Emanuel joined Vertex in 1998 and possesses nearly twenty years of experience working closely with start-ups. Emanuel worked closely with start-ups in the fields of Enterprise, Cyber-Security, Automotive and Networking platforms. Among his most recent successes, his investment in portfolio company Percello led to its profitable acquisition by Broadcom.

Emanuel works closely and sits on the board of directors of Innoviz, E8 Storage, MultiPhy, Sidense, WireX and DB Maestro.

Prior to joining Vertex, Emanuel was an articled apprentice at an Israeli law firm where he acquired expertise in IPOs and M&As. From 1992 to 1997, Emanuel was one of the leading financial journalists for Globes, Israel`s daily business newspaper. He covered the Israeli high-tech and venture capital industry.

Emanuel received a B.A. in Economics and an LL.B from Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Dudu is an expert in AI, Cyber Security, Big Data, IoT, Fintech and Telecommunications. He held roles of CTO, GM, VP R&D, Strategy consultant and co-founder of multiple startups. He has been involved in over 50 patents and research papers.

Prof. Rokach’s research mainly focuses on Data Science, Machine Learning, Big Data and their applications.

Prior to joining Ben-Gurion University, Prof. Rokach was involved for more than 15 years in the Israeli hi-tech industry. In particular, he co-founded and led the R&D of intelligent systems that incorporate AI within data-intensive systems to reason, learn, and act intelligently in the real world.

Rokach has authored several popular books in data science, including Data Mining with Decision Trees. He is also the editor of “The Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook” and “Recommender Systems Handbook”.

Toby is an entrepreneur and business leader with 18 years of, sales, marketing and senior management experience (CEO & Board member) in cyber security, financial, eCommerce & online banking, social networks, cloud tech, SaaS, big data and mobile. Toby has participated in successful start-ups, raised over $55 million, lead all significant contract negotiations for strategic partnerships, key customers, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions.

prooV is a new SaaS platform that dramatically streamlines the pilot process. It’s a disruptive, game changing platform that changes the way tech start-ups acquire customers and enterprises discover new innovations Scalabill.it makes it fast and easy for any B2B/B2B2C tech start-up to run a pilot, evaluate proof of concept and gain traction with major customers in modern Cloud IT and Container-As-Service world.

prooV was founded in 2015 and has raised $21 million to date.

A serial entrepreneur from China, Wen is aware that the impact he alone can make is limited so he has dedicated his life to enabling others to improve the world through mobile innovation. To this end, he started GWC in 2008, a business with the mission to enable mobile innovation that positively impacts mankind by building connections and trust among mobile innovators. He also launched the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing, Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Tokyo, Jakarta, Sao Paulo and Taipei.

GMIC draws tens of thousands of investors to build partnerships, learn from industry thought leaders and highlight how mobile innovation is positively changing the world. As he connects the mobile innovators of the world, he considers himself to be “a little postman of the world” but aspires to be like Christopher Columbus and bring about a “new mobile world” improved by innovation! Wen Chu currently lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and three children. He enjoys traveling the world, reading the classics, practicing calligraphy, golfing and playing chess with friends.

The GWC Innovator Fund is a venture fund focused exclusively on investing in global innovators that are improving the world.

G-Startup Worldwide is GWC’s global startup competition held around the world to find the most innovative, early stage startups, invest $1,000,000 in them, support them with a global network and enable them to change the world.

Re:Tech is an innovation center for fashion, retail and e-commerce technologies. It brings together over 150 startups aiming to change the way fashion is produced, marketed and consumed across channels.

Noam is a seriel entrepreneur and the country manager at iam+, overseeing operations, driving innovation and forming partnerships with startups and innovators in fields of AI, deep learning, health, wellness and IoT.

i.am+ is a Hollywood-based technology company which has raised $123 million to date. It was founded by will.i.am, an artist, singer, performer, 7 times grammy winner and tech entrepreneur. Its vision is to create a community of creatives and coders, and through music and technology as the first step, to usher in a powerful new era built on AI.

Noam joined iam+ in 2015 when iam+ acquired his startup Sensiya.

Yonatan leads the Sports Tech, IoT, Energy & Resources domains for Deloitte’s Innovation Tech Terminal, scouting for multinational companies searching for innovative technologies in these areas, and working closely with start-ups that target these industries.

Yonatan is conducting continuous research on trends and developments in his domains globally and locally, leveraging a wide network of stakeholders in these industries.