Jan 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Tel-Aviv, Israel

• Managed the Data and AI strategy at Sphere, driving GenAI solutions for mid-sized and large enterprises. Orchestrated strategic planning, helped secure key deals, and led project execution, delivering cutting-edge products and services.
• Responsibilities and Achievements:
• Developed and implemented a GenAI strategy, positioning the company as an industry leader.
• Designed and launched flagship GenAI offerings, driving revenue growth and market penetration.
• Architected and executed high-impact data, analytics, and generative AI projects across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Successfully integrated GenAI solutions with existing customer systems.
• Led the refactoring of large-scale BI solutions, enhancing performance.
• Spearheaded the development of internal GenAI products and prototypes, fostering innovation within the organization.
• Conducted data maturity and GenAI workshops for business executives, accelerating understanding and adoption of cutting-edge technologies.
• Played a pivotal role in securing deals and increasing revenue through strategic product launches and executive-level engagement.

Sep 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Tel Aviv, Israel

• Managed complex, cross-team projects during a period of significant transformation at Meta Fintech. Worked with diverse engineering and data science teams (200+ person) to meet company business and technical goals.
• Key responsibilities and achievements:
• Worked on Facebook's ambitious Libra initiative and its associated Novi wallet, intended to offer digital financial services to underserved populations worldwide.
• Coordinated efforts across teams focused on fraud prevention, compliance, and customer support. Helped solve fraud detection problems using data and AI models.
• Participated in the sunset of Meta's blockchain project, focusing on data retention and financial compliance.
• Facilitated team transition to support existing Meta payment systems processing over $100 billion annually.
• Developed quarterly and annual plans with OKRs, driving alignment to achieve key business outcomes.
• Managed multiple programs across various geographic locations, driving innovation and maintaining high standards in a fast-moving environment.
• Orchestrated resource management, timeline and scope management, risk mitigation, and dependency management for various high-impact projects, focusing on efficiency and cost reduction.
• Led efforts to improve financial compliance in areas like KYB, KYC, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring.
• Organized regular resource optimization efforts, enhancing data and compute resource utilization.
• Worked closely with engineering and product leaders, and legal teams to ensure regulatory adherence.
• Led post-mortem analyses of critical incidents in Meta's financial services, distilling complex technical issues into business recommendations.

Jan 2021 – Aug 2021 · 7 mos · Tel Aviv, Israel

• Led data strategy and operations for this innovative insurtech company during a period of hyper-growth. Managed data engineering, collaborated with cross-functional teams, and drove innovation and efficiency through data-driven initiatives.
• Key responsibilities and achievements:
• Aligned data initiatives with overall business strategy in close collaboration with executive leadership.
• Developed the data analytics platform, enhancing the company's ability to derive actionable insights from complex datasets.
• Orchestrated data engineering and vendor collaborations for the successful launch of a new car insurance product.
• Worked with data science to improve the predictive models for customer LTV and behaviors, such as claim filing and churn rates, by providing essential data and engineering support.
• Built a robust data infrastructure for multi-channel marketing campaign tracking, enabling precise targeting of potential customers.
• Contributed to the development of an advanced feature store and point-in-time database approaches, enhancing data accessibility and reliability for advanced ML use cases.
• Managed vendor relationships with key data providers and SaaS platforms, negotiating renewals and securing new deals to support the company's data needs.
• Created a vendor inventory and helped establish procurement tracking procedures.
• Worked with CISO on security and compliance audits, supporting them with relevant data points and analysis, establishing necessary procedures to ensure regulatory adherence.
• Optimized Snowflake usage patterns, reducing costs by 20% while maintaining high-performance data operations.

Feb 2020 – Jan 2021 · 11 mos

• Led transformative data and AI strategy for this B2B data powerhouse during a period of hyper-growth and IPO, managing a 200+ person organization across engineering, product, data science, analytics, and research teams globally.
• Key responsibilities and achievements:
• Effectively led a global team through COVID-19, maintaining productivity and innovation during the shift to remote work.
• Unified and restructured two separate data organizations post-acquisition, improving team alignment, processes, and data asset management.
• Oversaw internet crawlers generating over 1 billion data points daily, using NLP, early transformers (BERT) and advanced analytics to extract, merge, and summarize critical business information from diverse sources.
• Played a key role in the company’s launch of a new business intent signals product, coordinating data engineering, data science, vendors, and research teams to provide the necessary data and insights.
• Initiated a comprehensive data quality program, establishing metrics and strategies to improve the accuracy of hundreds of millions of company and employee records.
• Grew the AI department from the ground up, integrating cutting-edge AI solutions with supervised human feedback for continuous improvement.
• Oversaw a multi-million annual budget, including data vendor relationships.
• Participated in due diligence and integration for two strategic startup acquisitions.
• Drove talent acquisition, hiring key leadership roles including Engineering Director and Product Director (Data) to strengthen organizational capabilities.
• Contributed data-related insights during the company's IPO preparation process.

Aug 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Tel Aviv, Israel

• Led the integration of a startup into a hyper-growth enterprise at WeWork, overseeing Customer Intelligence platform. Managed multidisciplinary teams to drive business success and foster a data-driven culture.
• Key responsibilities and achievements:
• Designed and implemented architecture to leverage data and insights, maximizing impact across company operations.
• Recruited, mentored, and managed engineers and engineering managers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.
• Worked closely with internal departments (Sales, Marketing, Real Estate, Analytics) and external vendors to align technology initiatives with business goals.
• Ensured seamless integration with various internal and external systems, enhancing data flow and accessibility.
• Developed a data enrichment platform informing decisions related to potential and existing customers.
• Increased Salesforce account data enrichment from 20% to over 50% overall, and from 50% to 98% for large and enterprise customers.
• Worked with all relevant departments to adopt the platform as the source of truth for data enrichment use cases.
• Improved data quality with existing and new data sources.

Sep 2014 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Tel Aviv, Israel

• Co-founder of a leading Sales Intelligence SaaS company serving hundreds of enterprise clients globally, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, CheckPoint, AOL, WeWork and many others.
• We raised $3M from VCs, generated $3.5M ARR and had a successful exit.

Dec 2012 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Tel Aviv, Israel

• Real-time CFD trading platform with social network and copy trading

Jul 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Rehovot, Israel

• Personalized fitting and styling for women's apparel
• Creating R&D department from scratch
• Building R&D processes and methodology
• System design and architecture
• Project management, resource allocation
• Working with subcontractors in Israel and abroad

May 2006 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Social network website, public API, white label solutions and companion iPhone application
• (the company has been acquired by Yell in 2010)
• Creating R&D department from scratch
• Building R&D processes and methodology
• System design and architecture
• Deep involvement in definition of company goals and roadmap
• Project management, resource allocation and budget planning
• Working with subcontractors in Israel and abroad

Aug 2000 – May 2005 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Rehovot, Israel

• Internet and intranet video communication
• System design and architecture
• Scalability and fault tolerance planning
• Research of new technologies and frameworks