The Team
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Tzahi (Zack) Weisfeld
Senior Director Microsoft Global Startup Group
A veteran startup founder with 20 years of working with startups, investors and large corporations.
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Zack’s role at Microsoft includes startup and investor outreach throughout EMEA’s top startup ecosystems, as well as expanding the Microsoft Accelerator model throughout the world
Zack brings extensive experience in executive management, strategy and business development, mostly in leading edge technology companies. Prior to re-joining Microsoft, Zack was Founder, Business and Marketing Officer at Mintigo Ltd. the “Customer Search Engine” company as well as Vice President of Marketing & Strategy at Modu, the modular mobile handset company. Before that, Zack held the position of Director of Business Management at Microsoft Corp. and General Manager Americas and Corporate Vice President for the Mobile Market at msystems (NSDQ: FLSH), which was acquired by SanDisk Corp (NSDQ: SNDK) for 1.6B at the end of 2006. Zack Weisfeld holds an International Executive MBA from Kellogg Business School and Tel Aviv University, as well as B.A. in Economics with Honors from Tel-Aviv University.
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Hanan Lavy
Director of Microsoft Accelerator
Hanan brings more than 20 years of experience in various managerial positions in the software industry to Microsoft.
read moreBefore joining Microsoft Hanan founded and was the CEO of United Parents, a company that developed a revolutionary child protection service on the web. Before that Hanan was Director of Research and Development at Mercury / HP Software for the company’s fastest growing segment, its application monitoring solution, the Business Availability Center.
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Prior to that, Hanan was part of the founding team of Proficiency, a startup which aims to solve collaboration issues between CAD systems. At Proficiency, Hanan held several Research & Development as well as Product Manager positions.
Hanan holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Business Administration (with distinction) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; he also graduated (with honors) the IDF academy of software (Mamram). -
Amir Pinchas
Strategy Finance Manager
A finance professional with over 7 years in finance strategy and business development focused on multinational high tech companies.
read moreIn his previous role Amir led the Capital finance team in Numonyx Ltd. (Intel memory division spinoff) responsible for large scale investments and strategic consulting to senior management. Before that Amir was senior finance analyst at Intel focused on strategic capital analysis and managed over a Billion dollar capital investment budget. Amir also managed over a Billion dollar cash flow of Intel Israel entities.
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Amir holds a B.A. in economics and business management, summa cum laude, and MBA from Tel-Aviv University Recanati business school.