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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Consult, support, and fund startups in segments including fintech, cyber, connected devices, mobility, and wellness.

Palo Alto, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Skip-level to C-suite and trusted consultant to several business units, tasked with negotiating some of the company’s most complex and high-stakes relationships.• Initiated, negotiated, and executed first-of-their-kind deals on behalf of the Exec Committee (CEO, Chief Product, Chief Strategy) and various business units including Logistics, Marketing, Loyalty, Product, and Finance. • Notable highlights include collaborations with Amazon, Hilton, Bank of America, and NBC/Peacock. • Identified previously unrecognized business gaps and opportunities, catalyzing change in areas such as brand strategy, pricing and distribution strategy, competitive positioning, and strategic initiatives. • Led cross-functional teams of over 30 people, recruiting, training, and mentoring high-performing partnership managers.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

Launched the Demand side of a B2B2C transportation marketplace for a $3B privately-held map company.• Developed go-to-market strategy for a suite of five enterprise software products, personally validating the first four customer verticals in the EU and US.• Built the 5-person North American team while playing a central training, leadership, and mentoring role on the Global team as it grew to 26 professionals in only 18 months. • Established cross-functional account management processes to coordinate company-wide initiatives.• Drove initiatives with Product, Legal, and Marketing to guide the business toward new opportunities.

Lead the business side of a 10-person connected-car tech startup. Responsible for all sales, partnerships, customer relationships, marcom and PR. Shared responsibility for BI & competitive strategy, product management, financial planning, fundraising, HR, and everything else.• Developed and implemented Go-To-Market strategy for three never-before-seen B2B SaaS products. • Established dialogues with 30 Fortune 100s. Secured pilot requests from 66% of them. • Deployed with 3 strategic partners: Coca Cola, AstraZeneca, and TomTom (Apple’s map provider).• Responsible for product design from concept, wireframing, and paper prototypes to feature definition and prioritization, all while balancing UX considerations against tech risk and costs. • Executed numerous marcom projects: product and company identity packages, websites, spec sheets, tutorials, and product videos by directing ad-hoc teams of creative freelancers on a startup budget.• Delivered hundreds of presentations to corporates, journalists, VCs, and governments. • Won numerous international awards and competitions with show-stealing pitches, participated in expert panels alongside blue chip C-level executives, and achieved >15 press mentions on zero PR budget.

Crowd-sourced road safety data initiative.

Poleg, Il

Founded an investment company that provided its startups (including Cellepathy, above) with close business support. • Built a deal-flow pipeline to source ~100 investment opportunities and conducted due-diligence on >15 potential deals, investing in four.• Extensive entrepreneurial experience: invention, business model exploration, market sizing (top-down and bottom-up), startup valuations, and modeling complex, highly flexible financial plans.

Yehud, Il

A leading international provider of security, safety and site management solutions and products (NASDAQ: MAGS). Reported to the CEO, VP Business Development, and VP Marketing. • Crafted multiple RFP responses including the winning bid for a $21.4M seaport security system. • Managed the post-merger relationship with an acquisition in Canada; conducted various special projects for channel partnerships.

Zurich, Ch

The Customized Fund Investment Group (CFIG) creates and markets private equity fund-of-funds. Reported to the CFO. • Directly managed investor relationships for 17 fund vehicles (~600 investors), customized proposals to potential clients, prepared market overviews, and on-boarded new institutional clients.• Served as “voice of the customer” on a cross-functional team turning the group’s homegrown fund management software into a marketable FinTech product, designing new features and improving UX.

Tel Aviv, Il

A.B., Near Eastern Studies

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