Ep1125: Marc Gaffan: From Soldier to Cybersecurity Visionary: A Journey of Adapting to Customer Needs

Anna Juusela is an entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience in the retail sector, as a teacher and a consultant in the field of trends, profitability, and marketing. Her ambition and interest in future trends and new technologies, as well as her vision and determination to prevent forced marriages and empower women, led her to build an impact startup: We Encourage. They build a conversational AI tool for the victims of domestic violence and a fundraising platform for causes empowering women and girls.

22 Mar 202122min

Robert is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches five different courses on strategy, innovation finance and product management. He is also a General Partner at XSeed Capital and a Venture Partner at Piva. Along with holding executive positions in various startups and enterprises, he is the co-inventor of four patents and served as lead researcher for Andy Grove’s best-selling book, Only the Paranoid Survive. He has a new book coming out later this year on how leading companies are combining the best of digital and physical in products and solutions.

22 Mar 202120min

Batsheva is the Manager of Poalim HiTech Activity, the banking arm of Bank Hapoalim for startups and high-tech companies. Prior, she served as the Strategic Consultant to the Chairman of Bank Hapoalim.  Beforehand, Batsheva was the CEO of Unistream, one of Israel's most influential and impactful NGOs that narrows the socio-economic gaps by empowering youth and young adults from underprivileged communities to establish startups and integrate into the Hitech industry.

21 Mar 202125min

Nimrod is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is the Managing Partner at TAU Ventures, the Tel Aviv University Investments vehicle. Previously he was a partner at Plus Ventures. Nimrod has participated in more than 60 investments in portfolio companies over the past eight years, in companies such as Bringg, YOTPO, WSC Sports, Cimagine, HouseParty, Coralogix and more.

21 Mar 202124min

Yair started attending the Technion during high school, then dropped out of both. He became the youngest Principal Engineer at Intel Israel, and later led the design and development of Cisco's Silicon One SDK from inception to production. Yair is now partially retired, dividing his time between family, mentoring, and writing at beyondgoodandevil.org.

20 Mar 202127min

Margarette is a Program Manager and Entrepreneur with over 15 years of project management, sales, marketing, and consulting experience. She led program development initiatives and delivered multiple large-scale programs transforming businesses and operations, and founded a VR device start-up. She holds a Master's in Sociology helping to understand people’s and organizations’ needs. Margarette is leading a large Russian-Speaking Women in the Tech community where she championing their growth and success.

20 Mar 202122min

Yon is an entrepreneur and company builder. He's the CEO & Founder of Supersocial, with a mission to inspire people to socialize, play and create in the Metaverse, starting with Roblox. Backed by industry-leading investors, Supersocial's ambition is to play an instrumental role in shaping the next era of interactive entertainment. Prior to Supersocial, he co-founded Kano, a computer company recognized by FastCo magazine as one of the world’s most innovative consumer electronics companies. Israeli born, living in the US with his wife Keri.

19 Mar 202122min

Following a degree in Law and Japanese, Emma joined international accounting firm Arthur Andersen, where she set up the Inward Investment practice that attracted overseas companies to locate in the UK. In 2000, bitten by the dot.com bug, Emma left the firm to start her first business, Techlocate, which was acquired after 15 months. Her current company, Enterprise Nation, has expanded to become a small business membership community of over 75,000 people.

19 Mar 202121min