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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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Ep892: Dr. Tal Rotman | Partner, Chair of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Pearl Cohen

Dr. Tal Rotman is a Partner and Chair of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Pearl Cohen, a prominent law firm in Israel. He has extensive experience in mediating and litigating stakeholders’ disputes in startup companies. Previously, Tal was a consultant at the New York office of McKinsey and Company, taught at Tel Aviv University School of Law, and clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court. He holds a Ph.D. in law, M.A. in Psychology (summa cum laude), LL.M in Commercial law (summa cum laude), LL.B....

Aug 23, 202223 min

Ep891: Phillip Kane | CEO & Managing Partner, Grace Ocean, llc Advisors

Phillip Kane is a husband, father, and businessman. He has had a successful career in some of the world’s best-known corporations. Working for brands like Goodyear, Pirelli, and NAPA, Kane has had the privilege to lead thousands of individuals and has managed billions of dollars in value for stakeholders. Crediting his father, a Polish sales manager, and a Nigerian priest with almost every good thing he has learned about life, leadership, business and the art of storytelling, Kane proved for 30 ...

Aug 22, 202222 min

Ep890: Joe Casey | Executive Coach, PEC and Managing Partner, Retirement Wisdom

Joe Casey is the Managing Partner of Retirement Wisdom and the author of Win the Retirement Game launching on August 9th. Joe’s an executive coach who also helps people create meaningful lives after their primary careers. He works with people - who aren’t done yet – to figure out What’s Next? It’s not theoretical for Joe. He’s done this himself, becoming a coach 13 years ago after a 26-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President & Head of HR for Global Markets & Inve...

Aug 21, 202222 min

Ep889: Ronny Schwartz-Dgani | Co - Founder & CMO, Expecting

Ronny Schwartz-Dgani is the co-founder and CMO of expecting.ai - a full stack marketer with 15 years experience In marketing, brand building and CRO in enterprise and startup environments spanning across various industries such as online-marketplace, automotive, retail and more. Ronny leads brand and product strategy and seeks to combine traditional marketing concepts alongside generating a transformation in customer engagement achieved with data-driven marketing methods. Ronny has a masters deg...

Aug 19, 202223 min

Ep888: Michael Reddington | President, InQuasive, Inc.

Michael Reddington, CFI is a certified forensic interviewer and president of InQuasive, Inc., which integrates key components of effective non-confrontational interview techniques with current business research for executives. In his new book, The Disciplined Listening Method: How a Certified Forensic Interviewer Unlocks Hidden Value in Every Conversation (Per Capita Publishing, March 2021), Reddington draws on his background in forensics and his understanding of human behavior through interroga...

Aug 18, 202222 min

Ep887: Asaf Shamly | Co-founder & CEO, Browsi

I’m a results-driven Product Director with an agile approach to developing, delivering, and marketing amazing products. With a technical background and passion for cutting-edge technology, I can lead a startup company to a winning product. Direct and immediate relations with clients enabled me to conceive ideas and new products to provide better value to clients and create new and winning products and features to generate new revenue streams and a better world. Fields of expertise: SaaS, B2B, We...

Aug 17, 202220 min

Ep886: Alon Gilady | Co-Founder & CEO, Renovai

Alon Gilady graduated with a BA in economics and philosophy from TAU, a serial entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. During his last year at university, Alon founded a start-up company in the sports & entertainment collectibles industry. Alon signed big licensing deals with notable brands such as FC Barcelona and Man. City, NBA, WWE, and Disney, selling over 1.5M units through major retailers in Europe and the USA. In 2017 he co-founded a 3D-rendering studio creating virtual reality experiences fo...

Aug 16, 202221 min

Ep885: Matt Darrow | CEO & Co-Founder, Vivun

Matt's an enterprise software leader with experience growing businesses, building global teams, and delivering products. Before founding Vivun, he worked at Zuora, BigMachines, and Deloitte.

Aug 15, 202222 min

Ep884: Manik Suri | Founder and CEO, Therma

Manik is the Founder and CEO of Therma, a technology startup whose mission is to help protect our food, health and planet. Therma builds safety and sustainability tools to eliminate food waste, improve energy efficiency and reduce refrigerant emissions — protecting consumers and combating climate change. Therma is deployed across restaurants, retailers, distributors and manufacturers worldwide, with leading brands including Mcdonald's, Starbucks, NOW Foods, 7-Eleven and Marriott Hotels. Previous...

Aug 14, 202224 min

Ep883: Justin Hayet | COO, Bnai Zion

Justin Hayet is the COO of Bnai Zion, aiming to accelerate Israel's growth and perpetuate social impact through partnerships and meaningful projects. He is a very young leader (28) who made an aliya a year ago and currently lives in Tel Aviv. Previous to that he worked at the UN as a senior strategic consultant for Dani Danon. He used to give him tips before meetings, comments on his speeches and had a major input in building strategic plans. Justin describes those years as "the proximity of pow...

Aug 13, 202223 min

Ep882: Aran Erel | Country Manager Israel, Greece & Cyprus, F5 Networks

Aran Erel, senior high-tech leader by day, best-selling author by night. Aran Erel is the Country Manager of F5 in Israel, Greece and Cyprus and a respected author whose books have reached the top of the bestseller list. Aran published his first novel, "Foretelling Yesterday" in 2011 by Yedioth Ahronot, and last year he has published his second novel "The Human Element" by Kinneret Zmora (also known as “A Plan to Kill”). His writing work is influenced and driven by the changes and experiences in...

Aug 12, 202223 min

Ep881: Amir Zolty | Partner, Lipa Meir & Co. Advocates

Amir Zolty is a lawyer and the head of Lipa Meir & Co. Advocates ' Hightech practice. Over the last 20 years, he's been dealing with high-tech, corporate finance, privacy, and data security. Prior to that, he worked closely with the President of the Supreme Court of Israel and before that - with the Attorney General. Amir is also n 8200 (semi-techie) alumnus.

Aug 11, 202222 min

Ep880: Nina Rauch | Senior Social Impact Lead, Lemonade

At age 16, I founded a breast cancer charity in memory of my late mother - that sparked my passion for social impact, and making a dent in our universe. My campaign has since raised over $500,000 (including $48,000 in under an hour), and spread nationwide. In 2018, I joined insuretech Lemonade to lead Social Impact and ESG. I have distributed over $4M in donations to our 100 partners organizations and our impact has grown 4,232% higher. I was named one of the 100 women to watch by Barclays, and ...

Aug 10, 202221 min

Ep879: Joshua Broggi | Founder and CEO, Woolf

Dr. Joshua Broggi is the founder and CEO of Woolf, a platform that makes it possible for companies and academic groups to launch branded degree programs with the same accreditation as major universities – in weeks, not years. He was previously a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford and a member of the governing Congregation of the University. He also held a Humboldt Fellowship, during which he worked the role of modern universities in support human progress.

Aug 09, 202223 min

Ep878: Inbal Glantser | Co-Founder and CEO, Homaze.com

Inbal is a graduate of the programing course in Mamram and 8200 alumni as an officer. She had 20 years in tech executive positions in local and global companies before deciding to be an entrepreneur. Inbal is a mother of 3 teenage boys. Homaze is a unicorn from the beginning; it's so rare to find a construction-tech company founded by women only.

Aug 07, 202222 min

Ep877: Oshik Efrati | CEO, HomeBiogas

Oshik Efrati is the CEO, Co-Founder and Board Member at HomeBiogas. Oshik graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Sciences, specializing in water treatment. Oshik led the product development team at Shoresh, Israel’s largest tactical gear manufacturer and exporter, where he launched an innovative product, sold on a global scale. His next entrepreneurial endeavor was founding HomeBiogas together with his co-founders Yair Teller and Erez Lanzer in 2012.

Aug 06, 202222 min

Ep876: Malcolm Hawker | Head of Data Strategy, Profisee

Malcolm is a thought leader in the field of Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Governance and has consulted to some of the largest businesses in the world on their enterprise information management strategies. He is a frequent public speaker on data and analytics best practices and cherishes the opportunity to share practical and actionable insights on how companies can achieve their strategic imperatives by improving their approach to data management.

Aug 05, 202221 min

Ep875: Drew Glover | Co-Founder, Fiat Growth + Fiat Ventures

Drew is a Founding Partner of Fiat Growth and General Partner at Fiat Ventures. He is no stranger to the world of growth, technology, and marketing. From his time at Steady where he led marketplace development and growth to Namely, Fjord, and Portal A, he navigated the ins and outs of Go-to-Market strategies and user acquisition.

Aug 04, 202223 min

Ep874: Nihal Advani | Founder & CEO, QualSights

Nihal Advani is a product and marketing expert and the founder and CEO of QualSights. Nihal combined his entrepreneurial spirit and interest in seeing/understanding the world by launching QualSights – an immersive consumer insights platform that helps companies understand human behavior authentically and efficiently at global scale.

Aug 03, 202224 min

Ep873: Orr Hameiri | Global Tech Innovation Director, Procter & Gamble

As Global Tech Innovation Director @ Procter & Gamble, Orr’s key goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for P&G by partnering with top entrepreneurs, VCs, and researchers worldwide, in order to incorporate their disruptive technologies within P&G Global Business Units. His broad span of interests includes Cybersecurity, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Infrastructure, industry 4.0, Sustainability and more. A former accountant, Orr serves on the boards of startups and n...

Aug 02, 202230 min

Ep872: Sapir Hadad | Co-Founder & CEO, FinityX

Sapir Hadad was born and raised in Ashkelon, and is currently living in Tel-Aviv. She is the Co-Founder & CEO of FinityX, a deep tech startup developing AI solutions for investment professionals. Finityx helps investors implement AI tools as part of their investment process to save time and resources and improve quality.

Aug 01, 202221 min

Ep871: Jay Jubas | Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Jay Jubas is a Senior Partner at McKinsey. Jay is a leader in McKinsey’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice, and global leader of Fuel by McKinsey, which serves the start-up and scale-up ecosystem. He is also a leader of McKinsey Israel TechHub, which provides services to startups, scale-ups, and VCs in multiple tech sectors in Israel. During the last year, Jay did Aliyah due to the huge potential McKinsey has recognized in the Israeli tech ecosystem. Jay holds a BS with highest...

Aug 01, 202223 min

Ep870: Slava Bronfman | CEO, Cybellum

Slava is an experienced cybersecurity leader and entrepreneur. As CEO of Cybellum he is responsible for the business, sales, and marketing operations, working with manufacturers and asset owners worldwide on implementing risk assessment solutions. As part of founding Cybellum’s development of a novel Product Security technology, Slava is the official representative of the Standards Institution of Israel in the ISO 21434 standard technical committee, leading ISO21434 Use-Case TF. He’s also a memb...

Jul 31, 202219 min

Ep869: Miri Berger | CEO and Co-Founder, 6Degrees

Founder and CEO, Miri Berger, is an industrial designer by training completed a master's degree from the Pratt Institute and a B.F.A in Ceramic Design from the Bezalel Academy of Arts. She holds patents for her work in design and has over 15 years of experience in a wide variety of projects in the fields of toys, furniture, electronics, and soft goods. Miri specializes in designing products that consider unconventional needs, materials, and uses.

Jul 30, 202222 min

Ep868: Aliza Knox | Bestselling Author, Speaker, Tech Exec, Non Exec Director, Sr Advisor, BCG

Aliza built and led APAC businesses for Google, Twitter and Cloudflare. Prior to that, she was in banking and consulting. She is now a senior advisor for BCG, a Forbes columnist, a Non Executive Director on both public and private boards, and an Angel Investor. Once called a ”Kick Ass Woman Slaying the World of Tech”, Aliza is the author of Don't Quit Your Day Job, outlining 6 mindshifts you need to rise & thrive at work as part of her commitment to empowering the next generation of leaders....

Jul 29, 202222 min

Ep867: Yoav Shoham | Co-Founder, AI21 Labs

Yoav Shoham is professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University. A leading AI expert, Prof. Shoham is Fellow of AAAI, ACM and the Game Theory Society. Among his awards are the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award, and the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. His online Game Theory course has been watched by close to a million people. Prof. Shoham has founded several AI companies, including TradingDynamics (acquired by Ariba), Katango and Timeful (b...

Jul 28, 202241 min

Ep866: May Piamenta | Co-Founder & CEO, Vee

22-year-old May Piamenta, co-founder and CEO of Vee founded Vee together with her two partners Gil and Avi to make social impact easier than ever. Since her teenage years, May has been passionate about volunteerism. Before founding Vee in 2019, she led a global non- profit team, where she managed 10 million volunteers in over 32 countries. All the work was done manually, and she found existing technological solutions to be enterprise-oriented and difficult to use. So, May decided to act.

Jul 27, 202222 min

Ep864: Israel Krush | CEO & Co-Founder, Hyro

Israel founded Hyro in 2018 with the goal of simplifying digital interactions for patients by enabling providers and payers to deploy conversational AI interfaces at scale. Since then, he has raised over $15 million towards bringing that vision to life, building a team of 56 people in New York, California and Tel Aviv who serve dozens of leading healthcare networks including Weill Cornell Medicine, Mercy Health and Novant Health. Before building Hyro, Israel accumulated over 15 years of experien...

Jul 25, 202225 min
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