20MinuteLeaders

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 papers and studies can be found in top business magazines such as Entrepreneur, TechCrunch and Forbes.

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 Director of its Information Technology Office. Along with all that, he was also a faculty member at MIT and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.

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. She has an MBA from Yale SOM.

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 rights, and has focused her storytelling on these topics.

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), Belnsync (acquired) and Dotomi (acquired) and helped found Sosa, a global network of tech innovation hubs.

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.

Viki is the Co-Founder and CEO of ProdOps.io, a global consulting firm specializing in building automated solutions for cloud infrastructure. ProdOps is a leader in the DevOps and Operations community in Israel, with more than 500 executed projects assisting global enterprises, startups and SMBs. Having 15 years of experience behind her, Viki is an expert in formulating business units in the software and infrastructure areas, managing complicated global projects from various disciplines.

David is the Co-Founder and CEO of NineDot Energy (NY), co-founded SolarVento (Mexico) and Ener-Pacte (France). He served as Special Advisor to the US Department of Energy on solar finance issues, and was VP Strategy & Customer Financing for SolarCity (where he invented SolarLease, the game-changing solar financing program that enabled over 400,000 homeowners, commercial and government customers to adopt solar power). David holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Itamar Novick is the Chief Business Officer @Life360 during the day, and Founding Partner @RecursiveVentures (www.recursiveventures.com), a Micro Seed fund, at nights and on weekends. Recursive Ventures has supported over 40 early stage companies in the Bay Area and Israel, including Life360, Credible, Ring, Automatic, and MileIQ

Jorge is a passionate serial entrepreneur, always learning and discovering new things. With over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor arena, Jorge started his journey at Intel, building the first Centrino WiFi chips, and then co-founded Wilocity (acquired by Qualcomm in 2014) to develop 60GHz WiFi. Currently, Jorge is co-founder and CEO at Kameleon (a hardware security start-up) and spends his spare time investing in early technology and piloting light planes.