Founder of Gvili Tech Ltd, Yaron Gvili has over 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry in Israel and the US, working on cutting edge technology problems. His passions include bridging research and engineering, and boosting R&D productivity. He is named a sole-inventor of patents in secure communications as well as a co-inventor of others. He has evaluated technologies and companies for venture capitalists managing over $100 billion. His achievements include designing and implementing core speech understanding algorithms in an industry-award-winning product, a proprietary massive-data compression scheme utilized at exabyte-scale, and a multi-petabyte-scale distributed data retrieval system. He has previously worked for Two Sigma Investments LP, a leading systematic hedge fund (world-top-10 by AUM), and Verint Systems Ltd, a leading tech company in customer engagement and cyber intelligence. He holds a M.Sc. in computer sciences, with a mathematical thesis, and a B.A. in computer sciences and economics, all from Tel-Aviv University with distinction.