Episode 75: FinTech Journeys Across The World – Israel

Let’s take a trip to the Middle Eastern Silicon Valley – a progressive, disruptive and innovative ecosystem, that our audience must know more about! For this, our Executive Producer Matteo Rizzi, invites old friends and industry leaders to tell us the tales of their backgrounds and introduce you all to the country in the newest installment of “FinTech Journeys Around The World” with Moises Cohen (The Floor), Maya Zehavi, and Avi Arnon (Citi), this week at Breaking Banks Europe.

Connect with our guests:

Maya Zehavi
Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayazehavi/

Avi Arnon
Avi is a venture investor at Citi, focusing on Data Ai and ML globally. Avi started his career as a controller at the startup SundaySky, and was an independent consultant, implementing financial infrastructure at a range of companies —from early-stage startups to publicly traded corporations. Following that, Avi joined the Israeli Ministry of Finance as a Privatization Director, leading privatization processes and representing the Ministry of Finance on the Boards of Directors of government companies. Most recently, Avi was an investor at iAngels, an early-stage venture fund where he focused on enterprise software and cloud innovation.
Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnonavi/
Citi Ventures: https://www.citi.com/ventures/

Moises Cohen
Moises is one of The Floor’s co-founders and a respected thought leader in the Fintech Industry. The Floor is a SaaS platform empowering professionals who sit at the intersection of business and technology to discover vendor opportunities and optimize their stack. Former Financial Services and Technology Lead at Accenture, Moises has extensive experience working with decision-makers from leading global corporates and governments.
Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moises-cohen-78828851/
The Floor: https://www.thefloor.io/

Author, Co-Founder of FTS Group, BBE Executive Producer
About the Author
Matteo Rizzi is an unconventional entrepreneur with two decades of experience in Financial Services, constantly referred amongst the top executives in the industry. He spent 13 years at SWIFT - where he co-founded Innotribe, the innovation arm of the cooperative, launching the first global startup challenge. Since 2013, he has had a FinTech Investor and/or Venture Partner role with global VCs and CVCs (20+ deals, 5 exits). In 2015, he co-founded FinTechStage (now FTSGroup.eu) - a platform for Investors and Innovators to boost FinTech innovation globally. In 2019, Matteo founded Timepledge.org a global initiative to foster financial inclusion and entrepreneurship. The same year he launched Breaking Banks Europe (as the Executive Producer). In 2023, he was appointed Senior Advisor for Elevandi (MAS). He is the author of "The FinTech Revolution" and "Talents & Rebels" and is fluent in 5 languages. X:https://twitter.com/matteorizzi Website: https://matteorizzi.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matteorizziofficial Linkedln:https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteorizzi/ Provoke: https://provoke.fm/author/matteo/
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