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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Hands on advisor to the CEO leading marketing strategy, messaging, branding, US-GTM, PR/events (including company launch), sales development, open source projects and product market fit.

New York, New York, Us

Hands-on advisor to the CEO on building new product line for SMBs, including GTM, marketing, and growth. Launched website and lead marketing strategy, messaging, branding, GTM and sales development.

Delivers no-nonsense marketing services to early-stage start-ups. I help high-tech companies tell great stories, find product-market fit, define go-to-market strategies, implement winning marketing strategies and attract and retain customers. I have worked with companies in a number of sectors including cybersecurity, e-commerce, wearables, search, health & wellness, finance, legal and voice recognition. Supported over $250M in funding to date.

Tel Aviv , Israel, Il

Worked with the founders on building messaging, product development, GTM strategy, and brand. Acquired by Datadog in August 2022.

Tel Aviv, Israel, Il

Odo’s zero-trust network access platform helps security teams simplify, secure and scale network access management across multi-cloud and on-premises infrastructures.

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Il

Joined fast growing e-commerce search company to create first-ever full stack marketing motion to fuel growth. Repositioned company from "better search results" to thought leader and category owner for "intent buying", supporting $33M Series A lead by Alibaba. Held marketing budget responsibility and full accountability for spend and return.Achievements Include:• Rebranded company delivering new identity, messaging and website (all in-house)• Built first-ever go-to-market plan unifying sales, service, product and marketing around a single motion and goal• Owned competitive analysis and grew product marketing to develop buyer personas with differentiated value-based messaging and positioning• Lead joint marketing and sales partnership resulting in a unified funnel with lead and sales stages• Manage both inbound and outbound lead generation and reporting.• Develop strategies to incorporate PR and media to further enhance brand and build market share (Over 100 articles in leading publications such as Forbes, Wired, TechCrunch and WSJ – Wired Top 100 Hottest Startups 2017).

Tel Aviv, Il

--- Sygnia (Team80) acquired by Temasek for $250M) ---A Tel Aviv and New York-based cybersecurity foundry, building category-leading cyber technology companies. As Team8's first marketing hire, I was charged with both defining and executing Team8's global marketing objectives.Achievements include:• Positioned Team8 as the leading cybersecurity company-creation platform and its CEO as an international thought leader in the space. • Successfully launched Team8's first three portfolio companies - including branding, public relations, analyst relations, trade shows, website design and content.• Worked with Team8 founders and portfolio companies to identify and develop strategic alliances and build major relationships and partnerships.• Conceived and produced Team8 branded event series “Rethink Cyber”. Responsible for creating the agenda/content, partnerships, speakers, co-branding and media relations. The inaugural event was attended by 700+ international CISOs. Event continues to run quarterly in NY, London, Tel Aviv and Singapore.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

LawPal is a project management system for transactional legal work. It acts as 'traffic control' on top of cloud storage platforms giving legal teams and their clients instant visibility on their deal roadmap. Teams could assign tasks, request documents and collect signatures all from a single transaction checklist. Initial funding round led by Peter Thiel via FFAngel.

Tel Aviv, Il

Represented entrepreneurs, start-ups and mature companies, throughout their entire life cycle, on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic collaborations, and debt and equity financings, as well as ongoing counseling on day-to-day corporate matters, deal structuring, and crisis management.

New York, New York, Us

Advised on infrastructure projects and project financing transactions. Represented international banks and financial institutions in connection with large-scale infrastructure projects, such as toll roads, light rail systems, power plants and desalination facilities.

New York, Us

• Represent both commercial lenders and borrowers in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. • Significant experience coordinating and negotiating multi­jurisdictional and multi­currency transactions throughout the world, including representation of Koch Industries, Inc. in its financing of a $22 billion acquisition of Georgia­Pacific Corporation, reported as the second largest going­private transaction in US history.

• Assisted Chief Justice Barak with comparative constitutional research. • Wrote briefs examining the legal issues surrounding the detention of foreign citizens for use as "bargaining chips" in negotiations for the release of Israeli soldiers and whether the Jewish Agency may refuse to lease land to non­Jewish citizens.

Jd, Law

B.A., Philosophy, Highest Honors