Professional Summary
A dynamic and accomplished AI entrepreneur and leader with a unique background spanning advanced academic research, and founding roles in high-growth tech startups. Proven expert in creating and deploying transformative AI systems including AI Agentsthat drive significant business growth, from scaling a company to unicorn status to adding new revenue streams.
Unicorn Scaling
Played a pivotal role in scaling Sunbit to unicorn status
AI Innovation
Built AI platforms serving 2M+ users with institutional-grade insights
Research Excellence
Published research at ACM SIGIR Conference on AI and game theory
Professional Experience
Head of AI
Tel Aviv, Israel
- Led AI development of first-of-its-kind AI Investments Assistant (AI Agent) for crypto and traditional finance markets
- Building AI platform from ground up to support 2M+ users with institutional-grade market insights
- Collaborating with leading AI research labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) to enhance platform capabilities
- Initiated and and maintained Chaos AI Search Engine - proprietary RAG system with a knowledge base for institutional-grade search
Head of AI
Tel Aviv, Israel
- Led and managed all AI projects from ideation to implementation
- Secured successful collaborations with major telecom companies in France and the US
- Developed AI solutions for mass-scale user engagement and personalized customer journeys
- Added new revenue streams to the company through AI-driven solutions
Co-founder & CEO
- Founded and led Budss, a social payment platform that enables "Buy Together, Earn Together" digital payment method
- Built AI-powered gamification system that incentivizes customers to form group chats and make collaborative purchases
- Worked with ~80+ merchants in NYC
AI Lead & Founding Team Member
Tel Aviv, Israel
- Created and developed core AI-powered risk engine and credit card engine
- Developed Sunbeast program - platform enabling point-of-sale financing
- Played pivotal role in scaling company to unicorn status
- Certified 100K+ in-store professionals, generating a significant revenue stream
- Built the tech and the AI behind the collection center to increase efficiency by 100%
Research & Education
The Technion – Israel's Institute of Technology
Master of Science in AI Research
- Advanced research in information retrieval, game theory, and machine learning
- Teaching Assistant for Information Retrieval course
- Created "Introduction to Data Science" course at the Technion
Key Publication
"Information Retrieval Meets Game Theory: The Ranking Competition Between Documents' Authors"
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (2017)
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