At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Tel Aviv based CEO’ operating in the Transportation space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Amos Meiri
Co-Founder & CEO of Colu
Amos is the co-founder and CEO of Colu, a venture capital funded start-up that uses blockchain technology to help people reclaim economic power by creating local currencies and building local economies. With his background in the finance and FinTech industries, and having worked for the world’s leading social investment network, he channeled his passion for disruptive technologies into establishing the world’s first bitcoin 2.0 movement, ColoredCoins, in 2012. Amos is a pioneer and champion of the digital currency ecosystem, encouraging the adoption of open source code projects for everyone who wants to explore the possibilities of Blockchain technology.
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About Colu: Using a unique city currency to help local communities flourish
Aviel Siman-Tov
Co-Founder & CEO of FairFly
As the CEO and co-founder of FairFly, Aviel is a thought leader on all things travel data, and remains dedicated to ensuring the company has access to the resources it needs for growth. With seven years of military service behind him as company commander, Aviel holds an LLB/ BBA from the Interdisciplinary Center Israel, is a proud alumni member of the Zell Entrepreneurship program. As a former professional handball player, Aviel remains active, participating in regular sprint and snowboarding events.
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About FairFly: The FairFly platform delivers corporate reshopping tools for air and hotel, and insights to optimize travel policies & negotiated fares .

Nir Erez
Founder & CEO of Moovit
Nir brings to moovit his extensive entrepreneurial experience. He is a Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Eyron, a holding group of software companies and a seed investment group. Nir was the founder and CEO of ActionBase Corporation, a U.S.-based enterprise software company that was acquired in 2003. He was also the founder, COO and a board member at OptimalTest, a leading software company that provides a revolutionary solution to the semiconductors testing world. Prior to moovit, Nir led the investment arm of Eyron Group focused on early-stage software companies. Nir holds a B.Sc. in Physics from Bar-Ilan University and is a graduate of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Computer Science Academy.
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About Moovit: Moovit is Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and #1 public transit app.

Amos Haggiag
Co-Founder & CEO of Optibus
Amos leads, guides, and directs the overall success of Optibus. During his career Amos architected online ad targeting systems, search engines, and the Cortana personal assistant, for Microsoft, Siemens, and Collarity. Amos experience includes: optimization and graph algorithms, machine learning, distributed systems and big data. Amos holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University. He graduated with Dean Excellence, decorated by the Wolf, Intel, and Elkin prizes.
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About Optibus: Optibus is a developer of an AI-enabled SaaS platform for planning and running mass transportation.
Eran Shir
Co-founder & CEO of Nexar
Eran is the CEO and co-founder of Nexar. Prior to Nexar, he was an entrepreneur in residence at Tel Aviv venture fund, Aleph and ran the global Creative Innovation Center for Yahoo!. Eran received his bachelor’s and master’s in physics from Technion-Machon Technlogi Le’ Israel and his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from Tel Aviv University.
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About Nexar: Nexar develops software to protect the user and their business against car crashes and road casualties.

Noam Copel
Founder and CEO of DAV
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About DAV: DAV is a blockchain-based transportation platform. We enable vehicles to discover, communicate, and transact with one another.

Amiad Solomon
CEO & Co Founder of Hip
Amiad Solomon is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Amiad is currently the the Co Founder & CEO of Hip, powering the next generation of Corporate mobility. He also Co Founded Cognata, the world’s leading AI driving simulation platform. Amiad is an active angel investor and board member at Remilk, Spot.io (acquired by Netapp), Payem, Ception among others. Previously, Amiad was a venture partner at Sequoia Capital.
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About Ception, Cognata, Hip, Komoona, Radyoos Media Ltd: Hip is an app-based commuting solution that takes the daily commute from stressful to stress-free.
Daniel Bren
Co-founder and CEO of OTORIO
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Daniel Bren is the Co-founder and CEO of OTORIO, industrial-native advanced MSSP. In addition, he holds cyber-security strategic advisory positions with top management of the automotive and machinery industries. Mr. Bren is retired from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) having served for over 30 years. His last role was the Military Joint Chief Cyber Defence officer in addition to commanding the Joint Military CIO division.
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About OTORIO: OTORIO delivers industrial-native cyber solutions that enable reliable, safe and resilient digital manufacturing.

Ariel Gorfung
CEO of Aquarius Engines – Energy Generation
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About Aquarius Engines – Energy Generation: AQUARIUS – ENERGY GENERATION 100 years after the invention of the Internal Combustion Engine, challenges have changed.

Ronen Bitan
CEO/Co-Founder of Trailze
CEO/Co-Founder at Trailze.
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About Trailze: Trailze is the world’s first ML-based navigation engine designed specifically for micromobility

Eran Balter
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of sPARK Parking Technologies
Eran has lit the initial spark, realizing the potential of an integrative parking solution after endlessly wandering around Tel Aviv and being very late to a meeting. Eran is an entrepreneur and software engineer at heart, who has 14 years of hands-on and managerial experience innovating, defining, implementing and facilitating teams for crafting software products in major companies and start-ups in the field of information security, cyber, mobile and Big Data
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About Polly, sPARK Parking Technologies: sPARK Parking Technologies develops smart parking solutions, including Pollym The Parking Fairy, a mobile parking application.

Zohar Bali
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of sPARK Parking Technologies
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About Polly, sPARK Parking Technologies: sPARK Parking Technologies develops smart parking solutions, including Pollym The Parking Fairy, a mobile parking application.

Omer Weissman
Co-Founder & CEO of Tomindu
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About Tomindu: Tomindu brings transparency to the freight shipping market with online quoting and routing tools

Omer Weissman
Co-Founder & CEO of Tomindu
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About Tomindu: Tomindu brings transparency to the freight shipping market with online quoting and routing tools
Maoz Damti
CEO & Co-founder of FRATEIT
Maoz Damti is the CEO and co-founder of FRATEIT.
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About FRATEIT: Frateit specializes in Intelligent Freight Transportation.