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David R. York is an Attorney and CPA who practices law in the area of estate planning, with extensive experience in designing advanced strategies for high-net-worth clients. David has spoken to hundreds of public groups and professional organizations, including the TedXSaltLakeCity, Q Commons, the Hawaii Tax Institute, the Purposeful Planning Institute, Investments and Wealth Institute, Valmark Member Summit, Southeastern Family Office Forum, and the Million Dollar Roundtable. David has also written three books, Entrusted, Riveted, and The Gift of Lift.

Aaron is the VP Marketing at Hyro, where he has helped lead the company from pre-seed to Series A since 2019. He has over 7 years of business development, marketing and product experience, mainly within emerging technologies such as conversational AI. Prior to Hyro, Aaron helped develop and launch Duplex at Google which broke boundaries in the natural language space, and started his career at CheckPoint, helping to grow enterprise mobile security. Aaron completed a BA in Business Administration at IDC Herzliya, with a specialization in marketing, after serving in the IDF's Givati Brigade as a lone soldier. When out of the office, you’ll get his attention with hosting events, good B2B branding and the New York Knicks.

Daniel is the senior partner at Kligler & Associates Patent Attorneys. He has a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and before becoming a patent attorney he was a founder, inventor, and manager in two high-tech startups. He has a law degree and is licensed as a patent attorney in both Israel and the US. Since the founding of Kligler & Associates in 2008, clients of the firm have been acquired for a cumulative total of more than $20 billion. The firm specializes in deep tech - computers, communications, electronics, AI, and high-end medical devices - with clients ranging from start-ups, through unicorn ventures, to Fortune 500 companies.

Eliron has dedicated his work in the past 10 years to digitizing the automotive and transportation sectors. Before founding Ravin, Eliron was Head of New Business Development at Shell’s Digital Ventures unit in London, investing and incubating new businesses that could leverage Shell’s global footprint of retail locations for the benefit of fleets, motorists, and smart cities. Prior to that, Eliron served as the CEO of FarePilot.com, a startup using machine learning to help taxi and Uber drivers find their next passenger by predicting demand patterns in local areas. Eliron has an MBA from London Business School and is the proud father of 2 boys and one adorable girl.

Eynat is the CEO of Papaya Global. An entrepreneur with 15 years of experience, she is a leading expert in global payroll and global workforce management. She co-founded Papaya after seeing the technology gap in global payroll. The company combines her twin passions – technology and global HR – to start a revolution in global payroll management. Papaya’s innovative software provides a total workforce solution, allowing companies to manage all of their global people, payroll, and payments operations through a single dashboard.

Ran Ilany is Head of Emerging Technologies & Innovation (ET&I) at Cisco Israel. Ran is also Co-Founder of Portshift.io acquired by Cisco a pioneer in the Cloud Native  Security market. Prior to Portshift, Ran held executive leadership position w/Check Point software technologies leading network security appliances business line. Earlier, Ran co-founded BladeFusion the first industry standard for Multi Bladed Security appliance for enterprise and prior to that he managed an Engineering team of exceptional researchers and developers in distributed computing at MainControl (acquired by IBM). Ran is the inventor and author of more than ten patents, most of which are in the field of cyber security. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Computer Sciences with Honors from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

Henrik Johansson is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded and built the product company Boundless into a $100M company. Currently he is the co-founder and CEO of Gembah, a product development platform and marketplace, and the Executive Producer of Final Product, a reality TV show incubated at Gembah. He was previously a co-founder and board member of OutboundEngine, and before that the president of EverydayWealth, and co-founder and president of Creditland. Johansson specializes in technology-enabled services, marketplaces, and software as a service. He is an expert on scaling startups, building world-class teams, culture, and scalable processes and infrastructure and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Austin Business Journal, and was named Counselor's 2017 Person of the Year."

Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of M&A Science, with a passion to drive the M&A industry forward. He was an M&A advisor for ten years in which he sold larger companies such as commercial banks and hotel chains. In 2012, he noticed teams lacked efficient technology to manage deals and created DealRoom, an M&A lifecycle management platform. In 2016, he started the M&A Science podcast devoting his time to creating a platform where all the best practitioners could share their best practices and lessons learned from real-life deals. Kison then created The M&A Science Academy in 2020 to offer step-by-step training to those looking to master M&A featuring courses created by top-level practitioners. Through developing technology, educational content, and industry training, Kison aims to bring better practices to an industry with growing market pressures, transaction values, and competition.  

Shauli has over 15 years of technology, B2B management, and business development experience, with a B.Sc. Major in Communication Systems Engineering and MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, securing cloud-native frameworks, and my amazing founding team. His primary interests are building products, businesses, and teams - the latest is the fantastic ARMO. Army brings promise to cloud-native environments – embedding visibility & security into every workload and building security products that DevOps love. Prior to founding ARMO, Shauli was the Chief Strategy Officer in startup company Optimove where I built the Go-To-Market Strategy, sales department, and business team, and raised $20M growth round from Israel Growth Partners. Before that, he was a management consultant in the Boston Consulting Group, and a New Product Initiatives director within Amdocs, building startups within the company in Security, Virtualization, Cloud, and Big Data.

An active technology investor in Israel, Ofir is a CEO, founder, board member, and was previously a corporate manager. He served as C level in several startups, until mid-2015 when he turned his vision to expand the Startup Nation boundaries into his full-time job by founding OpenValley- a chain of Innovation centers in the northern part of Israel with over 150 Startups. OpenValley also established an Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation which support various organizations, corporates, NGOs, Government and municipals, Army units, school chains and more to implement entrapreneurship tools and methods within their organizations. Prior to OpenValley initiation, Ofir served as co-founder and COO of Kaminario, a successful startup which became a world leading Data Storage system. Earlier he held various roles in Israel tech companies such as Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) and Nice Systems (Nasdaq: NICE). Ofir is married to Hadas and they have 4 children and live in the Jezreel valley in Israel.