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This list showcases the top Tel Aviv based CEO’ operating in the Robotics 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.
Pavel Hilman
CEO of Sensilize
Sustainability Entrepreneur
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About Sensilize: Predictive analytics and farm management SaaS for cost efficient and sustainable farming.
Ben Alfi
Managing Founder & CEO of Blue White Robotics
Alfi is a seasoned combat pilot and has been working for more than 10 years on Unmanned Systems in the IAF. In his 25 years in the IDF, Alfi served in a variety of positions. From air Attaché of the Ministry of Defense in Turkey to the Head of UAV’s and Special Devices in the IAF. After retiring from the IAF in 2017, Alfi founded BWR, an innovative and successful company in the field of autonomous systems. Due to his almost unparalleled knowledge of UAVs and his capability to bring the most complicated ideas to reality, Alfi has partnered and is a board member with pioneering UAV companies – Easy Aerial, Spear UAV and Camikaze Alfi is a seasoned combat pilot and has been working for more than 10 years on Unmanned Systems in the IAF. In his 25 years in the IDF, Alfi served in a variety of positions. From air Attaché of the Ministry of Defense in Turkey to the Head of UAV’s and Special Devices in the IAF. After retiring from the IAF in 2017, Alfi founded BWR, an innovative and successful company in the field of autonomous systems. Due to his almost unparalleled knowledge of UAVs and his capability to bring the most complicated ideas to reality, Alfi has partnered and is a board member with pioneering UAV companies – Easy Aerial, Spear UAV and Camikaze
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About Blue White Robotics: Blue White Robotics offers custom-made, on-time, and affordable testing and experiment solutions based on military experiment methodologies.
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.
Motti Kushnir
CEO of MOV.AI
Motti Kushnir brings years of marketing, product development and business experience in the high-tech sector. He studied and received his MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Kushnir has managerial professional experience from his years serving as Chief Marketing & Product Officer at Telmap Ltd., VP, GM at Amdocs Ltd., and AVP Marketing for the Mobile Internet Solutions Division at Comverse and as a Director at Motorola.
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About MOV.AI: We provide robotic developers with enterprise grade ROS development & run time environment (Robotics engine platform).
Razi Atuar
Co-Founder & CEO of DUKE Robotics
Raziel Atuar Lt. Col. (Res.) is the CEO of Duke Airborne Systems LTD & Duke Robotics Inc. From 1998 to 2004 Raziel Atuar served in IDF Special Forces Unit, received an Excellence Award, planned and Command Covert Operations. His last position was a combat company leader. From 2005 to 2013 Raziel Atuar served as Special Agent at the Israeli Secret Service on complex missions in foreign countries. From 2013 up 2014, Raziel Atuar provided commercial consulting and management services to IMI LTD (Israel Military Industry). During 2014 , Raziel Atuar Joined as Co-Founder and CEO to Duke Airborne Systems LTD From 2016 Raziel Atuar is the CEO, of Duke robotics Inc. Raziel Raziel Atuar holds a B.A in Geography from Haifa University and M.F.A in Film Studies from Tell-Aviv University. Nationality: Israeli
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About DUKE Robotics: Duke robotics develops advanced robotics products for the defense sector.
Chen Lev
CEO of JUG Technologies
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About JUG Technologies: JUG Technologies combines the physical and digital worlds creating innovative phygital products.
Assaf Friedler
CEO of BladeRanger
Assaf Friedler is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at BladeRanger.
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About BladeRanger: BladeRanger is an Autonomous robots and drones for inspection and cleaning system.
Sagi Eliyahu
CEO of KMS Lighthouse
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About KMS Lighthouse: KMS Lighthouse is a software company in the enterprise Knowledge Management space.
Anton Weiss
Founder and CEO of Otomato
Anton Weiss is the founder, principal consultant and CEO at Otomato – the effective software delivery company. Anton has been building and delivering software for the last fifteen years both at large enterprise companies (AT&T, BMC) and startups. A big fan of technical training and knowledge sharing, Anton was one of the initiators and instructors of the first DevOps certification course in Israel. Anton is a seasoned engineer, but he also holds a BA in Sociology and an MBA, which makes him very keen on exploring the social aspects of collaborative software development. He is a frequent speaker at technology events and a rock star – Ant loves the stage and makes sure his audience stays both entertained and enriched. Firm believer in continuous improvement and organisational transparency.
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About Beame.io, Otomato: Otomato is an expert consultancy specialising in the fields of DevOps, CI/CD, IT transformation and Cloud/Edge Native technologies
