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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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Ep862: Yariv Geller | CEO and co-founder, vHive

Yariv Geller, CEO and co-founder of vHive brings years of expertise in developing markets for innovative products, technology strategy and execution. Geller was previously CMO of Comverse (NASDAQ: CNSI), a large IT corporation for the telecom industry. Before that, Geller managed marketing and business development of Polychromix (acquired by Thermo-Fischer Scientific), a technology startup in the domain of advanced material sensing. Before that, he was a Team-Leader at POC Consulting, managing s...

Jul 22, 202223 min

Ep861: Colin Tai | CEO, Alcove

Colin Tai is the co-founder and CEO of Alcove, a platform that enables shared living in any rental propert. The platform invites people in search of their new home and community to find rooms to rent and allows for homeowners to list available bedrooms in their homes.

Jul 20, 202222 min

Ep860: Doron Frenkel | CEO, Driivz

Doron is an experienced entrepreneur with over 25 years’ international management experience in the EV charging, telecommunications and fleet industries. Prior to Driivz, Doron was co-founder and CEO of We!Secure and before that he held the position of GM of Israeli operations at Sphera. As a Director at Amdocs (NYSE:DOX), Doron led business relationships worth hundreds of millions of dollars with top customers such as Nextel and T-Mobile.

Jul 17, 202222 min

Ep859: Liran Hason | Co-Founder and CEO, Aporia

Liran Hason is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aporia, a full-stack ML observability platform used by Fortune 500 companies and data science teams across the world to ensure responsible AI. Prior to founding Aporia, Liran was an ML Architect at Microsoft-acquired Adallom, and later an investor at Vertex Ventures. Liran created Aporia after seeing first-hand the effects of AI without guardrails.

Jul 16, 202222 min

Ep858: David York | Attorney, CPA, Author and Speaker

David R. York is an Attorney and CPA who practices law in the area of estate planning, with extensive experience in designing advanced strategies for high-net-worth clients. David has spoken to hundreds of public groups and professional organizations, including the TedXSaltLakeCity, Q Commons, the Hawaii Tax Institute, the Purposeful Planning Institute, Investments and Wealth Institute, Valmark Member Summit, Southeastern Family Office Forum, and the Million Dollar Roundtable. David has also wri...

Jul 15, 202220 min

Ep857: Aaron Bours | VP Marketing, Hyro

Aaron is the VP Marketing at Hyro, where he has helped lead the company from pre-seed to Series A since 2019. He has over 7 years of business development, marketing and product experience, mainly within emerging technologies such as conversational AI. Prior to Hyro, Aaron helped develop and launch Duplex at Google which broke boundaries in the natural language space, and started his career at CheckPoint, helping to grow enterprise mobile security. Aaron completed a BA in Business Administration ...

Jul 14, 202222 min

Ep856: Daniel Kligler | Senior Partner, Kligler & Associates Patent Attorneys

Daniel is the senior partner at Kligler & Associates Patent Attorneys. He has a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and before becoming a patent attorney he was a founder, inventor, and manager in two high-tech startups. He has a law degree and is licensed as a patent attorney in both Israel and the US. Since the founding of Kligler & Associates in 2008, clients of the firm have been acquired for a cumulative total of more than $20 billion. The firm specializes ...

Jul 13, 202221 min

Ep855: Eliron Ekstein | Co-Founder & CEO, Ravin.ai

Eliron has dedicated his work in the past 10 years to digitizing the automotive and transportation sectors. Before founding Ravin, Eliron was Head of New Business Development at Shell’s Digital Ventures unit in London, investing and incubating new businesses that could leverage Shell’s global footprint of retail locations for the benefit of fleets, motorists, and smart cities. Prior to that, Eliron served as the CEO of FarePilot.com, a startup using machine learning to help taxi and Uber drivers...

Jul 12, 202221 min

Ep854: Eynat Guez | CEO, Papaya Global

Eynat is the CEO of Papaya Global. An entrepreneur with 15 years of experience, she is a leading expert in global payroll and global workforce management. She co-founded Papaya after seeing the technology gap in global payroll. The company combines her twin passions – technology and global HR – to start a revolution in global payroll management. Papaya’s innovative software provides a total workforce solution, allowing companies to manage all of their global people, payroll, and payments operati...

Jul 11, 202220 min

Ep853: Ran Ilany | Co-Founder, CEO, Portshift (Cisco company)

Ran Ilany is Head of Emerging Technologies & Innovation (ET&I) at Cisco Israel. Ran is also Co-Founder of Portshift.io acquired by Cisco a pioneer in the Cloud Native Security market. Prior to Portshift, Ran held executive leadership position w/Check Point software technologies leading network security appliances business line. Earlier, Ran co-founded BladeFusion the first industry standard for Multi Bladed Security appliance for enterprise and prior to that he managed an Engineering tea...

Jul 10, 202222 min

Ep852: Henrik Johansson | CEO, Gembah

Henrik Johansson is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded and built the product company Boundless into a $100M company. Currently he is the co-founder and CEO of Gembah, a product development platform and marketplace, and the Executive Producer of Final Product, a reality TV show incubated at Gembah. He was previously a co-founder and board member of OutboundEngine, and before that the president of EverydayWealth, and co-founder and president of Creditland. Johansson specializes in technology-ena...

Jul 09, 202222 min

Ep851: Kison Patel | Founder and CEO, M&A Science

Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of M&A Science, with a passion to drive the M&A industry forward. He was an M&A advisor for ten years in which he sold larger companies such as commercial banks and hotel chains. In 2012, he noticed teams lacked efficient technology to manage deals and created DealRoom, an M&A lifecycle management platform. In 2016, he started the M&A Science podcast devoting his time to creating a platform where all the best practitioners could share their ...

Jul 08, 202223 min

Ep850: Shauli Rozen | CEO & Co-Founder, ARMO

Shauli has over 15 years of technology, B2B management, and business development experience, with a B.Sc. Major in Communication Systems Engineering and MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, securing cloud-native frameworks, and my amazing founding team. His primary interests are building products, businesses, and teams - the latest is the fantastic ARMO. Army brings promise to cloud-native environments – embedding visibility & se...

Jul 07, 202223 min

Ep849: Ofir Dubovi | Co Founder, OpenValley Israel

An active technology investor in Israel, Ofir is a CEO, founder, board member, and was previously a corporate manager. He served as C level in several startups, until mid-2015 when he turned his vision to expand the Startup Nation boundaries into his full-time job by founding OpenValley- a chain of Innovation centers in the northern part of Israel with over 150 Startups. OpenValley also established an Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation which support various organizations, corporates, NGO...

Jul 06, 202226 min

Ep848: Dr. Arin N. Reeves | President and Managing Director, Nextions LLC

As a researcher, author, and leading advisor to many of America's top executives, Dr. Arin N. Reeves offers expertise and insights on a wide range of leadership and workplace culture topics. For over 20 years, corporate leaders have turned to Arin to consult on their most formidable challenges, both in the workplace and the court of public opinion. Arin is a best-selling author of three books: The Next IQ, One Size Never Fits All, and Smarter Than A Lie. Her latest book, In Charge: The Energy Ma...

Jul 05, 202222 min

Ep847: Dvir Milo | GM IL & CTO, Home365 Property Management

Dvir started his career in corporates like Partner and Comverse. Dvir was the co-founder and CTO for Eventim Israel the 2nd largest ticketing platform and company in the world selling 300 million tickets a year. In the last 5 years at Eventim he was the VP ML product for the entire group, building complex products based on Big data and ML and leading as CTO the first ever offshore R&D center for Eventim. For the last 2 years I've been the CTO for home365 growing from 4 developers to 40 emp. ...

Jul 04, 202224 min

Ep845: Arona Maskil | CEO, TrainingCQ

Arona is a cross-cultural business consultant, trainer, mentor, and coach with extensive experience in working with global companies. American by birth, Israeli by choice, and Finnish at heart, Arona is a fan of building bridges and not enthusiastic about walls. With her team at TrainingCQ she helps close the gap between cultures so people can work together more efficiently.

Jul 01, 202223 min

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
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