Panayiotis Lambropoulos, CFA, CAIA, FRM

Portfolio Manager, Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS)

Panayiotis Lambropoulos CFA, CAIA, FRM is a Portfolio Manager at the Employees Retirement System of Texas – a $34 billion retirement plan – located in Austin, Texas. His responsibilities include sourcing, analyzing and evaluating potential third party managers deploying all types of alternative investment strategies. His primary focus is on the Trust’s Absolute Return Portfolio. He also has a leading role for the Trust’s Emerging Hedge Fund Manager program – ERS Launchpad. Panayiotis holds a B.S in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Marketing from Boston College, and an M.B.A in General Management from Northwestern University.

Andy Kaye

President & Chief Institutional Officer, OurCrowd

Prior to joining OurCrowd in 2017 as President and Chief Institutional Officer, Andy spent over 21 years in the finance industry, working with world leading hi-tech and growth companies from all over the globe. His experience includes 7 years at Robertson Stephens where he was CEO and head of their Israel practice and head of two European industry groups. Four years as regional head for CIBCWM's investment banking operation and five years in China as Head of Asia for William Blair, followed by two years in London as Managing Director of EMEA Tech. Throughout his career Andy has excelled in establishing and expanding operations in new and existing markets, developing them to become significant players and industry leaders.

Dan Brahmy

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Cyabra

Laura Flanagan

Co-Chief Executive Officer, Ripple Foods

Laura Flanagan is the CEO of Ripple Foods, a leader in branded plant-based foods and beverages. Laura joined Ripple in October 2019 and is focused on accelerating the company’s revenue and profit growth through innovation, marketing, expanded distribution and optimized supply chain. Ripple’s mission is to make plant-based foods delicious, offering foods and beverages that taste great, are nutritious, and are good for both people and our planet.

Prior to Ripple, Laura was the CEO of Foster Farms, the largest branded poultry producer in the western United States. Laura was CEO from 2016-2019, and drove the highest growth rate and market share levels in nearly a decade, while outperforming the industry in every key metric.

Laura currently serves on the Board of Directors for two public companies: Callaway Golf, the leading brand of golf equipment, and Core-Mark International, the largest distributor of food and broad line products to the convenience store channel.

Prior to Foster Farms, Laura held several leadership roles at ConAgra Foods and PepsiCo.

Laura earned her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1996.

Lou Cooperhouse

Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, BlueNalu

Lou is Co-founder, President & CEO of BlueNalu, with a mission to become the global leader in providing great tasting, cell-based seafood products that are healthy for people, humane for sea life, and sustainable for our planet. As a result, BlueNalu is able to support a more stable and secure global supply chain of seafood, and help to preserve the health, sustainability, and biodiversity of our oceans.

Lou is recognized as a leading global authority in food business innovation and technology commercialization, with extensive leadership experiences throughout his 35-year career in the food industry. Most recently, Lou served as President of Food Spectrum, LLC, a consulting organization that specialized in corporate development and business transformation; and as Executive Director of the Rutgers University Food Innovation Center. Previously Lou served as President & COO of F&S Produce, and as Co-Founder, President and CEO of MenuDirect Corporation. Earlier in his career, Lou held positions of increasing responsibility at Campbell’s Soup, ConAgra, and Nestlé-funded Culinary Brands in areas of business development, product development, quality assurance, and operations. Lou received his MS in Food Science and BS in Microbiology, both from Rutgers University, and has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Rutgers Business School.

Yaniv Maor

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Tevel

Throughout his career, Yaniv has demonstrated the ability to orchestrate multidisciplinary R&D projects, translate ideas into products, and scale them successfully to mass production. Yaniv has written 20 patents plus 8 additional PCT-approved patents for Tevel.

Prior to Tevel, Yaniv was the originator and leader of various successful IAI-Elta-programs (Israel Aerospace Industries).

Prior to ELTA, Yaniv was the VP of R&D at Lumio Inc., an advanced vision systems company developing optical touch-screens solutions. Previously, Yaniv was the Algorithm and Electronics Team Leader at VKB, a startup company that developed and produced virtual laser keyboards. This technological achievement received the prestigious CES Innovation Award in 2007. Yaniv holds a BSc in computer engineering and ME in systems engineering from the Technion.

Yotam Drechsler

Chief Executive Officer, BrainQ

Yotam was born and raised in Ramat Gan, Israel, and grew up within the national religious community and the Bnei Akiva youth movement. Yotam served as a combat officer in the IDF. During the 2nd Lebanon War, two missiles hit his unit, causing severe casualties. Having survived the experience, Yotam vowed to use this gift of his life to good end. He went to school, receiving a B.A. in math, computer science, and cognitive science, as well as an M.Sc. in economics, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then worked at BCG for several years, leading strategic projects in countries around the world. Then, Yotam, seeking to fulfil his post-war promise to himself, co-founded BrainQ, a Jerusalem-based startup that is developing a medical device that hopes to help people paralysed by neurological disorders, such as strokes, get back on their feet. BrainQ has been selected by Google as 1 of 4 companies in the world poised to change healthcare using aritificial intelligence. Yotam often finds himself reflecting on Steve Jobs’s famous talk on “connecting the dots” and feels fortunate to have been able to leverage his academic and business background to lead his team up this Mt. Everest of neuroscience. In 2017 he co-founded Hyperloop-IL, a nonprofit that promotes technology in Israel. Yotam lives today in Jerusalem with his wife Lior and son Yehonatan. He is also a faculty member at IDC Herzliya’s M.B.A. program

Maya Orlicky

Vice President of Strategy, Diagnostic Robotics

Maya Orlicky is a seasoned executive, experienced in shaping business strategies and operations for global companies with sector expertise in the medical and healthcare industries. Currently, Maya is the Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Diagnostic Robotics where she leads the team responsible for the company’s growth strategy, business development, and product roadmap. Prior to joining Diagnostic Robotics, Maya was Chief Operating Officer at Travelsuit, where she built the company's operations and support team and designed a lead generation pipeline that led to a 40% increase in sales. She has served as Strategy and Analytics Manager at Bluevine, a leading fintech company, and as a management consultant for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) working mainly in the healthcare and the financial services spaces. Maya holds an MSc in Biomedical Engineering and a BSc in Biomolecular Science from New York University. She resides in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ohad Arazi

Chief Executive Officer, Zebra Medical Vision

Ohad joined Zebra Medical Vision early 2020, with a mandate to advance the company’s strategy, establish broad adoption of Zebra’s innovative Machine Learning solutions and work with customers to utilize imaging AI to achieve better health outcomes. Ohad has 19 years of experience in general management and product development of solutions in Healthcare IT, Healthcare Services & Medical Devices.

Prior to joining Zebra, Ohad served as the Chief Strategy Officer for TELUS Health, the largest digital health company in Canada. His accountabilities included overseeing the Provider Solutions Business Unit, responsible for delivering Electronical Medical Record systems to 28,000 primary care physicians in Canada.

Before joining TELUS in 2017, he served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Change Healthcare and McKesson’s Cardiology business, a top 3 global market leader in the Cardiology IT segment. As part of an 11 year tenure with McKesson, he served as VP of Product Management for Medical Imaging and held other senior leadership roles within the organization.

Ohad is passionate about developing solutions that bridge healthcare and information technologies. He believes technology can play a tremendous role in transforming outcomes, decreasing cost and enhancing collaboration.

Allen Kamer

Managing Partner, OurCrowd Qure

Allen is the co-founder and managing partner of OurCrowd Qure (www.qureventures.com), Israel’s first exclusively focused digital health venture capital fund. A successful healthcare entrepreneur and corporate executive, Allen previously was a co-founder of Humedica, a transformative digital health company which was sold in 2013 to UnitedHealth. Following the acquisition, Allen served as the Chief Commercial Officer of Optum Analytics (a division in Optum, UnitedHealth Group’s health services company). With over 25 years of health care experience, Allen also was a director at leading healthcare investment bank, Leerink Swann (SVB Leerink), and held management positions at Biogen. He began his career reporting on FDA and policy issues for The Pink Sheet, and received his BA from Brandeis University.

Kfir Kimhi

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, 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.

Mark Gazit

Chief Executive Officer, ThetaRay

Mark Gazit has over two decades of experience in the high tech industry, with a track record of maximizing revenue, net earnings, and shareholder value for startup, turnaround, and rapid growth global organizations in emerging markets and economies.

Before joining ThetaRay as CEO, Mr. Gazit served as a Managing Director of Nice Cyber & Intelligence Solutions, an autonomous division of Nice Systems Ltd. That provides software and hardware solutions to government agencies worldwide in the areas of Information Intelligence, Cyber and Safe Cities. He transformed this division into a fast growing, profitable revenue generator.

Between 2002 and 2010, Mr. Gazit served as Group President & CEO of SkyVision, a global telecommunications company that he took from the start‐up stage to an international company serving over 50 countries worldwide and operation centers on three continents. He has also held pivotal roles in leading companies such as Deltathree, NetVision, NetMedia and Widecom. Mr. Gazit Gazit took Computer Science and Mathematics courses at Hebrew University and studied Senior Business Administration at Tel Aviv University. He also attended an Executive Management seminars at Harvard Business School.

Gazit serves on boards of directors in commercial enterprises and non-profit organization, lectures in leading universities and considered to be an expert in his field. Mark’s background is particularly strong in in technology, growth management and global markets, a field in which he built and led multiple companies, helping them expand globally.

Ronen Yehoshua

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Morphisec

Ronen Yehoshua, co-founder and CEO of Morphisec, has over 20 year of technology management and venture capital experience. Prior to Morphisec, Ronen was a partner at Cedar Fund, an international venture capital firm with over $325M under management. In this strategic, hands-on role, he led investments and resided on the boards of several companies in seed and growth stage. Before that, Ronen held key leadership positions in managing, investing, and collaborating with start-up companies and cutting-edge innovations in software and telecom, such as business and technology consultant to the Hutchison Whampoa group, Investment Director at Partner FutureCom, Director of Business Development and Project Manager at ECI Telecom.

Ron Moritz

Venture Partner, Cybersecurity, OurCrowd

Ron Moritz is a well-regarded cybersecurity industry executive with over 30 years of broad operational, strategy and P&L experience. He served as a member of the distinguished corporate or cybersecurity business unit leadership teams at premier Fortune 500 technology companies Microsoft, Symantec, and CA Technologies, and as CTO of Finjan Software, a first-generation advanced persistent threat start-up, known today as Singtel’s Secure Web Gateway. Most recently, Ron was the CEO of Israeli start-up, BioCatch, an innovator in cognitive biometrics and continuous authentication.

Having served as an adviser to C-level execs, boards of directors, VCs and PE firms on value-creation activities, Ron launched TrueBit Cyber Partners to provide truth, clarity and confidence in cybersecurity investments and acquisitions. At present, Ron is a venture partner with Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding firm, OurCrowd, where he is responsible for enterprise infrastructure software and cybersecurity investments, and entrepreneur-in-residence with Australia’s cybersecurity accelerator, CyRise.

Ron is also a branded computer security industry guru and internationally recognized expert on cyber-crime and cyber-warfare who, at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Justice, served as a delegate to the G-8 High-Tech Crime Conferences on Safety, Security, and Confidence in Cyberspace. He successfully challenged and defeated proposed cybersecurity export control legislation in Israel.

Dr. Gidi Stein

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Medaware

Gidi is a practicing physician, researcher and serial entrepreneur.

Early in his career, Gidi served as CTO and Chief Architect of several algorithm-rich startup companies in Israel.

In 2002, Gidi graduated from Tel Aviv University Medical School and later specialized in internal medicine, treating patients and teaching students and residents in one of Israel’s largest hospitals.

Gidi received a PhD in Computational Biology from Tel Aviv University, harnessing mathematical and biological models to help fight breast cancer.

A few years ago, Gidi co-founded MedAware, utilizing AI to reduce medication-related risks and promote patient safety.

Dr. Gilly Regev

Chief Executive Officer, SaNOtize

Dr. Regev is a biotech executive experienced in launching pharmaceutical enterprises. With her prior work experience, business skills and academic qualifications, Dr. Regev brings a wealth of expertise to her endeavors.

Dr. Regev co-founded SaNOtize in 2017 and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since incorporation. As CEO, she oversees all operations and business activities as well as all aspects of research from bench to clinical trials, regulatory affairs and intellectual property development. She has been leading SaNOtize since incorporation and, together with her team, has achieved significant progress in the past 3 years. She led SaNOtize’s licensing deals and raised over $8M in equity and non-dilutional funding.

Dr. Regev has worked in the field of nitric oxide for the past 12 years, first at Nitric Solutions where she served as Director of R&D, and then later from 2012-2017 as the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer for Bovicor.

Dr. Regev received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004 and has 30 years of research experience with analytical chemistry, redox reactions, antioxidants and different aspects of microbiology.

Eyal Desheh

Chairman, MigVax

Eyal Desheh is the chairman of the board of MigVax LTD, an Israeli research company which is developing a protein based vaccine for the COVID 19 virus.

A veteran of the Israeli pharma and high tech industries, Eyal served as CFO and head of BD at Check Point Software and Teva Pharmaceuticals where is was also interim CEO.

Eyal served on the board of Mobileye which was sold to Intel in a $15 billion transaction and on the boards of a number of additional companies such a Stratasys LTD and ECI telecom. He is deeply involved with the Israel’s high tech and health care industries and serves on numerous boards of promising startups. He holds B.A in economics and MBA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Matthew Kalman

Chief Content Officer, OurCrowd

Matthew Kalman is a journalist, author and filmmaker based in Jerusalem. Matthew has reported for Bloomberg News, MIT Technology Review, Financial Times, Time, Newsweek, London Sunday Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, New York Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Globe & Mail, Chronicle of Higher Education and the San Francisco Chronicle. His television and radio reporting includes PBS, BBC, Channel 4 UK, CTV Canada and CCTV China. He is the author of three non-fiction books and a forthcoming novel.

Graham Gullans

Vice President, Business & Corporate Development, Superpedestrian

Graham is the VP of Business and Corporate Development at Superpedestrian. He has built and invested in multi-modal transportation companies for the past 5 years. Graham is on the Board at Zoomcar, India's largest shared car rental company. Previously, he was the co-founder and COO of LiftMetrix, sold to Hootsuite. He is a trail running, aviation and EV enthusiast.

Adi Pinhas

Chief Executive Officer, Brodmann17

An Inc. 500 CEO. Founded Vigilant Technology (first digital video recording for smart-cities) in 1998, JustVisual (very large scale deep-learning visual search engine) in 2006 and Brodmann17 in 2016 (AI for vision based Automated driving). The three companies were backed by European and Silicon Valley VCs and became market leaders. In my time alone, the companies generated over $100m revenues. At Brodmann17, we believe that the amazing advancements in artificial intelligence, can be mainstreamed in an affordable way without requiring massive hardware and without compromising on quality or performance. To make this a reality, my team and I have engineered core AI algorithms from the ground up. This patented breakthrough in neural-network technology provides a 20X speedup and allows for true edge-computing using low-power processors.