded and led LinkUp Studio, product-driven software development & design company, that today are one of the best Saas companies in Ukraine. Having gained over 8+ years of working on digital projects, he fond in important to share the expirience - that's how was founded the Building Digital Product podcast - the show for sturtups and entrepreneurs about the things Andriy would like someone t...

Jun 23, 202222 min

Ep837: Guy Nirpaz | Founder & CEO, Totango

Guy Nirpaz is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and the CEO of Totango, the leading Customer Success solution. A pioneer in the Customer Success field, Guy is a well-regarded industry speaker and community contributor. Guy is also the author of “The Definitive Guide to Customer Success,” and established the Customer Success Summit. He’s passionate about people and technology and has dedicated his career to improving the way in which business is done through innovation.

Jun 22, 202222 min

Ep836: Rachel Caplin | Business Development, Team8 Fintech

Rachel Caplin leads Business Development for Fintech at Team8. In 2019, she accidentally wrote a novel and was just shortlisted for the 2022 Vogel Literary Award, one of Australia's most prestigious literature prizes. Rachel made Aliyah to Israel in 2015 from her hometown Perth in Western Australia, sits on the Board of two non-profit organizations, and is a Fellow in the Nevo Network - an exclusive program for top-talent OIim in the Israeli tech ecosystem.

Jun 20, 202223 min

Ep835: Shay Levy | Co-Founder & CTO, Noname Security

Shai Levy, was born in Ramat Gan, and from a very young age he learnt to adapt to challenging life situations. He paved the way for the 8200 after studying physics and computers in high school and hurried to finish his matriculation in physics in tenth grade. From the Sisyphean classifications to the specific section to which he was admitted in the army which lasted 7 months he no longer recoiled. There he met Oz and even then they had signed together on a project that won them a 'Source of Life...

Jun 19, 202221 min

Ep834: Daniel Lischinsky | Founder & CEO, Ohh-Med Medical Ltd.

Daniel is the Founder and CEO of Ohh-Med Medical. He is an Computer Science Engineer from the Technion Technological institute at Israel and specialist in VLSI technologies. He has few patents in the field of anti aging and urology more specifically, in the field of Erectile Dysfunction (ED). He was one of the first employees in startups companies like Saifun Semiconductor, Mellanox Technologies (today Nvidia), Syneron, Founder of Endymed Medical (ENDY:tlv) acting as VP R&D and CTO. He is fa...

Jun 18, 202225 min

Ep833: Dana von der Heide | Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Parcel Perform

Dana is the Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Parcel Perform, the leading delivery experience platform for businesses covering 800+ logistics carriers worldwide. She leads the global go-to-market strategies and expansion efforts alongside the growth and commercial strategy within the company. The German-born entrepreneur and e-commerce logistics enthusiast worked in global strategy and regional business development roles for international logistics companies in Europe and Asia. Dana is a m...

Jun 17, 202221 min

Ep832: Yariv Omer | Founder and CEO, REIGO

Yariv is the Co-Founder and CEO of Reigo. He brings 22 years of software development and product management experience and more than 17 years of leadership of software groups and companies. Before joining Reigo, Yariv server as the GM and founder of Technicolor Israel, in addition he held positions of Head of R&D at Jungo, managing software deployed in more than 70 millions home.He was also an R&D and product executive in Cisco and Radcom. Yariv holds a Bsc. in computer science from Tel-...

Jun 16, 202220 min

Ep831: Tzahi Weisfeld | Vice President - Intel Ignite: Intel for Startups, Intel Corporation

This is a seasoned executive, serial entrepreneur, Intel Vice President, and General manager of Ignite. His career span of 25 years in tech consumer and enterprise markets. President of ASN (Accelerating Startup Nations), Tzahi was one of the founders of the Microsoft Israel R&D site and a member of its management team for eight years. This was also Head of Microsoft for Startups and Founder of the Microsoft Accelerators. His responsibilities span across 110 countries and included Microsoft ...

Jun 15, 202225 min

Ep830: Lisya Bahar Manoah | Partner, Catalyst Investments

Lisya is the Senior Partner at Catalyst Funds since 2019. Lisya holds over 15 years of investment and management experience in PE and global leading corporations, in particular in the context of M&A transactions, post-merger integration and raising capital. Lisya has previously led the operational due diligence for the acquisition of Keter Group by BC Partners and managed post-acquisition integration. Prior to Keter, Lisya held management positions in one of the world's leading crop protecti...

Jun 14, 202221 min

Ep829: Eran Ben Shmuel | CEO and Co-Founder, Juganu

Eran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Juganu. Beginning his career, unconventionally, as a classical violinist, he changed direction and earned his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology. Eran has over 15 years of experience building high-tech companies from zero to mass production. Eran is an expert in solid-state electronics and high-speed control systems, and he holds numerous patents in physics and algorithms. Juganu is his second start-up ...

Jun 13, 202223 min

Ep828: Guy Melamed | Co-Founder & CEO, Exberry

Guy Melamed is the co-founder and CEO of Exberry, the exchange technology pioneer that is revolutionising the tradional capital markets and digital assets. Guy is also a Venture partner in the only Blockchain Hedge Fund in Israel (Finova Capital). Guy is experienced in developing go to market strategies, product market fit and business strategies. Guy is a seasoned expert, blend of entrepreneurial pedigree with corporate strength. He launched Exberry to reshape opportunities for all market model...

Jun 10, 202222 min

Ep827: Mati Lerner | Co-founder and CEO, Ridge

Mati Lerner is co-founder and CEO at Ridge, the world's most distributed public cloud. Mati invests and advises early-stage companies. He has an MBA from London Business School, Mati Lerner is Co-founder and CEO at Ridge, the world's most distributed public cloud. Mati invests and advises early-stage companies. He has an MBA from London Business School.

Jun 09, 202220 min

Ep826: Oren Razon | Co-founder and CEO, Superwise

Oren is the co-founder and CEO of Superwise, the leading platform for model observability. With over 15 years of experience leading the development, deployment, and scaling of ML products, Oren is an expert ML practitioner specializing in MLOps tools and practices. Previously, Oren managed machine learning activities at Intel’s ML center and operated a machine learning boutique consulting agency helping leading tech companies such as Sisense, Gong, AT&T, and others, to build their machine le...

Jun 08, 202223 min

Ep825: Eran Polack | CEO and Co-Founder, HAP Investments

As CEO and Co-Founder of HAP Investments, Eran Polack oversees a diverse portfolio of residential and commercial real estate that is renowned for its location, proximity to mass transit, and innovative construction and design. Mr. Polack is an established entrepreneur with a long history of successful real estate ventures in Eastern Europe, Israel, and the United States. Mr. Polack’s strengths are the early identification of emerging regions and the development of projects tailored for those mar...

Jun 07, 202223 min

Ep824: Sharon Alalouf | Vice President Of Business Development APAC, Cellwize

Sharon, a mother to 3 amazing boys and a spouse who’s a successful artist, fortunate with them, follow her to the other side of the world to explore the global business scene while enjoying the multicultural experience of ASIA. She is proud that she moved from her comfort zone and manage to have a triple career transformation : local to global, technology to business and customer side to vendor side. More than 20 years of divertive career, inspired by leaders that shape and highlight the importa...

Jun 05, 202222 min

Ep823: Micheal Peled | CEO and Founder, Singit

As a child diagnosed with dyslexia Michael Peled, CEO, and founder of SingIt, struggled to learn English at school. His father told him that he learned English using the Beatles and Pink Floyd songs, and that is how the idea was born, learning English through the power of music. During his military service in the Ofek unit of the Air Force, Peled and his partner, Benny Rosner, CTO, and founder, decided to turn the idea into reality. In 2020, they began developing the SingIt app and created a uni...

Jun 03, 202223 min

Ep822: Dror Glass | Co-Founder, Israel Secondary Fund

Co-founded Israel Secondary Fund (“ISF”), Investing in the Israeli secondary market since 2001 with 25 years of investment experience. Previously Managing Director at Nexus Global Partners, a global management consulting firm. Former Managing Director, Orama Investments, member of the IDB group, Senior Investment Manager Israel Corportaion and the Executive Director, the Wharton – Recanati Program at the Tel Aviv University. Served on the boards of various private and public companies, both in I...

Jun 02, 202223 min

Ep821: Sophie Wade | Founder, Flexcel Network, LLC

Sophie Wade is a work futurist, international keynote speaker, author, and authority on Future-of-Work issues. She is the host of the widely popular Transforming Work podcast and over 450,000 learners have taken her four LinkedIn courses which cover empathy, Future-of-Work skills, and Gen Z. Sophie is the Founder and Workforce Innovation Specialist at Flexcel Network, a Future-of-Work consultancy. Sophie’s executive advisory work and transformative workshops help companies adapt and update their...

May 31, 202222 min

Ep820: Oren Toledano | CEO & Co-founder, Swimm

Oren Toledano is the CEO and Co-Founder of Swimm, making Continuous Documentation an integral part of the development lifecycle. An accomplished leader in the hi-tech industry, Oren has led numerous international technological training hubs over the past ten years, including co-founding Israel Tech Challenge (ITC) in 2012 and serving as the CEO until 2019. Oren has a BA in Political Science from the Hebrew University and an MA in Security Studies from the Tel Aviv University.

May 30, 202223 min

Ep819: Didi Gurfinkel | Co-Founder and CEO, DataRails

Didi Gurfinkel is the Co-Founder and CEO of DataRails. Didi was previously the GM at Cisco and has extensive senior management experience with a focus on growth and innovation. Did holds B.Sc in economics and computer science, and an MBA. DataRails is the leading FP&A solution for Excel users. The cloud-based platform automates the process of consolidating and analyzing financial data, while allowing users to stay in Excel. Founded in 2015, DataRails is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more in...

May 29, 202223 min

Ep818: Gerald Leonard | CEO, Principles of Execution, LLC

A professional bassist, Gerald J. Leonard offers a unique approach to accomplishing more productivity in the workplace. Gerald is an international Keynote Bassist and Culture Change Expert. His programs integrate music, productivity, workplace culture and neuroscience. Gerald Leonard is the author of “Culture Is The Bass: 7 Steps to Creating High Performing Teams,” listed on Entrepreneur magazine as one of the “Top 15 Books on Business Culture That You Need to Read Today,"" and the book, ""Workp...

May 28, 202223 min

Ep817: Julie Winkle Giulioni | Author, Promotions Are So Yesterday & Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

Julie Winkle Giulioni is a champion for workplace growth and development and helps executives and leaders optimize talent and potential within their organizations. One of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 speakers, she’s the author of Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive and the co-author of the international bestseller, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want, translated into seven languages. Julie is a regular...

May 27, 202221 min

Ep816: Dan Brahmy | CEO, Cyabra

Dan Brahmy is the co-founder & CEO of Cyabra, a disinformation platform working with governments and consumer brands to uncover the 'real' online. The intentional spread of false information is now prevalent in our society. Living our lives on social media makes it easier for bad actors to spread any piece of content with damaging consequences to individuals, government entities, public figures, and brands.

May 25, 202220 min

Ep815: Asaf Toker | CEO, Matricelf

Asaf is a medical doctor and the CEO of Matricelf, an Israeli biotechnology company that regenerates the future of medicine, developing tissues and organs from the patients own bio material.

May 25, 202219 min
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