

20MinuteLeaders
Michael Matias
20MinuteLeaders features the world's prominent leaders for short conversations about their journeys and insights.
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Sep 7, 2021 • 22min
Ep565: Tiah Goldstein | Founder, Interwoven
Tiah believes that business has the power to make the world a better place and that understanding and operating with congruence, kindness and curiosity makes for a more interesting and worthwhile life journey. For the past 25 years, she has been skipping across the globe, exploring and developing practical frameworks, strategies, tools and programs around sustainability, impact tech, scaling social impact, ESG, SDG and any other random combination of the alphabet that means doing good.

Sep 7, 2021 • 23min
Ep564: Navrina Singh | Founder & CEO, Credo AI
Navrina Singh is the Founder & CEO of Credo AI and a technology leader with over 18+ years of experience in Enterprise SaaS, AI and Mobile. Navrina has held multiple product and business leadership roles at Microsoft and Qualcomm. Navrina is an executive board member of Mozilla focused on their trustworthy AI charter. Navrina is also a young global leader with the World economic forum & was on their future council for AI guiding policies & regulations in responsible AI. Navrina holds a Master’s in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MBA from the University of Southern California and a Bachelors in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from India.

Sep 6, 2021 • 25min
Ep563: Yaron Gilboa | President & CEO, TurboGen
A veteran of the aerospace industry, with extensive experience of over 40 years in operations, manufacturing, engineering, R&D, business development, sales, and marketing. In his previous role, he served as VP of marketing and business development in “Ashot Ashkelon". Israeli Naval Academy graduated (Submarine Officer & Chief Engineer). BSc. mechanical engineering

Sep 5, 2021 • 23min
Ep562: Matan Liberman | Co-Founder, Semperis
Matan is a co-founder of Semperis and leads the company’s Israeli arm, as well as business development. He began his career as a software engineer in the Israel Defense Force, implementing mission-critical systems for the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, prior to getting promoted to Development Team Leader. In this role, Matan gained extensive Microsoft experience and was charged with leading the development of the organizational identity management system from the ground up.

Sep 4, 2021 • 22min
Ep561: Shy Datika | Founder & President, INX
Mr. Datika is the founder and president of INX, a fully regulated digital asset trading platform, for listing and trading cryptocurrencies, security tokens, and their derivatives. INX was the first company in history to file an F1 prospectus with the SEC for a registered security token IPO. Mr. Datika has over 25 years of capital markets experience, trading and building networks, and technology play in the banking and financial industries.

Sep 4, 2021 • 21min
Ep560: Amir Shevat | Head of Product for the Developer Platform, Twitter
Amir is the Head of Product for the Developer Platform at Twitter and a Venture Partner at Innovation Endeavors. Previously Amir held executive roles at Amazon, Slack, Google, and Microsoft. He is the author of two books, on designing bots and building APIs that developers love.

Sep 3, 2021 • 24min
Ep559: Ory Weihs | Founder, Team Odeon
Ory is an experienced founder, executive, and investor. He founded XLMedia PLC, a London-listed performance marketing company in 2003, led it through its IPO, and ran it until 2019. Ory is an investor in companies such as Mews, Medorion, Gigantic and more. His focus is on strong founder-led teams with disruptive technology and sector-specific expertise.

Sep 3, 2021 • 22min
Ep558: Aviv Shapira | Co-Founder & CEO, XTEND
Aviv is an Aerospace Engineer and holds two Emmy Awards for the best broadcasting technology of 2013 and 2015. He co-founded Replay Technologies, which invented a new volumetric video format that has been used at major sports events around the world. After winning two Emmy Awards, Replay was acquired by Intel in 2016. Today he is the CEO of XTEND, in the field of Extended Reality, which aims to give people the ability to fly (!) through an immersive experience using VR and Drones.

Sep 3, 2021 • 22min
Ep557: Yotam Tzuker | Head of Business Development, CQ Global
Yotam Tzuker is the Head of Business Development at CQ Global A leading global search firm located in Israel, helping Israeli-based companies expand globally by finding the best talents for their team. Prior to this role, Yotam has founded Tech7, an NGO that promotes the tech & entrepreneurship ecosystem in Beersheva and the south region of Israel. We have managed to build the largest startup community in Israel with over 15,000 members, and hundreds of activities in our track record. Today Yotam is an active chairman of the board. Yotam holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Ben Gurion University and a GMBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from the IDC.

Sep 2, 2021 • 24min
Ep556: Shahar Cohen | Founder & CEO, Lucid Capital
Shahar Cohen, a software engineer by training, has served in executive product and strategy positions at Tech in Israel and Silicon Valley. Several years ago, he founded Lucid Capital, a tech fund that specializes in global tech stocks as well as late-stage startups. Lucid Capital is a close partner of the leading Israeli institutional investors and assists them in accessing and qualifying direct tech investments both on the global public markets as well as the private ones.


