Donald Thompson is CEO of The Diversity Movement, a results-oriented, data-driven strategic firm offering clients a productized DEI journey built on digital learning tools, expertly-curated content, conversational AI, and analytics. The company was recently named to Inc. Magazine’s 2021 Best in Business List in DE&I Advocacy. In addition, Donald serves as a board member for several organizations in marketing, healthcare, banking, technology, and sports. Donald is an entrepreneur, public spea...
Dec 30, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 983
Elie Sprung is a partner at Arnon, Tadmor-Levy law offices, with a special expertise in the field of Hi-Tech and Venture Capital. Elie’s clients include hi-tech companies and entrepreneurs as well as venture capital funds, incubators and accelerators in a wide array of industries. Elie has extensive experience in representing his clients in financings, exit transactions, intellectual property and commercial transactions and agreements as well as assisting in the day to day operations of a compan...
Dec 26, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 982
Dr. Tamir Wolf is CEO and Co-Founder of Theator. After graduating medical school at the Technion, Tamir served as a physician in the IDF’s Flotilla 13 (the equivalent of SEAL Team 6). During his tenure in naval special ops, Tamir was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service for treatment of wounded under fire. Transitioning to civilian life, Tamir found his passion for the industry side of healthcare and worked in various leadership positions in startups and as a VC. He co-founded Theator afte...
Dec 24, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 981
Yotam is the co-founder and CEO of Mona, a startup developing an intelligent monitoring platform for AI and automations in a variety of industries. Over a 15+ year career as a technology executive, Yotam gained extensive experience bringing data-driven products into the enterprise software market. Prior to Mona, he was a growth and product executive at ADP, and an associate partner at McKinsey & Co. Yotam holds a B.Sc (Cum Laude) in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel, and ...
Dec 20, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 980
Eldad Posten-Korn, 37, is the founder and CEO of Winn.AI, a startup that builds an artificial intelligence-based personal assistant for salespeople. The company has been operating for less than a year, raised $17 million as an initial investment, and has 25 employees. The idea behind Winn.AI came after leading sales at DreaMed Diabetes, where he started as a salesman himself. In the past, he also worked at the venture capital fund Ourcrowd as responsible for the business development of the portf...
Dec 19, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 979
Phenix Jed Corenthal is CMO at Phenix, a company that focuses on broadcasting real-time video streaming for sporting, gaming, and other entertainment events. As the CMO at Phenix, Jed is in charge of overseeing all Marketing and Business Development efforts to ensure that companies in sports and entertainment to grow their audiences. Phenix has perfected a unique real-time streaming technology infrastructure that provides content to broadcast-sized audiences with a latency of less than half a se...
Dec 19, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 978
Jon Rathauser is the Chief Egg Officer & Co-Founder at Eggmented Reality, a Co-Chair of the Nevo Alumni organization and advocate of combining social impact with business models that sustain and scale.
Dec 18, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 977
Daniel Vukelich is President & CEO of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors. AMDR represents the interests of member companies that reprocess “single-use” medical devices in accordance with federal law, for use at hospitals, acute surgical care centers, and physician’s offices. The industry has doubled in size yearly, on average for 20 years – all under Dan’s leadership. In 2020, the reprocessing industry saved providers over $442 million in device acquisition costs and an additiona...
Dec 17, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 976
Gordon Allott is the president and CEO of BroadPeak Partners, the developer of the K3. K3 is software that takes data from anywhere, allows users to transform, filter, and unify through an intuitive UI, and send it to anywhere. Before founding BroadPeak Gordon was a consultant and attorney in the financial sector. This included advising a wide variety of bulge bracket banks and hedge funds on derivatives trading. Gordon led the energy trading and risk group for Sapient delivering trading project...
Dec 16, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 975
Yoni Shohet is a seasoned entrepreneur, with a successful track record in the Israeli cybersecurity landscape. Yoni received his BSc in Mathematics at the age of 19, and completed his service in the Israel Defense Forces as a cybersecurity team leader and project manager at one of Israel’s most esteemed military intelligence units. Valence is the second cybersecurity startup Yoni has founded, following his time as CEO and co-founder of SCADAfence, a pioneer in industrial IoT cybersecurity....
Dec 15, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 973
Guy Bejerano is co-founder and CEO of SafeBreach, a pioneer in the continuous security validation category. Prior to SafeBreach, Guy was CSO of LivePerson, leading the security of one of the world's largest cloud platforms and providing security for more than 1 billion web visits across the internet each month. Guy has more than 24 years of expertise in operational, application, and network security, specializing in building security programs for global companies and cloud services, including th...
Dec 14, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 973
Kevin Tate helps Clearbit reach B2B companies that are trying to better understand their customers and optimize their digital funnel. He has over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and product, and deep expertise in enterprise SaaS, eCommerce, digital marketing, social media, and IoT. Prior to joining Clearbit, Kevin held executive roles at SurveyMonkey, Chirpify, and ShopIgniter.
Dec 14, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 972
Nicole Tj is the Co-Founder and CEO of Travis, a travel app that turns dream vacations into a reality while leading the charge on empowering micro-influencers who are changing how we discover, plan and book vacations. Before co-founding Travis, Nicole was a influencer who experienced the struggle and success of building your brand through partnerships and affiliate programs. She later worked in strategy and innovation consulting at Deliotte. Nicole uses her knowledge in technology and her first-...
Dec 12, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 971
Yuval is a product manager and entrepreneur with a passion for solving people’s pains through value-driven products. Yuval co-founded Analyzd, a fraud-protection company, which in 2011 was acquired by Klarna. Yuval joined Klarna and there he built the Klarna Tel-Aviv R&D center, founded the product group as Chief Product Officer (CPO) and finally acted as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). After 5 years at Klarna and 3 in Sweden, he moved back to Israel to build Impact Technology products for I...
Dec 11, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 970
CEO & Founder Erik Huberman launched Hawke Media in 2014. Now valued at over $100 million, Hawke Media is the fastest growing marketing consultancy agency in the United States. Prior to its launch, Erik successfully founded, grew, and sold two e-commerce companies by the age of 26. Erik has since continued to strategically expand his business portfolio inclusive of a handful of company acquisitions—Hawke Ventures, which raised $25M in its second fund, and most recently HawkeZ, an agency offe...
Dec 10, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 969
Dr. Dan is the CEO of CloseForChiro. a provocative and edgy business consulting company from an unlikely industry: chiropractic. He is an author, speaker, and thought leader on the subjects of sales and marketing in the modern world and has changed the antiquated notions most have about the subject. He has tackled the difficult dilemma that many business owners struggle with when it comes to serving humanity versus scaling a business. Although he serves the chiropractic industry exclusively, his...
Dec 09, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 968
Fun fact: "I am a painter." Bio: Amit Sinha is the co-founder of Unnati, a new-age fintech powered Agritech platform. In his present capacity, Amit is responsible for overseeing all operations in Unnati. Amit comes with a rich academic background. Having completed his bachelor’s degree in mining engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), he went on to pursue his MBA in PGDM and marketing from the Indian Institute of Management. Throughout the course of his prolific career, Amit h...
Dec 08, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 967
Jacob Shwirtz is a veteran executive of the creator economy, having worked with the top talent across every platform for over 20 years. He's held leadership roles at Viacom, WeWork and Endemol. Jacob now helps Lightricks connect with creators in meaningful ways, overseeing a team of talent managers. His favorite foods include buffalo wings, soup, and cappuccinos.
Dec 08, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 966
Today Eitan is the CEO at Road2 - a center how builds start-ups through networking, funding, and technology. also he serves as a co-president of the investment fund Friendly Angels Club. Lawyer Eitan Kate has been engaged for over 15 years. he took part in the team of the Ofer brothers and was a partner in the firm Amit Polk Matlon. Later, Eitan was involved in several senior positions in the leading med-tech companies in Israel, including Lumenis, Biosens-Webster - a subsidiary of Johnson &...
Dec 07, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 965
Today Eitan is the CEO at Road2 - a center how builds start-ups through networking, funding, and technology. also he serves as a co-president of the investment fund Friendly Angels Club. Lawyer Eitan Kate has been engaged for over 15 years. he took part in the team of the Ofer brothers and was a partner in the firm Amit Polk Matlon. Later, Eitan was involved in several senior positions in the leading med-tech companies in Israel, including Lumenis, Biosens-Webster - a subsidiary of Johnson &...
Dec 05, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 964
Growing up in the '80s and with over twenty years of leadership experience in corporate marketing, Chris Clews knew three things very well – '80s pop culture, business and this crazy thing we call life. One day, in his mid 40s, he was on his couch having a self pity party of one over a job that just wasn’t working out for him. Flipping channels he stopped on the classic 1983 movie The Outsiders and literally jumped off his couch when he heard Johnny Cade say, “You still have a lot of time to mak...
Dec 05, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 963
Larisa leads Merck KGaA's Healthcare R&D Center in Israel. She also serves on the Merck Global Healthcare Drug Discovery Technology Leadership Team and is a member of the "Women in Leadership" program. At Merck Larisa has managed global projects and teams across geographies and cultures. Larisa has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, having worked for large corporations, small-to-medium businesses, and startups, and she is well-versed in process development, analytics, manuf...
Dec 02, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 962
Steven R. Gerbsman is a nationally recognized Crisis/Turnaround CEO/Restructuring Professional and Private Investment Banker who has been involved in maximizing enterprise value, stakeholder and shareholder value in a broad variety of industries. He has worked with a wide spectrum of senior and junior lenders, bondholder groups, venture capital and private equity sources, private investors and institutional groups. He has acted in the capacity of Crisis/Turnaround CEO, Chief Restructuring Office...
Nov 30, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 961
Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa...
Nov 30, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 960
John Nieuwenburg has been a business coach since 2004. He has helped over 320 small business owners increase profit, remove the stress and chaos from their businesses and get their lives back. Before becoming a business coach, John was president of BC Liquor Stores which currently does over 3 billion dollars in sales annually with a headcount of 4,000 people. In 2019, MacKay CEO Forums awarded John with Canada's CEO Trusted Advisor Award in the Small Business category.
Nov 29, 2022•19 min
Dr. Helen Gu, Ph.D. has made it her life’s work to create unsupervised machine learning to detect anomalies in data in valuable ways. Based on more than 15 years of Helen’s academic research and findings, Helen created InsightFinder, a tool that can help predict and prevent IT incidents based on algorithms that can determine an anomaly score and predict the future impact on a company’s infrastructure. The platform also diagnoses the root cause of each system issue and provides automated self-hea...
Nov 28, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 958
A passionate and empathetic leader, Madhav Nair is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at ZoomInfo, a leading go-to-market intelligence platform designed to drive a brand’s sales, marketing, and recruiting initiatives seamlessly and profitably. In his role, Madhav is responsible for leading engineering for all applications and data services, development, quality, and delivery of ZoomInfo’s software products.
Nov 28, 2022•22 min
Dr. Yishai Mishor is MTE's founder. Prior to MTE, Yishai was founder and CEO of Ein Hamishpat, a legal-tech start-up. His 20-year career spans law, business, academia and politics, including serving as Chief of Staff to the President of Israel. Yishai holds a PhD in Law from the University of Oxford and was a professor at Oxford.
Nov 25, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 956
Ariel Geifman is a co-founder and CRO of Dealtaele, the Revenue Science company. Ariel was the CEO of Dealtale from founding until the acquisition by Vianai at the beginning of 2022. Ariel is an avid eneprenour and an expert in tech go to market.
Nov 24, 2022•21 min
Ryan Larson is the founder and CEO of Scottsdale-based FirstLine Financial, LLC. His job as a firefighter gave him a sense of purpose and a lifelong desire to make the world safer. In his new business book, Ladder to Leader: My Journey from Failure to Fire to Financial Freedom (Calling Card Books, May 2022), Ryan describes his journey from a troubled youth to a successful founder and CEO, and the life and business lessons he learned along the way. Ryan's mom pushed him to join the Fire Departmen...
Nov 23, 2022•22 min
