Ep257: Jennifer Richard | Principal, Bonfire Ventures

Miriam Mark serves as CRO of Compete, a company revolutionizing the world of HR Tech. Prior to that as an executive member of the core sales team at WeWork she was instrumental in building their global sales organization from acquisition to retention and growth. Miriam began her career at Shopping.com, an online comparison shopping company which was acquired by ebay. Prior to her current position, she led sales at Farmigo, an online farmers market, with the mission to transform and accelerate global adoption of an alternative food system. Before entering the business world Miriam was an educator and that passion drives the training of her teams in all her positions.  Miriam lives with her husband, Ari, and their four children, ages 7 to 16 in Los Angeles, CA.

8 Feb 202221min

Ziv Binyamini is the CEO of Foretellix, a company dedicated to autonomous vehicles verification and safety. He is a world-renowned verification visionary with more than 30 years of experience. Previously, Ziv served as Corporate VP at Cadence, running its simulation and verification business. He also served as VP of R&D at Verisity and at Intel, leading the development of Coverage Driven Verification solutions that changed the way semiconductorsare tested.

6 Feb 202221min

Amalia is a seasoned global leader in ESG, healthcare strategy, and communications. She is a  strategic planner, executer and a visionary manager who effectively drives organizational change aligned with business strategy. Amalia established and leads Global Health and Environment, Social Governance (ESG) unit at Teva Pharmaceuticals (Tel Aviv, Israel) and has recently led the issuance of Teva's 5 billion ESG Sustainability Linked Bond – the largest such bond ever.

6 Feb 202221min

A developer, entrepreneur and a CEO. Yochay is CEO of cnvrg.io which he co-founded to provide data scientists and developers with an end-to-end platform to build and deploy machine learning models. cnvrg.io was acquired by Intel in 2020 as part of its strategy to get into AI software. Prior to cnvrg.io, Yochay was a data scientist providing machine learning consulting services, Ex-IDF Intelligence, A Forbes 30 under 30 and a coder since the age of 7.

4 Feb 202220min

Doug Ludlow is CEO of MainStreet, a company that helps small businesses and startups claim tax credits most accountants never claim. Before MainStreet, he served as Chief of Staff for Google's SMB and NBU Ads, was Founder of Hipster (acquired by AOL in 2012) and Happy Home (acquired by Google in 2016). Doug has a BA in History and Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and currently lives in San Jose with his wife Sara and two children Charlotte and William.

3 Feb 202221min

Edo is SafeBreach's VP of R&D and IL GM, before SafeBreach, Edo served as Mintigo's VP of R&D (Acquired by Anaplan) where he lead the development of the company's engineering and research groups. Prior to Mintigo, Edo was an engineering manager in Microsoft working on several areas such as Telecom, Windows security, and Azure. Edo has also spent time in his career leading teams at several start-ups mostly in networking and network security. Edo holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Bar-Ilan.

2 Feb 202221min

Or was drafted into the Israeli Air Force in 1999 and served as an F-16 fighter pilot for 10 years. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Haifa and an Executive Master of Public Administration from NYU. Upon completing his EMPA, Or joined Supersonic ( Iron Source ) to head their East Coast office. He later on moved back to Israel to join Google as an Industry Manager. Believing that upcoming changes in the regulatory space around the US sports industry will create massive business opportunities, Or decided to start a venture in this market and founded Fantasy Advantage in 2017.

1 Feb 202222min

Akiva was born in Jerusalem and is married with 4 children, currently living in Ness Harim, as close as possible to nature. He holds a master's degree in physics and electro-optics, and worked in a classified position in the defense industries and was the key engineer of the "Arrow 3" missile and of many and varied classified projects. Since 216, he is the founder of Wisesight, a smooth and straightforward smart parking technology for a better parking experience.

31 Jan 202220min