Ep334: Sevda Memet | Co-Managing Director, Cardinal Ventures

Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes is the Founder of Aruwa Capital Management, one of the few women owned and led private equity funds in Africa. leading investment professional and CEO with over 13 years of experience in investment banking and private equity in developed and emerging markets across a number of sectors including healthcare, financial services, technology and consumer goods. Adesuwa is an entrepreneur, CEO, mother, investor and women’s empowerment advocate. She is one of the youngest female private equity fund managers running her own fund in Africa, having launched her fund at 29 years old.

26 Jan 202221min

Omer Shirazi, 32, is the Co-Founder and COO of EasySend, a no code platform that transforms any manual process into a digital customer journey . Omer Leads EasySend’s go to market teams globally, but still enjoys running a sales demo on his own every week or two. He is passionate about products, data and integrating innovative software solutions with business processes and human teams.

25 Jan 202221min

Leor is Chief Innovation Officer, Head of Partnerships and Ventures at Mitsubishi Corporation’s (MC) Tel-Aviv Office. Its history dating back to the 19th century, MC is one of the largest Japanese General Trading companies - active in virtually every industry. He joined MC’s new outpost to help effectively connect the vast footprint and resources of a global and traditional corporation with the innovative ecosystem that has developed in Israel. He is Israel’s advocate within the group, identifying synergetic opportunities for collaboration or investment in verticals such as AgriFoodTech, Industry 4.0, Mobility, CleanTech and others.

25 Jan 202221min

David Siegel is the co-founder of startup dispute mediation platform Solvd4, and a partner at Grellas Shah. David is an unusual startup lawyer in having done sophisticated legal work in both transactional and litigation matters: he is an accomplished startup lawyer and litigator who has extensive experience in handling a broad range of corporate, transactional, and intellectual property matters, including work on multi-million dollar financings and acquisitions, all in addition to having a deep expertise in handling complex intellectual property, corporate, and commercial litigation matters.

24 Jan 202220min

Yoel Israel is the founder and CEO of WadiDigital, the world's leading tech marketing agency, and Cyfluencer, the only B2B Tech Influencer Marketing Platform. Yoel is also the founder and host of the youtube channel Israel Unfiltered, a platform for Israeli news and culture. Yoel is passionate about sales, LinkedIn, entrepreneurship.

24 Jan 202220min

Ronen is an entrepreneur and information technologies expert, combines practical and theoretical knowledge in advanced technologies, with proven experience in leading complicated projects in innovative technologies.

21 Jan 202221min

Timor has recently joined Leumi Group as Leumitech’s CEO. LeumiTech is the banking arm for high tech companies. Timor has over 20 years of experience in the high tech industry and held a variety of senior management positions among them Managing Partner at Viola Credit and Chief Operating Officer of EverC, an Israeli fintech startup. At earlier part of her career, Timor was Strategy and Management Consultant at Valoris Consulting and worked with Europe’s large telecom operators. Timor also worked at Intel’s Design Center in Haifa in various project leader and project management roles in the Mobile processors division. Timor holds a BSc (Cum Laude) in Industrial Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from ESADE Business School.

20 Jan 202222min

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 Jan 202222min