שופטים

Jonathan Saacks – General Partner, Genesis Partners

Jonathan (Jonny) Saacks is a General Partner at Genesis Partners, a leading Israeli venture capital firm with more than $600 million under management, and sits on the boards of a number of Genesis Partners portfolio companies including Comvaya, Correlix, Innovid and Prime Sense. Jonny was also a board member at Yedda, an internet-based social knowledge search engine, until its acquisition by AOL. Jonny focuses on software investments, and in addition, is responsible for fund operations. Prior to joining Genesis Partners, Jonny worked at Gemini Israel Funds as a principal where he concentrated on software investments and fund operations management.

Ehud Levy – Managing Partner, Vertex Venture Capital

Ehud Levy is a Managing Partner at Vertex Venture Capital, a top-tier Israeli VC with $600 million under management, a strong international investor base and an impressive track record of exits ( www.vertexvc.com ). Ehud is responsible for investments in the fields of digital media, mobile and internet and has two decades of experience in the high-tech industry. Ehud is a Co-Founder and former Chairman & CEO of Ki-Bi Mobile Technologies. Earlier in his career, as COO and CFO of Telegate Ltd., Ehud played a major role in turning the company into a success which culminated in the acquisition of the company for over $400 million by Terayon.

Erez Pilosof – Founder and CEO of Libox, an innovative Personal Media management and sharing platform

Erez Pilosof founded Walla!, the leading Internet Portal in Israel in 1995.
For 11 years, he has led Walla! from Development, User Experience, Content to marketing, he built the first Internet media company in Israel, which is still to date, the leading portal in the Israeli market. Walla! went public at 2001 in TASE.
Mr. Pilosof served as a leading software developer in IDF’s intelligence corps

Ronen Smooha – Developers & .NET Platform Adoption Division Manager

Ronen is a member of Microsoft Israel management team and is responsible for .NET Platform adoption and development technologies adoption across the Israeli market. Ronen is also in charge on creating long term relations and business development opportunities with Israeli ISVs.

Barak Shein – Director, Business Development, Microsoft Israel R&D

Barak leads business development activities with Israeli startups and VCs. He leads Microsoft Israel R&D’s Industry Outreach and is the Israeli member of Microsoft’s Strategic & Emerging Business Team. Before joining Microsoft, Barak held various product management roles at startup companies such as Quigo, Textology, and VocalTec. Barak holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Yoram Yaacovi – CTO and General Manager: Innovation Labs, new ILDC ventures and Academia and Industry outreach

Yoram is the CTO of the Microsoft Israel Development Center (ILDC) and is the General Manager for technologies at ILDC. His responsibilities include the ILDC innovation labs – a greenhouse for breakthrough developments - new technologies and business groups, academia and industry outreach and programs and the technology connection with the Microsoft corporate headquarters.
In 1993 Yoram joined Microsoft in Redmond where he spent 11 years in software development and development management rol

Galya Yemini – High Tech Editor at TheMarker Magazine

Galya Yemini is the Hi Tech Editor of Haaretz/TheMarker. She holds an MBA from University of Toronto, and BA in English and French literature from Tel Aviv University

Maayan Cohen – TheMarker’s  Internet and Technology correspondent

Ms. Maayan Cohen is TheMarker’s  Internet and Technology correspondent. She covers  the Israeli Internet Industry, including Portals, Online advertising and Internet  Start-ups. Ms. Cohen’s articles are published in TheMarker daily newspaper, website and Magazine. This is her second year as the co-editor and co-moderator of TheMarker’s Com.Vention - the annual Internet convention