20MinuteLeaders

Zack is the President of the DARE Foundation. Previously, he was the Founder & CEO of Model N (NYSE:MODN), Co-Founder & CEO of NetDynamics (NASDAQ: SUNW), Chairman of the Board of Conduit (NASDAQ: PERI), and Founding Board Director of TradingDynamics (NASDAQ: ARBA). Zack holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in computer science from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology...

Alyssa has done more than one can imagine. She fell in love with entrepreneurship at the Stanford Business School, later to become a lecturer at the University. She is the CEO of Surgical Solutions, a company that made the 2019 Top 50 Healthcare Companies and Top 100 Leaders in Healthcare, and was personally named one of Crain’s Chicago’s “Notable Women in Health Care” and is the author of the Ama...

Sergey is a Partner at Flint Capital, an early stage venture fund which invests across USA, Israel and Europe. He is a board member at CyberX, Socure, Voca, Brandtotal and others, and is an expert in software development, VoIP, bioinformatics, finance, internet, social networks and e-commerce. Sergey holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

At 15 years old Shimon started his first company, providing web hosting on top of Linux servers in the pre-cloud era. He later managed the Software Engineering Infrastructure department for 400 engineers at ironSource. As an AWS Community Hero, he runs the largest AWS user-group worldwide and is an avid speaker at conferences. Today, Shimon is the CEO & Co-Founder at Datree, a git-based policy...

Mickey is the CEO of Avian, a startup that enables airlines and online travel agencies to optimize revenue. Previously, he co-founded RapidAPI (raised $37M) and was chosen for the Forbes 30 Under 30 (and 18 Under 18) lists. In his free time, Mickey looks for ways to combine his passion for entrepreneurship with volunteer work and helping people.

Chloe Treat is a New York based director and choreographer. Born and raised in the great, if not occasionally problematic state of Texas; she directs and choreographs big ass musicals. Her dream project is to direct an original Dixie Chicks musical (and she’s just gunna keep putting that in every interview and bio until someone sees it and thinks it’s a good idea!)

Dan is focused on the growth of Google's global enterprise hardware business. Previously, he served as the Head of Enterprise Solutions for Google Cloud Platform and as the EEMEA Region Lead for Amazon Web Services. With over 25 years of business and IT experience, he has built and led global Sales, Business Development and IT teams for public traded companies such as Google (GOOG), Amazon.co...

Roy is a community builder and the CEO of Made in JLM, a nonprofit organization developing the Jerusalem tech ecosystem. He was nominated Forbes Under 30, was one of 150 global fellows at Facebook's Community Leadership Program, helped found the Jerusalem hub for the World Economic Forum Global Shapers, and won the WeWork Creator Awards for his project Side Project Club

Efrat Dagan has joined as Head of Talent at Next Insurance a few months back. Previously, she has been with Lyft Level 5, Google and Waze. Efrat has led Google Israel Talent Acquisition team for a decade and later moved to Google HQ for a Global role. She was selected as one of the most prominent human resources professionals in Israel. She is also an active speaker and blogger about the future of...

Slavik is a serial entrepreneur with a passion to solve hard technology problems. Along with co-founding Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and Sentrigo (acquired by McAfee), he serves as board member and advisor to several security startups. Slavik has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure, security and software development. Previously, he was vice president of R&D and chief arc...

Noa started her journey as a network researcher in Israel's elite intelligence Unti 8200. Following that, Noa graduated with honors from her double degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, in parallel for conducting multiple research projects in Algorithmic Game Theory. During that time, she also worked as a Software Engineer at Google. After graduation, Noa co-founded Odo Security, a Cybe...

Katrina Yaukey is an actor musician who has appeared on Broadway, Film and TV and toured internationally.  She runs an accordion repair business in NYC and loves to talk about Volkswagens, pugs and plants.

Hillel Fuld has been named the 7th top tech blogger worldwide, Israel’s top marketer, and on Forbes, was dubbed “The Man Transforming Startup Nation to Scale up Nation.”   He is a global speaker, tech blogger, startup marketer, and leading online influencer. Today, Hillel collaborates with companies such as Google, Oracle, and Microsoft to help early and later stage entrepreneurs take their local...

J-Ventures is a community empowered VC fund based in Silicon Valley and backed by over 150 leading investors. Previously a Partner at Rhodium, and was a VP at Capital Point group (early stage traded investment firm). Founded a startup that was acquired by YellowPages group. He formed and led the largest Israeli Tech and VC organization (now called IATI) and was a founding member of ICON and INTRO....

Cliff is an American Israeli entrepreneur, Founder of Speechify Text To Speech software - the 10th highest grossing productivity app on Apple's App Store, used to read more than a billion words every month. Cliff is one of the youngest people named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 list. He is a Dyslexia advocate, listens to 100 books a year, & has the first chapter of harry potter me...

Shuly is the co-founding Partner at UpWest, a Silicon Valley seed fund investing in startups at the Israel-US technology junction. UpWest portfolio crossed $1B in VC funding and includes companies such as SentinelOne, HoneyBook, Stampli, CyCognito, Airobotics and more.

Prior to joining the Israeli Parliament, Shay was a high-tech entrepreneur, CEO of start-up companies, member in boards of directors, mentor for entrepreneurs and a social activist. He wrote a popular weekly column at Globes for 11 years, authored two books, and founded Israel’s largest digital community for entrepreneurs (“Start-Up Stadium”) with about 45 thousand members. Previously, Shay was a...

Yasmin Lukatz, MBA Stanford, Startup Investor and Philanthropist, is the Founder and Executive Director of ICON - Israel Collaboration network, helping Israeli entrepreneurs penetrate the US market by bridging Silicon Valley and Israel. ICON's members are VC Partners, Executives at Fortune 500 companies and Founders of rising-star startups. Yasmin only asks, is to pay it forward, and also pay...

BetterHelp is the world’s largest counseling service. They connect people facing life's challenges with a counselor from their network of licensed, accredited, and board-certified therapists. Each month, over 2,000,000 counseling messages, chats, voice calls, and video sessions are facilitated through BetterHelp’s secure website and mobile app!

Amir is a co founder at reshuffle, early-stage investor, and an author. Previously, he led initiatives at companies such as Google, Slack, Amazon Twitch and Microsoft. Amir is an innovator at heart.

Welcome to Twenty Minute Leaders! In this introductory episode, host Michael Matias dives into his intentions for the show and what listeners can expect from future episodes.