Gilad Japhet

Current

• Founder and CEO at MyHeritage

Education

• Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Gilad Japhet’s Summary

An entrepreneur with strong technical skills, with over a decade of professional experience in software product management and design.

Gilad Japhet’s Specialties:

Understanding customer and market requirements and transforming them into successful products.

Gilad Japhet’s Experience

• Founder and CEO

  MyHeritage

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

  With a network of more than 25 million family members worldwide, 260 million family tree profiles and 230 million photos, in 25 languages, MyHeritage has become the second largest online destination for families. MyHeritage has recently launched an innovative photo tagging technology that allows people to organize, find and share their digital photos more easily. Rather than tagging friends and family one by one, MyHeritage can now recognize faces automatically, group similar ones, and tag the entire group
  The company has also developed technology to connect family trees and suggest relatives based on semantic analysis, and is building one connected family tree of the world.
  Additional innovations include MyHeritage Research - the world's first search engine for genealogy; Family Tree Builder - free genealogy software available in 29 languages (3 million downloads); and 'Find the Celebrity in You' - a cool facial recognition concept that has literally taken the Internet by storm.

Gilad Japhet’s Education

• Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

  B.Sc. , Computer science , 1992 — 1996

  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude in top 1% of faculty
  • Received Annual President’s Award, 1994 and 1995
  • Received Faculty of Computer Science Admission Award, 1992
  • Held a full-time position at BRM Technologies, concurrently with studies

Additional Information

Gilad Japhet’s Interests:

Genealogy, Travel (Aha! Too much work doesn't make it possible these days, but I'll be back), Photography, Jogging, Chess, Philately, Linguistics (I'm conversant in some 5 languages), World cultures, Archaeology

Gilad Japhet’s Groups:

1993 – 1995: member of CARO (Computer Anti-virus Research Organization) – a prestigious organization of the world’s leading anti-virus researchers