Shahar Erez Co-founder & CEO of Stoke Shahar Erez is a co-founder and the CEO of Stoke, an on-demand talent platform empowering companies to adopt a hybrid workforce model that scales as quickly and efficiently as needed. By combining data, a streamlined experience and access to a wide talent pool, Stoke provides full transparency and compliance to the process of hiring and managing freelancers. Stoke's enterprise software democratizes access to a global non-payroll workforce. A tech-scene veteran in Israel and Silicon Valley, Erez has 15 years of executive experience in engineering, product and marketing under his belt at companies like Mercury, HP, VMware and Kenshoo. He has built a reputation as a strategic thinker who leads organizational change and drives growth by developing talent and promoting a learning culture. Outside work, Shahar is a proud father of 3, an amateur cyclist and an avid reader.