Yair Goldfinger
Co-founder and CEO, AppCard
Yair Goldfinger is a serial entrepreneur and active angel investor. At 26, he co-founded ICQ, the world's first Internet-wide instant messaging service, which was acquired by AOL. In 2001, Yair co-founded Dotomi, an online advertising technology company that focuses on creating personal, relevant and timely one-to-one messaging between marketers and their customers. Dotomi was acquired by ValueClick. Yair holds a bachelors of science. in math and computer science from Tel-Aviv University and holds several patents in the field of instant messaging. In 2005, he received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award, and in 2009, he was chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. He is the co-founder and CEO of AppCard, an advanced customer retention system designed specifically to service the needs of mid-size retailers, franchises, and independent grocers who are ready to start capitalizing on the potential of their customer data and analytics.