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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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Ep995: Bobby Pinero | CEO and co-founder, Equals

Bobby is the CEO of Equals, a next generation spreadsheet with live connections to any database, versioning, and collaboration. He previously ran Finance and Analytics at Intercom.

Jan 13, 202322 minSeason 1Ep. 995

Ep994: Joe Natoli | Founder, LOOFT Inc.

Joe Natoli has had many titles throughout his career: actor, game designer, educator, full-stack developer and entrepreneur. His passion for delighting people through technology led him to found LOOFT, the world’s first world’s first cooling and heating comfort service company while working at a venture builder in Leipzig, Germany. Joe brings knowledge of international startups, Silicon Valley and more, having worked with billionaire investor Tim Draper, Draper University, teaching entrepreneurs...

Jan 12, 202322 minSeason 1Ep. 994

Ep993: Wilko Visser | Founder and CEO, ValueBlue

Wilko Visser is the CEO at ValueBlue, a company behind the SaaS platform BlueDolphin: an Enterprise Architecture tool for Agile Business Transformation. Prior to starting the company in 2011, Wilko spent time as a senior executive across both self-started organizations and private corporations with thousands of employees. A strong believer in the promises of digital transformation, Wilko is excited about the innovation BlueDolphin is enabling for organizations across the globe.

Jan 11, 202321 minSeason 1Ep. 993

Ep992: Bracha Halaf | Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Gravity Climate-Fund & Venture Studio

Dr Bracha Halaf is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Gravity Climate-Fund & Venture Studio. An investor with deep scientific, engineering, and regulatory background. Bracha was the Chief Scientist of Israel’s Ministry of Energy and the public representative at Israel’s Public Utility Authority. Bracha also served in the recent years as a Principal at Qure Ventures, a digital Health VC. Bracha Holds Ph.D in Biophysics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and M.Sc. & B.Sc. in Chem...

Jan 10, 202324 minSeason 1Ep. 992

Ep991: Tyler Bryden | Co-Founder, Speak Ai

Tyler Bryden is an experienced business owner, marketer, and product leader passionate about improving human-computer interaction to unlock personal and professional growth. He currently leads Speak Ai, a technology company supported by Techstars that uses speech-to-text and natural language processing to automatically extract valuable insights from audio, video, and text. 7,000+ researchers, marketers, and data professionals use Speak Ai's intuitive platform to capture and analyze language data...

Jan 09, 202335 minSeason 1Ep. 991

Ep990: Roee Shibolet | Head of Israel R&D Center, Intuitive Israel

Roee is Head of the Israel R&D center for intuitive Surgical, a US Robotic Surgery company that revolutionised minimal invasive surgery with the DaVinci robot. Roee has more than 20 years of technology experience in the medical domain. Roee has led software, data and algorithm groups in areas including automatic inspection, artificial inteligence and digital solutions. Introducing products from POC to FDA approval. His current group is part of Intuitive's digital organization and is devloppi...

Jan 08, 202321 minSeason 1Ep. 990

Ep989: Ziv Elul | CEO, Periapt

Ziv Elul hes a Entrepreneur, CEO and founder. The digital advertising company 'Ineractive' which he founded together with Ofer Yehudai was sold in the first round for 86 million dollars to the German Faber company. Elol served as CEO for 12 years of the company. In 2021, Fyber was sold in a deal worth 650 million dollars and in the same year Elul established a new startup called Periapt. He is an avid investor and board member of several start-up companies. Lt. Col. in res. Holds a master's degr...

Jan 07, 202321 minSeason 1Ep. 989

Ep988: Amit Kumar Agarwal | Founder & CEO, NoBroker.com

Amit Kumar Agarwal is the CEO and Co-founder of NoBroker.com , India's first proptech unicorn. He defines and guides the overall vision at NoBroker and spearheads the company’s business strategies. Amit, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and IIM, Ahmedabad, was a banking and finance veteran for over 13 years prior to starting his entrepreneurial journey. Amit has been revolutionizing the house-hunting experience for home seekers across India and is making the discovery pr...

Jan 06, 202321 minSeason 1Ep. 988

Ep987: Ilit Raz | CEO and Founder, Joonko

Ilit Raz is the CEO and founder of Joonko, the ultimate automated diversity recruiting software solution. She comes with over 18 years of experience working in various product management and team management roles in tech startups and 7 years in the highly regarded IDF intelligence unit 8200, with vast experience in NLP. She holds a Computer Science degree (Bsc.) and an Executive MBA. As a working woman in tech, usually being the only woman in the room, she experienced bias firsthand and began he...

Jan 06, 202321 minSeason 1Ep. 987

Ep986: Art Harrison | Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer, Daylight

Art Harrison is co-founder and chief growth officer at Daylight. With more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Art started his career as an entrepreneur, building some of the first generation social networking dating sites with over 2,000,000 registered users. He is a dynamic and passionate speaker.

Jan 05, 202321 minSeason 1Ep. 986

Ep985: Shaara Roman | Founder & CEO, The Silverene Group

Shaara Roman is author of “The Conscious Workplace” and founder and CEO of The Silverene Group, a culture consulting firm that is on a mission to help build better, more inclusive workplaces. Previously, Shaara held leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies. Born in India, schooled in Nigeria and England, and having lived in Greece before coming to the US, Shaara uses her global experience as the foundation for crafting strategies to improve culture, workforce quality, and operations across ...

Jan 04, 202322 minSeason 1Ep. 985

Ep984: Yehiel Atias | Co-Founder & CEO, Hexa

Yehiel Atias is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hexa, an immersive 3D tech stack that enables content creation, management, distribution, and analysis, and the chairmain of the retail tech public council at the Israeli Export Institute. Atias’ professional experience started at the young age of 21 and spans having founded two other companies to working alongside C-suite executives of retail giants like H&M, Alibaba, Walmart, Amazon,and IKEA. His strong belief in prioritizing people is palpable wit...

Jan 03, 202321 minSeason 1Ep. 984

Ep983: Donald Thompson | CEO, The Diversity Movement

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 983

Ep982: Elie Sprung | Hi-Tech and VC Partner, Arnon, Tadmor-Levy

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 982

Ep981: Tamir Wolf | CEO and Co-Founder, Theator

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, 202220 minSeason 1Ep. 981

Ep980: Yotam Oren | Co-founder and CEO, Mona Labs

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 980

Ep979: Eldad Postan-Koren | Co-founder and CEO, Winn.ai

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, 202223 minSeason 1Ep. 979

Ep978: Jed Corenthal | Chief Marketing Officer, Phenix

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 978

Ep976: Daniel Vukelich | President, Association of Medical Device Reprocessors

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, 202222 minSeason 1Ep. 976

Ep975: Gordon Allott | President and CEO, BroadPeak Partners

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, 202222 minSeason 1Ep. 975

Ep974: Yoni Shohet | Co-Founder & CEO, Valence Security

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 973

Ep973: Guy Bejerano | CEO & Co-founder, SafeBreach

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 973

Ep972: Kevin Tate | Chief Marketing Officer, Clearbit

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 972

Ep971: Nicole Tj | Co-Founder & CEO, Travis

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, 202218 minSeason 1Ep. 971

Ep970: Yuval Samet | CEO, RiseUp

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 970

Ep969: Erik Huberman | Founder and CEO, HawkeMedia

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 969

Ep968: Daniel Bai | Founder and CEO, CloseForChiro

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, 202221 minSeason 1Ep. 968

Ep967: Amit Sinha | Co-Founder, Unnati

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, 202222 minSeason 1Ep. 967

Ep966: Jacob Shwirtz | Content & Creators, Lightricks

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, 202223 minSeason 1Ep. 966
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