Ornit Shinar

Global Head of External Innovation and Venture Investing Citi Innovation Labs

Ornit Shinar is the Head of External Innovation and Venture Investing for Citi’s Global Innovation Labs. Ornit is a successful investor, entrepreneur and board member with a broad range of experience in consumer electronics, enterprise IT and Fintech. Ornit’s experience spans Management and Strategy, Business Development, Sales and Marketing. Some of Ornit’s investments include Forter, Honeybook, Chargeafter Biocatch, Silverfort, IVIX, Sharegain and Access Fintech. She is further on the Board of Governors of Azrieli College and the Global Advisory Board of Copenhagen Fintech.

Prior to this role, Ornit ran External Innovation and Business Development for Lenovo in Europe and Israel. In this capacity she invested and sat on the boards of Cloud technologies as well as Artificial Intelligence and biometric authentication most notably Elastifile (acquired by Google). Prior to Lenovo, Ornit worked at Citi, where she founded and ran Citi’s first Accelerator. Prior to Citi, she founded and served in managerial roles in multiple companies. She was the first investor in Audiopixels (ASX: AKP).

Ornit founded Yazamiyot, Israel's leading women's entrepreneur network, and was selected by Haaretz (one of Israel's leading newspapers) as one of 66 Women You Should Know. Ornit, who clerked for the President of the Israeli Supreme Court, holds a joint honors degree in English Law and French Law from the London School of Economics and an LLM cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and speaks seven languages.