20MinuteLeaders

Matteo Boffa is a Swiss Social and Environmental Entrepreneur, resident in the United Arab Emirates for 4 years. After dedicating over 9 years of his career in the world of finance (Swiss Private Banker) and nearly 2 years in the Swiss Army (Chief Sergeant Major), he decided to make a radical change in his life and undertake a path linked to sustainability and the protection of the environment. In...

Kelly is on a mission to change the way the world learns and builds skills. A well-known thought leader on learning, business, and career development, she is currently on the executive team of Degreed as the chief learning/talent officer and was formerly the chief learning officer of LinkedIn. She is the co-author of the book The Expertise Economy: How the smartest companies use learning to engage...

Vijay Krishnan is the Co-Founder & CTO, of Turing.com. Turing enables US companies to hire and manage the top 1% of over 200,000 registered software developers from all over the world's remote software developers all over the world. The Turing platform vets developers for programming skills, CS fundamentals, tech stack skills as well as communication skills, and soft skills.  At Turing Vi...

Alexa is the CEO & Co-Founder of tripAbrood, an award-winning tech startup shaping the future of family travel by creating the world's first AI-powered family travel booking experience. Prior to founding tripAbrood, Alexa had a decade-long career in financial services running regional sales and operations divisions for Bloomberg L.P. in Europe and Asia, that sold and scaled technology sol...

Brett is an International Bestselling Author, a world-renowned futurist, and a media personality. President Xi Jinping cited his book Augmented. He has spoken in over 50 countries, given keynotes for TEDx, Wired, Techsauce, Singularity University, Web Summit, and many more. He hosts the world's #1 Fintech Radio Show/Podcast called Breaking Banks (180 countries, 6.5 million listeners) and is t...

Cindy is the founder and CEO of www.makelovenotporn.com ,  launched at TED 2009 – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’. She turned MakeLoveNotPorn into the world’s first user-generated, human-curated social sex video-sharing platform https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/   socializing and normalizing sex in order to make it easier to talk about, to promote consent, communication, good sexual...

Frank is the founder and CEO of Rinspeed Inc., based in Zumikon/Switzerland, which he has established in 1977 as a young student at the Technical University of Zurich. While the import of sunroofs from the USA was his first business activity, Rinspeed soon became a pioneer in the tuning industry. The invention of the steering wheel with integrated controls for radio or other functions, sustainable...

Olivia has taught leadership, innovation, genius, and charisma at Harvard, Yale, MIT and the United Nations. She is the co-founder of KindEarth. Tech and former Director of Innovative Leadership for Stanford's startup accelerator as well as a best-selling author and keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies. Olivia’s first book, The Charisma Myth, published by Penguin Random House, went into...

Andrej aspires to use technology for the public good, believing that the future is not about giving fish or teaching how to fish, but about inventing an affordable, automatic fishing pole. He founded Tech4Germany, Germany's technology task force under Federal Chief of Staff Helge Braun, and established two startups in East Africa. Andrej received the 40 Under 40 award by Capital as the younge...

Miriam is a former architect turned software developer and programming teacher. As a result of her recent motherhood, she's passionate about making computers more accessible, friendly, and easy to understand for young children and encourage them to become curious about what technology is and how it works. She's the author of Zerus & Ona, a book series designed to make learning about...

Gil Dibner is the founder of Angular Ventures, a $41M early-stage venture fund based in London and Tel Aviv, founded in 2018. Angular Ventures backs enterprise-oriented startups building global category leaders. Prior to founding Angular Ventures, Gil established and led the largest AngelList syndicate outside the US that is exclusively focused on European and Israeli enterprise technology. He is...

Sanja has spent 14 years of her professional career in the marketing industry, focused on corporate management, new business development, strategic project management, integrated marketing communication, key government relations, and international affairs & cooperation. She is the Executive director of the United Arab Emirates & Serbia Business Club established by the Embassy of the UAE in...

Tom held a variety of executive positions at Levi Strauss & Co., including President of several operating Divisions as well as Executive Vice President of New Business Development. On the public service side, he served two terms as Mayor of the Town of Hillsborough and was the town’s Police Commissioner for 12 years. Tom currently serves on multiple boards, particularly pertaining to Jewish ed...

Sujata is the Founder & CEO of You've Got This! A future of work B2B/C SaaS Co changing the way startups hire flexible business talent. Making finding the right person simpler, cheaper & faster; whilst empowering individuals to make the most of their time and skills. Prior to this, Sujata built and launched investment products and digital banking platforms for multinational banks.

Jeremy is an experienced Product leader of over 12 years with a proven track record of building APIs and monetizing developer platforms at places like Box and Tradeshift. He has managed and expanded communities of tens of thousands of developers, executed on high profile integrations promoted by Salesforce and Google and established paths to monetization through developer platforms.

Zoë Desmond is the Founder & CEO of Frolo, the first community app of its kind for single parents. The idea for Frolo was born out of Zoë's own struggles with loneliness and isolation when she became a single parent and found it very difficult to find and connect with other like-minded single parents. The Frolo app is now a year old and has 20k members across the UK and Ireland. 2021 is s...

Moshe Friedman belongs to one of the most illustrious rabbinical families in the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) world. At the age of 30, Moshe founded Clipop, a start-up company in the online video field, and later on became a social entrepreneur leading Haredi integration into the Israeli workforce, especially the hi-tech industry. He co-founded KamaTech, a coalition of 80 large hi-tech companies to hel...

Paris is the CEO and Co-founder of  We Love Work, an app that helps companies build happier, more resilient teams by solving their recruitment, engagement and retention problems.  She has worked as a consultant and building products and services for a number of large, multi-national organizations including Barclays, Harrods, Virgin, Mastercard and the NHS. In 2017  she was listed as the top 100 EM...

Chuck Imerson has over 30 years of Hospitality experience, he has successfully led full-service organizations, fast-casual and everything in between. Chuck joined Asian Box as COO in 2016. As COO he led Asian Box through a growth spurt going from 3 o 10 locations in an 18-month span. In November 2019, he took over as the CEO of Asian Box.  Chuck began his restaurant career as a teenager, quickly w...

Sarah is an explorer and journalist who has immersed with indigenous tribes in jungles, mountains, deserts and caves to understand their cultures and capture their stories. Now, focusing on aviation and space exploration with a focus on sustainability and climate awareness.

Marc Cirera is business ethics and CSR specialist with a clear vision: a world where companies operate in a more sustainable and responsible way. Marc is the Founder & CEO of Companies for Good, a social enterprise designed to help businesses change for good.

Amit's spent his early career as an animator, director and award-winning filmmaker. For over 6 years he acted as the president of Ten Forward Productions where he produced work on projects for clients like Cartoon Network, HBO, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Hallmark, and more. After moving from TV into software development on games for the Nintendo 3DS as well as educational software for Pange...

Tomer Cohen is an Israeli entrepreneur, he is the CEO of BUYME, Israel’s leading digital gift-cards solutions company. Before joining BUYME, Tomer founded 2 companies, held senior roles in the diplomatic and political sector in Israel, including Chief of Staff to the Israeli Mission to the UN. Tomer was chosen for the Forbes 30/30 list of 2018. He is married to Hadas and father to Itay and Mika.

Lior Gavish is Co-Founder of Monte Carlo, a data observability company backed by Accel and other top Silicon Valley investors. Prior to Monte Carlo, Lior co-founded cybersecurity startup Sookasa, which was acquired by Barracuda in 2016. At Barracuda, Lior was SVP of Engineering, launching award-winning ML products for fraud prevention. Lior holds an MBA from Stanford and an MSC in Computer Science...

Shahar is a co-founder and the CEO of Stoke, an on-demand talent platform empowering companies to adopt a hybrid workforce model that scales as quickly and efficiently as needed. A tech-scene veteran in Israel and Silicon Valley, Erez has 20 years of executive experience in engineering, product and marketing under his belt at companies like HP, VMware and Kenshoo. He is a proud father of 3, an ama...