Experience

Tongo

• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CEO

  • Mar 2018 - Present

  Tel Aviv Area, Israel Tongo is the world's 1st tongue-based operating system, enabling users to control digital devices with their tongue - without relying on their hands. Tongo’s patent-pending Smart Brace wirelessly control smartphones, computers, wheelchairs & smart homes. Before coming out of stealth mode, Tongo was funded by the Israeli Innovation Authority, supported by IBM & Hadassah Hospital, won awards from Prize 4 Life ALS Foundation & the MedTech Raanana Accelerator - then finally unveiled at… Show more Tongo is the world's 1st tongue-based operating system, enabling users to control digital devices with their tongue - without relying on their hands. Tongo’s patent-pending Smart Brace wirelessly control smartphones, computers, wheelchairs & smart homes. Before coming out of stealth mode, Tongo was funded by the Israeli Innovation Authority, supported by IBM & Hadassah Hospital, won awards from Prize 4 Life ALS Foundation & the MedTech Raanana Accelerator - then finally unveiled at the Google HQ in both NYC & Mountain View. Show less



Airstrument

• Israel
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Founder

  • May 2015 - Present

  The Airstrument is a wearable, motion-controlled instrument that makes playing music as intuitive as moving your hands. It was featured at TED NYC where I performed a live demo onstage, graduated from the MassChallenge accelerator and the European Union's MusicBricks incubator (Horizon 2020), won an award at Music Tech Fest Scandinavia in 2015 and at MassChallenge Pitching competition in 2017. The device is currently being tested as a musical, gamified platform for hand rehabilitation in… Show more The Airstrument is a wearable, motion-controlled instrument that makes playing music as intuitive as moving your hands. It was featured at TED NYC where I performed a live demo onstage, graduated from the MassChallenge accelerator and the European Union's MusicBricks incubator (Horizon 2020), won an award at Music Tech Fest Scandinavia in 2015 and at MassChallenge Pitching competition in 2017. The device is currently being tested as a musical, gamified platform for hand rehabilitation in collaboration with hospitals and NGOs in Israel, India and Costa Rica. Show less



Corundum Neuroscience

• Israel
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Entrepreneur In Residence

  • Jun 2020 - Jan 2021

  Israel Developing science-backed consumer products that help people experience everyday moments of joy and improve their emotional wellbeing.



California Institute of the Arts

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Music & Technology - Visiting Professor

  • Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

  Greater Los Angeles Area Teaching 3 advanced courses for the 2020 Spring Semester



Shift ↑

• Israel
• Strategic Management Services

• Founder and CEO

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2019

  Rothchild ave 45, Tel Aviv Shift is an impact-driven innovation lab, founded to harness the potential of technology to do good in our world. We work with forward-thinking organization worldwide, while simultaneously developing our own in-house projects.



XPRIZE

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Creative Director - Affordable Housing Team

  • Jun 2016 - Dec 2016

  Greater Los Angeles Area XPRIZE® is an innovation engine, a facilitator of exponential change, a catalyst for the benefit of humanity. We celebrate bold thinkers who are willing to take risks for the sake of innovation. Our incentivized prize competitions have launched the new space industry, resulted in an exponential increase in efficiencies to clean up devastating oil spills, and helped open up a new generation of super fuel-efficient vehicles. The XPRIZE Visioneers challenge seeks to delve into the Grand… Show more XPRIZE® is an innovation engine, a facilitator of exponential change, a catalyst for the benefit of humanity. We celebrate bold thinkers who are willing to take risks for the sake of innovation. Our incentivized prize competitions have launched the new space industry, resulted in an exponential increase in efficiencies to clean up devastating oil spills, and helped open up a new generation of super fuel-efficient vehicles. The XPRIZE Visioneers challenge seeks to delve into the Grand Challenges we see in the world -- and then to set the direction which will inspire the world's top innovators to deliver impossible breakthroughs. I am the Creative Director of the Affordable Housing team - ensuring everyone has direct access to acceptable and affordable housing. Sponsored by Bosa Properties. Show less



TOM Tikkun Olam Makers

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Storytelling / Media, Maker, Consultant

  • Mar 2014 - Mar 2015

  TOM is a global movement that drives assistive technology innovation through the making of affordable open source solutions to real-world challenges facing people with disabilities. In 2014 I was hired to help create the first ever TOM event: my company Shift was responsible for storytelling, video production and photography, media, PR and marketing. During the event, I personally joined a team of makers to build an EEG-powered musical instrument, which translated the brain activity… Show more TOM is a global movement that drives assistive technology innovation through the making of affordable open source solutions to real-world challenges facing people with disabilities. In 2014 I was hired to help create the first ever TOM event: my company Shift was responsible for storytelling, video production and photography, media, PR and marketing. During the event, I personally joined a team of makers to build an EEG-powered musical instrument, which translated the brain activity of a paraplegic man into music and won the ALS Prize for Life award. Since then TOM has spread to produce events all over the world, won a 700,000$ grant from Google and was named a "Technology Company To Watch In 2018" by Forbes. I participated as a maker in one more TOM event in Israel in 2015, and joined as consultant for the first Bulgarian edition of the event in 2017. Show less



GlassBeats

• Founder

  • Dec 2013 - Apr 2014

  GlassBeats is a music application, which turns the Google Glass into a midi controller. 1st place winner at the Google Glass Hackathon in Tel Aviv.



Israeli Film & Television Industry

• Director / Screenwriter / Editor

  • Oct 2004 - Dec 2013

  As a freelancer I wrote for television shows, edited feature films, created a unique format for the National Lottery and directed extensively, specialising in web content. Both my professional work and personal projects have been featured in festivals, exhibits and screenings in Israel and abroad.