Ep94: Cindy Padnos | Founder & Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures

Mr. Walsh currently serves as President & CEO for Peachtree Foods Inc. Based in Atlanta, Georgia. Peachtree Foods is the leading breakfast specialty company in the commercial foodservice and hospitality industry.

2 Sep 202221min

Dr. Oleg Konovalov is a thought leader, author, business educator, consultant, and coach with over 25 years of experience operating businesses and consulting with Fortune 500 companies both in the UK and internationally. Konovalov is on the Thinkers50 radar, has been recognized as the #1 Global Thought Leader on Culture by Thinkers 360, and is the #1 Global Leading Coach (Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50). Having been named ‘the da Vinci of Visionary Leadership’ by many leading authorities of our time, Konovalov is helping companies to create and execute their vision, diagnose and treat organizational diseases, maintain a strong productive corporate culture and achieve superior business performance. His research identifies entrepreneurs’ and managers’ strategic needs in the areas of corporate culture, and leadership, and he uses corporate diagnostics, in order to enable them to drive their companies to success.

1 Sep 202224min

Before Anomalo, Elliot was the Chief Growth Officer at Instacart, where he led the company through a massive period of change and hyper-growth. Before that, he held senior product and growth leadership roles at fast-growing companies like Wealthfront and LinkedIn. He began his career as an engineer and product manager at companies like Microsoft and eBay. Elliot is a recognized expert on data-driven product management and consumer growth strategies in Silicon Valley, with numerous talks and publications on these topics. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

31 Aug 202220min

Merav Bahat is the CEO and co-founder of Dazz, who has spent her career creating category-leading technology products and building high-impact teams. Previously, Merav served as GM for the cloud security global business at Microsoft, and was also Deputy CEO of Microsoft Israel R&D, overseeing more than 2,500 employees. Prior, she was Product Strategy Group Director for Microsoft's Cloud & AI Security business unit, and Chief of Products and Business Development of Flash Networks. Merav has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management Engineering from Technion and a Master of Business Administration from Ben-Gurion University and served as a fellow in the Harvard Business School-Kennedy School of Government program. As one of only a handful of female CEO-founders in cybersecurity, Merav is focused on mentoring and empowering women and young leaders.

30 Aug 202219min

Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, a connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hulu, amongst others, to help advertisers bring interactive video to viewers everywhere.

29 Aug 202224min

Eran Bibi is Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Firefly. With years of experience in anything DevOps, he has earned a reputation as a CI/CD expert and an avid admin of Cloud Platforms and Containerized environments.

27 Aug 202221min

Rabea Zioud is an entrepreneur, lecturer, and community leader, zioud started his first business when he was 20 years old and has since been involved in the Israeli startup ecosystem. He has served as the VP for the MENA region at Voiceitt (was the Masschallenge Finalist in 2014) and co-founded Hasoub - a non-profit grassroots movement that turns out to be one of the leading organizations that promote tech and entrepreneurship in Arab society. He is currently the CEO of Hasoub.

26 Aug 202222min

Iesh Dixit is the CEO and Co-founder of Powerplay, an end-to-end construction management SaaS platform that aids in the simplification of communication and synergizing collaboration within project teams in the construction industry. In his capacity within the organization, he heads Powerplay’s corporate team, fostering internal and external communication, implementing the company’s vision, and evaluating the organization’s short and long-term goals. Overall, Iesh supervises the smooth functioning of all departments while overseeing the holistic development of the organization.

25 Aug 202220min