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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 Enterprise 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.
Adi Azaria
CEO of Workiz
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About Workiz: Workiz is a provider of an online platform for managing home services work teams.
Tomer Levy
CEO, Co-Founder of Logz.io
Tomer Levy is co-founder and CEO of Logz.io. Prior to founding Logz.io, he has co-founded Intigua and served as the company’s CTO. Before Intigua, Tomer spent six years at CheckPoint, where he managed its Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Software Blade from concept to market. Tomer has an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University and a B.S. in computer science and is an enthusiastic kite surfer.
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About Logz.io: Logz.io provides a scalable and intelligent machine data analytics platform built on ELK and Grafana for monitoring modern applications.
Mickey Hasalvsky
CEO and Founder of Avian
Mickey Hasalvsky is the CEO and founder of Avian.
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About Avian: Avian is a marketplace connecting airlines and travel resellers to establish more dynamic and flexible sales incentives and comissions
Dor Laor
Founder & CEO of ScyllaDB
Dor Laor is the CEO of Cloudius Systems. Previously, Dor was part of the founding team of the KVM hypervisor under Qumranet that was acquired by Red Hat. At Red Hat Dor was managing the KVM and Xen development for several years. Dor holds an MSc from the Technion and a Phd in snowboarding.
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About ScyllaDB: ScyllaDB produces a NoSQL database compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB at 10x the throughput with reliably low latencies.
Gal Rimon
Founder & CEO of Centrical
Gal Rimon founded GamEffective in 2012, with the vision of bringing next generation gamification to enterprise applications. Prior to that he was CEO of Gilon-Synergy Business Insight, a national leader in Business Intelligence. In 2010, Gilon-Synergy was acquired for $ 20 million by Ness Technologies (NASDAQ:NSTC) and Gal went on to serve as Senior VP at Ness, and was member of its executive management. Prior to that he was VP customer relations and operations at Deloitte Consulting. He also worked at EDS and Bashan. He holds a MBA degree in Marketing and Information Technologies from the Tel Aviv University.
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About Centrical: Centrical is an employee-centric success platform that enables employee engagement, development, and performance management.
Yariv Geller
CEO and Founder of vHive
Yariv Geller, CEO and co-founder of vHive brings years of expertise in developing markets for innovative products, technology strategy and execution. Geller was previously CMO of Comverse (NASDAQ: CNSI), a large IT corporation for the telecom industry . Before that, Geller managed marketing and business development of Polychromix (acquired by Thermo-Fischer Scientific), a technology startup in the domain of advanced material sensing. Before that, he was a Team-Leader at POC Consulting, managing strategy, marketing and business development for tech startups and corporations. Geller holds degrees in Physics and Business Administration from Tel-Aviv University (TAU) and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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About vHive: vHive provides a cloud-based software platform that enables enterprises to digitize and analyze assets using autonomous drone hives.
Romi Stein
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenLegacy
Romi serves as Chief Executive Officer of OpenLegacy, the world’s first and only open-source API platform for automated legacy system modernization and integration. In this capacity Romi provides strategic direction and oversees OpenLegacy’s day-to-day execution. Romi has proven experience in all aspects of information-technology business leadership. He has a uniquely deep understanding of how to lead in this market, gleaned from fifteen years at IBM’s global headquarters where he became intimately familiar with how one of the top corporations behind legacy systems operates. At IBM, Romi played a wide range of leadership roles, including Senior Investment Analyst, managing a Country Pricing Group; and Principal Market Development Consultant, where he contributed to the development and growth of new markets in North America and Europe and launched the first industry storage software virtualization family. Romi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Economics and a Master of Business Administration degree, both from Tel Aviv University.
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About OpenLegacy: Legacy system integration, API Integration, microservice-based APIs, digital transformation, serverless functions
Zohar Halachmi
CEO of D-Fend Solutions
Zohar is the Founder and CEO of SellAring. Zohar brings with him over 20 years of experience in senior management, strategic account management, business development, entrepreneurship, technology development, and innovation. In his most recent position before founding SellAring, Zohar served as VP global sales of ECI telecom. Prior to ECI telecom Zohar served as VP Asia at Amdocs, based in Hong-Kong. Prior to Amdocs, Zohar founded Thetis technology where he held the positions of Chairman and CEO. Thetis Technologies, a Boston based start-up developed and market a revolutionary SaaS (Software As A Service) Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) suite for the high-technology industry, and was the first to offer SaaS solution to enterprises. Previously, he spent 3 years with Orckit Communications as CIO, and held development and project management positions at Lucent Technologies and Tower Semiconductors. In his spare time Zohar lectures at the Technion – Israel institute of Technology and at Tel Aviv University.
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About D-Fend Solutions: D-Fend Solutions is the leading counter-drone cyber-takeover technology provider, enabling full control, safety, & continuity.
Ori Manor Zuckerman
Co-Founder & CEO of Substrata
Co-founder & CEO at SubStrata Partner at Valueshine Head of Special Growth Projects at WeWork Founder of Unomy (Acquired by WeWork) Founder & CEO at DiscoverCloud
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About Substrata, Unomy, ValueShine Ventures: Turning Salespeople into Superhumans
Aviv Frenkel
Co-Founder, CEO of Enroute
Aviv Frenkel is the Senior Tech Correspondent at Channel 10 News since October 2003. Being a Tech correspondent and anchorman, means discovering new startups and technologies, in order to unveil the ways human life will change in the future. During his career in Channel 10, one of Israel’s leading TV channels, Aviv has had the privilege to give the public first glimpse on technologies that have transformed society (WAZE and PrimeSense were among the startups I had the honour to be the first TV journalist to introduce to the public). During his career Aviv has been the anchorman of Tech shows on Israeli national TV, has directed documentary films and had the opportunity to interview some of the most influential CEOs in the business, from eBay to Intel, as well as entrepreneurs and investors. Alongside his journalistic career, Aviv is completing his M.A. degree in the department of East Asian studies in the Tel Aviv University, where he has studied Mandarin Chinese as well as history and culture of China. Aviv Mandarin helped him a lot when he was sent to cover the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Channel 10. Aviv is also giving lectures and moderating panels concerning the technology world, in Israel and abroad.
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About Enroute, Nana10: Enroute is a developer of personalized commerce platform which is installed into ride hailing and mass transit applications.
Eyal Lewinsohn
CEO of Iridize
Eyal is a true believer in making digital experiences accessible to everyone. The technology that makes Iridize’s guides come to life is his brain-child. He has been developing software for almost 20 year now, having led R&D teams at RSA, the network security division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), ZoomInfo. Eyal holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University, is happily married and father to 3 kids and a dog.
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About Iridize: Iridize is a powerful platform for creating interactive product guides and walkthroughs for employee training and web users.
Yanir Calisar
CEO & Co-Founder of Whatslly
Experienced Marketing Technologist with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Marketing Automation & CRM, Account Based Marketing, Analytics & Customer Journey. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a BA in Technological Marketing Management, focused in Marketing and Product Management.
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About Whatslly: Whatslly connects individual and business WhatsApp with Salesforce,enabling messaging service to play a critical role in engaging customers.
Gilad Sahar
CEO, Co-Founder of Convexum
Gilad Sahar is Co-Founder and CEO of Convexum, a fully automatic counter-drone perimeter protection solution.
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About Convexum: A pioneering solution for takeover, navigation and landing of rogue or malicious drones
Yoav Dembak
Co-Founder & CEO of Colabo
Yoav is in charge of marketing and product at Colabo. Prior to Colabo, Yoav was an executive at VMware in charge of Product Marketing for the data center management product suite. Yoav was the CEO of B-hive prior to its acquisition by VMWare. Prior to that, he held various marketing and sales roles at Breach Security, Gilian Technologies and Gilat Satellite Networks. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a BA in Computer Science and Business Management. During his military service at the IDF, Yoav was a paratrooper and dog handler at a special anti-terror unit. Yoav is a long-time skateboarder- a sport he is passionate about as a lifestyle, culture and industry
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About Colabo: No-code Platform for creating and operating AI-powered conversational apps
Roy Avidor
Co-Founder and CEO of Cymbio
Roy Avidor is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cymbio.
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About Cymbio: Cymbio expands digital sales channels for brands with fully automated drop ship and marketplace operations.
Yael Rozencwajg
Founder and CEO of Nevelab Technologies
Serial entrepreneur CEO at Blockchain Israel / businesswoman. Global advocate for sustainable initiatives and climate change. Co-chair of a new social venture.
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About Blockchain Israel, Call for Coders, Nevelab Technologies, The Community of Creative Minds: Intelligent Platform for Sustainability Management
Eyal Yechieli
CEO of PowerPlug
Co-founder & CEO at PowerPlug.
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About Power IQ Ltd., PowerPlug: PowerPlug offers organizations Green IT solutions for PC Power Management, enabling savings of up to 60% on PC network energy costs.
Jan Schultink
Founder and CEO of SlideMagic
Jan Schultink is a professional presentation designer and the Founder & CEO of SlideMagic, a new presentation design tool. He is based in Tel Aviv. He started his career as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in its Amsterdam and London offices with a focus on corporate strategy and M&A.
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About Idea Transplant, SlideMagic: SlideMagic is a design tool for business presentations: a desktop app combined with an online template database
Henri BenEzra
CEO of SnatchApp
As the CEO of SnatchBot and SnatchApp (Snatch Group Limited), Henri Ben Ezra is responsible for running all facets of the business. Henri has a proven executive management track record and over 20 years of experience driving sales growth in the technology industry. Prior to founding Snatch Group, Henri was Chief Executive Officer at HGT Telecom in France and LT Telecom in the UK, responsible for all the technological activities. Henri also run various businesses within the Energy and Financial sectors focusing on digital technology. Today, Henri’s expectation while leading SnatchBot is to teach technology to speak and understand human language. Natural language understanding and artificial intelligence are some of the most challenging problems to solve in computer science, requiring sophisticated deep-learning algorithms to be trained on massive amounts of data and infrastructure; SnatchBot wants to democratize these deep-learning technologies and scales automatically, negating the need to manage infrastructure.
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About SnatchApp, SnatchBot: SnatchApp is a cross-platform, and end-to-end encrypted instant messaging and calling app.
Aron Trauring
Founder and CEO of Zoteca
Aron has worked for over 30 years for high-tech companies in the US and abroad. He served in senior positions doing technical development and software project management. He was one of the original developers of Statemate, a statechart simulation tool. Statecharts are now part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Aron is a recipient of the 2007 ACM Software System award for his development work on Statemate. He also served in senior positions doing international sales and marketing for major high tech companies. Among these, he was Director of European Sales for Amdocs. A serial entrepreneur, he co-founded one of the first interactive media agencies in Israel, a dot-com era B2B services company and Zoteca, a company which developed a patented data security/privacy platform. Under his leadership, Zoteca designed and developed the ABO technology from its inception. Along with the original ABO programmers, operations and support team members, he co-founded EBO Nexus.
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About Zoteca: Zoteca is a boutique consulting firm founded in 2000, with a track-record in both enterprise and consumer software projects.
Kfir Kimhi
CEO of ITsMine
Kfir Kimhi is the CEO and co-founder of ITsMine, helping companies to protect their data in an effective, affordable and innovative way. Kfir has over 10 years of practical experience at Check Point as a security architect and manager; he possesses vast knowledge of security design and architecture, solution deployment, risk and incident management, as well as public speaking and training. For the last five years, Kfir ran workshops for over 60 Check Point customers from different industries: Finance (Bank and Insurance), Telco’s, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), ITSE, Industrial and more. During these workshops, Kfir led sessions with the organization’s Security, Operation, Network and Architecture teams, including executive levels. In these sessions, Kfir inquired and reviewed all aspects of the existing security solutions, including deployment, design, architecture and daily operational challenges. After understanding with the customer their security state, and guided by best practices and his vast experience, Kfir built a custom-tailored plan for each Customer to assist in attaining an environment more manageable, sustainable, agile, practical and most importantly – secured. Kfir brings his knowledge, experience and connections in the cyber security world to ITsMine to build data protection technology that companies can work with – addressing the pains with practical solutions. Kfir holds B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
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About ITsMine: ITsMine’s Agentless BeyondDLP™ – Welcome to a New Era of Data Protection.
Matan Holander
CEO of Mobisoft
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About Mobisoft: Mobisoft is a leading provider of mobile software solutions for sales and distribution of consumer goods.
Tal Horowitz
Founder and CEO of YourMove
Tal Horowitz is Founder & CEO at YourMove. He was Founder & CEO at Commex Technologies.
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About YourMove: Average enterprises lose 36% of their revenue due to low employee engagement. YourMove have a solution.
Tal Eyal
CEO of total45
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About total45: total45 designs and develops solutions for PCs, smartphones, and tablets.
Tal Eyal
CEO of total45
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About total45: total45 designs and develops solutions for PCs, smartphones, and tablets.
