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

Anat is co-founder and managing partner at Aristagora VC. Prior to establishing Aristagora VC, Anat was a VP, head of the Asia Practice at Discount Capital Underwriting, a subsidiary of Discount Bank. Prior to that, Anat led the Asia Practice at one of Israel's largest law firms. Anat has expensive experience in advising Asian based investors and leading investment transactions in the Israeli tech market. Anat also has broad familiarity in Asian capital markets, assisting Israeli tech companies tapping into these markets for funding and for exposure to Asian partnerships. Anat holds a bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a bachelor of Eastern Asian Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also a graduate of Beijing Language and Culture University, where she majored in Chinese Studies.

10 Feb 202221min

Manu leads the marketing at Walnut.io. He worked for 7 years at Wix, where he managed the social presence and blogs - and took part in 5 Super Bowl campaigns.  He has also spoken about social media content at many marketing events, including Social Media Week. Most recently, Manu created an employer branding video for Walnut that went viral in Israel (and did it in less than a week).

9 Feb 202221min

Miriam Mark serves as CRO of Compete, a company revolutionizing the world of HR Tech. Prior to that as an executive member of the core sales team at WeWork she was instrumental in building their global sales organization from acquisition to retention and growth. Miriam began her career at Shopping.com, an online comparison shopping company which was acquired by ebay. Prior to her current position, she led sales at Farmigo, an online farmers market, with the mission to transform and accelerate global adoption of an alternative food system. Before entering the business world Miriam was an educator and that passion drives the training of her teams in all her positions.  Miriam lives with her husband, Ari, and their four children, ages 7 to 16 in Los Angeles, CA.

8 Feb 202221min

Ziv Binyamini is the CEO of Foretellix, a company dedicated to autonomous vehicles verification and safety. He is a world-renowned verification visionary with more than 30 years of experience. Previously, Ziv served as Corporate VP at Cadence, running its simulation and verification business. He also served as VP of R&D at Verisity and at Intel, leading the development of Coverage Driven Verification solutions that changed the way semiconductorsare tested.

6 Feb 202221min

Amalia is a seasoned global leader in ESG, healthcare strategy, and communications. She is a  strategic planner, executer and a visionary manager who effectively drives organizational change aligned with business strategy. Amalia established and leads Global Health and Environment, Social Governance (ESG) unit at Teva Pharmaceuticals (Tel Aviv, Israel) and has recently led the issuance of Teva's 5 billion ESG Sustainability Linked Bond – the largest such bond ever.

6 Feb 202221min

A developer, entrepreneur and a CEO. Yochay is CEO of cnvrg.io which he co-founded to provide data scientists and developers with an end-to-end platform to build and deploy machine learning models. cnvrg.io was acquired by Intel in 2020 as part of its strategy to get into AI software. Prior to cnvrg.io, Yochay was a data scientist providing machine learning consulting services, Ex-IDF Intelligence, A Forbes 30 under 30 and a coder since the age of 7.

4 Feb 202220min

Doug Ludlow is CEO of MainStreet, a company that helps small businesses and startups claim tax credits most accountants never claim. Before MainStreet, he served as Chief of Staff for Google's SMB and NBU Ads, was Founder of Hipster (acquired by AOL in 2012) and Happy Home (acquired by Google in 2016). Doug has a BA in History and Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and currently lives in San Jose with his wife Sara and two children Charlotte and William.

3 Feb 202221min

Edo is SafeBreach's VP of R&D and IL GM, before SafeBreach, Edo served as Mintigo's VP of R&D (Acquired by Anaplan) where he lead the development of the company's engineering and research groups. Prior to Mintigo, Edo was an engineering manager in Microsoft working on several areas such as Telecom, Windows security, and Azure. Edo has also spent time in his career leading teams at several start-ups mostly in networking and network security. Edo holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Bar-Ilan.

2 Feb 202221min