Ep1063: Yair Snir | Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital

Dr. Farid is a lecturer and Fulbright scholar at the Technion and MIT, and a member of Harvard’s Leadership Program. He completed his Ph.D. with honors as the youngest graduate at the Technion at the age of 24, focusing on seismic protection of nuclear reactors. He served as a Captain and AI researcher in Unit 8200 and was acknowledged as an excellent Scientist (top 3 academics in the IDF). Farid is the founder and CEO of 'Lilmod Lehatsliach' (Hebrew: Learn to Succeed) – an NGO for empowering youth at risk from the Israeli periphery, and the author of the top seller “Learn to Succeed”.

9 Aug 202118min

Dekel Persi is a founding partner at TPY Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund with over $135M under management. TPY Capital partners with both serial and first-time entrepreneurs seeking partners who share similar values and hands-on support. TPY Capital invested in more than 20 companies including AI21, UniPaaS, H2Pro, Qedma, Pasqal, Paramount Data, TabNine, Signals, Seebo and Enzymotec.

8 Aug 202123min

Sreeram is Director of R&D at VMWare a cloud computing and virtualization company. He runs an R&D team across Geos that provides connectivity and services for workloads that run on multi-clouds using NSX orchestrator or that works based on K8s orchestration. Sreeram has delivered products that help customers to focus on the workloads or apps than on the underlying infrastructure. Sreeram's focus has now been to look at SaaS-based infrastructure services in a multi-cloud scenario.

8 Aug 202123min

Ziv knew he wanted to work in hi-tech since he was 13, he got closer and closer every summer break. Year after year people gave him a chance to do more and learn more, he hopes he's paying his debt today. In his 20+ years, he mostly worked customer-facing and he truly loves the relationship companies develop with their customers and the importance of it in B2B SaaS.

7 Aug 202123min

Shimon established and managed the Software Engineering Infrastructure department for 400 engineers at ironSource. Also, as an AWS Community Hero, Shimon runs the largest AWS user group worldwide and is an avid speaker at conferences. Today, Shimon is the CEO & Co-Founder at Datree, an automated policy enforcement solution for Kubernetes. The CLI tool prevents Kubernetes misconfigurations by ensuring the manifests and Helm charts follow best practices, as well as your organization's policies.

7 Aug 202122min

Co-Founder and CEO of UBQ Materials, Tato is redefining household waste as a valuable material feedstock for the manufacturing industry. Prior to UBQ, he co-founded and managed Merhav Renewable Energies (MRE), where he developed and implemented large-scale wind, solar, and bioethanol projects around the world. Before selling MRE in 2008, Tato served as the President and CEO of Ampal-American Israel Corporation, an investment company traded on both the NASDAQ and the Tel Aviv stock exchanges. A native of Lima-Peru, Bigio grew up in the shores of the Pacific Ocean with a passion for diving and sailing which he carries till today.

6 Aug 202122min

Adam is the co-founder and head of Product of PayMe, an Israeli FinTech company providing financial services to micro-businesses.  PayMe is his 3rd company since leaving the military as an officer in military intelligence

6 Aug 202122min

Sonwabise Mzinyathi started her career in diplomacy and was posted as a Diplomat for South Africa in New Delhi, India. She left diplomacy to join corporate and has worked for PR agencies, tech and FinTech companies including TBWA’s Magna Carta, Cisco, and Refinitiv - a London Stock Exchange Business. Currently, she is in the NGO space working for global advocacy NGO, Global Citizen. She also serves on several Boards and Committees including the SA Women in ICT Forum, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment ICT Sector Council and the Cisco Charitable Foundation Trust and owns several companies. Her passion is using technology to address social ills.

5 Aug 202121min