Avner Warner 
Head of the Program
Director of Economic Development
Global City Administration, Tel Aviv Municipality

Avner leads strategy and implementation for strengthening the city’s positioning as a global innovation hub. His professional experience is as an attorney in the field of emerging and established technology companies, M&A and venture capital. Avner has also founded and led a number of initiatives both in the profit and non-profit sectors.

BizCamp 2012 - The Mentors

Avichay Nissenbaum 
co-founder & General Partner , lool ventures

Avichay Nissenbaum is a co-founder and General Partner at lool ventures, an early stage venture fund focused on Internet/Mobile/Media in Israel.Prior to lool ventures Avichay served as AOL Israel Country manager, CEO of Yedda Inc. Read More...
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Donna Abrahams
Corporate Storyteller

Donna has worked globally for nearly a decade with Fortune 500 companies and Start-Ups - leading internet, software, bio-med and semiconductor companies. She has consulted and trained clients on behalf of Boyer Communications Group in over 20 countries, helping them create, edit and deliver verbal and written presentations.  Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive to results. 
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Esther Loewy
Founding Partner Bootcamp Ventures

Esther is a founding partner of Bootcamp Ventures, whose mission is to createa unique platform for aligning promising technology start-ups with global investors,partners and customers. Bootcamp Ventures’ 18 global Innovation Summits since2008 - in five countries - has engaged emerging technology companies with leadingactive investors and decision makers in a unique deal oriented environment. 
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Eyal Benjamin
Head, StartHub Entrepreneurship Accelerator
The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo

Eyal  is a serial entrepreneur and head of the StartHub center at the Academic college of the Tel-Aviv Yaffo. Eyal earned a Bsc.in Engineering, a Masters in Entrepreneurship and innovation and a Phd in new venture strategy. Eyals ventures were in the field of IT software, internet and automotive.
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Hanan Lavy
Director of Microsoft Accelerator 

Hanan brings more than 20 years of experience in various managerial positions in thesoftware industry to Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft Hanan founded and was the CEO of United Parents, acompany that developed a revolutionary child protection service on the web. Beforethat Hanan was Director of Research and Development at Mercury /HP Software forthe company’s fastest growing segment, its application monitoring solution, theBusiness Availability Center. Read More...
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Ron Gura
Head Of Israel Social Center at eBay

Ron is the Head of eBay’s Social Center in Israel. Previously, Ron co-founded The Gifts Project in November 2009 and has served as CEO since its inception and until the eBay acquisition, September2011. Ron was named among Israel’s “40 under forty” top professionals by Globes in 2012 (the leading business magazine in Israel)
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Adi Diamant
Director Innovation Labs, Microsoft 


Adi Diamant, a serial entrepreneur (Emblaze, Alphacell, XOSoft, GooMe Interactive and iloop) with more than 20 years of experience in the area of streaming media, web, mobile, and iPTV markets; in both technical and strategic business aspects. Read More...
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Eden Shochat
Early Stage Investor

Eden Shochat is a General Partner focused on seed stage investing at
Genesis Partners, one of Israel most active VCs. Eden has over 15 years of
experience as the founder and Chief Technology Officer of a variety of
software companies, and is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and
technology specialist. Most recently Eden started & supported The Junction, a shared workspace & community in Tel Aviv that's focused on taking entrepreneurs to the next level through a pay-it-forward collaboration model.Read more...
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Eyal Shahar
UX Consultant & Designer

UX consultant and designer for 14 years. Addicted to the junction between technology, psychology, and creative design. BscTe in Visual Communication Design from H.I.T - Graduated with Honor.Formerly VP Technologies & UI, Designer and Co-Founder at Mantis InteractiveMedia and Head of Projects & UI atWalla.co.il. Since 1998, I planned and designed dozens of sites and applications for the web,desktop and mobile for various companies - from small start-ups to international corporates. Read More...
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Raphael Ouzan
Founder & CTO, BillGuard

Cyber and data security expert, Raphael Ouzan leads BillGuard's technology and product teams in its Tel Aviv R&D office. Raphael has been coding professionally since the age of 13 and has been lecturing on big-data, crowdsourcing and cyber security ever since. In 2010, he co-founded BillGuard and built its first version and core technology. Raphael received Israel's highest President's Award for technology innovation and was invited to address world leaders at The World Economic Forum 2012 in Davos, all before the age 25. Read More...
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Shira Abel
CEO, Hunter & Bard

Shira Abel is the CEO of Hunter & Bard - a turnkey marketing agency forstartups, small companies, and entrepreneurs.
She is a thought leader in Israel in the relationship marketing space, working with start-ups and tech companies on buildingand implementing smart marketing strategies that accomplish company goals. Ms. Abel has experience speaking worldwide at conferences, startup incubators, anduniversities on marketing for startups and social media marketing. She also workswith companies to build the marketing into the product.
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Yaron Carni
Tel Aviv Angel Group

Yaron serves as the board member of all of the start-up companies the Tel Aviv Angel Group invests in. In some cases, Yaron proactively serves as the Director of Business Development, which was the case with LabPixies (sold to Google) as well as Contextin(sold to Spark). Prior to that, Yaron was the Head of Business Development of GC Marketing Services in New York before it too made an exit.
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Zohar Dayan
Co-Founder & CEO, Wibbitz

Zohar Dayan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wibbitz, providing automated text-to-video technologies.He has vast experience in product and technology design and has founded several startups before founding Wibbitz.Zohar is a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the IDC and holds a B.A.in Business Administration.During his army service Zohar served as a combat medic in the Paratroopers of the IDF. Read More...
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Biosense Webster, Inc.

Biosense Webster is recognized worldwide as a leader in the science behind the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
The first useful deflectable tip catheter was pioneered by Will Webster more than three decades ago. Ever since, Biosense Webster has defined the state of design and craftsmanship in diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheters. In fact, we offer more Electrophysiology catheter designs than anyone else in the industry. http://www.biosensewebster.com
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Yuval Kaminka
co-founder and CEO, JoyTunes
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Given Imaging, Inc.

Given Imaging is a world leader in GI medical devices, offering the broadest portfolio of capsule solutions to visualize the gastrointestinal tract and, through its Sierra Scientific subsidiary, specialty GI diagnostic solutions and high-resolution manometry. Given Imaging pioneered capsule endoscopy, which is now the gold standard for small bowel visualization, and is supported by more than 1,200 peer-reviewed publications. The PillCam Platform is the recognized leader in this field and more than one million patients worldwide have benefited from PillCam capsule endoscopy. http://www.givenimaging.com
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