20MinuteLeaders

Melissa is a speaker, moderator, and advocate for Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace and helps to empower women through connecting them to various programs, events, and opportunities - created to give access to investors, mentors, networking, quality education, or job opportunities.

Miki Shifman is the CTO and co-founder of Cylus, which provides cybersecurity solutions for the rail industry. Miki is a veteran leader in the development of complex cyber security projects, with over ten years of experience in software engineering, research, and management. Prior to co-founding Cylus, Miki served as an R&D leader in the Cyber R&D Division of the Israel Defense Force’s Eli...

Aviv is a Staff Data Scientist at Intuit, previously a Lead Data Scientist at PayPal. She specializes in fraud prevention and cybersecurity, and in the past worked at the Prime Minister’s Office in the Cyber Security field, focusing on protocol analysis. Aviv graduated from Tel Aviv University with a double BSc in Computer Science and Life Science, while specializing in Bioinformatics.

John Rossman is the author of The Amazon Way book series, a former Amazon leader and Managing Partner at Rossman Partners. John is an expert leveraging the Amazon leadership principles to help others innovate, compete and win in the digital era. John was an executive at Amazon.com where he played a key role in launching the Amazon marketplace business as the Director of Merchant Integration and we...

Omri Lavie is a serial entrepreneur and an Angel investor. He co-founded NSO Group and is the co-founder and CEO of Orchestra Group, a holistic cybersecurity platform for proactive cyber defense. Omri founded several technology companies in various fields, specializing in Enterprise SW, Telecom, Cyber Intelligence & Cyber Security. He is also the co-founder at Founders Group, a private investm...

Hannah started as a commercial lawyer advising and managing transactions in the tech ecosystem. Her curiosity led her to change sides and become an entrepreneur and tech executive, and since 2015 has been focusing on the Robotics and Automation industries. She is the General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer of Caja Robotics, automating solutions for order fulfillment. 

Yael is the founder of Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform working to increase transparency in the startup ecosystem. Former investment banker turned strategic advisor to innovators, she is on a mission to bring the same level of analysis she saw in the corporate world to startups, but in the flexible timeframe and formats that they need. With over a decade of experience in the industry, she...

Shahar is an Israeli Entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He's the CEO of Eternity, a post-investment Israeli startup established to change the way people commemorate and celebrate the life stories of their loved ones in a respectful, accessible, and moving way. Shahar majored in Business and Data Science at IDC and graduated with honors. His managerial approach is "all-around",...

Tony is an Iconoclast, Founder, and CEO of Accounting Seed, technology entrepreneur, ForbesBooks author, and CPA for 20+ years. He embodies iconoclasm, the idea of challenging the prescribed way of doing things and coming up with a better, more innovative solution. Accounting Seed – the world’s first accounting platform – is disrupting the cloud accounting industry and has over one thousand custom...

Myra founded Sama to make the power of excellent executive coaching available to all employees. She trained as an M&A lawyer, but spent most of her career as an investor in private equity and venture capital at PSP Investments and BCI, large institutional asset managers, investing billions globally. She benefited from coaching in her career and believes that it is the best way to unlock potent...

Kyle Lacy brings over 14 years of experience in marketing with a slice of revenue. He is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Lessonly. Prior to joining Lessonly, Kyle held senior positions at OpenView, Salesforce and ExactTarget. He is also the author of three books, Twitter Marketing for Dummies, Branding Yourself and Social CRM for Dummies. He wears monotone, loves history and hates onions.

Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is also a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at...

A former CEO of the Institute of Internal Auditors SA, Dr Claudelle is the founder of Brave Inflexions. Her practice focuses on leadership, governance, change management, ethics, culture and whistleblower support. Her approach is transformative with an emphasis on purpose and empowerment. She is an experienced executive and non-executive director and has served on numerous international committees...

Sharel Omer is an Israeli entrepreneur whose passion for personal connections and building relationships has made him dedicated to bringing the consumer voice's power to brands and organizations. He's the CEO & Co-Founder of Affogata, a leading Consumer Intelligence Platform that enables brands to be truly customer-obsessed by bringing their customers' voices to the right teams...

Jillian is the current VP of Marketing and Investor Relations at GuardKnox Cyber Technologies, a world-leading Autotech company and the automotive industry’s first Cybertech Tier, where she was also one of the first employees. Originally from Cincinnati Ohio, she completed her undergraduate work at Tulane University before joining Teach for America as an inner-city high physics and chemistry teach...

Raz Bachar is the Global Lead for Startup Emerging Technologies & Managing Director - Israel at Microsoft For Startups. He is a business development professional and strategist, in generating growth for tech services and products. Before Microsoft, Raz built and drove the growth of AWS across several startup ecosystems in Europe, Middle East, and Africa through strategic planning, community bu...

Dmitry Geyzersky is a software architect and technology consultant with a proven record of building military-grade intelligence systems. As the Co-founder & CTO of Click-Ins, he has two patents pending and his fields of research include ontology, domain-driven design, graph technologies, link analysis, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Dima has created companies and worked with a w...

With 15 years of cross-sector experience in founding, managing and directing private and public companies in the tech and Cannabis industries, Omer has been leading M&A processes, global strategic partnerships, and deal-making worldwide. Omer has also been teaching as a senior lecturer in various academic institutes, both for Computer Science and for Behavioral Sciences, with a specialization...

HopOn is the pioneer app for transit payments in Israel. It serves more than 1M users a month who use our services for navigating and paying through their commute on buses, trains and big taxis. HopOn today has a presence in 5 different countries, which include (Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, UK and Israel). it was founded in 2013 by Ofer Sinai, while he was taking his daily commute from Petah T...

Zviki founded Lightico to empower businesses to effectively sell and service customers completely in the first call. Zviki is an expert in contact center management technologies in the field of innovation and analytics. His experiences in contact center management and technologies have sharpened his industry knowledge and his innovations have impacted millions of customer interactions. Prior to Li...

Eli can't sleep at night (literally) when an idea is bumped into his mind. He won't relax until he materializes it. He is an entrepreneur since he can remember himself, and raised money for his first startup when he was a cab driver on a ride from Jaffa to Ramat Aviv.

Madison Campbell is a trailblazer and sexual assault advocate. After going to college to study epidemiology in space populations, Madison has become a well-seasoned entrepreneur. She led a company prior to Leda Health called “Iyanu,” which was a software development shop based in Lagos, Nigeria. Today, she is working hard to promote the autonomy and self-actualization of sexual assault survivors t...

Tomer is the CEO and co-founder of Logz.io. Before founding Logz.io, he co-founded and was the CTO of Intigua, a company that developed innovative, Docker-like containers designed for large enterprises. Prior to Intigua, Tomer spent six years at CheckPoint, where he led its Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) product from concept to market, generating $100M in revenue in the second year. Tomer has a...

Suzan is a 26 years old Druze Israeli married woman, a software developer and a team lead in the hi-tech industry in CodeValue. She is working on a project of a complex imagery analysis system, integrating solutions for presenting a big amount of 2D and 3D imagery data on web platforms, and seeking to be an influencer in the tech industry.

Elram Goren is CEO and co-founder of Fabric, a micro-fulfillment company building on-demand fulfillment and customer experience solutions for retailers. He has led the company from its inception in 2015 through its first deployments and now is at the helm of its rapidly scaling operations. Before co-founding Fabric, Elram served as a Major in the Israeli Defence Forces managing R&D teams and m...