Shira Kaplan

Shira Kaplan is the Founder and Owner of Cyverse, where she serves as Chief Executive Officer. She served as Venture Advisor on Israeli Cyber and Digital Investments at EQT. Her technological training dates back to her military service in the Israeli 8200 Elite Technology Unit of the Intelligence, where she was an Intelligence Analyst. She has held business management positions at publicly-traded companies including Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) and Bank Julius Baer & Co. in Zurich (SIX: BAER). She is an alumna of Harvard University (B.A.), where she studied Government and Chinese and was a Davis Scholar. She holds an MBA from St. Gallen HSG University in Switzerland, where she wrote her thesis on Swiss Venture Capital Investments in Israeli Cyber-Security Startups, and where she was awarded the "Women in Business" Scholarship. In 2017, she was selected as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2018, she was selected by the Israeli financial magazine Globes as one of "40 Israeli Business Leaders under 40". She is also an Advisory Board Member at the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM). She is an active Board Member at the Weizmann Young European Network (WYEN). She has won several other awards, including the "Seeds of Peace" scholarship, the Goldman fellowship and the Milken Fellowship. She has been featured in the Financial Times, the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Bilanz and other newspapers. She is an active angel investor in selected Israeli tech and cyber-security startups.