Ziv Navoth has been on the forefront of strategy, technology and innovation for over a decade. Before founding Verve!, he was Managing Director at Startup Station Plc; a private equity firm he founded and subsequently sold to a UK public company.

Prior to founding Startup Station, Ziv served as Executive Director at the Institute for Technology and Enterprise, New York's premier management and technology research centre, where work focused on the disruptive effects new companies have on established businesses.

A serial entrepreneur, Ziv is also a co-founder of Tagma, a Logistics consultancy and Power for the People, a CD-vending business.

Ziv has designed workshops and given numerous talks to organisations such as GE, Microsoft, Ericsson, France Telecom, RealNetworks, the Added Value Network and the Industrial Designers Society of America. His articles have been published in Accountancy Age, Charity Times and the Industry Standard and he has appeared on The Money Channel, MSNBC and Bloomberg TV.

A founding member of the World Technology Network, Ziv holds Bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA in Innovation, Strategy, Information and Technology from the Theseus Institute in France.

Contact Ziv at ziv@verve.nu