Humans are social animals. We thrive on connecting with each other. The past 30 years have shown us how new forms of communication can enhance our life, amplify our experiences and expose us to new ideas and new people. Yet when it comes to events, not much has changed. We fly halfway around the world to sit in a room with hundreds of others, staring at a screen for 10 hours as speakers present their slides.
When the pandemic hit, we realized that running virtual events can deliver incredible benefits - more participants, more (diverse) speakers, more interactions and less impact on the planet. We also learned that screens cannot replace human interaction. As we look beyond social distancing, we believe that there’s a better way to run events, town halls, conferences, product launches and everything in between.
Imagine a world where you can hold an intimate gathering of 10 people, or scale to a crowd of 100,000. Imagine a world where the most interesting speakers can join your event, without leaving their home. Imagine a world where in-person events are designed as peak experiences. That’s the future we are bringing you, today.
We are an award-winning group of passionate inventors, storytellers, developers, designers and producers who thrive on challenging the status quo in pursuit of our mission to improve people’s lives through the power of extraordinary experiences.
Transport your speakers into gorgeous virtual spaces that elevate your brand and create an immersive experience.
Automatically turn every session into a searchable, interactive article.
Real-time captions, foreign subtitles and dubbing for every session.
White-glove service to plan, manage and produce your event, with playbooks, contingency planning and daily project plans.
Detailed, real-time analytics covering the entire lifecycle of your event.
Meeting suites, chat, real-time Q&A, polls and quizzes.
For the past 20 years, Edo Segal has been at the forefront of where artificial intelligence meets communications. As CEO of Touchcast, which he founded in 2012, his company is facilitating the next generation of communication and collaboration experiences by fusing state-of-the-art advances in mixed reality and artificial reality. In this new era of remote work and enhanced productivity, Touchcast is dedicated to supporting companies through their post-Covid transformation by helping run some of the world’s top virtual events.
A highly sought-after industry pundit, Edo has been quoted in various national and industry media outlets, including CNBC, BBC, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and BizBash. Prior to Touchcast, he served as CEO for over a decade at bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups. A serial entrepreneur, he also founded Screencaster (acquired by Livestream/IAC, 2017), Kinsa (2012), bMuse (2007), Relegence (acquired by Aol, 2006), and Brainboost (acquired by Answers.com, 2005). Additionally, Edo is Director of One Million Guitars, a global non-profit foundation that impacts 50,000 public-education classrooms through the power of musical instruments.
For nearly a decade, Alyson Schwartz has been General Counsel at Touchcast, where she is responsible for providing legal expertise on the company’s strategies and their implementation, negotiating contracts, navigating complex business transactions, and overseeing outside counsel. Before Touchcast, she was an Associate with Weil Gotshal and Manges, one of the world's largest law firms with over 1,000 attorneys. Earlier in her career, Alyson worked for the Office of Cabinet Minister Michael Eitan, an Israeli politician who also served as Minister of Improvement of Government Services during her tenure. She holds a JD degree from New York University, as well as a BS degree in politics from Brandeis University in New York City.
With a career spanning over 20 years in driving customer experiences at global technology-driven companies, Amir Avitzur is Chief Operating Officer for Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in North Carolina. Providing expertise in team-building, mentoring, negotiations, and change-management through the lens of service quality and performance.
He joined Touchcast from Linqia, a leading influencer-marketing platform, where he was Vice President of Operations, and Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB), a leading content discovery platform, where he was Global VP of Operations. Amir started his career at Fundtech (now Finastra), a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world, where he worked for eight years. He holds a degree in computer science and management from The Open University of Israel.
Ati leverages her 15+ years of deep experience across a wide range of industries working with Sis, ISVs, hyperscalers, and Marketplaces. Leading business transformation for hyper-growth companies from the start-up stage towards successful global scale-ups by focusing on effective and efficient scaling across sales, business development, and partnerships – she is today a sounding board to some of the most promising scale-ups across ecosystems and Microsoft.
Dima, based in New Jersey, serves as Touchcast’s Lead Technologist. He joined Touchcast in 2017 and oversees the company’s global engineering and technical operations teams bringing over 15 years of technical experience.
A compassionate, innovative, multi-industry HR leader with experience supporting companies of all sizes, Faith Gabriel-Svaboe is Global Head of People for Touchcast, which she joined in 2021. With a passion for ideating and executing thoughtful programs that spark positive cultural change and drive improved workforce performance, she is drawn to businesses with a purpose-driven approach and commitment to empathy-inspired decisions and actions.
Prior to Touchcast, Faith served as Vice President of Human Resources for four years at mobileforming, a mobile-app developer, where she was responsible for developing the company’s people strategy to support employer value proposition through organizational capabilities, behaviors, team structures, and processes. Earlier in her career, she led Human Resources for AutoMate, a division of HelpSystems, one of the fast-growing automation software-industry leaders. During her tenure, the company was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America, as well as Digital Software Magazine's Software 500, an annual ranking of the world's largest software and service providers. Faith holds a BS degree in business management from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.
Jessica joined Touchcast in 2021, bringing 20 years of experience managing projects and teams, coordinating complicated logistics, and solving challenges. Her career includes extensive work in the film industry, 3D animation, application development, video production, and event coordination.
Jessica started her career in film production and post-production management, working on hundreds of feature films over more than a decade at EFILM in Los Angeles. She managed technical and resource coordination across the spectrum of post services including color grading, VFX, QC, and film restoration. Prior to joining Touchcast, she spent over 5 years as the Producer and Project Manager for Sharecare Reality Lab, a 3D animation studio where she helped develop medically-accurate, real-time simulations of the human body. These assets were leveraged in various media products she produced including video, interactive videos, mixed-reality, VR, AR, and software applications.
Jessica holds a BS in Communications and English from the University of Miami, and an MFA in Film Production from Florida State University.
Michael Kohlmeyer-Hyman co-founded Touchcast alongside CEO Edo Segal in 2012. He evangelizes video as an unparalleled medium for communicating information, building trust, and bringing people closer together. Prior to Touchcast, Michael served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs of bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups, which he also co-founded with Edo in 2007. Earlier in his career, he worked as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Fundtech, a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world. During his five-year tenure, Michael advised the company’s CEO and Board of Directors, while leading M&A and serving on the strategy committee. He earned a JD from Boston University School of Law, as well as a BA degree in history from University of Michigan.
An industry thought leader in digital publishing, innovation, entrepreneurship, and new-product development, Ziv Navoth is Chief Revenue Officer at Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in New York City. Prior to Touchcast, Ziv founded Paragraph in 2010 and served as its CEO for over a decade, with a mission to reimagine publishing by helping people discover, tell, and experience great stories. An accomplished author, he published his first book, Nanotales, in 2007.
Earlier in his career, Ziv was Senior Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships for Aol's social media and communications businesses, which he joined through its $850 million acquisition of Bebo (2008), where he was Vice President of Marketing & Business Development and part of its executive team that led the negotiations and eventual sale of the company. Prior to Bebo, Ziv built and ran EMEA marketing for Decru, a storage-security company (acquired by NetApp, 2005). A serial entrepreneur, Ziv also founded Verve! (2001), a boutique management consultancy, as well as Startup Station Plc (1999), a private-equity firm.
Ziv holds an MBA in Innovation, Strategy, Information & Technology from the Theseus International Management Institute/EDHEC in France, as well as B.A. degrees in both psychology and philosophy from Tel-Aviv University.
For the past 20 years, Edo Segal has been at the forefront of where artificial intelligence meets communications. As CEO of Touchcast, which he founded in 2012, his company is facilitating the next generation of communication and collaboration experiences by fusing state-of-the-art advances in mixed reality and artificial reality. In this new era of remote work and enhanced productivity, Touchcast is dedicated to supporting companies through their post-Covid transformation by helping run some of the world’s top virtual events.
A highly sought-after industry pundit, Edo has been quoted in various national and industry media outlets, including CNBC, BBC, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and BizBash. Prior to Touchcast, he served as CEO for over a decade at bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups. A serial entrepreneur, he also founded Screencaster (acquired by Livestream/IAC, 2017), Kinsa (2012), bMuse (2007), Relegence (acquired by Aol, 2006), and Brainboost (acquired by Answers.com, 2005). Additionally, Edo is Director of One Million Guitars, a global non-profit foundation that impacts 50,000 public-education classrooms through the power of musical instruments.
For nearly a decade, Alyson Schwartz has been General Counsel at Touchcast, where she is responsible for providing legal expertise on the company’s strategies and their implementation, negotiating contracts, navigating complex business transactions, and overseeing outside counsel. Before Touchcast, she was an Associate with Weil Gotshal and Manges, one of the world's largest law firms with over 1,000 attorneys. Earlier in her career, Alyson worked for the Office of Cabinet Minister Michael Eitan, an Israeli politician who also served as Minister of Improvement of Government Services during her tenure. She holds a JD degree from New York University, as well as a BS degree in politics from Brandeis University in New York City.
With a career spanning over 20 years in driving customer experiences at global technology-driven companies, Amir Avitzur is Chief Operating Officer for Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in North Carolina. Providing expertise in team-building, mentoring, negotiations, and change-management through the lens of service quality and performance.
He joined Touchcast from Linqia, a leading influencer-marketing platform, where he was Vice President of Operations, and Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB), a leading content discovery platform, where he was Global VP of Operations. Amir started his career at Fundtech (now Finastra), a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world, where he worked for eight years. He holds a degree in computer science and management from The Open University of Israel.
Ati leverages her 15+ years of deep experience across a wide range of industries working with Sis, ISVs, hyperscalers, and Marketplaces. Leading business transformation for hyper-growth companies from the start-up stage towards successful global scale-ups by focusing on effective and efficient scaling across sales, business development, and partnerships – she is today a sounding board to some of the most promising scale-ups across ecosystems and Microsoft.
Dima, based in New Jersey, serves as Touchcast’s Lead Technologist. He joined Touchcast in 2017 and oversees the company’s global engineering and technical operations teams bringing over 15 years of technical experience.
A compassionate, innovative, multi-industry HR leader with experience supporting companies of all sizes, Faith Gabriel-Svaboe is Global Head of People for Touchcast, which she joined in 2021. With a passion for ideating and executing thoughtful programs that spark positive cultural change and drive improved workforce performance, she is drawn to businesses with a purpose-driven approach and commitment to empathy-inspired decisions and actions.
Prior to Touchcast, Faith served as Vice President of Human Resources for four years at mobileforming, a mobile-app developer, where she was responsible for developing the company’s people strategy to support employer value proposition through organizational capabilities, behaviors, team structures, and processes. Earlier in her career, she led Human Resources for AutoMate, a division of HelpSystems, one of the fast-growing automation software-industry leaders. During her tenure, the company was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America, as well as Digital Software Magazine's Software 500, an annual ranking of the world's largest software and service providers. Faith holds a BS degree in business management from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.
Jessica joined Touchcast in 2021, bringing 20 years of experience managing projects and teams, coordinating complicated logistics, and solving challenges. Her career includes extensive work in the film industry, 3D animation, application development, video production, and event coordination.
Jessica started her career in film production and post-production management, working on hundreds of feature films over more than a decade at EFILM in Los Angeles. She managed technical and resource coordination across the spectrum of post services including color grading, VFX, QC, and film restoration. Prior to joining Touchcast, she spent over 5 years as the Producer and Project Manager for Sharecare Reality Lab, a 3D animation studio where she helped develop medically-accurate, real-time simulations of the human body. These assets were leveraged in various media products she produced including video, interactive videos, mixed-reality, VR, AR, and software applications.
Jessica holds a BS in Communications and English from the University of Miami, and an MFA in Film Production from Florida State University.
Michael Kohlmeyer-Hyman co-founded Touchcast alongside CEO Edo Segal in 2012. He evangelizes video as an unparalleled medium for communicating information, building trust, and bringing people closer together. Prior to Touchcast, Michael served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs of bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups, which he also co-founded with Edo in 2007. Earlier in his career, he worked as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Fundtech, a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world. During his five-year tenure, Michael advised the company’s CEO and Board of Directors, while leading M&A and serving on the strategy committee. He earned a JD from Boston University School of Law, as well as a BA degree in history from University of Michigan.
An industry thought leader in digital publishing, innovation, entrepreneurship, and new-product development, Ziv Navoth is Chief Revenue Officer at Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in New York City. Prior to Touchcast, Ziv founded Paragraph in 2010 and served as its CEO for over a decade, with a mission to reimagine publishing by helping people discover, tell, and experience great stories. An accomplished author, he published his first book, Nanotales, in 2007.
Earlier in his career, Ziv was Senior Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships for Aol's social media and communications businesses, which he joined through its $850 million acquisition of Bebo (2008), where he was Vice President of Marketing & Business Development and part of its executive team that led the negotiations and eventual sale of the company. Prior to Bebo, Ziv built and ran EMEA marketing for Decru, a storage-security company (acquired by NetApp, 2005). A serial entrepreneur, Ziv also founded Verve! (2001), a boutique management consultancy, as well as Startup Station Plc (1999), a private-equity firm.
Ziv holds an MBA in Innovation, Strategy, Information & Technology from the Theseus International Management Institute/EDHEC in France, as well as B.A. degrees in both psychology and philosophy from Tel-Aviv University.
For the past 20 years, Edo Segal has been at the forefront of where artificial intelligence meets communications. As CEO of Touchcast, which he founded in 2012, his company is facilitating the next generation of communication and collaboration experiences by fusing state-of-the-art advances in mixed reality and artificial reality. In this new era of remote work and enhanced productivity, Touchcast is dedicated to supporting companies through their post-Covid transformation by helping run some of the world’s top virtual events.
A highly sought-after industry pundit, Edo has been quoted in various national and industry media outlets, including CNBC, BBC, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and BizBash. Prior to Touchcast, he served as CEO for over a decade at bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups. A serial entrepreneur, he also founded Screencaster (acquired by Livestream/IAC, 2017), Kinsa (2012), bMuse (2007), Relegence (acquired by Aol, 2006), and Brainboost (acquired by Answers.com, 2005). Additionally, Edo is Director of One Million Guitars, a global non-profit foundation that impacts 50,000 public-education classrooms through the power of musical instruments.
For nearly a decade, Alyson Schwartz has been General Counsel at Touchcast, where she is responsible for providing legal expertise on the company’s strategies and their implementation, negotiating contracts, navigating complex business transactions, and overseeing outside counsel. Before Touchcast, she was an Associate with Weil Gotshal and Manges, one of the world's largest law firms with over 1,000 attorneys. Earlier in her career, Alyson worked for the Office of Cabinet Minister Michael Eitan, an Israeli politician who also served as Minister of Improvement of Government Services during her tenure. She holds a JD degree from New York University, as well as a BS degree in politics from Brandeis University in New York City.
With a career spanning over 20 years in driving customer experiences at global technology-driven companies, Amir Avitzur is Chief Operating Officer for Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in North Carolina. Providing expertise in team-building, mentoring, negotiations, and change-management through the lens of service quality and performance.
He joined Touchcast from Linqia, a leading influencer-marketing platform, where he was Vice President of Operations, and Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB), a leading content discovery platform, where he was Global VP of Operations. Amir started his career at Fundtech (now Finastra), a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world, where he worked for eight years. He holds a degree in computer science and management from The Open University of Israel.
Ati leverages her 15+ years of deep experience across a wide range of industries working with Sis, ISVs, hyperscalers, and Marketplaces. Leading business transformation for hyper-growth companies from the start-up stage towards successful global scale-ups by focusing on effective and efficient scaling across sales, business development, and partnerships – she is today a sounding board to some of the most promising scale-ups across ecosystems and Microsoft.
Dima, based in New Jersey, serves as Touchcast’s Lead Technologist. He joined Touchcast in 2017 and oversees the company’s global engineering and technical operations teams bringing over 15 years of technical experience.
A compassionate, innovative, multi-industry HR leader with experience supporting companies of all sizes, Faith Gabriel-Svaboe is Global Head of People for Touchcast, which she joined in 2021. With a passion for ideating and executing thoughtful programs that spark positive cultural change and drive improved workforce performance, she is drawn to businesses with a purpose-driven approach and commitment to empathy-inspired decisions and actions.
Prior to Touchcast, Faith served as Vice President of Human Resources for four years at mobileforming, a mobile-app developer, where she was responsible for developing the company’s people strategy to support employer value proposition through organizational capabilities, behaviors, team structures, and processes. Earlier in her career, she led Human Resources for AutoMate, a division of HelpSystems, one of the fast-growing automation software-industry leaders. During her tenure, the company was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America, as well as Digital Software Magazine's Software 500, an annual ranking of the world's largest software and service providers. Faith holds a BS degree in business management from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.
Jessica joined Touchcast in 2021, bringing 20 years of experience managing projects and teams, coordinating complicated logistics, and solving challenges. Her career includes extensive work in the film industry, 3D animation, application development, video production, and event coordination.
Jessica started her career in film production and post-production management, working on hundreds of feature films over more than a decade at EFILM in Los Angeles. She managed technical and resource coordination across the spectrum of post services including color grading, VFX, QC, and film restoration. Prior to joining Touchcast, she spent over 5 years as the Producer and Project Manager for Sharecare Reality Lab, a 3D animation studio where she helped develop medically-accurate, real-time simulations of the human body. These assets were leveraged in various media products she produced including video, interactive videos, mixed-reality, VR, AR, and software applications.
Jessica holds a BS in Communications and English from the University of Miami, and an MFA in Film Production from Florida State University.
Michael Kohlmeyer-Hyman co-founded Touchcast alongside CEO Edo Segal in 2012. He evangelizes video as an unparalleled medium for communicating information, building trust, and bringing people closer together. Prior to Touchcast, Michael served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs of bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups, which he also co-founded with Edo in 2007. Earlier in his career, he worked as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Fundtech, a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world. During his five-year tenure, Michael advised the company’s CEO and Board of Directors, while leading M&A and serving on the strategy committee. He earned a JD from Boston University School of Law, as well as a BA degree in history from University of Michigan.
An industry thought leader in digital publishing, innovation, entrepreneurship, and new-product development, Ziv Navoth is Chief Revenue Officer at Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in New York City. Prior to Touchcast, Ziv founded Paragraph in 2010 and served as its CEO for over a decade, with a mission to reimagine publishing by helping people discover, tell, and experience great stories. An accomplished author, he published his first book, Nanotales, in 2007.
Earlier in his career, Ziv was Senior Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships for Aol's social media and communications businesses, which he joined through its $850 million acquisition of Bebo (2008), where he was Vice President of Marketing & Business Development and part of its executive team that led the negotiations and eventual sale of the company. Prior to Bebo, Ziv built and ran EMEA marketing for Decru, a storage-security company (acquired by NetApp, 2005). A serial entrepreneur, Ziv also founded Verve! (2001), a boutique management consultancy, as well as Startup Station Plc (1999), a private-equity firm.
Ziv holds an MBA in Innovation, Strategy, Information & Technology from the Theseus International Management Institute/EDHEC in France, as well as B.A. degrees in both psychology and philosophy from Tel-Aviv University.
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The world’s leading companies have identified the metaverse as a solution to their core business challenges, but no one knows how to get there. That’s because the current market is fragmented and dominated by consumer applications.
Our Metaverse-as-a-Service platform offers a complete framework for the build and run of large-scale client metaverse deployments.
Whether you are looking to reimagine sales, education, or communications and whether you’re trying to reach 100s or 100,000s of people, Touchcast makes it possible to launch immersive metaverse experiences at lightning speed.
We’re an award-winning group of passionate inventors, storytellers, developers, designers and producers who thrive on challenging the status quo in pursuit of our mission to improve people’s lives through the power of extraordinary experiences.
Transport your speakers into gorgeous virtual spaces that elevate your brand and create an immersive experience.
Automatically turn every session into a searchable, interactive article.
Real-time captions, foreign subtitles and dubbing for every session.
White-glove service to plan, manage and produce your event, with playbooks, contingency planning and daily project plans.
Detailed, real-time analytics covering the entire lifecycle of your event.
Meeting suites, chat, real-time Q&A, polls and quizzes.
For the past 20 years, Edo Segal has been at the forefront of where artificial intelligence meets communications. As CEO of Touchcast, which he founded in 2012, his company is facilitating the next generation of communication and collaboration experiences by fusing state-of-the-art advances in mixed reality and artificial reality. In this new era of remote work and enhanced productivity, Touchcast is dedicated to supporting companies through their post-Covid transformation by helping run some of the world’s top virtual events.
A highly sought-after industry pundit, Edo has been quoted in various national and industry media outlets, including CNBC, BBC, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and BizBash. Prior to Touchcast, he served as CEO for over a decade at bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups. A serial entrepreneur, he also founded Screencaster (acquired by Livestream/IAC, 2017), Kinsa (2012), bMuse (2007), Relegence (acquired by Aol, 2006), and Brainboost (acquired by Answers.com, 2005). Additionally, Edo is Director of One Million Guitars, a global non-profit foundation that impacts 50,000 public-education classrooms through the power of musical instruments.
For nearly a decade, Alyson Schwartz has been General Counsel at Touchcast, where she is responsible for providing legal expertise on the company’s strategies and their implementation, negotiating contracts, navigating complex business transactions, and overseeing outside counsel. Before Touchcast, she was an Associate with Weil Gotshal and Manges, one of the world's largest law firms with over 1,000 attorneys. Earlier in her career, Alyson worked for the Office of Cabinet Minister Michael Eitan, an Israeli politician who also served as Minister of Improvement of Government Services during her tenure. She holds a JD degree from New York University, as well as a BS degree in politics from Brandeis University in New York City.
With a career spanning over 20 years in driving customer experiences at global technology-driven companies, Amir Avitzur is Chief Operating Officer for Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in North Carolina. Providing expertise in team-building, mentoring, negotiations, and change-management through the lens of service quality and performance.
He joined Touchcast from Linqia, a leading influencer-marketing platform, where he was Vice President of Operations, and Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB), a leading content discovery platform, where he was Global VP of Operations. Amir started his career at Fundtech (now Finastra), a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world, where he worked for eight years. He holds a degree in computer science and management from The Open University of Israel.
Ati leverages her 15+ years of deep experience across a wide range of industries working with Sis, ISVs, hyperscalers, and Marketplaces. Leading business transformation for hyper-growth companies from the start-up stage towards successful global scale-ups by focusing on effective and efficient scaling across sales, business development, and partnerships – she is today a sounding board to some of the most promising scale-ups across ecosystems and Microsoft.
Dima, based in New Jersey, serves as Touchcast’s Lead Technologist. He joined Touchcast in 2017 and oversees the company’s global engineering and technical operations teams bringing over 15 years of technical experience.
A compassionate, innovative, multi-industry HR leader with experience supporting companies of all sizes, Faith Gabriel-Svaboe is Global Head of People for Touchcast, which she joined in 2021. With a passion for ideating and executing thoughtful programs that spark positive cultural change and drive improved workforce performance, she is drawn to businesses with a purpose-driven approach and commitment to empathy-inspired decisions and actions.
Prior to Touchcast, Faith served as Vice President of Human Resources for four years at mobileforming, a mobile-app developer, where she was responsible for developing the company’s people strategy to support employer value proposition through organizational capabilities, behaviors, team structures, and processes. Earlier in her career, she led Human Resources for AutoMate, a division of HelpSystems, one of the fast-growing automation software-industry leaders. During her tenure, the company was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America, as well as Digital Software Magazine's Software 500, an annual ranking of the world's largest software and service providers. Faith holds a BS degree in business management from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.
Jessica joined Touchcast in 2021, bringing 20 years of experience managing projects and teams, coordinating complicated logistics, and solving challenges. Her career includes extensive work in the film industry, 3D animation, application development, video production, and event coordination.
Jessica started her career in film production and post-production management, working on hundreds of feature films over more than a decade at EFILM in Los Angeles. She managed technical and resource coordination across the spectrum of post services including color grading, VFX, QC, and film restoration. Prior to joining Touchcast, she spent over 5 years as the Producer and Project Manager for Sharecare Reality Lab, a 3D animation studio where she helped develop medically-accurate, real-time simulations of the human body. These assets were leveraged in various media products she produced including video, interactive videos, mixed-reality, VR, AR, and software applications.
Jessica holds a BS in Communications and English from the University of Miami, and an MFA in Film Production from Florida State University.
Michael Kohlmeyer-Hyman co-founded Touchcast alongside CEO Edo Segal in 2012. He evangelizes video as an unparalleled medium for communicating information, building trust, and bringing people closer together. Prior to Touchcast, Michael served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs of bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups, which he also co-founded with Edo in 2007. Earlier in his career, he worked as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Fundtech, a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world. During his five-year tenure, Michael advised the company’s CEO and Board of Directors, while leading M&A and serving on the strategy committee. He earned a JD from Boston University School of Law, as well as a BA degree in history from University of Michigan.
An industry thought leader in digital publishing, innovation, entrepreneurship, and new-product development, Ziv Navoth is Chief Revenue Officer at Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in New York City. Prior to Touchcast, Ziv founded Paragraph in 2010 and served as its CEO for over a decade, with a mission to reimagine publishing by helping people discover, tell, and experience great stories. An accomplished author, he published his first book, Nanotales, in 2007.
Earlier in his career, Ziv was Senior Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships for Aol's social media and communications businesses, which he joined through its $850 million acquisition of Bebo (2008), where he was Vice President of Marketing & Business Development and part of its executive team that led the negotiations and eventual sale of the company. Prior to Bebo, Ziv built and ran EMEA marketing for Decru, a storage-security company (acquired by NetApp, 2005). A serial entrepreneur, Ziv also founded Verve! (2001), a boutique management consultancy, as well as Startup Station Plc (1999), a private-equity firm.
Ziv holds an MBA in Innovation, Strategy, Information & Technology from the Theseus International Management Institute/EDHEC in France, as well as B.A. degrees in both psychology and philosophy from Tel-Aviv University.
For the past 20 years, Edo Segal has been at the forefront of where artificial intelligence meets communications. As CEO of Touchcast, which he founded in 2012, his company is facilitating the next generation of communication and collaboration experiences by fusing state-of-the-art advances in mixed reality and artificial reality. In this new era of remote work and enhanced productivity, Touchcast is dedicated to supporting companies through their post-Covid transformation by helping run some of the world’s top virtual events.
A highly sought-after industry pundit, Edo has been quoted in various national and industry media outlets, including CNBC, BBC, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and BizBash. Prior to Touchcast, he served as CEO for over a decade at bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups. A serial entrepreneur, he also founded Screencaster (acquired by Livestream/IAC, 2017), Kinsa (2012), bMuse (2007), Relegence (acquired by Aol, 2006), and Brainboost (acquired by Answers.com, 2005). Additionally, Edo is Director of One Million Guitars, a global non-profit foundation that impacts 50,000 public-education classrooms through the power of musical instruments.
For nearly a decade, Alyson Schwartz has been General Counsel at Touchcast, where she is responsible for providing legal expertise on the company’s strategies and their implementation, negotiating contracts, navigating complex business transactions, and overseeing outside counsel. Before Touchcast, she was an Associate with Weil Gotshal and Manges, one of the world's largest law firms with over 1,000 attorneys. Earlier in her career, Alyson worked for the Office of Cabinet Minister Michael Eitan, an Israeli politician who also served as Minister of Improvement of Government Services during her tenure. She holds a JD degree from New York University, as well as a BS degree in politics from Brandeis University in New York City.
With a career spanning over 20 years in driving customer experiences at global technology-driven companies, Amir Avitzur is Chief Operating Officer for Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in North Carolina. Providing expertise in team-building, mentoring, negotiations, and change-management through the lens of service quality and performance.
He joined Touchcast from Linqia, a leading influencer-marketing platform, where he was Vice President of Operations, and Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB), a leading content discovery platform, where he was Global VP of Operations. Amir started his career at Fundtech (now Finastra), a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world, where he worked for eight years. He holds a degree in computer science and management from The Open University of Israel.
Ati leverages her 15+ years of deep experience across a wide range of industries working with Sis, ISVs, hyperscalers, and Marketplaces. Leading business transformation for hyper-growth companies from the start-up stage towards successful global scale-ups by focusing on effective and efficient scaling across sales, business development, and partnerships – she is today a sounding board to some of the most promising scale-ups across ecosystems and Microsoft.
Dima, based in New Jersey, serves as Touchcast’s Lead Technologist. He joined Touchcast in 2017 and oversees the company’s global engineering and technical operations teams bringing over 15 years of technical experience.
A compassionate, innovative, multi-industry HR leader with experience supporting companies of all sizes, Faith Gabriel-Svaboe is Global Head of People for Touchcast, which she joined in 2021. With a passion for ideating and executing thoughtful programs that spark positive cultural change and drive improved workforce performance, she is drawn to businesses with a purpose-driven approach and commitment to empathy-inspired decisions and actions.
Prior to Touchcast, Faith served as Vice President of Human Resources for four years at mobileforming, a mobile-app developer, where she was responsible for developing the company’s people strategy to support employer value proposition through organizational capabilities, behaviors, team structures, and processes. Earlier in her career, she led Human Resources for AutoMate, a division of HelpSystems, one of the fast-growing automation software-industry leaders. During her tenure, the company was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America, as well as Digital Software Magazine's Software 500, an annual ranking of the world's largest software and service providers. Faith holds a BS degree in business management from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.
Jessica joined Touchcast in 2021, bringing 20 years of experience managing projects and teams, coordinating complicated logistics, and solving challenges. Her career includes extensive work in the film industry, 3D animation, application development, video production, and event coordination.
Jessica started her career in film production and post-production management, working on hundreds of feature films over more than a decade at EFILM in Los Angeles. She managed technical and resource coordination across the spectrum of post services including color grading, VFX, QC, and film restoration. Prior to joining Touchcast, she spent over 5 years as the Producer and Project Manager for Sharecare Reality Lab, a 3D animation studio where she helped develop medically-accurate, real-time simulations of the human body. These assets were leveraged in various media products she produced including video, interactive videos, mixed-reality, VR, AR, and software applications.
Jessica holds a BS in Communications and English from the University of Miami, and an MFA in Film Production from Florida State University.
Michael Kohlmeyer-Hyman co-founded Touchcast alongside CEO Edo Segal in 2012. He evangelizes video as an unparalleled medium for communicating information, building trust, and bringing people closer together. Prior to Touchcast, Michael served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs of bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups, which he also co-founded with Edo in 2007. Earlier in his career, he worked as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Fundtech, a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world. During his five-year tenure, Michael advised the company’s CEO and Board of Directors, while leading M&A and serving on the strategy committee. He earned a JD from Boston University School of Law, as well as a BA degree in history from University of Michigan.
An industry thought leader in digital publishing, innovation, entrepreneurship, and new-product development, Ziv Navoth is Chief Revenue Officer at Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in New York City. Prior to Touchcast, Ziv founded Paragraph in 2010 and served as its CEO for over a decade, with a mission to reimagine publishing by helping people discover, tell, and experience great stories. An accomplished author, he published his first book, Nanotales, in 2007.
Earlier in his career, Ziv was Senior Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships for Aol's social media and communications businesses, which he joined through its $850 million acquisition of Bebo (2008), where he was Vice President of Marketing & Business Development and part of its executive team that led the negotiations and eventual sale of the company. Prior to Bebo, Ziv built and ran EMEA marketing for Decru, a storage-security company (acquired by NetApp, 2005). A serial entrepreneur, Ziv also founded Verve! (2001), a boutique management consultancy, as well as Startup Station Plc (1999), a private-equity firm.
Ziv holds an MBA in Innovation, Strategy, Information & Technology from the Theseus International Management Institute/EDHEC in France, as well as B.A. degrees in both psychology and philosophy from Tel-Aviv University.
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