20MinuteLeaders

20MinuteLeaders

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20MinuteLeaders episodes

  • Ep287: Marc Cirera | Founder, Companies for Good

    Marc Cirera is business ethics and CSR specialist with a clear vision: a world where companies operate in a more sustainable and responsible way. Marc is the Founder & CEO of Companies for Good, a social enterprise designed to help businesses change for good.

    23 min
  • Ep286: Amit Tishler | Chief Creative Officer, PopBase

    Amit's spent his early career as an animator, director and award-winning filmmaker. For over 6 years he acted as the president of Ten Forward Productions where he produced work on projects for clients like Cartoon Network, HBO, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Hallmark, and more. After moving from TV into software development on games for the Nintendo 3DS as well as educational software for Pangea Tools & Wizdy, Amit climbed up the ladder of the industry as a business development executive for the award-winning Empty Clip Studios, before leaving to his job to co-found PopBase.

    27 min
  • Ep285: Tomer Cohen | CEO, BUYME

    Tomer Cohen is an Israeli entrepreneur, he is the CEO of BUYME, Israel’s leading digital gift-cards solutions company. Before joining BUYME, Tomer founded 2 companies, held senior roles in the diplomatic and political sector in Israel, including Chief of Staff to the Israeli Mission to the UN. Tomer was chosen for the Forbes 30/30 list of 2018. He is married to Hadas and father to Itay and Mika.

    22 min
  • Ep284: Lior Gavish | Co-Founder, Monte Carlo

    Lior Gavish is Co-Founder of Monte Carlo, a data observability company backed by Accel and other top Silicon Valley investors. Prior to Monte Carlo, Lior co-founded cybersecurity startup Sookasa, which was acquired by Barracuda in 2016. At Barracuda, Lior was SVP of Engineering, launching award-winning ML products for fraud prevention. Lior holds an MBA from Stanford and an MSC in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.

    23 min
  • Ep283: Shahar Erez | Co-Founder & CEO, Stoke

    Shahar is a co-founder and the CEO of Stoke, an on-demand talent platform empowering companies to adopt a hybrid workforce model that scales as quickly and efficiently as needed. A tech-scene veteran in Israel and Silicon Valley, Erez has 20 years of executive experience in engineering, product and marketing under his belt at companies like HP, VMware and Kenshoo. He is a proud father of 3, an amateur cyclist and an avid reader.

    26 min
  • Ep282: Debbie Wosskow | Co-Founder, AllBright and Former CEO, Love Home Swap

    Debbie Wosskow is a British entrepreneur who lives in London, UK. She is the former CEO of Love Home Swap, a subscription-based home exchange business, which she sold for $53m to Wyndham Destination Networks in July 2017. Debbie co-founded AllBright, the global network that celebrates and connects women at work. Wosskow is also an influential advocate of the sharing economy and is the former Chair of Sharing Economy UK.  In 2015 she led the independent government review ‘Unlocking the Sharing Economy’ - also known as the Wosskow Report. She is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, a Member of the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board and sits on the Board of the Women’s Fiction Prize. In 2016, she was awarded an OBE for services to business.

    25 min
  • Ep281: Chen Shmilo | Managing Director, 8200 Impact

    Chen Shmilo is the Managing Director of 8200 Impact, Israel's first and most prominent Impact-tech accelerator in the 8200 Alumni Association. Chen worked in the public and the NGO sector as a lawyer and a public policy advisor focusing on public health and the healthcare system until he pivoted to the world of technological entrepreneurship. He is an 8200 unit alumnus who holds an LL.B. degree (Cum Laude) from Haifa University and an LL.M. degree in Public Law from Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University in Chicago. He is also a graduate of Fulbright's Humphrey Fellowship in public health policy and management. Chen is also a leader in the LGBTQ Community in Israel who established the LGBTQ Medical Society.

    24 min
  • Ep280: Anique Drumright | VP of Product, Loom

    Anique Drumright works as the VP of Product at Loom, where she oversees product strategy and development. Most recently, she was the Vice President of Product at TripActions, where she built the product and design organization from the ground up and scaled the team over 8x globally during a period of hypergrowth. She has also held multiple roles at Uber in product, partnerships, and operations management. Before entering tech, she served in leadership roles at and taught for Teach for America in Memphis.

    24 min
  • Ep279: Ruby Chen | Associate Partner, Drake Star Partners Investor & Advisor, J-Ventures Fund Managing Director, RIA Advisors

    Ruby is a Dealmaker with a proven track record in initiating, leading and executing +30 strategic transactions (investments, M&As, divestitures and revenue-generating partnerships) at global, industry-leading companies (Hyundai Motor Company, Amdocs and NICE Systems). Enjoying supporting tech geeks to disrupt conventional industries for over a decade, serving as BoD member, BoD observer and strategic advisor to multiple growth companies. Characterized as highly networked in the Israeli tech scene as well as worldwide corporate investors, with a deep understanding of communication, enterprise software and Autotech technologies. 

    25 min
  • Ep278: Maya Vishwakarma | Founder & President, Sukarma Foundation

    Maya is a social entrepreneur, founder, and president of Sukarma Foundation, also known as "PADWOMAN OF INDIA". Over the past 4 years, she has been working in her hometown district Narsinghpur in a self-sustainable village. Sukarma works on "Menstrual Hygiene Awareness" in the tribal area of Madhya Pradesh. They are manufacturing affordable low-cost sanitary napkins for tribal and rural girls/women named "NO TENSION".

    21 min

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