Pioneering the
Generative Web

For the past 20 years, Edo Segal has pioneered the intersection of artificial intelligence and communications. After founding and successfully exiting several companies within the search domain, he founded Touchcast in 2012. Touchcast is leading the “Generative Web” revolution by providing a turnkey, full-stack solution to for creating, publishing and distributing conversational, multimodal generative experiences, transforming how companies communicate, educate, support and sell.

Michael Kohlmeyer-Hyman co-founded Touchcast alongside CEO Edo Segal in 2012. He evangelizes video as an unparalleled medium for communicating information, building trust, and bringing people closer together. Prior to Touchcast, Michael served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs of bMuse, an innovation platform focusing on consumer media startups, which he also co-founded with Edo  in 2007. Earlier in his career, he worked as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Fundtech, a leading banking-solutions provider of software products and services to multi-sized banks around the world. During his five-year tenure, Michael advised the company’s CEO and Board of Directors, while leading M&A and serving on the strategy committee. He earned a JD from Boston University School of Law, as well as a BA degree in history from University of Michigan.

An industry thought leader in digital publishing, innovation, entrepreneurship, and new-product development, Ziv Navoth is Chief Revenue Officer at Touchcast, which he joined in 2020 and is based in New York City. Prior to Touchcast, Ziv founded Paragraph in 2010 and served as its CEO for over a decade, with a mission to reimagine publishing by helping people discover, tell, and experience great stories. An accomplished author, he published his first book, Nanotales, in 2007.

Earlier in his career, Ziv was Senior Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships for Aol's social media and communications businesses, which he joined through its $850 million acquisition of Bebo (2008), where he was Vice President of Marketing & Business Development and part of its executive team that led the negotiations and eventual sale of the company. Prior to Bebo, Ziv built and ran EMEA marketing for Decru, a storage-security company (acquired by NetApp, 2005). A serial entrepreneur, Ziv also founded Verve! (2001), a boutique management consultancy, as well as Startup Station Plc (1999), a private-equity firm.

Ziv holds an MBA in Innovation, Strategy, Information & Technology from the Theseus International Management Institute/EDHEC in France, as well as B.A. degrees in both psychology and philosophy from Tel-Aviv University.

Ati leverages her 15+ years of deep experience across a wide range of industries working with Sis, ISVs, hyperscalers, and Marketplaces. Leading business transformation for hyper-growth companies from the start-up stage towards successful global scale-ups by focusing on effective and efficient scaling across sales, business development, and partnerships – she is today a sounding board to some of the most promising scale-ups across ecosystems and Microsoft.

A compassionate, innovative, multi-industry HR leader with experience supporting companies of all sizes, Faith Gabriel-Svaboe is Global Head of People for Touchcast, which she joined in 2021. With a passion for ideating and executing thoughtful programs that spark positive cultural change and drive improved workforce performance, she is drawn to businesses with a purpose-driven approach and commitment to empathy-inspired decisions and actions.

‍Prior to Touchcast, Faith served as Vice President of Human Resources for four years at mobileforming, a mobile-app developer, where she was responsible for developing the company’s people strategy to support employer value proposition through organizational capabilities, behaviors, team structures, and processes. Earlier in her career, she led Human Resources for AutoMate, a division of HelpSystems, one of the fast-growing automation software-industry leaders. During her tenure, the company was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America, as well as Digital Software Magazine's Software 500, an annual ranking of the world's largest software and service providers. Faith holds a BS degree in business management from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.

Dima, based in New Jersey, serves as Touchcast’s Lead Technologist. He joined Touchcast in 2017 and oversees the company’s global engineering and technical operations teams bringing over 15 years of technical experience.