Michael Matias

20MinuteLeaders

20MinuteLeaders features the world's prominent leaders for short conversations about their journeys and insights.

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Michael Matias

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Business

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Latest episode

Jan 1, 2026

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Episodes

Ep560: Amir Shevat | Head of Product for the Developer Platform, Twitter 04.09.2021

Amir is the Head of Product for the Developer Platform at Twitter and a Venture Partner at Innovation Endeavors. Previously Amir held executive roles at Amazon, Slack, Google, and Microsoft. He is the author of two books, on designing bots and building APIs that developers love. 

Ep559: Ory Weihs | Founder, Team Odeon 03.09.2021

Ory is an experienced founder, executive, and investor.  He founded XLMedia PLC, a London-listed performance marketing company in 2003, led it through its IPO, and ran it until 2019. Ory is an investor in companies such as Mews, Medorion, Gigantic and more. His focus is on strong founder-led teams with disruptive technology and sector-specific expertise.

Ep558: Aviv Shapira | Co-Founder & CEO, XTEND 03.09.2021

Aviv is an Aerospace Engineer and holds two Emmy Awards for the best broadcasting technology of 2013 and 2015. He co-founded Replay Technologies, which invented a new volumetric video format that has been used at major sports events around the world. After winning two Emmy Awards, Replay was acquired by Intel in 2016. Today he is the CEO of XTEND, in the field of Extended Reality, which aims to gi...

Ep557: Yotam Tzuker | Head of Business Development, CQ Global 03.09.2021

Yotam Tzuker is the Head of Business Development at CQ Global A leading global search firm located in Israel, helping Israeli-based companies expand globally by finding the best talents for their team. Prior to this role, Yotam has founded Tech7, an NGO that promotes the tech & entrepreneurship ecosystem in Beersheva and the south region of Israel. We have managed to build the largest startup...

Ep556: Shahar Cohen | Founder & CEO, Lucid Capital 02.09.2021

Shahar Cohen, a software engineer by training, has served in executive product and strategy positions at Tech in Israel and Silicon Valley. Several years ago, he founded Lucid Capital, a tech fund that specializes in global tech stocks as well as late-stage startups. Lucid Capital is a close partner of the leading Israeli institutional investors and assists them in accessing and qualifying direct...

Ep554: Dina Fine | VP R&D, TailorMed 02.09.2021

I am Dina Fine, VP R&D at TailorMed Medical, a comprehensive software solution with a mission to help patients and healthcare providers tackle the financial challenges of care delivery. Prior to Tailormed, I was VP R&D Data Collection and B2C at SimilarWeb. I bring almost 20 years of experience in building high-performance, scalable and robust systems. I am passionate about leading high-pa...

Ep553: Gil Ben-Artzy | Founding Partner, UpWest 02.09.2021

Gil is the Founding Partner of UpWest, the only Seed fund that's purposefully designed to help Israeli startups break into the US market.  Headquartered in Silicon Valley and operating since 2012, UpWest was the first investor in SentineOne, HoneyBook and 80 other startups that raised over $2B in follow-on funding from top US VCs. Prior to UpWest, Gil was the VP of Operations Management at Ya...

Ep552: Massimiliano Magrini | Founder and Managing Partner, United Ventures 01.09.2021

Massimiliano Magrini has always worked at the intersection of business and technology, that being the thread across his career from launching the operations of Altavista and Google Italy as founding country manager to creating an avant-garde VC studio in 2009 and then co-founding in 2013 United Ventures, the Milan-based independent venture capital firm investing in digital technologies. Today, Mas...

Ep551: Eli Bejerano | CEO, Bit2C 01.09.2021

Eli is the CEO of Bit2C, a company that has developed a trading platform that enables the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies against the shekel, along with the management and preservation of digital currencies and the realization of large-scale transactions. 8 years ago he sat on the sofa playing video games with a friend and thought about opening a company that will make Bitcoin accessible.

Ep550: Gad Allon | Director of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology 01.09.2021

Gad Allon is the Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, and the director of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning educator, teaching courses on scaling technology ventures and operations strategy. Gad’s recent research primarily considers gig workers, quick decision-making, and the communication...

Ep549: Baratang Miya | CEO, GirlHYPE 31.08.2021

Baratang is an award-winning tech founder and a self-taught software developer with robust problem-solving skills and proven experience in building tech startups, incubators, co-working spaces, and creating, designing software in a test-driven environment. She is the founder of the first African software engineering school focusing on women and girls and worked tirelessly to mobilize governments,...

Ep548: Ouriel Ohayon | CEO, ZenGo 31.08.2021

Ouriel is the CEO of ZenGo, a new generation of All-in-one crypto wallet focused on simplicity and safety. He’s a former executive at ICQ/AOL, founder of TechCrunch France (sold to AOL), Isai.fr (leading French VC) and was general manager of the internet Lab of Gemini and Lightspeed Ventures. Ouriel is French and Israeli, based in Tel Aviv

Ep547: Nobukhosi Dlamini | Founder, Bahati Tech 31.08.2021

Nobukhosi Dlamini is a tech founder of Bahati Tech - a cybersecurity and data protection company with headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the GIFT Foundation, which is a non-profit organization focused on assisting rural and informal settlement-based young women to acquire technical and digital skills to improve their livelihoods and break the...

Ep546: Tomer Kashi | Co-Founder & CEO, VOOM Insurance 29.08.2021

Tomer Kashi is CEO and Co-Founder of VOOM, an InsurTech company for next-gen mobility insurance products. Previously, Tomer spearheaded interdisciplinary technology projects from within the Prime Minister’s Office in Israel, including a project that has received the "Israel Defense Prize". Tomer is a "Talpiot" graduate and has a  BSc in computer science and physics from The Heb...

Ep545: Sepideh Nasiri | Founder & CEO, Women Of MENA In Technology 29.08.2021

Sepideh Nasiri is the CEO and Founder of Women of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in Technology (previously known as Persian Women In Tech). She is an award-winning serial entrepreneur with over 16 years of experience in the Tech Industry, and a lifetime advocate for women, diversity, and inclusion. Prior, she was Co-founder and Managing Editor of a digital and print Los Angeles Magazine,...

Ep544: Alaina Percival | CEO and co-founder, Women Who Code 29.08.2021

Alaina Percival is CEO and co-founder of Women Who Code. Under Alaina’s leadership, the organization has grown to serve 290,000 members in 134 countries. Alaina is an accomplished tech speaker, appearing at WSJ.d Live, CodeMotion Milan, Grace Hopper, Columbia University’s Social Enterprise, and more. Alaina has been published by Forbes, Huffington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.  Alaina holds a...

Ep543: Arik Faingold | Chairman, Comm-IT 28.08.2021

Arik is an entrepreneur and advisor to startups and capital fund groups, and the President of Commit. He has over 20 years of business development experience in the global technology sector, combined with a vast knowledge of software design, development, and system architecture. Arik successfully completed a number of exits and co-founded several ventures, including Pentera (formerly Pcysys) a ful...

Ep542: Omri Paz | Founder & CEO, Vegan Friendly 28.08.2021

Omri Paz has a Law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2012 he founded Vegan Friendly which is the leading vegan organization in Israel. Since it was established, Vegan Friendly launched many campaigns that reached millions of people including the biggest animal rights march in history, massive billboards, vegan ads on prime time, and the 10 million lecture.  

Ep541: Roman Itskovich | Founder and Chief Risk Officer, At-Bay 28.08.2021

Roman is the co-founder and chief risk officer of At-Bay, A cyber Insurer. Digital risk is complex and constantly evolving, with breaches in the news all the time driving trillions of annual losses to society. At-Bay helps businesses prevent cyber loss before it happens, and insure them for when the loss couldn't be avoided. Our modern approach to risk management has kept At-Bay ahead of the...

Ep540: Antonio Franchino | Director, Art & Luxury Investments Fund 27.08.2021

Antonio is a lawyer and in the last 25 years has managed the criminal litigation of an important banking and financial group. He also managed all the compliance activities with particular reference to the activity of the Anti-Money Laundering and fight against terrorism activities. In the last years, he has been a member of the Board of several Reserved Alternative Investment Funds. Today, he is t...

Ep539: Maurizio Rossi | Founder and CoCEO, H-FARM 27.08.2021

Pioneer in the startup business and Venture Capital in Italy, Maurizio is cofounder of H-FARM, having incubated and invested in over 140 companies. The organization went public in 2015 and has expanded to an education hub of 51 hectares for 3000 students. In his previous experiences, Maurizio worked in the luxury and sporting goods industries, some involving acquisitions by global leaders such as...

Ep538: Eyal Gruner | CEO & Founder, CYNET 27.08.2021

Eyal Gruner founded Cynet in 2015. He started his journey in the cybersecurity world when he was 15 when he uncovered a breach in the ATM machine of a large Israeli bank and a high-tech company. They both eventually hired him as a cybersecurity expert while he was still in high school.  At the age of 16, he founded his first cybersecurity consultancy company, BugSec, which become one of the bigges...

Ep537: Dotan Bar Noy | Co-founder & CEO, Authomize 27.08.2021

Dotan is Authomize's Co-Founder & CEO. Prior to co-founding Authomize, Dotan led the product management for the “Infinity Next” platform at Check Point Software, following the successful acquisition of ForceNock Security, where he served as Co-founder & CEO. He also founded and served as CEO at ReSec Tech. Dotan is also a member of the Technion Board of Governors - Israel Institute of...

Ep536: Ami Aharonovich | General Manager, Aerospike Israel 27.08.2021

I’m a technology Geek with over 20 years of experience in the world of databases. I’m eager to continuously learn and improve while removing obstacles out of the way. I’m keen to reach success and always strive to achieve a true win-win. I believe that doing business is “all about the people”, and finding the shared road to success. For 8 years, I worked for John Bryce and delivered technical data...

Ep535: Nimrod Vax | Cofounder and Head of product, BigID 26.08.2021

Nimrod is a co-founder and Head of Product at BigID. He is experienced in enterprise product and a security executive and served in various capacities ranging from engineering, product and business management. Prior to founding BigID, Nimrod served as VP Product Management, Product Line Manager for CA Identity Management product line and as an advisor to security startups in the area of identity m...

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