Director, AIM Mobile at AOL
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Director, AIM Mobile at AOL
- CEO and Founder at Hegati
- Past
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- Director, Market Development, IM Platforms, Americas at AOL LLC
- Principal Product Manager at AOL LLC
- Director, Market Development and Product Management at CeLight Inc.
- Associate at Tamir Fishman Ventures - Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- CTO and Lead Market Development at Winet.co.il
- Founder and Chief Technology Officer at PhysMedic Research Ltd.
- R&D Team Leader at R&D Labs
- Education
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- University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
- The Weizmann Institute of Science
- Tel Aviv University
- The Hebrew University
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Guy Levy-Yurista’s Summary
Veteran senior manager and leader with a unique mix of demonstrated skills acquired over 18 years in operational, marketing, venture capital, entrepreneurial and R&D environments. Physics PhD with expertise in commercializing advanced technologies. Wharton MBA, majored in Entrepreneurial Management. In-depth knowledge of internet, communications, e-commerce, computing and security. Experienced venture capitalist involved in over $40 million of deals. Instrumental in shaping investment strategy of $150 million VC fund. Supervised product management, business and marketing strategies for technology companies operating across internet, telecommunications and security markets.
Guy Levy-Yurista’s Specialties:
Business: Product management, Marketing, Business development, Customer relations, Investor relations, Venture capital.
Technology: Physics, Electronics, Optics, Optical Communications, Defense technologies, FLIR, medical devices, E-commerce.
Wine: Journalism, Tasting/grading, Lecturing.
Guy Levy-Yurista’s Experience
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Director, AIM Mobile
AOL
(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
• Full business responsibility for the global strategy for a 31,000,000 user Instant Messaging network.
• Leading Mobile brand introduction to major global markets including: Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New-Zealand
• Tasked with growing the business into a $50M within the first 12 months. -
CEO and Founder
Hegati
(Internet industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
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Director, Market Development, IM Platforms, Americas
AOL LLC
(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)
September 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 5 months)
Director of Market Development, IM Platforms, AIM & ICQ
• Gained business unit CEO/GM buy-in to reprioritize and launch a major product as a key distribution tool leveraging synergies across over 110,000,000 monthly unique visitors to AOL online properties.
• Led all interactions with AOL’s top management of a wholly owned international subsidiary located at another continent across 7 time zones.
• Developed and implemented a comprehensive market development plan for the creation of new distribution channels in US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil supporting a global brand serving over 30,000,000 users. -
Principal Product Manager
AOL LLC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
June 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 3 months)
• Led product teams reshaping AOL’s safety and security strategy in the fields of spyware, viruses, phishing and ID theft, supporting close to a total of $100 million in marketing campaigns.
• Led AOL’s anti-malware team of Senior Product Managers, driving strategy for one of AOL’s core brand assets.
• Managed full product cycles through inception, definition, development, testing, launch, maintenance and sun setting supporting over 15,000,000 users.
• Turned around an underperforming product growing adoption from 250,000 users in the US to over 12,000,000 users over 6 countries.
• Led a cutting edge web safety service program from vision through development to launch serving 40,000,000 unique users globally.
• Initiated and led a complex Request for Proposals process. Negotiated multiple deals in excess of $1 million.
• Successfully managed 5 of AOL’s highest visibility products balancing requirements from the marketing, technical, legal and member services organizations. -
Director, Market Development and Product Management
CeLight Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 11 months)
- Managed CeLight’s communications sub-systems product management operations. Developed and delivered intricate COGS models and pricing strategies achieving margins of 60%-85% for its products.
- Implemented and supervised proposal opportunities funnel evaluating hundreds of prospective projects. Provided business and technical expertise supporting development of projects in excess of $20 million.
- Established and managed customer and investor relations activities. Led the marketing communications operations resulting in branding CeLight as a leader in optical communications and coherent technology in the defense arena. Planned and executed tradeshow strategy.
- Led team to reconceptualize and implement CeLight’s corporate strategy, resulting in a shift from telecom to defense. Achieved revenues of $500,000 from the defense market in the first 12 months.
-Instrumental in winning a $2 million earmark from the 2004 Department of Defense Budget. -
Associate
Tamir Fishman Ventures - Draper Fisher Jurvetson
(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
June 2001 — May 2002 (1 year)
- Integral player in leading Israeli venture capital fund, managing over $200M. Shaped the fund’s strategic outlook through understanding of technology trends and market opportunities.
- Provided technical, business and market evaluation of investment candidate companies. Part of team making investment decisions and constructing deals, including fund’s largest single investment of $7 million.
- Established and maintained extensive relations with the Israeli optical communications business community. Increased the fund deal flow by 20%, exposing it to new lucrative opportunities. -
CTO and Lead Market Development
Winet.co.il
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 1999 — May 2001 (2 years 3 months)
- CTO and Marketing Leader of Winet, Israel’s first gourmet & wine B2C e-commerce operation. Provided extensive technical and architectural framework in a rapidly growing business.
- Initiated, negotiated and formulated collaboration agreements with 2 of Israel’s major web portals. Established and executed marketing plan resulting in a 75% traffic increase to the website. -
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
PhysMedic Research Ltd.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Medical Devices industry)
August 1995 — July 1997 (2 years)
- Founded and Led the technical development of optical solutions in a medical devices company, drawing on expertise in advanced electro-optical technology to develop various pulsed-laser cosmetics products.
- Performed advanced technical and market analysis and provided a feasibility proof leading to M&A discussions with a major player in the field. -
R&D Team Leader
R&D Labs
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Military industry)
July 1990 — July 1995 (5 years 1 month)
- Led an R&D team in multiple projects, investigating and developing electro-optical systems for various applications in the x-ray, visible and near and far Infrared wavelength range.
- Successfully managed projects through their full life cycle of concept to product under very tight time schedules.
Guy Levy-Yurista’s Education
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University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
MBA , Entrepreneurial Management, graduated with Honors , 2008
- Activities and Societies:
- President, Wine Club, WEMBA 32 East
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The Weizmann Institute of Science
PhD , Physics , 2002
GPA 97/100
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Tel Aviv University
MSc , Electrical Engineering , 1996
Magna cum laude
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The Hebrew University
BSc , Physics & Mathematics , 1987 — 1990
- Activities and Societies:
- "Talpiot" Program, Cum laude
Forbes (June 1998): “Talpiot is like having a Rhodes scholarship, a presidential fellowship, and a Harvard M.B.A. rolled into one.”
WSJ (July 2007): Secret Weapon, How an Elite Military School Feeds Israel's Tech Industry.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/article_print/SB118368825920758806-lMyQjAxMDE3ODAzNjYwODY4Wj.html
Additional Information
Guy Levy-Yurista’s Websites:
Guy Levy-Yurista’s Interests:
Publishing - self-published a collection of short and funny stories, "And For Dessert - ולקינוח"; Wine – specializing in Italian wines; Audio books – American history, biographies, recreational listening; Traversable wormholes - exploring the technical feasibility of creating a new transport system
Guy Levy-Yurista’s Groups:
2007 - President of the Wharton EMBA 32 East Wine Club
1998-2002 Professional Editor, The Israeli Wine and Gourmet Magazine
1987-1995 Israel Defense Forces, Israel; Captain (Reserve)
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Israel High Tech (7k+ members)
Guy Levy-Yurista’s Honors:
2006 AOL, Top Talent award
2005 3 first place Blue Ribbon awards at the AOL 2005 Annual Products Science Fair
1999 EMRS - Young Scientist award
1998 'Eshkol' Scholarship award
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