Ep627: Mark Babbitt | President, WordIQ, Co-Author, Good Comes First

Founder Renika J. Smiley first launched Generation NOW as a LinkedIn Networking Happy Hour Event, hosted at local bars. Her first events featured a diverse speaking panel and began with an audience of 40-75 young professionals in Igby's private second floor. Fortune 500 corporate offices soon replaced Igby’s when attendance grew to 200+.

19 Tammi 202222min

Maroua is Sustainable Development Project Manager at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. She is in charge of sustainability community engagement as well. She has been mentoring young leaders and startupers (400+) for more than 5 years now. She is currently the Executive Director and youth mobilizer at Youth SDG Action campaign in Morocco with the sustainable development’s youth organization and was president and co-founder of World Merit Rabat, an international organization that works on the SDGs and youth empowerment where she always conducted projects for youth empowerment and provided impactful opportunities for her members.

18 Tammi 202223min

Karina is a senior director of business development at the Israel Innovation Authority and has a vast experience in helping Israeli startups and companies build innovation strategies and their global presence.

18 Tammi 202221min

Doron Pryluk is a leader in customer experience. With over a decade of experience scaling up customer solutions and professional services teams for companies such as WIX, Guesty, and now GlasssesUSA as an entrepreneur and business owner himself, Doron brings an array of knowledge about how to create outstanding customer experiences and teams.

17 Tammi 202221min

Myriam Glez is the founder of Athletes Soul, a non-profit organization which supports athletes as they transition away from sports and the co-founder of the Women's Sports Forum which promotes the well-being of female athletes. Glez is a former Olympic synchronized swimmer, she competed for France at the 2000 Olympics and for Australia at the 2008 Olympics. She has worked in marketing and sponsorship for Accorhotels in France, Thailand, Australia and French Polynesia. She was a High Performance consultant and coach for British swimming before London 2012. She became the High Performance Director and then CEO of USA Synchronized Swimming after moving to the US in 2012. Glez is passionate about sports and wellness. She lives in Venice,CA with her husband and 11 year old daughter.

16 Tammi 202221min

Before starting Deeb, Nir was a project manager for several startups, then later decided to transition into Business Development roles. He was humbled to get the opportunity to work at Pearl-Cohen Law Firm as an Investment Banker where he launched an initiative to make better connections between startups and investors. A year ago, Nir was reminded of an old idea he had, that started out as a small initiative in the field of employment, that later grew and evolved into Deeb: the idea to fundamentally change the way employment is perceived, and the way people think about employment in the 21st century.

16 Tammi 202220min

Reuben is an experienced marketing executive with an extensive background in building brands and developing sales pipeline via structured demand generation that includes an ABM strategy. He's been with many key organizations like SailPoint, CheckPoint, Comverse, Microsoft and Formula and more recently as VP Marketing for Cyberint. Reuben specialized in B2B enterprise marketing of technology products with focus on cybersecurity during the last 10 years. He built, managed and scaled marketing teams globally and brings a rich knowledge of sales, business development, building partner channels and technology alliances.

15 Tammi 202223min

Noam Rabinovitch is EverC's CTO and co-founder. EverC’s mission is to reduce online payment cyber crimes by developing technology that will enhance the transparency of the internet. Noam has extensive experience in leading development teams, as well as building technology for sophisticated data mining algorithms, machine learning models, and AI. He has recently launched EverC's newest solution for ecommerce, MarketView. This solution is set to eliminate hazardous and counterfeit products sale on marketplaces. Noam is a TAU graduate with a BSC in Computer Science and Economics.

14 Tammi 202221min