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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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Ep922: Amit Shaked | CEO & Co-founder, Laminar

Amit is the CEO and co-founder of Laminar. Shaked served in Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces, an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit focused on signal intelligence and code decryption, before co-founding Laminar. Shaked earned a master's degree in artificial intelligence and deep learning during his time in the military. After Unit 8200, Amit led deep learning, AI, and augmented reality teams for the unicorn Magic Leap. Amit holds a Master of Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.

Sep 23, 202221 min

Ep921: Urvashi Bhatnagar | Healthcare Executive and Author "The Sustainability Scorecard"

Urvashi Bhatnagar, DPT, MBA is a healthcare executive whose career spans clinical care, research, advocacy and strategy and operations consulting for leading healthcare organizations. As a mission-driven population-health and sustainability expert, she has over a decade of healthcare leadership experience working with clients to advance health outcomes in underserved communities leveraging advanced analytics and strategy—to address barriers to care, advance health equity, and improve access to l...

Sep 22, 202223 min

Ep920: Brijesh Damodaran | Managing Partner, Auxano Entrepreneur Trust

Brijesh Damodaran is the co-founder & Chief Investment Officer of Auxano, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in growth-stage businesses across industries. A strategic thinker and a purpose-driven individual, Brijesh completed Chartered Accountancy & graduated from the University of Mumbai. Soon after acquiring his educational intent, Brijesh embarked on his professional journey in the corporate world, working in the Oil & Gas space, telecom, and Mortgage Guaranty space,...

Sep 21, 202220 min

Ep919: Oladosu Teyibo | Co-founder and CEO, Analog Teams

Following Oladosu's studies in information systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Oladosu went on to develop the tech hardware company Teyibo Tech. He empowers fellow entrepreneurs through angel investing, an act that has connected him with Black-owned businesses such as Froetry and the Urban Planning Growth and Sustainability Initiative (UPGS). He believes that consistency and excellent delivery are the marks of greatness, a philosophy he applies to his vision for Analog...

Sep 20, 202222 min

Ep918: Jason LaBaw | CEO, Bonsai Media Group

Jason is the Founder of Social Bee an augmented reality "meta" company focused on enhancing in-person experiences for brands and travel. Also CEO of Bonsai Media a 13yr old digital agency.

Sep 19, 202218 min

Ep917: Taranjeet Singh Bhamra | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AGNEXT

Taranjeet Singh Bhamra is the CEO and Founder of AgNext Technologies, a global award-winning venture-capital-backed company that is solving for trust and transparency in global value chains using AI-based solutions to enable quality-based assessments. A graduate of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta, Mr. Bhamra is an accomplished professional and business leader, having worked for more than 20 years in Strategy consulting, investment banking, and high-impact entrepreneurial roles in Indian and inter...

Sep 19, 202222 min

Ep916: Daniel Green | Co-Founder and CTO, Faye

Daniel Green is Co-Founder & CTO of Faye, the #1 disruptor setting a new standard in travel insurance coverage and care. This is the second startup he has founded with Faye Co-Founder & CEO, Elad Schaffer. Both previously co-founded Wikistrat, the world’s first crowdsourced consultancy platform. There Daniel developed the company’s core technologies including a real-time collaboration platform, gamification incentification systems and its flagship data model for predicting disruptions to...

Sep 15, 202222 min

Ep915: Erez Berkner | CEO and Co-Founder, Lumigo

Erez Berkner, a developer by heart, is the CEO & co-founder of Lumigo, a modern observability platform for the modern cloud. He attended the Open University of Israel obtaining a degree in computer science and mathematics with honors. He worked at Check Point Software Technologies for more than a decade and was the director of cloud-based security products before starting Lumigo.

Sep 14, 202221 min

Ep914: Sagi Rodin | CEO and Co-Founder, Frontegg

Sagi Rodin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Frontegg. Over the last 15 years, Sagi held senior product and software development positions leading engineering and product teams and engaged with ad hoc projects of building customer-facing software applications and transforming concepts into viable products.

Sep 13, 202222 min

Ep913: Ohad Shaked | Co-Founder & CEO, ThinkUp Founder, Thinkz

Ohad is an entrepreneur, currently running ThinkUp – a digital platform to support, enhance and accelerate other founders' journeys. Ohad Also founded Thinkz – a network for IoT devices. He ran his family office for the past 15 years, building on the success of his late father at 888.com.

Sep 12, 202223 min

Ep912: Ami Moyal | President, Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering

Prof. Ami Moyal has been President of Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering since 2014. Before joining Afeka, Prof. Moyal was active in the speech processing hi-tech industry for 15 years, and held positions as VP Technology Dev., VP Business Dev. and CEO of NSC, Natural Speech Communication Ltd.

Sep 11, 202222 min

Ep911: Yotam Azriel | CTO & Co-Founder, TensorLeap

Yotam is an expert in machine and deep learning, with 10 years of experience in these fields. He’s been involved in massive military projects in the field of underground warfare and later on joined Soreq Nuclear Research Center as a key developer in machine learning projects. Following his army service, Yotam developed and led AI and Big-Data projects from research to production for a few startups and acted as a professional consultant to companies developing AI technologies. His expertise inclu...

Sep 10, 202223 min

Ep910: Keren Leshem | CEO and Board Director, OCON healthcare

Keren Leshem is currently OCON healthcare's CEO and board director. A leading women's health BioTech company with a mission to introduce innovative intrauterine drug-delivery technology for various conditions and diseases to improve and impact women's health and quality of life. Before OCON, Ms Leshem headed the Corporate Development team at the European pharma company VISUfarma. In addition, she was a board member of a BioLight (TASE: BOLT) company: ViSci (which she previously headed as CEO) an...

Sep 09, 202221 min

Ep909: Amos Arev | EVP, Engineering and General Manager, Israel, Capitolis

Amos is a highly experienced engineering executive who has been at the forefront of technology innovation for decades. Prior to joining Capitolis, he served as the Vice President of Research and Development at LawGeex, a company focusing on AI in the legal industry. With more than 20 years of expertise, he brings deep expertise in data, engineering, research and development, and technology, spearheading these efforts at leading technology and data companies such as Global-e, HexaTier, Cyren and ...

Sep 08, 202221 min

Ep908: Michal Roizman | VP Product, Blue White Robotics

Michal received her BA in Communications from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. She spent two years as a research assistant and then a research team lead at the Media Innovation Lab at IDC, researching the field of Human Robotic Interaction. Her research on Robots and Ethics led her to write a poster paper that was accepted to the international "HRI" conference. Following her degree, she was the project manager in designing the Smart Home Robot of Samsung Korea (HQ), outlining the different...

Sep 07, 202223 min

Ep907: Danny Djanogly | COO & Co-founder, Dogiz

Danny is the COO & Co-founder of Dogiz! Danny was born and raised in London before making aliyah when he was 18 and serving as a lone soldier in the IDF. Studied Govt & Politics at IDC where he adopted his dog/best friend Mufassa!

Sep 06, 202224 min

Ep906: Amir Raveh | Founder & CEO, HYPE Sports Innovation

Amir is the founder of HYPE Sports Innovation - A Global Sportstech Arena with an equity portfolio of over 250 Sports tech & WEB 3.0 Startups. HYPE provides tech solutions to 100 top sports brands like FIBA, Bundesliga, PSG, NBA, NFL team, and more. He is also the author of his book, "Acquired Charisma". Back in 2003, Amir founded MG Equity Investments House and MEDIA CALL Ltd. in London. He's married with four sons. He is also an avid soccer player!

Sep 06, 202223 min

Ep905: Yuval Magid | COO, Connecteam

Yuval Magid, Connecteam’s COO, joined Connecteam in 2018 as the company’s 8th employee. He studied a Bachelor of Arts in Multidisciplinary Studies at the University of Haifa and is a graduate of the Israeli Naval Academy. Prior to Connecteam Yuval led different business partnerships and GTM initiatives at Windward (LON: WNWD), a leading maritime analytics company, and served in various leadership roles in the Israeli Navy.

Sep 05, 202221 min

Ep904: Raviv Melamed | CEO, Vayyar Imaging

Prior to founding Vayyar, Raviv was vice-president of the Intel Architecture Group and general manager of Intel’s Worldwide Mobile Wireless Group. Raviv joined Intel in 2004 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Envara, a fabless semiconductor company based in Israel, where he served as vice president of R&D. Prior to this he held several roles in the Israel Defense Force in the field of large-scale radar and communication projects. Raviv holds a BSc. and MSc. in Electrical Engineering from Ben-...

Sep 04, 202223 min

Ep903: Roger Firestien | Senior Faculty and Associate Professor, Center for Applied Imagination

Roger L. Firestien, Ph.D. has trained more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. He is Senior Faculty and Associate Professor at the Center for Applied Imagination at SUNY Buffalo State. As president of Innovation Resources, Inc., he consults, creates training programs, runs Breakthrough Labs, and has created a series of courses for Open Sesame. He is the author of several popular books including Create In A Flash: A Leader's Recipe For Breakthrough Innovation....

Sep 03, 202222 min

Ep902: David Walsh | President & CEO, Peachtree Foods Inc.

Mr. Walsh currently serves as President & CEO for Peachtree Foods Inc. Based in Atlanta, Georgia. Peachtree Foods is the leading breakfast specialty company in the commercial foodservice and hospitality industry.

Sep 02, 202221 min

Ep901: Oleg Konovalov | Global Thought Leader and Author

Dr. Oleg Konovalov is a thought leader, author, business educator, consultant, and coach with over 25 years of experience operating businesses and consulting with Fortune 500 companies both in the UK and internationally. Konovalov is on the Thinkers50 radar, has been recognized as the #1 Global Thought Leader on Culture by Thinkers 360, and is the #1 Global Leading Coach (Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50). Having been named ‘the da Vinci of Visionary Leadership’ by many leading authorities of our t...

Sep 01, 202225 min

Ep900: Elliot Shmukler | Founder and CEO, Anomalo

Before Anomalo, Elliot was the Chief Growth Officer at Instacart, where he led the company through a massive period of change and hyper-growth. Before that, he held senior product and growth leadership roles at fast-growing companies like Wealthfront and LinkedIn. He began his career as an engineer and product manager at companies like Microsoft and eBay. Elliot is a recognized expert on data-driven product management and consumer growth strategies in Silicon Valley, with numerous talks and publ...

Aug 31, 202221 min

Ep899: Merav Bahat | Co-Founder and CEO, Dazz

Merav Bahat is the CEO and co-founder of Dazz, who has spent her career creating category-leading technology products and building high-impact teams. Previously, Merav served as GM for the cloud security global business at Microsoft, and was also Deputy CEO of Microsoft Israel R&D, overseeing more than 2,500 employees. Prior, she was Product Strategy Group Director for Microsoft's Cloud & AI Security business unit, and Chief of Products and Business Development of Flash Networks. Merav h...

Aug 30, 202220 min

Ep898: Tal Chalozin | CTO and Co-Founder, Innovid

Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, a connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hu...

Aug 29, 202224 min

Ep896: Rabea Zioud | Co-Founder & CEO, Hasoub

Rabea Zioud is an entrepreneur, lecturer, and community leader, zioud started his first business when he was 20 years old and has since been involved in the Israeli startup ecosystem. He has served as the VP for the MENA region at Voiceitt (was the Masschallenge Finalist in 2014) and co-founded Hasoub - a non-profit grassroots movement that turns out to be one of the leading organizations that promote tech and entrepreneurship in Arab society. He is currently the CEO of Hasoub.

Aug 26, 202222 min

Ep895: Iesh Dixit | Founder and CEO, Powerplay

Iesh Dixit is the CEO and Co-founder of Powerplay, an end-to-end construction management SaaS platform that aids in the simplification of communication and synergizing collaboration within project teams in the construction industry. In his capacity within the organization, he heads Powerplay’s corporate team, fostering internal and external communication, implementing the company’s vision, and evaluating the organization’s short and long-term goals. Overall, Iesh supervises the smooth functionin...

Aug 25, 202221 min

Ep893: Yoni Sherizen | Co-Founder, GABRIEL

Yoni Sherizen founded Gabriel after witnessing the hampered response to a terror attack in Tel Aviv and, a few days later, the (then) largest mass shooting in the USA. In turn, Yoni recruited a team of leading technologists and security experts to reimagine how we prepare for and respond to critical incidents. Mass shootings have been their initial focus, and Gabriel has deployed in soft target settings such as schools, houses of worship, care facilities and office buildings. In April 2022, Gabr...

Aug 23, 202223 min
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