Ronen Shilo
Ronen Shilo | |
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רונן שילה | |
| File:Ronen Shilo Founder CEO.jpg Shilo in December, 2011 | |
| Born | May 1, 1958 |
| Education | BSc, Technion |
| Occupations | Entrepreneur and software technologist |
| Website | www |
Ronen Shilo (Hebrew: רונן שילה; born May 1, 1958) is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Conduit, an online platform for publishers to create free mobile apps[1][2] and loyalty programs.[3] Conduit became Israel's largest Internet company in 2013, valued at $1.3 billion.[4][5]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Ronen Shilo grew up in Ness Ziona and served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.[6] where [7]
He graduated from the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, with a BSc in Computer Science.[6]
Shilo is married and has three children.[6] He told Inc. Magazine in 2013 that his company's billion dollar valuation had not changed his lifestyle and that he and his family still lived in the same home.[8]
Business career
[edit | edit source]Early in his career, Shilo worked for Ready Systems in Silicon Valley.[6]
In 1995, he founded DoubleAgent. Nine months later the company was acquired by software company NetManage. Ronen was manager of its Tel Aviv branch before leaving in 1999 to start Effective-I, a learning system for corporate use.[9]
Shilo founded Conduit in 2005 with partners Gaby Bilcyzk and Dror Erez to help publishers retain and engage users. Though the company has received venture funding, the three founders retain a majority share in the company.[10]
In the Financial Times, he called the phenomena of Israeli companies selling too early as "Quick Sell" nation.[11] Israeli newspaper Haaretz mentioned him in the article "Four Reasons Not to Hate Israel's Big Business Tycoons" as one of a small number of Israeli tech CEOs who "shunned the quick buck of an M&A deal and stayed the course."[12] He wrote an article for Fast Company in 2012 explaining why he had largely stayed out of the press despite running an Internet company with 260 million users.[13]
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