Ezequiel Vidra (Eze) is an entrepreneur at heart who founded the VC Café in 2005, which reviews Israeli startups and venture capital deal flow with a spotlight on Israel. Eze has been in product management leadership roles as Product Manager at Gerson Lehrman Group, a primary research firm in New York, as Team Leader for Shopping.com in Israel and as Co-Founder of an Israeli start up that develops next generation text-input software for hand-held devices. Currently, Eze manages the full life-cycle of new vertical search products at Ask.com in Oakland, California and participates on the steering committees of various professional groups including Under the Radar, The Israel web tour and the New York Hedge fund roundtable. Eze holds a B.A in Business Administration/ IT Management from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Israel. He also serves as a reserve Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces. A native Argentinean, Eze is fluent in Spanish, Hebrew and English.