Unlocking GRC Potential with AI: A Conversation with Yair Kuznitsov, CEO of Anecdotes

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.

8 Jul 202223min

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.

7 Jul 202222min

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.

6 Jul 202225min

As a researcher, author, and leading advisor to many of America's top executives, Dr. Arin N. Reeves offers expertise and insights on a wide range of leadership and workplace culture topics. For over 20 years, corporate leaders have turned to Arin to consult on their most formidable challenges, both in the workplace and the court of public opinion. Arin is a best-selling author of three books: The Next IQ, One Size Never Fits All, and Smarter Than A Lie. Her latest book, In Charge: The Energy Management Guide for Badass Women Who Are Tired of Being Tired, will be released on March 15, 2022.Arin has designed and led comprehensive research projects on topics including gender equity, generational diversity, LGBTQI diversity, racial/ethnic, diversity, cultural integration, implicit bias, transformational leadership, and working through generational differences.​She is the founder and Managing Director of the research and advisory firm Nextions, which specializes in workplace culture change. Arin began her career as a practicing attorney.

5 Jul 202222min

Dvir started his career in corporates like Partner and Comverse. Dvir was the co-founder and CTO for Eventim Israel the 2nd largest ticketing platform and company in the world selling 300 million tickets a year. In the last 5 years at Eventim he was the VP ML product for the entire group, building complex products based on Big data and ML and leading as CTO the first ever offshore R&D center for Eventim. For the last 2 years I've been the CTO for home365 growing from 4 developers to 40 emp. Dvir is thrilled to have the option to change completely the property management market and make it tech based, accurate , easy and transparent.

4 Jul 202224min

Josh is the CEO and Co-Founder of Komodo Covers, a marine accessories company, that is bringing a new wave of innovation to the marine industry.

3 Jul 202221min

Arona is a cross-cultural business consultant, trainer, mentor, and coach with extensive experience in working with global companies. American by birth, Israeli by choice, and Finnish at heart, Arona is a fan of building bridges and not enthusiastic about walls. With her team at TrainingCQ she helps close the gap between cultures so people can work together more efficiently.

1 Jul 202222min

Ifty is Kissterra's co-founder and active president since 2015, he is passionate about business, innovation, and people. Ifty is a skilled tech entrepreneur, the majority of his career he invested in founding and managing several companies focused on financial services and data management. Prior to his business career, Ifty was a successful Israeli entertainer known for his music and TV show. Ifty holds an L.L.B degree with distinction, a master's degree in Political Science, and he is a graduate of the Linden B. Johnson school of public affairs' leadership program.

30 Jun 202227min