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Eynat Guez | Co-founder, CEO at Papaya Global | Fintech Finance

About Eynat Guez

https://papayaglobal.com/
Eynat Guez is an Israeli technology entrepreneur and executive. She is the CEO and co-founder of Papaya Global, a payroll and payments provider. Eynat Guez was born in France, the second of three children. She immigrated with her family to Israel when she was four years old. The family settled in Netanya. In her youth, she was a journalist for TV shows on Channel 2 and Israeli Educational Television and the newspaper Ma'ariv La'noar, and was a competitive swimmer. Eynat Guez served in the Israel Defense Forces as an F-16 Squadron adjutant. Eynat Guez holds a BA in political science and Business administration from the Open University of Israel. She lives in Emek Hefer with her husband and three children. Eynat Guez served for seven years as a COO of LR Group, a holding company that built infrastructures and established projects in Africa. In 2008, after seven years in LR Group, she quit her job. Early 2009, she founded Relocation Source, her first company, which supports corporate relocation and worldwide mobility needs and still exists today. Four years later, she established a second company, Expert Source, which assisted companies expanding into East Asia. In 2016, she founded Papaya Global, with Ofer Herman (CTO) and Ruben Drong (CPO). As of September 2021, the company is valued at $3.7 billion. It is the first Israeli unicorn led by a woman. In 2023, in order to prevent a negative publication by Business Insider, Eynat Guez falsely stated to the newspaper that she had relatives among the Israelis kidnapped by Hamas and that security forces instructed her to stay out of the media. She subsequently appeared in other media.  Eynat Guez has over 20 year of experience in Global workforce management, and she is one of the leading experts in HR and payroll Management in the industry.  Papaya Global employs 200 employees around the globe, growing 300% year-over-year and has raised over 150M USD from leading US investors such as Bessmer venture partners, Insights ventures and Scale Ventures.

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