Meet The Team

Omer Perchik

Title: Founder & CEO

Founded Any.do: 2010

One sentence describing your responsibilities: General generalist

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• Go to Japan
• Have 3 kids
• Fly to the moon
• Learn philosophy
• Change the world

Personal Motto: Be the change you want to see in the world (Ghandi)

A secret: I never graduated university

Itay Kahana

Title: Co-Founder & CTO

Founded Any.do: 2010

One sentence describing your responsibilities: Do whatever is needed to make Any.do grow and succeed; these days I’m focused on our premium version.

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• Build a car from scratch
• Learn to kite surf
• Travel to every continent
• Design my dream house
• Create a happy family

Personal Motto: There is nothing impossible to him who will try (Alexander the Great)

A secret: I don’t have a high school diploma but I got my BA at age 18.

Yoni Lindenfeld

Title: Co-Founder & VP of Engineering

Founded Any.do: 2010

One sentence describing your responsibilities:
Well – I think I’ve come to touch almost every aspect of the company. From writing Android code to balancing the bank account. That’s basically the reason I like my job so much 🙂

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• Visit all 7 wonders of the world – still have 6 to go 🙁
• Open my own brick-and-mortar business (I am imagining maybe a bakery in a small village in france)
• Have a big family
• Live abroad for a while
• Learn Chinese

Personal Motto: Keep calm and carry on.

A secret, or something not too many people know about you: I haven’t seen a single episode of “Game of thrones”… I know.. planning to catch up soon

My message to everyone reading this: Follow your dreams. I know it sounds like a bit of a cliche, but since we were all given a single life, we don’t have time to waste.

Adam Siton

Title: iOS Team leader

Year joined Any.do: 2011

One sentence describing your responsibilities: The iOS team and I build to bring the Any.do and Cal experience to iOS.

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• Travel to as many countries as I can
• Have a drink with Leonard Cohen (It’s more something to do before he dies..)
• Rent an RV and take a long trip in the USA with my family
• Live in a cool city outside of Israel (New York, San Francisco, Berlin)
• Help a scientific research study that will improve the world

Personal Motto: Don’t trust people who have a motto. A sentence can’t summarize a person.

A secret: I’m a freaking psycho for gummy bears.

Idan Ratzabi

Title: Senior iOS Developer

Year joined Any.do: 2012

One sentence describing your responsibilities: Building Any.Do’s suite of iOS Apps and making sure we maintain the level of perfection we strive for.

Top items on your bucket list:

• Travel to all 6 continents
• Have children
• Speak Spanish fluently
• Have my own business

Personal Motto: One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself

Something not too many people know about you: I really like shoes. I have around 15 pairs and I replace them quite often.

Anything else you’d like to tell us: To all y’all lazy developers out there: go outside a few days a week and do some sport. You have no idea how beneficial that’ll be to your life, health and general feeling.

Guy Griv

Title: Senior Android Developer

Year joined Any.do: 2013

One sentence describing your responsibilities: Make our Android apps delightful.

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• Learn how to play guitar
• Have a cameo in a Tarantino movie
• Attend a World Cup final
• Travel to Alaska
• Invent something groundbreaking

Personal Motto: Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. (The Dude – The Big Lebowski) 

Something not too many people know about you: I love singing karaoke.

Anything else you’d like to tell us: You always have the freedom to choose what to think.

Ben Lev

Title: Product Designer

Year joined Any.do: 2013

One sentence describing your responsibilities: I use my brain and Adobe creative suite to design the Any.do experience.

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• Learn French and live in Paris for a year
• Learn to play the drums
• Own a DeLorean
• Make the winning shot in a game seven of the NBA finals
• Watch ‘The Goonies’ sequel

Personal Motto: Do good.

A secret, or something not too many people know about you: I’m color blind.

Anything else you’d like to tell us: Take it slow… https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/59749737

Gil Ochayon

Title: Director of Web Development

Year joined Any.do: 2014

One sentence describing your responsibilities: Anything that is web related – web app, website, browser extensions, desktop apps.

Top items on your bucket list:

• Complete an Iron Man Triathlon
• Start my own company
• Climb Kilimanjaro

Personal Motto: Find your passion… then it is no longer work!

A secret: I used to sing in a Russian choir as a child (seriously).

Anything else you’d like to tell us: : Before joining Any.do I worked on multiple consumer related products including Wix HTML5 Editor and Amazon Kindle, bootstrapping multiple successful products from scratch to reach millions. I joined Any.do to help take it to the next level – 100M users here we come.

Favorite hobbies: Reading tech/ history/ fantasy/ business books and magazines, as well as sports like soccer, MMA, running. I recently completed my first half marathon in Jerusalem.

Eran Shirazi

Title: VP of Research

Year joined Any.do: 2011

One sentence describing your responsibilities:

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• Learn Spanish
• Run a marathon
• Go for a trip in the far east
• Learn more mathematics
• Decide what the fifth thing is.. 🙂

Personal Motto: With great power comes great responsibility (Spiderman’s uncle)

A secret, or something not too many people know about you: Hmm… I hate cilantro! But I’m ok with parsley…

Igor Budi

Title: Android Team Leader

Year joined Any.do: 2013

One sentence describing your responsibilities: Responsible for the Android side of Any.do (and the initiator of our happy hour tradition)

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• Present on TED
• Visit South and Central America
• Learn some sort of martial art
• Do at least 30 of these 44 gym exercises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdzasJklxw
• Go on a cross European motorcycle trip.

Personal Motto: Why stop when you can go a little bit more? (Igor Budilovsky)

A secret, or something not too many people know about you: Its not really a secret, but I ride a badass motorcycle, a 2011 Kawasaki Z1000. (Can I say badass?)

Anything else you’d like to tell us: The greatest career achievement one can want is a career that is also a hobby. Don’t go after money, good benefits or a job close to work. Once you have that, the career possibilities are limitless! I believe I have found that in my current occupation (pro basketball player didn’t work out for me…).

Merav Shalev

Title: QA, support, whatever is needed :))

Year joined Any.do: 2013

One sentence describing your responsibilities: I harass the R&D guys with annoying bugs.

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• Travel to as many places as possible
• Live in Manhattan
• Go bungee jumping in New Zealand
• Have a big loving family +2 dogs at least
• Be happy

Personal Motto: Every day is a good day if you’re having a cupcake

A secret, or something not too many people know about you: I LOVE trash TV.

Anything else you’d like to tell us: I’m always hungry.

Keren Vaknin

Title: QA

Year joined Any.do: 2013

One sentence describing your responsibilities: No bug slips away from my hands.

Top 5 on your bucket list:

• See the northern lights
• Go to Japan
• Go diving
• Run a marathon
• Dye my hair 🙂

Personal Motto: If you can dream it, you can do it!

Something not too many people know about you: I don’t know how to ride a bicycle.

Anything else you’d like to tell us: Other than working at this wonderful company, I’m also a med student. So 7 years from now, you can call me Dr. Keren 🙂