

20MinuteLeaders
Michael Matias
20MinuteLeaders features the world's prominent leaders for short conversations about their journeys and insights.
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Sep 11, 2020 • 23min
Ep123: Uli Gal-Oz | VP Business Development at Moovit
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.

Sep 11, 2020 • 22min
Ep114: Tal Brown | Co-Founder and CEO of Zone7
Tal has two decades of experience in product management, sales and AI. Prior to Zone7, he founded Salesforce's first AI team and shipped products used by millions of sales professionals. Tal began his career as a big data engineer with the IDF Intelligence Corps and later worked as a sales consultant and product launcher at Oracle.

Sep 11, 2020 • 23min
Ep117: Jeff Hyman | Chief Executive Officer at LWD Advisors Inc.
Jeff is the CEO of LWD Advisors, Inc., a Legal, HR and Business consulting firm focused on emerging growth companies. Previously he held several Executive roles at companies including Google, Pebble Technology Corp., Apple and Intel. He has volunteered thousands of hours in pro bono legal service through organizations like AIDS Legal Services and others. Jeff is also an Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University’s School of Law.

Sep 11, 2020 • 24min
Ep107: Jeff Epstein | Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, the Former CFO of Oracle (+ many others)
Jeff is an operating partner in Bessemer’s Silicon Valley office where he primarily works with chief executive and financial officers to share and implement best practices. He was the former CFO of Oracle (market value of $150B), and previously the CFO of several public and private companies. He teaches the Lean Launchpad class at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Engineering with Steve Blank. Additionally, Jeff serves on the Board of Kaiser Permanente, Twilio, Shutterstock and until recently Booking Holdings.

Sep 11, 2020 • 28min
Ep120: Tommy Barav | Founder and CEO of Supertools
Tommy Barav is the Founder & CEO of Supertools, a company that aims to change the way we perceive time by reinventing calendar. Previously as a marketer, he has helped build companies like Argus as a founding member, leading marketing & branding resulting in a $450M exit. Recently, Tommy was named 30 under 30 by Forbes.

Sep 11, 2020 • 23min
Ep116: Shiran Yaroslavsky | Co-Founder & CEO of Cassiopeia Tech
Shiran Yaroslavsky, the CEO and Co-founder of Cassiopeia, is passionate about maximizing workplace experience through AI. Cassiopeia empower leaders of fully or partially remote teams with actionable insights to boost team collaboration, belonging, and mental health. Shiran is a thought leader in people analytics and remote team leadership who has been featured in leading business magazines such as Forbes and FastCompany as well as key industry conferences including Web Summit, PAFOW, and SHRM.

Sep 11, 2020 • 24min
Ep110: Adi Levanon Chazan | Principal at Flint Capital
Adi Levanon Chazan has been involved in global high-tech ecosystems for over a decade, with a myriad of experience across early stage investments and LP positions out of the US and Israel, along with product management and legal operations at two global $billion companies. Adi is currently Principal at Flint Capital, a global early stage VC fund with over $150M in AUM investing out of Silicon Valley, Boston, Israel and Europe. She is a student at Kellogg's international EMBA program and a graduate from IDC Herzeliya with a LL.B. in Law and a B.A. in Business Administration (major in finance). Adi is also a certified Israeli lawyer.

Sep 11, 2020 • 21min
Ep106: Mark Schwartz | Board Member & Exec of public/private companies, Prev. a Board Member of Starbucks Coffee
Mark has 28 years of experience as a CEO, CFO, investment banker and board member of public and private companies. He was on the board of Starbucks Coffee and assisted the company in raising its first round of institutional financing. Mark also co-founded the largest U.S. Hispanic Supermarket company, Bodega Latina Corporation (El Super), and is on the board of Bartell Drug Stores.

Sep 11, 2020 • 23min
Ep113: Doron Reuveni | Co-Founder and CEO of Applause
Doron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Applause (formerly uTest), a crowdtesting market and a market leader. His leadership made him an internationally-recognized expert in software development, testing and entrepreneurship. Additionally to running Applause, Doron is an avid runner and cyclist, competing in the Boston Marathon more than 10 times and triathlons regularly (Board Member of RunKeeper).

Sep 11, 2020 • 21min
Ep108: Rachel Efrat | Senior Legal Counsel at Lightricks
Rachel is a versatile in-house lawyer serving as Senior Legal Counsel at Lightricks, where she implements strategic initiatives across the company, including bizdev partnerships, VC investments, product compliance and privacy matters. She is passionate about the interplay between law and technology and especially enjoys finding pragmatic solutions to complex legal issues.


