Boardroom Media (CEO News)
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 Social 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.
Sephi Shapira
Founder and CEO of escapex
Sephi Shapira is the founder and CEO of escapex, an innovative platform that empowers celebrities and influencers to own and monetize their digital content. With 20 years of entrepreneurship experience and a true passion for people and how they connect, he brings this mix of technology and fun to his leadership style. Sephi previously founded HLE, which represented companies such as Amdocs and Comverse in Asia selling mobile software solutions to telecom operators. He founded and served as CEO at Interchan, a direct-to-consumer mobile content service provider which sold in 2011 to Edimax. He was also the founder and CEO of MassiveImpact, a top-10 global mobile ad network backed by Softbank and Innov8 Funds and sold to a Singtel group company. Sephi is also a frequent contributor to several technology publications including TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat, Wired, Quartz, and others.
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About escapex: Escapex limited is an internet company that creates a personally owned platforms for celebrities.
Dror Efrat
Founder & CEO of Investing.com
Dror Efrat is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Investing.com. Investing.com is a global financial portal and Internet brand composed of 21 language editions that provide news, analysis, streaming quotes and charts, technical data and financial tools covering the world’s financial markets. Investing.com was founded as Forexpros.com but rebranded at the end of 2012 by purchasing the Investing.com domain for $2.45 million.
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About Investing.com, Oba.com.br: Investing.com is a source for tools and information relating to the financial markets.
Dor Skuler
CEO & Co-Founder of Intuition Robotics
Dor Skuler is the CEO and co-founder of Intuition Robotics, a venture backed startup company currently in “stealth mode” developing an AI driven social robot companion. The company was founded by a proven team with the mission to dramatically improve a major issue in modern society. The company is supported by well known industry leaders and renowned industrial designers. It has developed key technologies in cognitive computing and are using the latest machine learning services to bring its product to market Dor formerly served as Senior Vice President, General Manager of the CloudBand Business Unit at Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) which he founded. CloudBand is a market leading platform for Network Virtualization (NFV). This business was credited as a major driver in Nokia’s decision to acquire Alcatel-Lucent. Prior to this role Dor served as Vice President of Strategy and Head of Corporate Development for Alcatel-Lucent in its corporate headquarters in Paris. Previously Dor held entrepreneurial roles such as General Manager of Mobile Security, a new venture in Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs and Enterprise Business Divisions. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Dor served as Vice-President of Business Development and Marketing at Safend, an endpoint security company. Dor also founded and served as President of Zing Interactive Media, a venture backed startup company in the field of mobile interactive media and NLP. Dor Skuler holds a Master’s of Science in Marketing and an MBA in International Business from Temple University. Dor was selected to Global Telecom Business’ “40 under 40” list in 2009, 2011 and 2013 and is often invited to speak in industry events and is interviewed by the global press. Dor co-authored “Cloud Computing: Business Trends and Technologies” which was published by Wiley in 2016.
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About Intuition Robotics: Intuition designs social companion technologies that positively impacts the lives of older adults.
Efrat Shalem
CEO & Founder of EQUAL
Entrepreneur, tech marketer, & product manager. Founder & CEO of EQUAL, the world’s 1st circular-economy marketplace.
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About EQUAL: The world’s 1st circular-economy marketplace where everyone gives and takes equally.
Sharon Carmel
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Beamr
Sharon Carmel is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in the software space. In 1994, Sharon co-founded Emblaze (LON: BLZ), which developed the Internet’s first vector-based graphics player, preceding Macromedia Flash. The company went public in 1996, and in 2000 made a secondary based on its pioneering cellular video technology, reaching a peak market cap of $4B. In 2001 Sharon founded his second start-up, BeInSync, which developed P2P synchronization and online backup technologies, and was acquired in 2008 by Phoenix Technologies.
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About Beamr, Voyzer: Beamr is an innovative private company comprised of the world’s leading imaging scientists and veterans of the Israeli technology industry.
Eli Mashiah
CEO of Shadow Technologies Ltd.
CEO at SHADOW.COM.
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About Shadow Technologies Ltd., ShareTeGo Ltd.: Shadow.com summarizes user reviews under topics such as products, services, and people.
Noa Eshed
Co-Founder / Co-CEO of Bold Digital Architects
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About Bold Digital Architects: a B2B Inbound Marketing agency, specialize in driving qualified leads into delighted customers and promoters.
Uri Bishansky
Co-Founder / Co-CEO of Bold Digital Architects
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About Bold Digital Architects: a B2B Inbound Marketing agency, specialize in driving qualified leads into delighted customers and promoters.
Uri Bishansky
Co-Founder / Co-CEO of Bold Digital Architects
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About Bold Digital Architects: a B2B Inbound Marketing agency, specialize in driving qualified leads into delighted customers and promoters.
Dan Brahmy
Co-Founder and CEO of Cyabra
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About Cyabra: Cyabra is breaking down social media to empower brands and uncover disinformation.
Moshe David Rubinstein
Founder & CEO of eDrinks
Entrepreneur & Family Man. Founder of eDrinks, a Social Fintech Startup Catering for the Licensed Hospitality Industry and Parent to a Group of Consumer eDrink Apps [CLINX, eFEST, eBarTab]. “You are surrounded by endless possibilities with your potential being the sum total of your beliefs.”- Steven Redhead “If you’re not failing and bouncing back constantly, you’re not trying hard enough” – Kim Perell
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About CLINX, eDrinks: A Digital Wallet and Social Currency for Drinks
Udi Goori
Co-Founder and CEO of MyClique
Founder and CEO at MyClique
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About MyClique: MyClique is the mobile social shopping platform where friends ask, consult and chat about trendy fashion items.
Sagi Niri
CEO, Matomy Media Group of Matomy
Sagi Niri was appointed CEO of Matomy in 2017. He joined Matomy in 2008, one year after the company was established, as Chief Financial Officer, and also served as Chief Operating Officer from 2015. Prior to joining Matomy, Sagi served as the Chief Controller of McCann Erickson Israel Group and Manager at Deloitte Israel. Sagi holds an MBA in Finance from Manchester University and a BA in Corporate Finance from the College of Management in Israel. He is also a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel.
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About Matomy: Matomy is a global media company with superior data-driven advertising technology.
Tal Kreisler
Co-Founder & CEO of NoTraffic – Unbundling Urban Traffic, at Scale.
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About NoTraffic – Unbundling Urban Traffic, at Scale.: NoTraffic is on a mission to digitize the backbone of transportation – our urban intersections, to usher-in true mobility.
Uri Segal
CEO of Quality Score LTD
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About Quality Score LTD: Quality Score LTD is a global performance based digital marketing agency that specializes in large-scale pay-per-click (PPC) advertising.
Edan Ben Atar
CoFounder & CEO of SoPick Ltd.
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About SoPick Ltd.: SoPick provides an on-demand and accessible solution for businesses and private individuals to send and receive parcels 24/7.
Michael Passov
CEO of TargetingS
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About TargetingS: TS Platform – The first fully automated content management platform for social media powered by AI (artificial intelligence)
Noam Ophir
Founder & CEO of P-Kama
Noam Ophir is the Founder and CEO at P-Kama.
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About P-Kama: P-Kama is a gaming company that combines the two online worlds such as Social Networking and Social Games.
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.
Ofer Hendin
Founder – CEO of Okiano Classifieds Ltd.
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About Okiano Classifieds Ltd.: Okiano – Automating eCommerce Advertising
Sagit Attar
CEO of Lendeez
Sagit is an entrepreneur and the Founder of the fintech startup, Lendeez (formerly DoJesta). Has over 20 years’ experience in strategic planning, business development and management, she is one of the leading Israeli experts in market research, consumer insights and advanced data analytics. Prior to DoJesta Sagit was Nielsen Israel CEO, with proven success in leadership, management and business results. With extensive knowledge and wide understanding of possible needs of the consumer Insight industry, accompanied companies in strategic decision point using the most advanced market research tools and analytics. Before Joining Nielsen Sagit worked in several companies in marketing planning, market strategy and marketing research. She played significant role in one of the biggest telecommunication companies (HOT) as Head of marketing research and analytics department and was responsible for developing integrated insights from different sources to improve company strategy and decision making. Sagit holds a bachelor degree in economics and statistics from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an MBA from Tel aviv university.
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About ciValue, Lendeez: Mobile financial service for social lending, AI enabling end-to-end management of digital lending between friends and family.
Alon Shimony
CEO & Co-Founder of Baba Entertainment
CEO & Co-Founder at Baba Entertainment, a Social gaming company with a Twist.
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About Baba Entertainment: Entertainment company creating social online games in HTML5 with Patent Twist
Aia Laser
Co-Founder, CEO of Tippola Ltd
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About Tippola Ltd: Professional’s storytelling creation and distribution platform, helping publishers monetize their websites through content enrichment.
Ido Amir
Founder, CEO of Choozy
Ido Amir is the Data project manager at Gong.io.
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About Choozy: Choozy is a social network that gathers users and businesses around the issue of daily fashion dilemmas.
Tal Wayn
Founder / CEO of P-Pulse
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About P-Pulse: P-Pulse captures the pulse of social and open data and delivers organizations with a geo-based live mapping Platform as a Service.
Shira Chorny
CEO & Founder of Friends4Friends
Shira Chorny is the founder and CEO of Friends4Friends.
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About Friends4Friends: Friends4Friends is an online dating site company.
Lian Matias
Founder & CEO of My Day
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About My Day: My Day is an independent, blog-based web magazine.
Stanislav Bergman
Founder & CEO of SpacePass
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About SpacePass: SPACEPASS is a centralized booking platform, integration hub and SaaS solutions for the coworking and flex-office industry
Oded Zakai
Founder & CEO of KamaKama
Founder & CEO at kamakama.tv
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About KamaKama: Personalized Near-Live Video Clips for Sporting Events
Ido Freidlin
Founder and CEO of Collabrium
Founder and CEO at Collabrium
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About Collabrium: Collabrium is a search companion that contains information on user findings and features such as sharing and collaborating with other users.
Saar Adi
CEO of Astrodita – Astrology Dating App
Entrepreneur
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About Astrodita – Astrology Dating App: Astrodita is a revolutionary online Astrology dating app matching users through an algorithm based on Astrology with 85% match accuracy.
Yogev Ben-Tov
Founder & CEO of Searchin
X3 entrepreneur, Founder & CEO at Searchin. Searchin is an AI-powered talent sourcer that discovers, analyzes and opens a communication channel with potentials candidates – all within minutes. https://searchinco.co
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About Searchin: Searchin is an AI powered talent sourcer discovering & analyzing candidates by skills, personality & company culture – all within minutes
Yaniv Hefetz
Founder and CEO of Becomics
Yaniv Hefetz is the founder and CEO of Becomics.
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About Becomics: Becomics is a free new platform designed for comics lovers.
