20MinuteLeaders

Mine is a personal data assistant, enabling digital users to discover and manage their personal data online. Gal Ringel is an accomplished leader with a rare fusion of technology (cybersecurity, six years in the 8200 Elite Intelligence Corps, Captain rank), Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital experience (4.5 years, 20+ investments with Nielsen and Verizon Ventures), strategic thinking, and unique business skills. Ringel was chosen to Forbes 30 under 30 in 2017.

Donna Griffit, Corporate Storyteller, has worked globally for over 16 years with Fortune 500 companies, Start-Ups, and investors in a wide variety of industries. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries, helping them create, edit, and deliver verbal and written presentations, pitches, and messages. Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive to results. Through her guidance clients have raised over half a billion dollars. To learn more, visit DonnaGriffit.com

Yoav is the Co-founder and CEO of Walnut, a promising startup in the sales space backed by leading SF investors. Previously he was a founding member of an anti-bullying startup, and was the CEO of Israel's first startup marketing company. Yoav was named "Tech Marketer to Watch" by Forbes in 2017, and has been mentoring startups in accelerators by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and the United Nations.

Amy Wyron Robinson is COO of Nemodata, where she is on a mission to help fleets prevent breakdowns before they happen. She has spent the last 10+ years launching, scaling, and learning from new mobility ventures including @Waze (Acq. by GOOGL), @Moovit (Acq. by INTEL), and most recently @Gett, where she was Global VP of B2B ($100M+ ARR). Previously at Gett, she led Gett Delivery, a "startup with a startup", through hyper-growth from 0-$10M ARR and to profitability in <2 years.  Originally from Washington, DC, Amy lived in North Carolina and La Paz, Bolivia, before moving to Israel. She now lives in the Jaffa flea market with her husband and 1-year-old daughter.

Stephen is the CTO of PubNub and invests in AI and API companies. PubNub provides a real-time communication infrastructure for telemedicine apps, online learning, on-demand delivery, shared Peloton exercise experiences, and more. They built a replicated Multi POP Realtime Data Stream Network written in C for reliability and speed. Combining artificial intelligence and petabytes of data marks an advantage over AI companies with less data.

As a creative technology pioneer (18 patents, several publications) and an entrepreneur, Ramesh launched & exited four start-ups: three were acquired, the latest one gives a "play" button for enterprise data. He created the market categories of “cloud management platforms”, “conversational analytics” and now looking to grow “click-less intelligence”. His focus has always been to develop market-leading innovations and breakthroughs, to make a case for them, organize and lead inspired teams, and preempt competition to conquer markets. 

Ilana Golan is a well-known growth strategist in Silicon Valley helping individuals & businesses grow. Selected top 40 women to watch in 2016, Business Insider Silicon Valley Women of influence in 2017, and CEO World Award 2020. Entrepreneur turned tech investor, Forbes Contributor & Public Speaker. Ilana is the inventor of CareerLeap, the program, and network that has been transforming countless careers and lives. She is also Board Director and General Partner at Homrun, a network-based venture, accelerating the growth of Israeli companies in North America.

From the olden days of DOS, Gil was, is, and always will be a software dev. He has co-founded WebCollage and designed cloudy projects at Wix. His current passion is figuring out how to test software as the Senior Architect at Applitools.

Noa is a Brand Marketing Specialist, an expert in the Future Of Work, and a Community Builder. Currently, she is the Head of the Israeli Delegation Washington DC, and until recently she was Head of Employer Brand & Internal Communication at eBay.  Previously she co-founded a leading Job Search platform in Israel (over 90K followers and 250K monthly reach). Noa is a popular speaker at conferences and events, as well as a sought after professional advisor and mentor for several startups and institutes in said fields. She graduated from executive programs from MIT and Princeton University.

Jennifer is the CEO of American Friends of Tel Aviv University. She was previously Vice President of UJA-Federation of New York, overseeing its Affinity Campaign, which raised over $78 million annually. .Before joining UJA professionally in 2014, she was a principal and managing director at Archview Investment Group, an event-driven credit opportunity hedge fund seeded by Blackstone. She is a chair of AIPAC’s Women’s Division, a member and past chair of Hadassah’s Investment Group, and a board member of the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach, Meir Panim, and Northwestern University Hillel.