Chen Yakar

Chief Operating Officer

2024 - Current

We make post-acute care operators (like nursing homes) more profitable by giving their admissions teams a major competitive advantage.

Product Strategy Mentor & Lecturer - Amazon Startup Loft Accelerator

2022 - 2024

Worked with the accelerator’s SaaS startups on product strategy and raising capital.

Product Growth - Associate

2022 - 2023

Built major deal flow partnerships for the firm leading to 10's of millions of USD in profit. Glilot Capital is one of the Top 10 returning VC firms in the world out of 30,000. •Guided over ten Cyber, Fintech, and DevTool Glilot portfolio companies on GTM and product strategy from day 1 to PMF. Including Statement (fintech), Cider Security (acquired by Pal Alto), Polar Security (acquired by IBM). •Partnerships: •Built major deal flow partnerships for the firm leading to 10's of millions of USD in profit. •Formed and managed strong partnerships from scratch with F500 and Unicorn CISOs, CFOs, VP Engineers. Eg. - SVP Engineering Target, CFO Monday.com, CISO ServiceTitan, CISO Sotheby's •Facilitated 100s of potential customer interviews with F500 tech executives, leading to data-driven PMF, design partnerships, POCs, and contracts. 70% of first customers came through these interviews. •Built out Glilot's Advisory Board 200+% increase •Product / MVP Building: Provided portfolio companies with PRDs and product roadmaps based on deep data and market research to achieve successful feature releases that the market actually needs.

Product Growth - Analyst

2021 - 2022

Consultant / Program manager

2018 - 2021

Frost & Sullivan is a leading international management consulting firm with a large share of F500 companies as its customers. •Worked directly with hi-tech CXOs on large scale consulting projects to help them overcome business challenges, build effective strategy and business plans, and raise capital. •Co-managed Frost & Sullivan’s Equity Research Program with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). The goal of the program was to increase trading volume by informing the largest banks and investment entities in the world on investment opportunities. •Achieved phenomenal results: For example, Electreon (TASE: ELWS) had a 100X increase in volume and 5X increase in price after our first coverage. Entities such as Blackrock, Citadel, and UBS bought millions of stocks after reading our reports. •Authored equity research reports including detailed valuations on Israeli TASE/NASDAQ companies. •Drove program growth and international PR on the most prominent financial news portals from the Bloomberg Terminal to Yahoo Finance. •Managed cross-company analyst teams •Gave training webinars on UX/UI and effective communication to leadership of company branches across the world •Responsible for ~10% of Israel office revenue in 2020

Beyond (like Zell but for Graduates) - Postgraduate Fellow

2016 - 2017

Notable companies born out of my cohort include NoTraffic (TIME 100 Most Influential Company 2022 along with Apple, Google etc.), BeeHero, and Pick-a-Pier. •The university’s flagship program is a full-time one-year graduate level program for entrepreneurial leadership and global impact exposing 20 outstanding individuals to the most senior players and global challenges in fields such as cyber, medicine, global warming, and sustainability with the goal of establishing companies to solve them.

Product Manager

2014 - 2016

•Received highest accolade of excellence possible. •Led an R&D team to provide solutions to exceptionally challenging problems. •Developed and instructed a wide variety of training courses.

Researcher

2011 - 2012

Researcher

2010 - 2011

Researcher

2009 - 2010