20MinuteLeaders

Jennifer Richard is a Principal at Bonfire Ventures. Prior to Bonfire, Jen sourced and executed seed-stage investments at Vitalize VC and Cross Culture Ventures. Before beginning her career in venture, Jen was a founding member of three venture-backed startups and saw two of them through successful acquisitions. She has been responsible for building e-commerce platforms from the ground up and has...

Francis leads a team of 300 people and has raised $6M in capital to build Invisible, a disruptive work-automation company that provides custom operations support to scaling businesses. Previously, Francis raised $2.6M from top investors to build Everest, a social network based on “what you do” not “who you know.” He worked briefly in consulting and at Google after studying history at Cornell. Peop...

Carine Carmy is Co-Founder and CEO at Origin, a physical therapy designed for women and mothers. With over 40M women experiencing incredibly common but overlooked health issues from pelvic pain to postpartum recovery, Origin is clinically proven to have life-changing results, helping women build strength and avoid countless unnecessary surgeries. Prior to Origin, Carine has spent her career as a g...

George's career spans over 28 years, as a journalist turned PR (agency and in-house) in the public and private sectors. His primary work is within the United Kingdom, Greece, Cyprus and UAE (Dubai & Abu Dhabi). During the last two years, he has developed a passion for the international tech startup ecosystem, working with entrepreneurs and investors in the UAE and Greece to help them achi...

Yael Gilboa Kaufmann is Co-founder & COO of Learn In, the first comprehensive upskilling-as-a-service platform helping companies solve for every barrier that stands between them and the future of work. She is an investor turned operator and lifelong learner who believes that learning neither begins nor ends with a degree. Yael began her career as an investor in pri­vate equity and was an impac...

Sleem Hasan is an experienced owner with a demonstrated history of working in venture capital and the Japanese capital markets. He is skilled in investor relations, securities, asset management, investment advisory, and working with technology entrepreneurs. His strong entrepreneur professionalism is with a Part III Mathematical Tripos from Cambridge University and an M.A.(Hons) degree in Mathemat...

Michal is the VP of Product at Hero Health, aiming to help people manage their health better, and live their lives to the fullest. She is passionate about solving hard problems that make a difference in people’s lives, and in a career of over 15 years, led UX and product across Google, Verily Life Sciences, Zoox, modu and more. She authored the book "Designing Multi-Device Experiences" (...

Oren is the Founder and CEO of Testim.io. He has over 20 years of experience in tech, focusing on products for developers at IBM, Wix, Cadence, Applitools, and now Testim.io. In addition to being a busy entrepreneur, Oren is a community activist, the co-organizer of several meetups and conferences, mentored at the Google Launchpad Accelerator, and taught at Technion University.

Oron Afek is the co-founder and CEO of Vim (www.getvim.com) - improving the performance of healthcare networks in the US. Prior to starting Vim, Oron started a telecommunication startup and a gaming company, operating out of Tel Aviv, Israel. Oron received his law and business degrees from IDC Herzliya.

As the Chief Commercial Officer of Gett (previously Get-Taxi), Keren is leading several revenue streams within the company, including Gett's international b2b division. Prior to this role, Keren established two startups within the company ("startups within a startup") and grew them from nearly a concept into fully profitable business units. Keren began her career in R&D and spen...

Noam's first UX role was in the military industries, where he was the UX lead for several of Israel's missile-defense systems. He attended a liberal arts college in Israel, studying Psychology and Media, before moving to the US to get his Ph. D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then, Noam has worked at Airbnb, Intercom, and these days Wealthfront i...

A seasoned high-tech executive with over 30 years of experience combining technical, operational, and leadership roles. Expertise spanned across large, medium, and start-up organizations in both private and public companies. Held varied positions across the solution value chain from product definition, through go-to-market, business development, and operations. Passionate for building high perform...

As the founder of GetUplift, Talia and her team provide conversion optimization services for high-growth companies using customer-centric methods, emotional targeting strategies, and data-driven analysis. Talia has been invited to teach conversion optimization on hundreds of stages such as Google, MozCon, Call To Action Conference, SearchLove, and many more and was recently listed as one of the mo...

Mike Tung is the CEO and Founder of Diffbot, an adviser at the Stanford StartX accelerator, and the leader of Stanford's entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. In a previous life, he was a patent lawyer, a grad student in the Stanford AI lab, and a software engineer at eBay, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Mike studied electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley and computer science at S...

Shai is the VP of Innovation and Ventures at Orbia, the world leader in Building & Infrastructure, Datacomm, Precision Irrigation, Fluor, and Polymers. Amongst his responsibilities, Shai is leading Orbia's corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, startup partnerships, new venture development, advanced analytics, internal innovation, and circular economy. Previously he led the Product Managem...

Dotan is a computer vision and image processing professional with over 20 years of experience transforming hard problems into usable solutions. He has lived and worked with Israeli, US, Japanese and Swiss teams, and is a researcher in Samsung Research America. His current passion is leading a team that develops computer vision, graphics, and algorithms for AR and VR.

Laura is the Founder & CEO of Tattd, an app that connects users to their perfect Tattoo Artist that just launched. She's been working for early-stage tech companies for almost a decade now, is a mentor to other Founders for various accelerator programs, teaches Entrepreneurship, and is an active voice for women in tech.

Steph’s love for storytelling started at a very young age, writing stories, and creating small film projects. She founded Origins Magazine, a platform that shared the raw realities of entrepreneurial journeys, and in 2018 Steph saw the need for audio-first content and fell in love with podcasting as a way for brands to conveniently build strong relationships with their customer base. She pivoted O...

Céline Williams (ACC, CCUG) is an international speaker and the founder of reVisionary, a boutique consulting firm providing executive coaching, leadership development, and culture services to human-focused businesses around the world. Céline has almost 20 years’ experience working with growing organizations to help them navigate change and build leadership capacity and is the trusted advisor to...

Y. Dan Rubinstein is CEO/co-founder of Physera (acquired by Omada Health) which is focused on using data and technology to develop innovative care pathways to drive better health outcomes at lower costs. Previously he was the head of product at Palantir, a Director of Product Management at Facebook and Google and was the founding CEO of Reflectivity (acquired by Texas Instruments). He holds a Ph....

Saket Agarwal is the Founder and Managing Partner of "Onnivation", which invests in deep tech Israeli SAAS companies and drives their business for Asia. Within 3 years, Saket has grown Onnivation as a front runner to the growing relations between Israel and India. He advises multi-nationals and Tech Unicorns on their Digital transformation and Tech strategy. He was recently awarded the B...

Rachel is the Chief Executive Officer of Intrinio, a disruptive financial data platform launched in 2016. Intrinio’s mission is to use data to power a new generation of innovation in financial services, focusing on reinventing the financial data supply chain. Previously, Rachel became a self-taught web developer and is a member of the Forbes Finance Council, Forbes 30 Under 30, and XBRL US (eXtens...

David Weekly is the founder & CEO of Medcorder, a free app to help patients and families better understand their doctors. He previously founded Ohana (exited to Facebook) and PBwiki (still running 15 years later) and has led product teams at Facebook and Google. David is the founding chairman of Hacker Dojo, a non-profit community center, and graduated from Stanford University with a CS degree...

Ben is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, author, executive, and investor. He is a co-founder and partner at Village Global (a $100M VC fund) and is the co-author of two New York Times bestselling books: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age and The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. Ben started and scaled several ventures, including...

Sharona has worked in the NGO sector for more than a decade, focusing on the initiative, establishment, and project management on missions related to culture and to Israel and Diaspora Jewry relations. She holds a BA in Communications from the Open University of Israel, and an MA in Public Policy from Tel Aviv University. Sharona is a graduate of the World Zionist Organization’s Leadership Seminar...