Chief of Justice, BillGuard
I'm Yoav, Itai and Yael's proud Dad and Orly's
lucky man. I build Internets of things and people.
Currently leading an incredible team and
people-powered movement at BillGuard,
an ambitious project to build the world's
first collective vigilance brain capable of
protecting us all from unfair and
unauthorized charges on our bills.
I previously co-founded Pando and
DeskSite and led product and marketing
teams at startups that became publicly
traded companies. My labor of love is
TechAviv, the global Israeli startup
founders club. I was born in Israel, grew
up in the states, and currently play in NYC.
Yaron Samid has been building successful consumer-empowering products and companies since 1997, reaching a combined 150 million users. A three-time entrepreneur, Yaron is driven to better the world by combining his passions for disruptive Internet technologies and elegant user experience design. As founder and CEO of BillGuard, the transaction monitoring and resolution company, Yaron leads a world-class team of data science pioneers protecting consumers from deceptive and unfair charges. In 2012 BillGuard was named one of the top banking innovations of all time by Online Banking Report, and in 2013 was listed by American Banker and Fast Company as one of the world's Top 10 Tech Companies in Finance.
Prior to BillGuard Yaron co-founded P2P CDN leader Pando Networks and DeskSite, and led product and marketing teams at BackWeb, Zend and Register.com. He currently serves on the boards of Pond5 and cloud data security leader CloudLock and is the founder and organizer of TechAviv, the 3,000 member Israeli startup founders club with branches in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston and Tel Aviv.
Yaron is a member of the Obama administration's White House Business Council, a 2012 recipient of Mayor Bloomberg's NYC Venture Fellow Award and a regular lecturer on entrepreneurship at Stanford and Columbia business schools.
BillGuard Inc. is the leading provider of transaction monitoring and resolution services for consumers, merchants and the financial services community. Through its patent-pending crowdsourced big-data analytics engine, BillGuard addresses unique personal finance security challenges in the digital marketplace, ensuring trusted commerce everywhere, on every device. BillGuard analyzes millions of consumer billing disputes to alert debit and credit card holders to deceptive, erroneous and unauthorized charges and facilitates direct-to-merchant online resolution. In 2012 the company was inducted into the Online Banking Report Hall of Fame as one of the top online banking innovations of all time and in 2013 was named by American Banker and Fast Company as one of the world's Top 10 Tech Companies in Finance.
CloudLock makes Google Apps and other cloud-based document/app platforms enterprise-grade secure! It's literally a must-have for companies.
Pond5.com, the world’s first open marketplace for royalty-free stock video footage, is the best way for video professionals to buy or sell stock footage.
TechAviv is the largest global organization of Israeli hi-tech startup founders, executives and investors, with over 2,000 members worldwide by invitation only. We meet monthly in Israel, New York, Silicon Valley and Boston to showcase, discuss and help fellow Israeli startups succeed. Each month, in each of our four locations, founders demo their products followed by bi-directional Q&A with local peers. Casual networking happens before and after the demos. Our mission is to bring the Israeli hi-tech community closer together, creating a global support system for founders by harnessing our extensive collective experience and contacts.
NY Video is the world’s largest grassroots organization of web video entrepreneurs with over 3,200 members. We’re a peer group of startups, content producers, media companies and advertisers that meet monthly to showcase and discuss new products and emerging trends in web video. Each month selected members get 5 minutes to demo their products, followed by Q&A with the group. Casual networking happens before and after the product demos.
Pando Networks is the world's leading commercial P2P content delivery company with over 50 million users and Fortune 500 customers.
DeskSite provides branded content delivery and monetization services for major artists and record labels including Vivendi Universal, Interscope and Bertelsmann.
Sample Artist Channels:
www.50centdesksite.com
www.eminemdesksite.com
www.zend.com
www.backweb.com
www.register.com
What a thrill to share a little of our big mission @BillGuard with hero and icon @BillGates. The only thing more inspiring than what he’s built is what he is giving back. – View on Path.
OK #Glass, you are awesome. Want my POS @BillGuard Merchant Reliability Score app! – View on Path.
Happy Mothers Day to all the supermoms out there, especially the one that made me the luckiest Dad in the world. Love you baby. – View on Path.