Chris Bakke

Founder

Currently: Investing, writing, and enjoying downtime.

Previously: CEO of Laskie (acquired by X/Twitter in 2023), Co-founder of Interviewed (acquired by Indeed in 2017), COO of 42Floors (acquired by Knotel), managed business development for Zillow (NAS $ZG), RentJuice (acquired by Zillow in 2012).

Founder, CEO

IAI - Israel Aerospace Industries

Director of Innovation

Leading the Innovation strategy of IAI both organic (internal) and Open (external) innovation.
Manager IAI's Innovation center  in Tel-Aviv, Midtown. The IAI Innovation Center is unique in its startup model, which exists inside a stable, well-established company, providing IAI’s engineers with a path for testing their ideas and developing a PoC within weeks. We run  several  programs that supports our strategy such as the accelerator programs, a space incubator JV's with business partners, cooperation and supporting startups, scouting process and implementing new technology into IAI. The Innovation Center adds to IAI’s technological capabilities that lay that build blocks for our future product lines.

Head of corporate innovation and KM at IAI 

Knowedge

VP Projects & KM at Knowedge. 
Leading the major projects in the company, Managing portfolio of $5M worth IT projects, for a variety of clients in a variety of disciplines (military, health, banking, security and more). also leading  lead organizations to behavioral and digital transformation

M.B.A. Specialty in Organizational behavior
B.A. in Social Science, Management

Leading 30 member's team (& third-party suppliers).
A single point of contact for executive members at the client side.
Professional advisor and mentor for project managers in the company.
Optimizing the organizational processes and leading the change management

VP Projects in Knowledge Management

Organizational Consultant

3GVision

* An active partner in establishing and maintaining company policies and procedures.
* Responsible for executing all general operation.
* Responsible for legal process: personal contact with companied lawyers (Nashitz Brandes) 
* Responsible for the financials ( working wuth KPMG) , the cash flow, and the bank matters in Israel and abroad.
* Direct interaction with agents abroad ( Spain, Portogal, Ingland, Brazil...) 

* HR: recruitment strategies, training programs, employees welfare, company events.
Address for employee's personal and work related issues
Annual evaluation processes.

* Several  projects : 
Managing the operation system with  Telstra Australia, France telecom France, Japan.(import\export)
Managing the interaction with IRS USA ( for the US company) 
Planning exhebitions in Barcelona - 3GSM
Negotiation with suppliers

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