Ep853: Ran Ilany | Co-Founder, CEO, Portshift (Cisco company)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Jasmine is the co-founder of the Zensory, combining the latest neuroscience and cutting-edge sensory experiences to help people tap into chosen mood states and increase performance. Jasmine is also co-founder of Health Tech Hive, a global community of change-makers in health tech and conducting award-winning women’s health research. Prior to this, Jasmine worked as a consultant on projects with NHSx on their latest AI Initiative and with Longevity International to facilitate the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity.

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Alon is co-founder and CEO of Roundforest, a global leader in the shopping recommendation space, and an angel investor. Roundforest’s mission is to simplify shopping by helping consumers make better & quicker purchases and ultimately buy with confidence. Over 40 million shoppers rely on Roundforest tools for buying advice every month. Alon founded Roundforest after working at Google,  and before that at Intel’s machine learning team. He holds a BSc in Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.

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