Ilya Spitalnik

CEO

London, United Kingdom28 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Transformed Powtoon into a leading AI video platform.
Expert in enterprise AI governance and compliance.
Proven track record in driving innovation in visual communication.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on enterprise AI solutions and visual communication.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementEnterprise Software

Other Skills

AI integrationVisual CommunicationBrand ManagementCollaborationWorkflow ManagementBlockchainBusiness DevelopmentStart-upsOnline MarketingEntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyManagementSaaSSEONew Business Development

About

I have spent 13 years building Powtoon from a scrappy animation startup into a unified AI video platform trusted by 850+ enterprises, including companies like Lockheed Martin, Pfizer and mastercard. Along the way, I learned something that most AI commentary misses: the hard part of enterprise AI is not the technology. It is governance, compliance, procurement, change management, and getting 10,000 employees to actually use the thing you built. Today, Powtoon integrates best-of-breed AI engines (HeyGen, Gemini, ElevenLabs, Google Veo, and more) into a single platform with centralized security, brand governance, and compliance controls. One platform. One audit. One governance model. That is what enterprise AI should look like. I write about what I have learned doing this for real: how to buy AI without creating tool sprawl, how to get regulated industries to say yes, and what happens when you try to turn an entire workforce into innovators. If you are a CIO trying to figure out enterprise AI adoption, a CHRO rethinking how your workforce communicates, or a CFO staring at a spreadsheet of 15 different AI tools your teams bought without asking, I have probably been through your exact problem already. Let's talk.

Experience

28 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

8 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

14 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Visual native

Director

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Visual Native is an Innovation Center and R&D hub dedicated to building, acquiring and merging visual tools and technologies that power the workplace of tomorrow. We adopt new technologies to create simple solutions that solve business and organisational problems for everyone.

Powtoon

Chief Executive Officer

Oct 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 7 mos · London, United Kingdom and Tel Aviv, Israel

Powtoon is the world’s leading Visual Communication Platform. An all-in-one platform for creating, managing, and distributing videos, presentations, dynamic infographics, and all other types of visual communication.
It combines an intuitive creative suite, powerful collaboration, work-flow, and brand management capabilities, and the platform to distribute, track and measure the success of your work — all in one place.

AI integrationVisual CommunicationBrand ManagementCollaborationWorkflow ManagementProduct Management+1

Surevisit

Investor and Chair of Advisory Board

Jan 2011 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Tel Aviv, Israel

Investor, Chairman of Advisory Board and formerly acting COO on behalf of Greenwave.
The SureVisit team has developed a disruptive "rank-as-you-type" technology that addresses the $12bio annual SEO market. SureVisit helps small/medium businesses owners, website managers and web authors achieve top Google ranking with absolutely no prior Search Engine Optimization (SEO) knowledge.

German property investors [gpi]

Founder

Jan 2005 – Jul 2019 · 14 yrs 6 mos

GPI is the “first stop” for international investors entering the German real estate market and an invaluable resource for experienced property investors facing the challenges posed by entering new overseas markets. GPI has established itself as a brand known as the thought leader and spearhead for German property investment.

Oilspace

Greenwave assignment: Business Development/Sales Director and interim COO

May 2001 – Aug 2003 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Charged with aiding in the restructuring of the company to take it from $0 revenue (concept stage) to operational profitability and beyond.
Successfully turned the company into a market leader in providing SaaS, integration and development services to the physical oil industry with 10 out of 10 major oil company clients (>$ 1 Bio T.O).
The company has recently been renamed "Aspect Enterprise Solutions".

Greenwave

Founder

May 2000 – Jul 2019 · 19 yrs 2 mos

Business Consultancy specialising in google-era best business practices, corporate re-focus (turnaround), Business Process Reengineering, Sales and Sales oriented retraining, Marketing with focus on Word-of-Mouth marketing methodologies, identification and launch of new business lines, strategic direction development, market intelligence analysis, identification and implementation of routes to market.

Deutsche bank

Senior Associate Director (Global Markets)

Apr 1998 – May 2000 · 2 yrs 1 mo

At the time of leaving Deutsche Bank, I was directly responsible for launching DB's Online Foreign Exchange Trading System (db-markets e-trade) into the market. db-markets e-trade was the precursor to today's www.dbfx.com a system that has won the Euromoney Foreign Exchange Poll Award, the most prestigious in the foreign exchange industry, for six years in a row until 2010.
Career progression at Deutsche Bank
Senior Associate Director (DB-markets e-trade), Frankfurt
Head of Client Relations, Moscow
FX Options sales, London