Tami Mazel Shachar is the CEO of Incredibuild, a development tool that distributes processes across idle processors in the network on-prem and dynamically allocates cloud capacity based on availability and cost. She has previously worked in the Knesset, as well as for 3M and NSO Group, in a sprawling career trajectory that is more than 20 years in the making. Last year, Incredibuild received an investment of $140 million from ScaleUp investor Insight Partners; they hired more than 100 employees in 2021.
As you look at the modern tech industry, how do you view its progress in terms of integrating women into executive roles?
“In terms of data, we’re from where we should be: in terms of female CEOs, the number is really marginal. If I look at the portfolio for all of the great VC funds that have great companies, at the end of the day women CEOs are a very small number - but they’re there, and it’s a growing number.”
What would you say is the primary barrier in increasing that number?
“One of the primary barriers is [role] modeling. When you grow up and you’re in school and you look at the moms and everybody around you, you don’t see a lot of women in very high positions; and you can’t be what you can’t see. As women in high positions, we have a responsibility to go and to be in places where that modeling isn’t present: to go to schools and to villages, and kind of give that visibility, and say “this is an opportunity, and this exists.”
Continue reading: https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech/article-691367
As you look at the modern tech industry, how do you view its progress in terms of integrating women into executive roles?
“In terms of data, we’re from where we should be: in terms of female CEOs, the number is really marginal. If I look at the portfolio for all of the great VC funds that have great companies, at the end of the day women CEOs are a very small number - but they’re there, and it’s a growing number.”
What would you say is the primary barrier in increasing that number?
“One of the primary barriers is [role] modeling. When you grow up and you’re in school and you look at the moms and everybody around you, you don’t see a lot of women in very high positions; and you can’t be what you can’t see. As women in high positions, we have a responsibility to go and to be in places where that modeling isn’t present: to go to schools and to villages, and kind of give that visibility, and say “this is an opportunity, and this exists.”
Continue reading: https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech/article-691367
