20MinuteLeaders

Stav is a partner at Labs/02, a stage fund and Incubator backed by the leading equity crowdfunding platform OutCrowd, India’s Reliance Industries, the Hebrew University and the Israel Innovation Authority. Previously she was an entrepreneur focused on building startup accelerators and co-founder of SifTech, the first entrepreneurship center and accelerator program in greater Jerusalem. She also fo...

Jacob is a financial expert with over 25 years of experience in driving the hyper growth of multinational enterprises, guiding global operations and supporting expansion into international markets, leading major corporate mergers, optimizing financial operations and overseeing corporate governance and compliance. He scaled multiple enterprises, raised over $750 million in venture capital and compl...

Benny is the CEO and Founder of OPSWAT, a cyber security company that provides critical infrastructure protection (CIP) solutions for over 1,500 customers across a wide range of industries, including energy (protecting most US nuclear power generation and research facilities), financial services, government agencies, healthcare, transportation, networking, and telecommunications. Benny bootstrappe...

Dana Look-Arimoto is the Founder and CEO of Phoenix⁵, a leadership and executive coaching company that helps corporations and leaders transform at an accelerated rate. She is a 2018 SIA Global Power 150 for Women in Staffing, coach, international speaker, author of Stop Settling, Settle Smart, and the host of the “Settle Smarter” podcast. Dana is using her knowledge from leading teams and companie...

Cecile is the Head of Impact & Sustainability at Pitango Venture Capital, Israel’s largest VC, where she is responsible for adapting the worlds of ESG and the SDGs to the framework of mainstream venture capital. Previously, she was the Founder and Managing Partner of Impact First Investments, Israel's first impact investing company, and was one of the initiators of the Al-Bawader private...

Sandor is the CEO of Network Bankers, a tech-enabled investment bank matching capital providers and capital users through a global network of over 30,000 CEOs. Through the founding and leading of two successful investment banking businesses and a real estate management group, as well as board member of publicly traded companies, he led the advisory process on over $20B of M&As. Sandor holds an...

Itai founded Duda, a professional website builder for web designers, agencies and SaaS platforms. He started the company from his garage in Mountain View, CA, with his high school friend, Amir Glatt, who is now CTO. Duda currently has over 800,000 websites hosted on its platform. Previously Itai held business development, product and engineering positions at companies such as SAP and Amdocs.

Amy is the CEO of The B3 Method Institute and Drishtiq Yoga, a keynote speaker, and corporate board member. She is the author of the book, Business, Balance & Bliss: How the B3 Method Can Transform Your Career and Life, and the host of the Breaking Beliefs podcast. Her speaking programs encompass one-of-a-kind topics on digital transformation, mindfulness, leadership, employee engagement, comp...

Dr. Eliaz is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of steering companies to success and acquisition by big pharma. He is the Founder and Managing Director at Elrom Ventures. Previously he was VP of Innovative Branded Products at Teva and CEO of NasVax (TASE: NSVX) and Immcure Therapeutics, VP Product at Intradigm (acquired), Rinat Neuroscience (acquired by Pfizer) and Alza (acquired by J&J...

Yaron is currently Silicon Valley Bank Director of Enterprise Architecture and a former Chief Architect (Revenue Systems) at VISA. He has held leadership positions in software companies, architecturally leading multi-million dollar foundational initiatives, involving highly distributed systems processing billions of transactions, and spearheading the reimagination of next-gen technical and functio...

Orit Balicer Tsur is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of a new startup in stealth mode, focusing on the future of work. Her previous startup was acquired back in 2015. Previously she worked as a PM for Lyft, building new shared rides experiences. She started her career as an architect and moved to high-tech "only for a couple of years" that lasted over a decade. Yet she claims nothi...

Jake Flomenberg is a Partner at Wing and focuses on next-generation infrastructure, SaaS, and security investments. Since joining Wing at the start of 2019 he has led 4 investments – including SiMa.ai and 3 stealth artificial intelligence related SaaS companies.

Ron started his career with a PhD in Semiconductor, after which he joined RCA Labs as part of the CMOS development team. He advanced to be the Director of Marketing for Motorola’s 6800 microprocessor, followed by being the General Manager for General Electric’s XRay division. His journey continued as he became the President of Diasonics' MRI Business and Senior Vice President of Toshiba Medic...

Sophie is recognized as a Certified Specialist Attorney in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. She is recognized by TechCrunch as a Verified Expert Lawyer and was recently named to the list of Top 10 Immigration Attorneys in California. She authors a weekly TechCrunch immigration advice column (Dear Sophie) and is the host of the podcast ‘...

Zack is the CEO of the OFJCC, where under his leadership they launched the Center for Social Impact, the Architects of the Jewish Future Series, and the Zionism 3.0 Project, which is creating a new paradigm for Israel-World Jewry relations. He is a writer, speaker and thought-leader on issues of modern American Judaism and Zionism. Previously he served as the Pacific Northwest Director for AIPAC....

Fatima is the CEO and co-founder of Quill Inc., the world’s first one-stop marketplace where podcasters can find pre-vetted expert freelancers. As a member of the National Speakers Bureau, Fatima has spoken at various events around the world on media and tech trends. In addition to being a commentator for BNN Bloomberg, she is a frequent contributor to publications including the Huffington Post. I...

Shiran’s day job is the program managing director at DRIVE TLV and runs the commercialization program called fastlane. However, in the evenings she propels forward females in various aspects. Shiran was a managing partner of Yazamiyot, Israel’s leading community of over 5,000 members, and a volunteer at Saleet, an organization helping women at risk, working to integrate them into the hi-tech indus...

Uli is a technology entrepreneur with 25 years of developing early-stage start-ups. He was CEO of Aisys, Sanrad, Superfish, and SleepRate, and VP Business Development at Tango, Magisto, and now at Moovit. Uli combines his technology comprehension, market insight and business savviness to create and execute strategic growth plans for B2C and B2B technology companies.

Tal is a General Partner at Disruptive Ventures, a privately held venture fund run by investment professionals equipped with extensive global technology and media relationships. He also serves as a board member in various technological companies as Beamr, Anodot, Co-Cycle, Speed Up and Taylor Brands. Previously Tal founded and led companies such as S.E.A (IPO), Orca Interactive (acquired), Belnsyn...

Shachar Peled is a foreign affairs multimedia journalist, currently the Europe Correspondent for Israel’s News 13 and a contributor to Haaretz newspaper. She’s a former CNN producer and writer, and was a launch team member of media startup i24news, the first-ever multi-language international news channel in the Middle East. She’s a staunch advocate of social issues, from gender equality to human r...

Meagen is the CMO of TripActions, previously CMO of MongoDB and on the board of G2, TinyPulse and Reactful. Before joining MongoDB, she was VP of Demand Generation at DocuSign. Named Top 25 for B2B Marketing Influencers, Meagen has advised over 25 tech companies such as Branch.io, Chorus.ai, Sendoso, CoreOS, Accompany, TinyPulse and SumoLogic, seven of which were acquired in the past two years. Sh...

David is VMware’s Chief Research Officer, where he leads the research & innovation activities that are accelerating and extending VMware’s technology leadership. Previously he was Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, Partner at New Venture Partners, VP of Platform Strategy at Amazon (and CEO of its A9.com subsidiary), VP and Director of Research at Intel and DARPA’s Chief Scientist and Direc...

Liraz Margalit, PhD, is a Social Psychologist who specializes in Behavioral Design and Decision Making. She integrates Neuropsychology and Behavioral Economics perspectives to analyze User behavior and deliver actionable insights for business stakeholders. She is a lecturer at the IDC and a worldwide keynote speaker.  She is a recipient of the Online Business Excellence prize and her research pape...

Gadi Bashvitz in the President & Chief Customer Officer at NeuraLegion. A fast growing application security company providing application security from build to compliance. Originally from Israel and having grown up in a number of countries Gadi started his hi-tech career in product management. He has been in the US for the last 17 years and has been leading sales, customer success and marketi...

Neil was a former VP and CFO of Ford Mobility and VP and Treasurer for Ford Motor Company. He joined Ford in 1982.  In 1991, he joined the Treasurer's Office and held numerous positions in corporate treasury culminating in becoming VP Treasurer in 2007.  In July 2016 he took on the role of CFO for Ford Mobility, a newly created subsidiary.  Neil retired from Ford after 36 years at year-end 20...