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The future is built from experience.

Every innovation stands on human knowledge.

Mission

Judgment, confidence, purpose.

Build professionals and organizations that can use technology with judgment, confidence, and purpose.

We don't build AI to replace experts. We build experts and organizations that know how to use AI.

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Meet the Experts

Learn from experienced industry leaders who teach from real-world practice.

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Ilona Peist

Founder & Program Director

Customer Success Strategy & Leadership

20+ YEARS ACROSS TECHNOLOGY, PRODUCT & CUSTOMER LEADERSHIP

Senior technology and Customer Success leader with more than two decades of experience across product, business operations, customer strategy and organizational leadership. Ilona has built and led global Customer Success organizations, shaped operating models that connect customer value to measurable business outcomes, and led complex transformation across the full customer lifecycle. At STEAM VECTOR, she translates executive-level experience into practical frameworks for segmentation, onboarding, adoption, retention, growth, business reviews and strategic customer influence.

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Daniel Peist

Industry Expert & Instructor

Product, AI & Agile

18+ YEARS ACROSS TECHNOLOGY, SYSTEMS & PRODUCT

Technology and product leader with 18+ years of experience spanning implementation, systems analysis, complex delivery, product ownership and product leadership. Daniel has worked across enterprise technology environments and now leads product in fintech, bringing a rare end-to-end understanding of how products move from business need to real-world execution. At STEAM VECTOR, he focuses on product strategy, discovery, prioritization and the practical impact of AI on how modern product teams think, decide and build.

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Ofer Schmidt

Industry Expert & Instructor

Sales & Commercial Strategy

25+ YEARS IN TECHNOLOGY & ENTERPRISE SALES

Technology and commercial leader with 25+ years of industry experience across enterprise sales, business development and international go-to-market leadership. Ofer has spent his career navigating complex B2B environments across Israel and Europe, where success depends on sharp discovery, rigorous qualification, stakeholder alignment, negotiation and commercial judgment. At STEAM VECTOR, he brings senior field experience into practical methods for turning customer conversations into qualified opportunities, stronger business relationships and sustainable growth.

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Portrait of Alik Gershon, Industry Expert & Instructor

Alik Gershon

Industry Expert & Instructor

Technology & Strategic Thinking

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT • CHESS GRANDMASTER • WORLD CHAMPION

Software architect and Chess Grandmaster whose career combines technology with elite-level strategic competition. Alik became a world youth champion, won the Israeli Chess Championship and later set a Guinness World Record for simultaneous chess, while building a parallel career in software architecture. At STEAM VECTOR, he translates decades of high-level strategic thinking into practical approaches to decision-making, systems thinking, pattern recognition, planning under uncertainty and solving complex problems under pressure.

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Beyond one expert

Built to grow beyond one expert.

Network forming

STEAM VECTOR is designed as a network. Over time, programs and advisory will be delivered by experts who each own a domain they actively work in, held together by shared frameworks and one principle: human judgment first.

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