Ilit Raz

About Ilit Raz

I have 14 years of experience working in various product management and team management positions (6 years in startups and seven years in highly-regarded IDF intelligence unit 8200), with vast experience in NLP. Proven record of leadership and management (corporate and non-profit organizations). I have a Computer Science degree and an Executive MBA. My story began in early 2016, after 13 years as a woman in tech and experiencing unconscious, and conscious, bias - I decided to change the way people work. As a woman who felt alone in the tech world, from the age of 18, I wanted to do something to change the status of women in tech and gender bias in the industry. On a mission to accelerate corporate diversity and foster workplace equality- I founded Joonko, designed to create a completely new way for companies to source and recruit underrepresented candidates with our automated recruiting solution. Joonko unleashes the power of diverse talent and helps you source talent all across the US, tapping into an untouched pool of diverse candidates. Joonko helps companies such as PayPal, Adidas, Nike, Atlassian, and Intuit increase their diversity recruiting efforts and holds a pool of ~120K qualified underrepresented candidates.

Experience

1. Mentor

   Techstars

   Aug 2020 — Present · Birmingham, AL, US

Education

• Reichman University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2006 — 2009

• Hult International Business School

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Organizational Leadership, EMBA

  2012 — 2014