20MinuteLeaders

I am Dina Fine, VP R&D at TailorMed Medical, a comprehensive software solution with a mission to help patients and healthcare providers tackle the financial challenges of care delivery. Prior to Tailormed, I was VP R&D Data Collection and B2C at SimilarWeb. I bring almost 20 years of experience in building high-performance, scalable and robust systems. I am passionate about leading high-paced RnD departments, setting up solid and effective development life cycles, with a focus on technological excellence and high standards.

2 Sep 202119min

Gil is the Founding Partner of UpWest, the only Seed fund that's purposefully designed to help Israeli startups break into the US market.  Headquartered in Silicon Valley and operating since 2012, UpWest was the first investor in SentineOne, HoneyBook and 80 other startups that raised over $2B in follow-on funding from top US VCs. Prior to UpWest, Gil was the VP of Operations Management at Yahoo! after working with the company's Corporate Development group. Gil also served as a consultant advising Fortune 500 companies for the Boston Consulting Group in New York.

2 Sep 202122min

Massimiliano Magrini has always worked at the intersection of business and technology, that being the thread across his career from launching the operations of Altavista and Google Italy as founding country manager to creating an avant-garde VC studio in 2009 and then co-founding in 2013 United Ventures, the Milan-based independent venture capital firm investing in digital technologies. Today, Massimiliano’s mission is to back extraordinary founders along their journey to build great companies, from the early to the growth stage. He provides strategic guidance to portfolio companies and leads the investment thesis on game-changing technologies, aimed at the creation of long-term value.

1 Sep 202120min

Eli is the CEO of Bit2C, a company that has developed a trading platform that enables the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies against the shekel, along with the management and preservation of digital currencies and the realization of large-scale transactions. 8 years ago he sat on the sofa playing video games with a friend and thought about opening a company that will make Bitcoin accessible.

1 Sep 202124min

Gad Allon is the Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, and the director of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning educator, teaching courses on scaling technology ventures and operations strategy. Gad’s recent research primarily considers gig workers, quick decision-making, and the communication between firms and customers. He is the co-founder of ForClass, helping professors drive higher student engagement and accountability in the classroom.

1 Sep 202121min

Baratang is an award-winning tech founder and a self-taught software developer with robust problem-solving skills and proven experience in building tech startups, incubators, co-working spaces, and creating, designing software in a test-driven environment. She is the founder of the first African software engineering school focusing on women and girls and worked tirelessly to mobilize governments, corporations, and civil society to invest in women and girls education.

31 Aug 202123min

Ouriel is the CEO of ZenGo, a new generation of All-in-one crypto wallet focused on simplicity and safety. He’s a former executive at ICQ/AOL, founder of TechCrunch France (sold to AOL), Isai.fr (leading French VC) and was general manager of the internet Lab of Gemini and Lightspeed Ventures. Ouriel is French and Israeli, based in Tel Aviv

31 Aug 202124min

Nobukhosi Dlamini is a tech founder of Bahati Tech - a cybersecurity and data protection company with headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the GIFT Foundation, which is a non-profit organization focused on assisting rural and informal settlement-based young women to acquire technical and digital skills to improve their livelihoods and break the cycle of poverty.

31 Aug 202121min