Improver

Ran Harpaz

Hyper-Growth Tech Executive | Ex-McKinsey, PayPal | 2x Unicorn CTO

San Francisco Bay Area

Technology leader executing product strategies for hyper-growth • Experienced Silicon Valley CTO at B2C Unicorn Hippo Insurance, and at B2B Unicorn Globality Inc.; CIO at large Telecom corporation; two times cyber-security startup leader • Business training at McKinsey & PayPal, and technical training at IDF 8200 • Proven success in building and leading tech organizations from 5 to 500 people • Demonstrated leadership agility and adaptiveness to large and small organizations • Specializing in transformational leadership, change management during fast growth, people leadership through uncertainty.

Energy & Focus. Strategy & Execution.


Career Highlights:
- McKinsey: solving substantial business problems for demanding clients
- Cellcom (NYSE:CEL): Telco CIO overseeing >500 staff members
- PayPal: product strategy for mobile payments at scale
- Globality: established the engineering team that turned an idea into a Unicorn startup
- Netvision: Award-winning tech transformation as CIO
- Two groundbreaking cyber-security startups: Sanctum Inc. & Skybox Security
- Veteran officer of Israel's Elite Intelligence Unit 8200

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Experience:

• Founding CTO (Globality, Inc.)
• Chief Technology Officer (Hippo Insurance)
• Sr. Director; Payments, Mobile, Consumer Strategy (PayPal)
• COO & CTO (Hippo Insurance)
• Director, Consumer Products; Risk Management (PayPal)
• Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer (Netvision, merged into Cellcom (NYSE:CEL))

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