# Shahar Nechmad

Personal website: https://www.shaharnechmad.com
Role: Serial Entrepreneur and Explorer
Bio: A seasoned serial entrepreneur and tech industry leader dedicated to building innovative solutions that shape the future of technology. Expertise across AI, Web3, credit card services, global supply chains, analytics, and advertising.

## Social links
- Email: mailto:shahar@shaharnechmad.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nechmad/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nechmads
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nechmads
- Blog: https://looking-ahead.hotmetalapp.com/

## Work experience (full text)

1) Far Far Away Labs | Founder | 2025 - Present
Building the future of how people and AI agents interact together. Responsible for products such as Hot Metal, The Morning Sift, Vega Assistant, AgentsPack, and more. https://farfarawaylabs.com

2) Memxi | Founder & CEO | 2023 - 2024
Memxi is an AI startup that gives you the superpower to never forget anything ever again. You can learn more about it at https://memxi.com

3) Various | Startup Competition Judge | Jan 2012 - Present
Participate as a judge in international startup competitions such as Startup Chile and the Black Ambition competition.

4) Revel | Founder & CTO | Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
As co-founder and CTO I helped build the company, team, and product. I was responsible for architecting our platform from start to end, connecting everything together from our sophisticated back end, to our mobile up and our AI capabilities.

5) Gallerium | Founder & CEO | Dec 2021 - May 2023
Gallerium is the easiest way to showcase your NFTs and represent your Web3 identity.

6) Shift | Chief Technical Lead | Aug 2020 - May 2021
The Shift Network is on a journey to touch and transform the lives of 100 million people. From strategy to implementation, I'm responsible for delivering Shift new products and bring the company next technology platform.

7) Creditstacks | Co Founder & CTO | 2015 - Aug 2020
CreditStacks is a new kind of Credit Card company and Neo bank in the U.S. As co-founder and CTO, I was responsible for everything from concepting, architeching and building our products to building and managing a distributed team of developers. We managed to launch a full credit card company with a seklton team of 3.5 people and scale up from there. CreditStacks raised over $25M and more than $100M in credit capital and is still growing.

8) Novus Summit | Co Founder | Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
Novus is a new kind of conference trying to bring exceptional people to tackle the world largest problems. Unlike TED, we want to go beyond the ideas phase and experiment with formats that create immediate action. Our first inaugural event was in SF in May 2015, and followed by one in the United Nations General Assembly Hall. Some of our speakers were: Peter Diamandis (Founder of Singularity University and XPRIZE), Ellen Stofan (NASA Chief Scientist), Steve Jurvetson and Tim Draper from DFJ Ventures, Scott Hassan (Founder of Magic Leap), Anousheh Ansari (The first female private astronaut), Robert Swan (The first man to walk the 2 poles), Brenda Chapman (Academy Award Winning Director).

9) Tau Innovations | Advisor and Founding Team | 2015 - Aug 2016
Tau innovations is trying to solve the problems of the global supply chain and elevate the lives of millions of people working in the textile industry. Building a comprehensive BI and operations solution for textile factories in countries like Indonesia, China and India, Tau hope to bring transparency and efficiency across the supply chain. Bringing more revenue to factories while at the same time reducing child labor, air and water pollution and increased work environment quality for employees.

10) eBay, Sales force, Google, Others | Consultant, Mobile Innovation | 2014 - Oct 2015
I've been consulting some some of the largest companies in the Valley as well as early stage startups about mobile innovation and emerging technologies.

11) Gett | Advisor, Founding member | 2011 - 2011
Helped the founders to build the initial technology solution, product vision and team for an Uber like service in Europe. The company raised more than a hundred million dollars to date and have a yearly revenue in the hundreds of millions

12) Live Person | Director of Data | 2010 - 2011
Responsible to lead product innovation around Live Person massive amounts of data and build new ways for Live Person' customers to convert users to paying customers.

13) Nuconomy | Co-Founder, CEO | Mar 2006 - May 2010
CEO and founder of NuConomy, a next generation web analytics and advertising platform. NuConomy enables publishers and agencies to measure usrs' engagement and better monetize their audiences and inventory. NuConomy was sold to Live Person (NASDAQ:LPSN).

14) WPP Digital Board | Board Member | 2007 - 2010
WPP is one of the leading advertising groups in the world. It owns a number of advertising, public relations and market research networks, including Millward Brown, Grey, Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton, JWT, Ogilvy & Mather, TNS, Young & Rubicam and Cohn & Wolfe

15) Microsoft Technology Center | Business Development Manager | 2005 - 2006
Helped build new business strategies, customers programs and grow the team from 20+ to 80+ people in less than a year.

16) Microsoft Technology Center | Senior Consultent & Architect | 2003 - 2006
Helped to architect and develop some of the largest IT projects in the world. Worked directly with fortune 500 companies and helped them envision their IT platforms. Wrote and delivered tens of programming courses for organization all across Europe. Presented in many technology conferences for audiences of 50 to 3000 people.

17) IDF - 8200 | CTO, Founding Team | 2002 - 2003
Managed multiple teams and project across many technologies and sectors