JOURNEY 2022, Israel’s most prestigious annual High-Tech conference, is where you want to be!
From senior corporate executives and entrepreneurs to financial experts and world leading investors, now is your chance to join some 2,000 participants who are looking to gain insight and inspiration from over 100 of the biggest names in the industry.
The technological landscape is constantly evolving as more and more inventions are being introduced into the market. While some products provide us with specific solutions, others are fully integrated into our lives causing their use to expand beyond their original purpose. So what is really unfolding in the tech industry and how will new inventions play out once they are introduced into the market? This year’s JOURNEY will reveal how innovative technologies are transforming humanity and impacting our daily lives.
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Speakers
Liad Agmon
Managing Partner, Insight Partners
Liad Agmon
Managing Partner, Insight Partners
Liad Agmon is a serial entrepreneur with rich experience as a startup founder and Fortune 500 executive. He founded information security vendor Onigma (acquired by McAfee in 2006) and social search company Delver (acquired by Sears Holdings in 2009).
Following Delver’s acquisition, Liad served as a VP of New Services at Sears Holdings and on the board of its Home Electronics and Outlets business units. From there, he went on to start Dynamic Yield, the AI-powered Personalization platform, which was acquired in 2019 by McDonald's for $300 million. In 2021, he led the spin-off of Dynamic Yield from McDonald’s and its acquisition by Mastercard.
In 2022 Liad joined Insight Partners as a Managing Director.
Danny Akerman
Managing Partner, Key1 Capital
Danny Akerman
Managing Partner, Key1 Capital
Danny is a Founder and Managing Partner of Key1 Capital
Prior to founding Key1 Capital, Danny spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs in its Tel Aviv office, where he initially led the company’s origination and execution of TMT investment banking advisory work and subsequently headed its investment banking practice.
During his tenure, Danny covered hundreds of public and private companies, focusing on sell-side and capital raising advisory work.
Danny was also instrumental to Goldman’s success in investing in Israeli tech companies, helping the firm to evaluate hundreds of companies, which resulted in its successful deployment of more than $400m.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Danny worked for JPMorgan and Credit Suisse in NY in their Financial Institutions Groups, leading complex advisory projects for insurance companies, banks and specialty finance companies.
Danny earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2003, and a BBA from Temple University’s School of Business in 1997.
Morgan Beller
General Partner, NFX
Morgan Beller
General Partner, NFX
Morgan is a GP NFX, Co-Creator of Diem and former Head of Strategy Novi (Facebook).
Omry Ben David
General Partner, Viola Ventures
Omry Ben David
General Partner, Viola Ventures
Omry joined Viola in 2017 bringing with him 15 years of technology-focused experience across investment banking, startup operations and both institutional and private venture investments. Omry was a Senior Vice President and East Coast Software Sector Captain at Goldman Sachs in the tech, media and telecom (TMT) investment banking group. Omry joined Goldman Sachs’ New York office in 2008 and during his tenure sourced, led and executed 30+ transactions totaling $120bn+ across M&A, equity, debt and institutional technology investments. He also served as the TMT business unit manager (2011-2012) and as the co-head of Columbia University Goldman Sachs recruiting. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Omry led sales, marketing and business development for the connectivity software BU at Jungo Software (acquired by NDS for $108 million in 2006). Omry’s areas of investment at Viola Ventures include Fintech, Enterprise / SMB Software and Vertical AI.
Royi Benyossef
Investment Director, Samsung Next
Royi Benyossef
Investment Director, Samsung Next
Royi is an Investment Director at Samsung NEXT but his background is mostly technological.
As one of the first community managers and speakers on Android and Mobile in Israel he had the privilege to be part of Mobile’s growth into mainstream by offering knowledge and mentorship for which he was also one of the first Google experts (GDE) for Android since 2012.
Professionally Royi was the client group leader at a startup called Vidmind in which he managed a multinational group of dozens engineers in China, Serbia, The Ukraine and of course - Israel.
It is that journey that led Royi to NEXT and VC investments in which he applied some of the entrepreneurial scars on his back to locate,invest and nurture startups to success.
Royi’s focus areas are in Security, Privacy, Blockchain and Media with a strong interest in edge computing and networking technology.
Arjun Bhatia
Co-Head Tech Equity Research, William Blair
Arjun Bhatia
Co-Head Tech Equity Research, William Blair
Arjun Bhatia is Co-Head of technology equity research at William Blair and specializes in covering software-as-a-service companies like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Braze, Similarweb, Monday.com, HubSpot, Atlassian, and others. Arjun has been with William Blair since July 2017. Prior to joining William Blair, he was in the fixed income group at Magnetar Capital and was a Senior Associate at KPMG prior to that. Arjun earned a B.B.A from Emory University.
Philippe Bouaziz
Co - Founder & CFO, Deel
Philippe Bouaziz
Co - Founder & CFO, Deel
Philippe Bouaziz is Co-Founder and CFO of Deel, where he is responsible for managing the company’s corporate strategy, including finance, M&A, legal, and compliance. Founded in 2019, Deel’s technology offers payroll, HR, compliance, and benefits needed to hire and manage a global team. In just under three years, the company has grown to 1100+ employees worldwide in over 75 different countries and has 10,000-plus customers, including Shopify, Coinbase, and Cloudflare.
Prior to Deel, Philippe founded ProdWare Group. Listed on Euronext, ProdWare Group is a leading IT powerhouse, helping over 18,000 customers in EMEA with their business software and digital transformation. There he completed over 45 acquisitions and remains Chairman of the Board. Philippe is also Chairman of VC firm Sarona Partners, the largest growth ecosystem for global and Israeli high-tech companies. He is a startup enthusiast with 150+ investments in startups.
Noam Canetti
Senior Partner, EY Israel
Noam Canetti
Senior Partner, EY Israel
Noam is a Senior Partner with EY Israel. Noam focuses on High Tech and SEC clients. EY is the largest accounting and financial services firm in Israel, serving most of the technology companies. Noam advises entrepreneurs, startups, public companies, multinationals, private investors, venture capital and private equity firms on business, accounting, international tax, M&A transactions, IPOs and other offerings on US or European capital markets, including on matters such as deal structure, commercial terms, regulatory requirements, and due diligences. Over the years Noam has provided services to many of the leading companies. Noam co-founded the Israeli Business Advisory Group at EY offices in the Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, where he spent a few years. The group specializes in providing services to Israeli companies that operate with or in the West Coast in general and in the Silicon Valley in particular.
Yuval Cohen
Founder & Managing Partner, Fortissimo Capital
Yuval Cohen
Founder & Managing Partner, Fortissimo Capital
Yuval Cohen is the Founding and Managing Partner of Fortissimo Capital. Established in 2004, Fortissimo Capital is a private equity firm with over 60 portfolio companies across six funds to date and $2.6 billion raised. Fortissimo Capital focuses on buyouts and special situations growth investments in Israeli-related technology and industrial companies.
Fortissimo Capital works closely with its portfolio companies and has had many successful exits, including: SodaStream, Kornit Digital, Cardo Systems, Starhome, NUR Macroprinters, Dip-Tech, Cadent, Biological Industries and Telrad Networks.
Prior to founding Fortissimo Capital, Mr. Cohen was a General Partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). Prior to that, Mr. Cohen held managerial positions at several companies in Silicon Valley, including DSP Group and Intel.
Mr. Cohen received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
Christopher Danne
Managing Partner, The Blueshirt Group
Christopher Danne
Managing Partner, The Blueshirt Group
Chris has more than 25 years of IPO and investor relations experience and has helped more than 150 companies go public. Prior to forming Blueshirt, Chris was a Principal at Morgen-Walke Associates, where he ran the West Coast office. After graduating from Duke University, Chris spent two years working in Europe and Asia before joining Mallory Factor and The Equity Group in New York.
Francesco De Ferrari
CEO Wealth Management, Credit Suisse
Francesco De Ferrari
CEO Wealth Management, Credit Suisse
Francesco De Ferrari is a member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group AG and the CEO of Wealth Management. Before rejoining Credit Suisse in January 2022, he held executive roles in global financial services and spent 17 years at Credit Suisse in Asia and Europe. He was CEO of South East Asia & Frontier Markets from 2015-2018 during his simultaneous tenure as CEO of PB Asia Pacific from 2012-2018. Prior to this, Francesco was CEO of PB Italy from 2008-2011 and Business COO for PB EMEA from 2007-2008. He held various positions with Credit Suisse Italy from 2002-2006. Francesco was conferred the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Distinguished Fellow Award in 2016 for excellence in professional stature, integrity and achievement in the financial industry. He holds an MBA, awarded with distinction from INSEAD, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and International Business from the Stern School of Business, New York University.
Nir Debbi
President & Co - Founder, Global-e
Nir Debbi
President & Co - Founder, Global-e
Nir has vast experience in strategic planning and business development, working for over 10 years in managerial positions in the high-tech and financial sectors.
Before co-founding Global-e, Nir served as SVP and Head of Strategy and Business Development at Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, following a term as Head of Retail Strategy.
He holds an MBA and a B.Sc. in Economics, both from Tel-Aviv University.
Joshua Dubofsky
Partner, Latham & Watkins
Joshua Dubofsky
Partner, Latham & Watkins
Josh Dubofsky represents market-leading technology companies and private equity firms in their most complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investments and corporate transactions. He regularly advises Israel based public and private companies on significant transactions and governance matters, including CyberArk, Fiverr, Global-e, Kaltura, Mellanox, Monday.com, NeoGames, Radware, Sapiens, Taboola, UBQ Materials and Wix.com.
Mr. Dubofsky works closely with boards of directors, management, and shareholders on • Mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic corporate transactions
• Public and private equity and debt financing
• Corporate governance, takeover planning, shareholder engagement and activism defense
• General corporate representation of both publicly traded and privately held companies
Dr. Eran Eden
Co-Founder & CEO, MeMed
Dr. Eran Eden
Co-Founder & CEO, MeMed
Co - Founder and CEO of MeMed.
Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans has spent 20 years analysing mobile, media and technology, and worked in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital. He is now an independent analyst.
Alan Feld
Founder & Managing Partner, Vintage Investment Partners
Alan Feld
Founder & Managing Partner, Vintage Investment Partners
Alan Feld is the Founder and Managing Partner of Vintage Investment Partners. Vintage Investment Partners is Israel’s leading venture fund of funds, secondary fund and late stage co-investment team.
Prior to founding Vintage in 2002, Alan Feld was a General Partner at Israel Seed Partners and at Vertex Ventures. Prior to Vertex, Alan was the Managing Director of Evergreen Capital Markets/Robertson Stephens Israel.
Alan is the Founding Chairman of the PowerInDiversityIsrael Initiative (www.powerindiversityisrael.com), focused on bringing more women and minorities into the Israeli high tech industry. He was also Founding Chairman of StartUp Jerusalem, a non-profit organization run by Israeli and Palestinian businesspeople helping to foster job growth in Jerusalem. He served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Be’eri project, an initiative of the Hartman Institute, and is also a former board member of the Israel Democracy Institute and the Jewish Funders Network (US).
Justin Forsythe
Research Analyst, Credit Suisse
Justin Forsythe
Research Analyst, Credit Suisse
Justin works in Equity Research at Credit Suisse as a lead Analyst covering Payments & FinTech in EMEA, based out of London, UK. Until mid-2021 he was an analyst part of the Institutional Investor ranked US Payments & FinTech Equity research team at Credit Suisse based in San Francisco, CA. Previous experience in CSAM in NYC, including fair value of illiquid tech private equity, venture capital positions and asset management company joint ventures, spin-offs, and equity method investments. Prior to CSAM, spent time at PwC doing derivative and fixed income valuations, and regulatory and financial consulting. Justin is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), under the State Board of Education of New York, as of December 2016.
Dovi Frances
Founding Partner, Group 11
Dovi Frances
Founding Partner, Group 11
Dovi Frances is a financial services entrepreneur and the Founding Partner of Group 11, a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. Over the course of his career, Frances has invested over $550 million in some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent and disruptive financial technology companies, including Tipalti, TripActions, Next Insurance, Papaya Global, HomeLight, Sunbit, Masterschool, EquityBee, Venn, and Lili.
Prior to launching Group 11 in 2012, Frances worked for nearly a decade in the financial services industry; having managed an independent financial advisory firm, as well as having served as VP at Deutsche Bank AG Private Bank (NYSE: DB).
Frances currently serves on the Board of Tipalti, HomeLight, Papaya Global, Sunbit, EquityBee, Lili, Venn, Masterschool, Sorbet, SMBX, Healthee, and Fintastic. He is also an Advisor to TripActions, member of the Advisory Council of Leumi Bank U.S., and serves on the Steering Committee of the Israel Collaboration Network (ICON).
Ruthi (Simha) Furman
Founder & General Partner, Viola Credit
Ruthi (Simha) Furman
Founder & General Partner, Viola Credit
Ruthi is the Founder & General Partner of Viola Credit, Viola Group’s venture lending investment arm. She is a veteran of lending in Israel with 25 years of experience in debt, including hi-tech, mezzanine and distressed lending.
In 2000 Ruthi co-founded Viola Credit, Israel’s pioneer venture lending fund. Under her leadership, Viola Credit has raised five different funds and made one of the largest distressed deals in Israel.
Ruthi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and an MBA with a major in Finance from Tel-Aviv University.
Previously, Ruthi was the Manager of Bank Hapoalim’s Hi-Tech Finance Division, where she established the Bank’s venture lending activities (and it was the first Israeli bank to launch such an initiative).
She is involved with a philanthropic and community organizations, including IVN (a venture philanthropy network of high-tech entrepreneurs, business executives, venture capitalists, corporations and philanthropists from Israel and the US)
Eliran Glazer
CFO, monday.com
Eliran Glazer
CFO, monday.com
Eliran Glazer is serving as monday.com Chief Financial Officer since March 2021, responsible for all financial operation, alongside financial business strategy and Investor Relations. Previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Lightricks Ltd. from December 2019 to February 2021, and the Chief Financial Officer of Nex Markets from April 2012 to November 2018, and, following the acquisition of Nex Markets by the CME Group, served as the Chief financial officer of Nex Markets, a CME Group company from November 2018 to November 2019. Mr. Glazer holds a B.A. in business and accounting from the Collage of Management Academic studies as well as an L.L.M from the Bar Ilan University.
Hani Goldstein
Co-Founder & CEO, Snappy
Hani Goldstein
Co-Founder & CEO, Snappy
Hani Goldstein is the CEO & Co-Founder at Snappy, an award-winning gifting platform that combines fun, personal gifting experiences with advanced technology.
Snappy is headquartered in New York and employs over 300 people across 4 countries. Snappy serves over 2,500 enterprise customers including Microsoft, Comcast, Zoom & Uber and is growing rapidly. The company has recently been named the fastest-growing company in the NY region for 2 consecutive years and the 15th fastest-growing company in America by Inc. Magazine with a 2 year revenue growth of over 5184%. Snappy was also named "Fortune’s 2022 Best Workplaces list" as well as "Fortune’s Best Medium Workplaces". Snappy’s mission is to spread smiles across the world with the power gifting.
Elliott Gotkine
Master of Ceremonies & Moderator
Elliott Gotkine
Master of Ceremonies & Moderator
Elliott Gotkine is a polyglot journalist, master of ceremonies, public speaking coach, and creator & host of The F in Tech Podcast. Over the past 20+ years, he's reported for some of the world’s most trusted news outlets, including CNN, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television, covering business, finance, technology and politics, as well as general news in South America, Europe and the Middle East. He's interviewed world leaders, including Hugo Chavez and Shimon Peres; billionaires, such as Sheldon Adelson and Patrick Drahi; and Nobel Laureates, like Mario Vargas Llosa. He lives in Tel Aviv, with his two children and his dog, Molly.
Liat Hayun
Co - Founder & CEO, Eureka Security
Liat Hayun
Co - Founder & CEO, Eureka Security
Liat is the Co-Founder & CEO of Eureka Security. Prior to co-founding Eureka Security, Liat spent a decade leading cybersecurity efforts in the Israeli Cyber Command and Palo Alto Networks. Her IDF service merited the prestigious Israel Defense Prize. As VP of Product Management at PANW, Liat lead the production of Cortex XDR and PANW’s Managed Threat Hunting service.
These roles have enabled Liat to pursue her greatest interests and concerns in the cybersecurity threat landscape, as well work with wonderfully talented people on their solutions. Passionate about working closely with others, she is driven to identify meaningful operational security gaps and develop exciting new technologies and strategies to help fellow security leaders tackle them.
Jeff Horing
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Insight Partners
Jeff Horing
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Insight Partners
Jeff Horing has been a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Insight Partners since 1995. Under his leadership, Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm and has raised through a series of funds more than $90 billion in capital commitments. Jeff's areas of focus include data, analytics, mobile, and infrastructure and SaaS software in Europe, North America, and Israel.
Jeff has invested in more than 150 companies, notably nCino (NCNO), JFrog (FROG), Alteryx (AYX), AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Shutterstock (SSTK), TeamViewer (acquired by Permira), WIX (WIX), and Greenfield Online (SRVY, later acquired by Microsoft).
Prior to founding Insight, Jeff worked at Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs.
Marc Jaffe
New York Office Managing Partner & Former Global Chair, Corporate Department, Latham & Watkins
Marc Jaffe
New York Office Managing Partner & Former Global Chair, Corporate Department, Latham & Watkins
Marc represents leading companies, investment banking firms, and investors in both public and private equity and debt offerings and corporate matters. Marc regularly handles high-profile and precedent-setting corporate matters on behalf of prominent US and foreign tech companies, investment banks, private equity and venture capital funds, and other investors.
Irit Kahan
Partner, DTCP
Irit Kahan
Partner, DTCP
Irit is a Partner and Head of the Israel office at DTCP, a global growth equity fund focusing on growth stage enterprise software investments in the US, Europe and Israel.
Irit joined DTCP in 2015 and has spent more than ten years investing in growth stage enterprise SaaS companies. At DTCP, Irit has been leading the Israel coverage and co-manages Europe.
Prior to working at DTCP she worked at Vintage Investment Partners after spending a few years in Investment Banking at HSBC and JP Morgan.
Irit holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. During her studies in the US she worked at Prudence Holdings, a private equity family office focusing on investments in the US and Israel. She graduated magna cum laude with a BA from the IDC.
Chris King
Senior Vice President, OTC Markets Group
Chris King
Senior Vice President, OTC Markets Group
Chris King leads the International Corporate Services group at OTC Markets and has personally been involved with more than 1,500 companies cross-listing in the US on the OTCQX and OTCQB markets in New York. Chris began his tenure at OTC Markets Group in 2014 working with smaller U.S. companies helping them implement best practices and supporting private companies interested in going public. Since 2017 Chris has focused on assisting international companies increase US investor engagement and achieving fair valuation.
Prior to OTC Markets Group, Chris spent 15 years in various roles at DF King Worldwide, Capital Precision and Precision IR, helping hundreds of multinational blue-chip companies achieve their corporate objectives.
Michal Kissos Hertzog
CEO, Poalim Hi-TECH
Michal Kissos Hertzog
CEO, Poalim Hi-TECH
Michal Kissos Hertzog is the CEO of Poalim Hi-Tech and is in charge of leveraging Poalim Group’s global capabilities to support technology companies’ financing and banking needs.
Michal has over 15 years of experience in digital banking, strategy, corporate development and working with technology companies
In her previous role, Michal was the CEO of Pepper, Israel's first mobile-only challenger bank that was built on a new technology infrastructure.
Prior to that, Michal served as Head of Innovation and Digital at Leumi.
Prior to joining the Leumi Group, Michal spent several years as an attorney at GKH law offices, one of Israel’s leading law firms, specializing in corporate and commercial law, securities and M&A transactions.
Michal holds a B.A. in Economics and an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA from IDC Herzliya (Wharton Executive Program, University of Pennsylvania).
Michal is married and a proud mother of two.
Prof. Yitshak Kreiss
Director General, Sheba Medical Center
Prof. Yitshak Kreiss
Director General, Sheba Medical Center
As Director General of Sheba Medical Center since 2016, Prof Kreiss has led the transformation of Sheba into a City of Health, serving as a global blueprint for others, showcasing the hospital of the future. Sheba is ranked as a top ten best hospital in the world by Newsweek (2019-2022).
Prof. Kreiss served as Surgeon General of the IDF and is most renowned for his expertise in crisis leadership for which he received various awards for outstanding contributions to world medical efforts during humanitarian crises during both war and peacetime.
Professor Kreiss is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and cofounder of the MBA in Healthcare Innovation program at the Arison School of Business, IDC University in Herzliya.
In 2018 he ranked 5th most influential person in Israel by The Marker, Israel's prestigious daily business newspaper, and in 2019-20 the world's 50 Most Influential Jews in the Jerusalem Post.
Srinath Kuruvadi
Head of Cloud Security, Netflix
Srinath Kuruvadi
Head of Cloud Security, Netflix
Srinath Kuruvadi is the Head of Cloud Security at Netflix, where he leads the security of all the Netflix assets in the public clouds, including strategies for access and configuration management, architecture, compliance and detection & response.
With over 17 years of experience, Srinath is a senior information security leader with an established track record in delivering impactful and high quality risk reducing work by leveraging deep technical knowledge in security and privacy with software engineering approaches to securing large scale cloud environments.
Before Netflix, Srinath spent more than 16 years building scalable security solutions and leading security teams at Google, Facebook, Snap & Lyft, most recently as Head of Security & Compliance at Mapbox. Srinath was born and raised in Bangalore/India and holds a master’s degree in computer science from North Carolina State University and bachelor’s degree in computer science from Birla Institute of Tech & Science in India
Yoav Leitersdorf
Managing Partner, YL Ventures
Yoav Leitersdorf
Managing Partner, YL Ventures
Yoav has 25 years of experience in entrepreneurship and investing. Under his leadership, YL Ventures manages $800M and funds and supports Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneurs from seed to lead. Based in Silicon Valley, he accelerates its portfolio companies via strategic advice, operational execution, and a network of global CISOs and experts.
Gigi Levy Weiss
General Partner, NFX
Gigi Levy Weiss
General Partner, NFX
Gigi is a General Partner in NFX (www.nfx.com), the $450m leading pre seed and seed venture firm in Silicon Valley and Israel. He is a founder and investor in many technology startups such as Playtika, Plarium, MyHeritage, SimilarWeb and others. Gigi serves on the Supervisory Board of Bertelsmann as well as on the EMEA client advisory council of Meta.
Prior to NFX Gigi served as the CEO of 888 Holdings (LSE: 888.L), a leading online gaming entertainment company. Earlier Gigi served as a Division President in Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) as well as other senior roles.
Gigi holds an MBA from the Kellogg school of management in the Northwestern University.
Gigi sits on the board of MEET, the prominent Israeli-Palestinian educational organization (www.meet.mit.edu/) and is a member of the advisory board of the Technology Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship MBA in the Tel Aviv University.
Zaki Manian
CEO, Sommelier
Zaki Manian
CEO, Sommelier
Zaki Manian is a Co-Founder of Sommelier, the most powerful coprocessor yet for DeFi traders and Liquidity Providers. He’s also a Co-Founder of iqlusion, which provides infrastructure like a data center and a Cosmos validator for next-gen crypto technologies. Previously, Zaki helped build the Cosmos ecosystem, including launching the first public Cosmos testnet, and served as a director of Tendermint. Zaki has been a leading developer in the blockchain space since 2014, when he taught himself cryptography and began contributing to projects including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, and Tendermint. Having studied history of science at the University of Pennsylvania, Zaki’s skill sets in software engineering, programming, and computer science are largely self-taught.
Uri May
Co - Founder & CEO, Hunters
Uri May
Co - Founder & CEO, Hunters
Uri May is CEO and Co-Founder of Hunters, the industry’s first autonomous threat-hunting solution—now a Series C company, backed by Stripes, YL Ventures, DTCP, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Microsoft’s venture fund M12, Blumberg Capital, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks, and Okta. Uri began his career in cybersecurity in the prestigious Unit 8200 of the Israeli Defense Forces intelligence corps. Later, he worked as a commercial software developer and went on to co-found the high-frequency trading firm Maximize. In addition to building and managing Hunters, Uri advises YL Ventures as part of their Insights program.
Dov Moran
Managing Partner, Grove Ventures
Dov Moran
Managing Partner, Grove Ventures
Dov Moran, Managing Partner of Grove Ventures, is one of the most prominent Israeli hi-tech leaders in the world.
He is an investor, inventor, and entrepreneur, who is best known as the inventor of the USB flash drive.
Moran founded M-Systems, acquired by SanDisk for $US 1.6 billion in 2006. He also served as the chairman of
Tower Semiconductors, a developer and manufacturer of semiconductors and integrated circuits, in which he led a
massive overhaul. Under Moran’s guidance, the company achieved a notable turnaround and became an enormous
success. It was acquired by Intel in 2022 for 5.4 billion. Moran's book ‘100 Doors - An Introduction to Entrepreneurship’ was published in 2016 and included insights from his untraditional path.
Moshe Orenbuch
Managing Director & Research Analyst, Credit Suisse
Moshe Orenbuch
Managing Director & Research Analyst, Credit Suisse
Moshe Orenbuch is a Managing Director covering Specialty Finance at Credit Suisse, and partners with Tim Chiodo on select Fintech coverage. He joined Credit Suisse in October 2000, upon the merger of DLJ with Credit Suisse . Before DLJ, Moshe was a senior research analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, where he authored two editions of The Future of the Credit Card Industry, as well as numerous other industry and company reports. Moshe has been a highly ranked analyst on Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team since 1993, and has been ranked #1 for the past three years. Moshe graduated from Yeshiva University in 1984 with a B.S. in accounting, summa cum laude.
Yifat Oron
Senior Managing Director & Head of Blackstone Israel, Blackstone
Yifat Oron
Senior Managing Director & Head of Blackstone Israel, Blackstone
Yifat Oron is a Senior Managing Director and head of Blackstone office in Tel Aviv, Israel. She leads Blackstone’s growth and tech investments in Israel and assists with other investing efforts across the firm. Prior, Yifat Oron was the CEO of LeumiTech, a leading Israeli technology banking platform, servicing and financing several thousand technology companies and supporting their global expansion via LeumiTech’s global footprint. Spent most of her career as a Partner at Vertex Venture Capital (an Israel-based venture fund), invested in and served as a board member of companies across the tech ecosystem.
Ms. Oron was a technology investment banking associate at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York. Spent three years at the Directorate of R&D of the Israeli Ministry of Defense - achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the Economics, Budget & Control Department.
Holds an M.B.A. from Tel-Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Economics and Management-Technion.
Aya Peterburg
Founding Managing Partner, S Capital VC
Aya Peterburg
Founding Managing Partner, S Capital VC
Aya has more than a decade of investment experience as a Manager of an angels investment group, part of Sequoia Capital investment team and a Founding Managing Partner at SCapital VC. Currently Aya sits on 15 boards of directors.
In 2018 Aya founded together with Haim Sadger SCapital VC a $500M early stage fund.
Dr. Daniel Pindur
Managing Partner, CVC Advisers
Dr. Daniel Pindur
Managing Partner, CVC Advisers
Managing Partner, joined CVC in 2005. Daniel is a member of the CVC Germany team and is based in Frankfurt.
Prior to joining CVC, he worked in the M&A department at Goldman Sachs.
Daniel studied business administration and economics at the WHU Graduate School of Management, the Stockholm School of Economics and EM Lyon. He holds a Diplom-Kaufmann and Diplôme de l'ESC and earned a Dr. rer. pol. from the University of Ulm, Germany. Daniel is currently in charge and is sitting on the boards of Breitling, DKV, Douglas, ironSource, Messer Industries, The Quality Group and Tipico, all of which are CVC investments.
Tamar Rapaport Dagim
COO & CFO, Amdocs
Tamar Rapaport Dagim
COO & CFO, Amdocs
Tamar Rapaport Dagim has been Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Amdocs
Management Limited since 2007. She was also appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2018.
Previously, Tamar served as Vice President of Finance from 2004 until 2007. Prior to joining Amdocs,
she was the Chief Financial Officer of Emblaze, a provider of multimedia solutions over wireless
and IP networks, and has also served as Controller of Teledata Networks and held various finance
management positions in public accounting.
Tamar holds an MBA, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in accounting and economics, and is a certified
public accountant.
Mike Rimon
Partner, Meitar Law Offices
Mike Rimon
Partner, Meitar Law Offices
Mike Rimon has been a Partner in the Corporate and Securities Group since January 2006. He represents international and domestic public and private companies in a broad range of corporate and securities matters, Israeli and international venture capital firms and other investors in their investments in Israeli startup companies, US-based investment banks in their underwriting of securities of Israeli companies in public and private offerings in the US and Europe and individual entrepreneurs in a wide range of corporate and securities matters. His clients include pre-seed, early stage startups, growth companies and publicly-listed companies. His practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions and private and public equity and debt offerings, and covers technology, medical device, telecom, traditional industries and other verticals. In addition, Mike provides ongoing advice to both private and publicly-listed companies on various Israeli and US corporate and securities laws. In his spare time, he runs marathons and ultra-marathons.
Nir Sabato
Investor, Entrée Capital & Co-Creator, The Big Picture podcast
Nir Sabato
Investor, Entrée Capital & Co-Creator, The Big Picture podcast
Nir Sabato is the co-creator of “The Big Picture”, a leading Israeli podcast on tech and strategy, and an investor at Entrée Capital where he focuses on Pre-Seed and Seed investments, mainly in the fields of e-Commerce, Marketplaces, Creator Economy, Fintech, and B2B SaaS. Nir began his career as a lawyer and quickly pivoted to strategy positions - first as a consultant at Shaldor, a management and strategic consulting firm in Israel, and later in business strategy positions in several Israeli tech companies, leading business growth and M&As in multiple markets.
Haim Sadger
Managing Partner, S Capital VC
Haim Sadger
Managing Partner, S Capital VC
With more than 24 years of investment activity behind him and with 22 exits, Haim is one of the most experienced investors in the market. Haim founded Sequoia Israel as well as Intel’s first investment arm outside the USA.
Together with Aya Peterburg, Haim founded S Capital VC a $500M early stage fund.
Jason Schwartz
CFO, Similarweb
Jason Schwartz
CFO, Similarweb
Jason Schwartz has served as Similarweb's Chief Financial Officer since October 2015. Prior to joining Similarweb, Mr. Schwartz served as the Chief Financial Officer at several technology companies, including Clarizen from April 2012 to October 2015, ActivePath from August 2010 to April 2012, Actimize (acquired by NICE Systems) from June 2006 to June 2010 and Cyota (acquired by RSA) from January 2005 to May 2006. Prior to those positions, Mr. Schwartz served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Shopping.com beginning in March 2000 and through the company’s initial public offering in 2004. Earlier in his career, Mr. Schwartz worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1993 to 2000. Mr. Schwartz is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. in accounting from Yeshiva University.
Erez Shachar
Co - Founder & Managing Partner, Qumra Capital
Erez Shachar
Co - Founder & Managing Partner, Qumra Capital
Erez is a Managing Partner and a Co-Founder at Qumra. Prior to Qumra, Erez served as Managing Partner of Evergreen Venture Partners . At Qumra, Erez is a Board member in Taboola, Riskified, Talkspace, Tytocare, Nexar, and Connecteam Previously, he served on the boards Fiverr (FVRR) Varonis Systems (IPO), Traiana (Acquired by ICAP), Identify (Acquired by BMC Software), Itemfiled (acquired by Informatica Corp), eGlue (acquired by NICE) and Aduva (Acquired by SUN Microsystems).
Erez combines leadership and hands-on operational skills with extensive investment experience and has a history of delivering growth gained at his tenure at Scitex, one of the first start-ups to emerge from Israel, and the first Israeli technology company to go public on NASDAQ, and at Nur Macroprinters.
Erez earned his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the INSEAD Business School.
Anat Shakedd
Co-Founder & CEO, Nexite
Anat Shakedd
Co-Founder & CEO, Nexite
Anat Shakedd, CEO and Co-founder of Nexite, the pioneering data platform for real-time in-store intelligence and truly seamless retail shopping.
A seasoned commercial and brand executive, Anat is an entrepreneur with a vision of making Nexite into a successful, world-changing business.
Prior to Nexite, Anat’s experience includes Category Manager at Israel’s largest FMCG manufacturer Tnuva and Brand Manager at Israel’s leading FMCG retailer Shufersal.
Anat holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Behavioral Science from the Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from The College of Management Academic Studies.
Dan Shamgar
Partner, Meitar Law Offices
Dan Shamgar
Partner, Meitar Law Offices
Dan Shamgar is a leading Partner in Meitar’s Corporate and Securities Group, and is an internationally recognized corporate and securities attorney. Dan’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and investments in a wide variety of industries. Dan has extensive experience in structuring and leading cross-border transactions, representing both domestic and multinational corporations. Dan advises senior management of publicly traded and private companies in strategic decision-making situations and counsels on corporate governance, shareholder affairs and securities matters.
Moran Shochat Snir
Founder & CEO, Nest Genomics
Moran Shochat Snir
Founder & CEO, Nest Genomics
Moran Snir is the Founder and CEO of Nest Genomics, a longitudinal platform for patients and providers to manage genomic results for life. Moran is a serial entrepreneur in the digital health space. Her previous company Clear Genetics developed the GIA™
platform that has become a standard of care for scaling genetic services. In 2019 Clear Genetics was acquired by Invitae (NVTA), where Moran led the Software and Data organization. Moran was also the Founder of MorNetware, which developed Genometer, a software that screens 90% of Israeli pregnancies for ethnic-based carrier screening since 2005. Moran was also at Medtronic (MDT), where she held several key roles, including leading business strategy and M&A. Moran was an officer in Israel Defense Forces' Elite software unit and studied Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University for her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees. She has an MBA from the Wharton Business School and is a 2-time Y Combinator Alum.
Josh Siegel
CFO, CyberArk Software
Josh Siegel
CFO, CyberArk Software
Joshua Siegel serves as Chief Financial Officer for CyberArk Software since May 2011 (NASDAQ: CYBR). Prior to joining CyberArk, Mr. Siegel served as Chief Financial Officer for Voltaire Ltd., a provider of InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity solutions, from December 2005 to February 2011, and as Director and then Vice President of Finance from April 2002 to December 2005. Mr. Siegel led Voltaire’s IPO and listing on Nasdaq in 2007 and was acquired by Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. in 2011. From 2000 to 2002, he was Vice President of Finance at KereniX Networks Ltd. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Siegel served in financial management roles at Lucent Technologies Networks Ltd. (formerly Lannet Ltd.). From 1990 to 1995, he held positions with the credit and capital markets group at SLM Corporation (Sallie Mae). Mr. Siegel holds a BA in economics and an MBA in finance from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Adi Soffer Teeni
VP & GM Israel, Meta
Adi Soffer Teeni
VP & GM Israel, Meta
Adi Soffer Teeni is the General Manager of Meta in Israel. She joined Meta in 2014 to build and grow the company’s Israeli Office.
Soffer Teeni began her career in 1997 as the CEO of Wall Street Israel, an international school of English. In 2001, she became CEO of Kidum Group, the country’s largest private education company. In 2008, she was appointed as General Manager of 888.com, the B2C arm of 888 Holdings.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of Unistream, KamaTech, MEET, Shecodes and Yozmot Atid. She has also invested in several Israeli startups.
Soffer Teeni holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the university’s Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA program. She is married with two children.
Young Sohn
Founding Managing Partner, Walden Catalyst
Young Sohn
Founding Managing Partner, Walden Catalyst
Young Sohn is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose passion is building businesses and fostering emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the world for the better. Young is a Founding Managing Partner at Walden Catalyst Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund dedicated to deep-tech investments focused on data & AI across North America, Europe, and Israel and he currently serves as Chairman of the Board of HARMAN International. He most recently was Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics, where he led strategy for global innovation, investment, new business creation, and spearheaded the company’s $8 billion acquisition of HARMAN. Young served as CEO of two successful, public Silicon Valley companies and on the boards of Arm, Cymer (ASML), and others. Young co-founded the Extreme Tech Challenge, a global startup competition inspired by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
Justin Somaini
Chief Security Office, Unity
Justin Somaini
Chief Security Office, Unity
Justin Somaini is the Chief Security Officer at Unity Technologies, a real-time development platform software development company.
With over 25 years of information security experience, Justin is a distinguished global security executive with a long record of transforming companies’ security functions and driving security as a competitive differentiator. Prior to Unity, he served as Chief Security Officer at SAP, Chief Trust Officer at Box, Chief Information Security Officer at Yahoo and Symantec, Director of Information Security at VeriSign, and held leadership positions at Charles Schwab and PwC.
Justin is an advisor to dozens of security companies including Orca Security, Qualys, Palo Alto Networks, Sentinel Labs, SourceClear, Solve Media, and others.
Justin holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Yoram Tietz
Managing Partner, EY Israel
Yoram Tietz
Managing Partner, EY Israel
Yoram is the Managing Partner of EY Israel. Yoram has been spending most of his career helping the high tech sector globally and in Israel in particular. Yoram has vast experience working with entrepreneurs and startups on strategy, finance, growth and fulfillment and with big corporations on similar issues. Fascinated by the way technology enables a profound change in our life and the way we live, combined with a healthy curios nature, Yoram has been able to use his experience to take part of their journey and help many entrepreneurs achieve their dreams and goals.
Elad Walach
Co - Founder & CEO, Aidoc
Elad Walach
Co - Founder & CEO, Aidoc
Elad Walach is a Co-Founder and CEO of Aidoc. He is an expert in AI with visionary business insights in the healthcare space. Since establishing Aidoc in early 2016, Elad led the company through 4 investment rounds bringing the total investment to $250M, drove the commercial availability of 20 product lines, created an install base of over 1,000 global hospitals while growing the company to over 400 employees. Elad began his career in the elite Israeli Defense Force technology program “Talpiot”. He led AI research in the Israeli Air Force where he initiated and managed several teams focused on machine learning and computer vision projects. Elad holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has published multiple academic papers on deep learning.
Assaf Wand
Founder & Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hippo Holding Inc.
Assaf Wand
Founder & Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hippo Holding Inc.
Assaf Wand is the Founder & Executive Chairman of Hippo, the home insurance group focused on proactive home protection. Assaf is a serial entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience taking growth-stage companies to scale. He has been recognized as EY’s 2021 Entrepreneur Of The Year® and is a recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Entrepreneurial Award from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Prior to Hippo, Assaf was the founder and CEO of Sabi, a company that designed and developed consumer products. Before that, Assaf served as a consultant for McKinsey & Company, and as a strategic investor for the venture capital firm Intel Capital. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago and both a BA in Finance and LLB in Law from the IDC Herzliya in Israel.
Liat Zakay
Director of Strategic Growth, Shopify
Liat Zakay
Director of Strategic Growth, Shopify
Liat Zakay is a Tech Entrepreneur, she founded Donde Search, an award winning AI and Computer Vision technology, which was acquired by Shopify and now Liat is leading Strategic Growth at Shopify.
Liat holds a BSc in a Computer Science and Economics student from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She was part of Magshimim, a Cyber Security Training program. Prior to her academic studies, Liat was a team leader and served as an officer in an elite technological unit in the Israeli Intelligence.
Sharon Zalewski
Partner, EY Israel
Sharon Zalewski
Partner, EY Israel
Sharon is a Senior Audit Partner at EY's Technology Practice. Sharon specializes in providing audit and advisory services to US SEC registrants, as well as to startups in the technology and life science industries. Additional services include due diligence and transaction support services with respect to M&As and as well as public offerings. She holds a BA in Accounting and Business Administration from the University of Texas and is a Certified Public Accountant in the US and in Israel and spent several years in the New York practice.
Yahal Zilka
Managing Partner, 10D VC
Yahal Zilka
Managing Partner, 10D VC
Yahal Zilka is a 20+ year veteran of the venture capital industry and the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of 10D and Magma Venture Partners. He is recognized for his expertise and hands-on-work with entrepreneurs creating new industry categories.
Two of Yahal’s previous funds are amongst the best-performing funds worldwide (ranking in the top 5%) and he was an early investor in seven companies that have achieved unicorn status: DriveNets, Taboola (Nasdaq:TBLA), Appsflyer,Innoviz (Nasdaq:INVZ), Waze, Valens and Fundbox. He has served as a board member and advisor of numerous leading Israeli success stories including Waze, Argus, Applitools, Onavo, Replay Technologies, Magisto, Indegy, Optimal Plus, DesignArt Networks, Phonetic Systems, Hola and others during their acquisitions by Google, Continental, Thoma Bravo, Facebook, Intel, IAC, Tennable, NI, Qualcomm, Nuance and EMK Capital respectively. He currently serves as Board Member at several leading Israeli start-ups including Valens, CoreTigo, Gloat, JpU, Obligo, StuffThatWorks and DayTwo.
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The JOURNEY event will take place on October 28, 2020, at a variety of restaurants in Tel-Aviv between 16:30pm-20:00pm.
Both physical and virtual participation will be offered. So even if you join a gathering at a restaurant or joining virtually – you will be part of the entire JOURNEY community.
Please register here and we will let you know by email until 25.10.2020 if you participate at the restaurants events or at the virtual event.
JOURNEY is free this year!!!
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Due to the restrictions, the number of physical participants will be very limited and will officially be determined around the time of the event (in accordance with the purple tag).
So those who won’t be able to attend physically will enjoy the content digitally. A message specifying your form of participation (virtual or physical) will be sent prior to the event.
Registration is for the online event. Due to the restrictions, the number of physical participants is limited and will officially be determined around the time of the event (in accordance with the purple tag) So those who won’t be able to attend physically will enjoy the content digitally.
A message regarding physical participation in the event will be sent by 25.10.2020 with all the details.
Please contact: anat.paz@scherfcom.com