Team – Edgybees

Leadership

Menashe Haskin

Co-Founder and CTO

Menashe Haskin: co-founder and CTO

Before founding EdgyBees, Menashe managed the Israeli development office of Amazon Prime Air.

Previously, Menashe managed the development of Amazon’s FireTV platform, selling millions of units, from product conception through launch.

Prior to joining Amazon, Menashe was founder and CEO of YMagic Technologies through its successful M&A, and held key positions in several Israeli hi-tech companies. He holds over 35 US patents in the fields of aerospace, video and vision processing, data processing and communication.

Menashe holds an M.Sc. (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering and B.Sc. (cum laude) in Physics and Computer Sciences from the Tel Aviv University.

Adam Scott Kaplan

Co-Founder and CEO

Adam Scott Kaplan: co-founder and CEO

Adam co-founded and has served as an executive in technology companies including Xennex Inc. (acquired by Biotime Inc.), Athoc (acquired by Blackberry), Digital Guardian and Tonian (acquired by Primary Data).

Adam graduated with honors from Occidental College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs.

Nitay Megides

Co-Founder and Director of Platform

Nitay Megides: co-founder and VP R&D

Nitay is a robotics and drone expert, specializing in drone hardware and software design and architecture.

Prior to co-founding EdgyBees, Nitay was VP R&D for Third Eye Systems, designed machines & automation solutions at Tosaf Compounds and has led SCADA cyber security products at C4-Security (Acquired by Elbit Systems).

Nitay served in an elite technological unit in the IDF and holds a B.Sc in Physics and a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering.

Selina Hayes

Sr. Director National Security Advisor

Selina Hayes is a senior business development executive, and has been a senior advisor and program manager for military and civilian organizations including: the Department of Defense (DoD), State Dept, USAID, NGOs, Department of Homeland Security; and commercial entities to include the oil and gas industry.

Outside of the corporate world, Ms. Hayes is the Co-founder of the nonprofit Project H.O.W (Helping Other Women) and was a board member and advisor to Invisible Children.

Ms. Hayes has traveled extensively and originates from Sydney, Australia. She has a B.A. International Relations from George Washington University, International M.B.A. University of San Diego and M.A. International Relations.

Yaniv Shoshan

Sr. Director of Product Mgmt.

Yaniv Shoshan: Sr. Director of Product Mgmt.

With over 25 years of military UAV operations and 20 years of product design and management, Yaniv led the design department at Elbit Systems UAV division and was in charge of advanced interfaces for UAV ground control stations. Yaniv further served as product director at Lumos Global, designing IOT solar energy systems for African homes.

Yaniv holds a Product design diploma from Haddassa collage and an MBA from Kellogg, Northwestern and Tel Aviv Univesity.

Derek Goeriz

Director of Business Development

Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Derek is a former U.S. Army Special Forces Communications Sergeant (Green Beret) and Arabic speaker with deployments to Iraq and Lebanon. His prior commercial-sector experience includes medical device sales for spine surgery as well as co-founding Patriot Medical Science, a pharmacogenomic and toxicology lab testing distributorship focused on federal business.

Derek holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government from Yale University and a Master of Advanced Studies in International Affairs from UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy.