Amir Ashkenazi
Founder & CEO, Switchboard
Amir Ashkenazi is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and sold three companies prior to launching remote collaboration tool startup Switchboard. Amir founded Shopping.com in 1997 and performed the CTO role until it was acquired by Ebay in 2006. Amir then became VP of Product Search at Ebay until 2007 when he founded Adap.tv, a video advertising platform, and was CEO until 2013 when it was acquired by AOL. Amir was then president of AOL from 2013 to 2015. In 2018 Amir founded Toukee, an AI & voice technology company, which was acquired out of stealth by LogMeIn. Switchboard came to life during the pandemic when Amir became frustrated with standard video calls that didn’t serve him during his virtual guitar lessons. Then he created the solution to his problem: a collaborative platform where anyone can open multiple applications and work seamlessly together.