20MinuteLeaders

Chen is co-founder and co CEO of DeePathology, and also co-founder of SagivTech and SurgeonAI. She has a Ph. D. in Applied Math from Tel Aviv University specializing in Computer Vision. Chen loves Math and the mix of algorithms and healthcare. She lives in Gaash with her husband, twin girls, and two dogs.

Eran is the co-founder and CEO of Nanolock security from day 1. He was a consultant to Cimagine that was sold to Snapchat and was the co-founder and CEO of OREE that were acquired in 2015. He was a senior consultant to Tel Aviv University Nanolock Science center and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China’s MIT. Eran was also the co-founder of  On-Eden that was sold to the formula group and created ...

Isaac is the co-founder and CEO of Trullion, an AI-powered SaaS platform that automates financial workflows for CFOs, accountants, and auditors. Trullion unifies the unstructured and structured worlds of accounting by reading PDFs and Excel and translating them into financial workflows, such as Lease Accounting and Revenue Recognition.

Idan is a co-founder at Avo, a fast-growing e-commerce startup focused on reducing costs for consumers by aggregating demand. Before starting Avo Idan started a couple of other companies and was also an early employee at Monday.com. He was also the founder of a podcast called startup camel, where he interviewed over 80 founders from the Israeli start-up scene.

Marius Hanganu has been a manager in the software industry for over 20 years. He has been overseeing complex projects from sales to deployment and support. He serves as the Managing Partner of Tremend, with a focus on operations and shaping the organization to become a top software Romanian provider.

Anna is currently SVP of Content Strategy & Evangelist for KnowBe4 Africa where she drives security awareness across the African continent. Collard founded security content publisher Popcorn Training, now part of KnowBe4, which is a South African company that promotes cybersecurity awareness by using innovative, story-based techniques and gamification to make complex content simple to understa...

Jessica Richman serves as a San Francisco-based Trade and Investment Director for The Australian Trade and Investment Commission. In this role, Jessica helps US-based tech companies launch and expand in Australia. She also assists Australian tech companies with their US expansion. Additionally, Jessica acts as Founder and CEO of The Visible Collective® where she advises companies on product develo...

Emendo was founded in 2015 by Rachel and a group of classmates from Weizmann. Her role at Emendo as Chief Intellectual Property Officer & Head of Pipeline Development includes building is to design an IP strategy for Emendo that both generates an extensive patent portfolio to cover various novel aspects of the technology and products and also navigates the IP space. Additionally, she is buildi...

Tomer is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Gusto, a software company helping hundreds of thousands of businesses start, build and grow their teams. He's optimistic, easily excitable, chronically impatient, and a loving father of 3. 

Amitai is an experienced CEO, specializing in growing early-stage tech ventures from no revenue / early revenue to tens of millions in ARR across regions and verticals. As Pentera CEO, he's led exponential growth since January 2018, to becoming the de-facto market leader in Automated Security Validation, through 3 funding rounds, from AWZ Ventures, The Blackstone Group, and Insight Partners,...

Oded is an investor, entrepreneur and journalist. Since 2005, he has invested in over 70 companies (5 of which became Unicorns), as is currently the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of the J-Ventures Fund (a "Capitalist Kibbutz") in Silicon Valley. Oded is active in philanthropic organizations and has been a Board Member at the Jewish Federation SF, JFCS, Friends of Hebrew University, ICO...

Amit Daniel is a Marketing leader with two decades of experience in global high-tech companies. Since joining the Cognyte business in 2015, Amit has been responsible for global marketing, employer brand, and demand generation for driving business growth. Prior to joining the Cognyte business, Amit was EVP Marketing and Products at cVidya (now an Amdocs company) and VP Marketing, Business Developme...

Limor is a proud mother of 4 and very happily married. She has over 18 years of experience in tech, last 11 years in product management in startups, eBay and WeWork. During her career, she was always attracted to data and ways to leverage it to make a business impact. Her last two roles before joining Pecan were eBay where she led the product team for the eBay catalog and in WeWork billing and pay...

Dr. Farid is a lecturer and Fulbright scholar at the Technion and MIT, and a member of Harvard’s Leadership Program. He completed his Ph. D. with honors as the youngest graduate at the Technion at the age of 24, focusing on seismic protection of nuclear reactors. He served as a Captain and AI researcher in Unit 8200 and was acknowledged as an excellent Scientist (top 3 academics in the IDF). Farid...

Dekel Persi is a founding partner at TPY Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund with over $135M under management. TPY Capital partners with both serial and first-time entrepreneurs seeking partners who share similar values and hands-on support. TPY Capital invested in more than 20 companies including AI21, UniPaaS, H2Pro, Qedma, Pasqal, Paramount Data, TabNine, Signals, Seebo and Enzymotec.

Sreeram is Director of R&D at VMWare a cloud computing and virtualization company. He runs an R&D team across Geos that provides connectivity and services for workloads that run on multi-clouds using NSX orchestrator or that works based on K8s orchestration. Sreeram has delivered products that help customers to focus on the workloads or apps than on the underlying infrastructure. Sreeram&a...

Ziv knew he wanted to work in hi-tech since he was 13, he got closer and closer every summer break. Year after year people gave him a chance to do more and learn more, he hopes he's paying his debt today. In his 20+ years, he mostly worked customer-facing and he truly loves the relationship companies develop with their customers and the importance of it in B2B SaaS.

Shimon established and managed the Software Engineering Infrastructure department for 400 engineers at ironSource. Also, as an AWS Community Hero, Shimon runs the largest AWS user group worldwide and is an avid speaker at conferences. Today, Shimon is the CEO & Co-Founder at Datree, an automated policy enforcement solution for Kubernetes. The CLI tool prevents Kubernetes misconfigurations by e...

Co-Founder and CEO of UBQ Materials, Tato is redefining household waste as a valuable material feedstock for the manufacturing industry. Prior to UBQ, he co-founded and managed Merhav Renewable Energies (MRE), where he developed and implemented large-scale wind, solar, and bioethanol projects around the world. Before selling MRE in 2008, Tato served as the President and CEO of Ampal-American Israe...

Adam is the co-founder and head of Product of PayMe, an Israeli FinTech company providing financial services to micro-businesses.  PayMe is his 3rd company since leaving the military as an officer in military intelligence

Sonwabise Mzinyathi started her career in diplomacy and was posted as a Diplomat for South Africa in New Delhi, India. She left diplomacy to join corporate and has worked for PR agencies, tech and FinTech companies including TBWA’s Magna Carta, Cisco, and Refinitiv - a London Stock Exchange Business. Currently, she is in the NGO space working for global advocacy NGO, Global Citizen. She also serve...

Consul General of Israel to the Pacific North-West, Mr Shlomi Kofman is a 25 years career diplomat with vast experience in diplomacy, tech relations, and public policy. Prior to his posting in San Francisco, Consul General Kofman served as served Policy Advisor to the Deputy Foreign Ministers, as Israel’s Deputy Consul General in New York City, Chief of Staff to Ambassadors in Washington D.C., Dep...

Ronen is a serial entrepreneur and a skilled manager with a track record of success across various industries. Prior to founding MySize, he established and led startups in the medical devices and communication sectors. Among his other endeavors, Ronen founded Malers, a company that has grown to be a leader in the global security solutions market and provides some of the most advanced technological...

Credit24 is a Fintech company, which aims to create a One-Stop-Shop for the online lending industry. The company has developed a turnkey solution, which allows fully automated underwriting, operation, and collection, alongside KYC and a sales\retention platform. The company uses a proprietary solution that allows partnerships with various companies, from insurance companies to retail giants to off...

Elnor is the CEO and Co-Founder of the credit card company Jasper, formerly known as CreditStacks. Previously, Elnor was Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising platform Pingjam and VP of New Growth Platforms at LG Electronics. Elnor holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Academic College of Law in Tel Aviv.