Ronen Shilo

Ronen Shilo (; born May 1, 1958) is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Conduit, an online platform for publishers to create free mobile apps and loyalty programs. Conduit became Israel's largest Internet company in 2013, valued at $1.3 billion.

Biography Ronen Shilo grew up in Ness Ziona and served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.

He graduated from the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, with a BSc in Computer Science.

Shilo is married and has three children.

Business career Early in his career, Shilo worked for Ready Systems in Silicon Valley.

Shilo founded Conduit in 2005 with partners Gaby Bilcyzk and Dror Erez to help publishers retain and engage users. Though the company has received venture funding, the three founders retain a majority share in the company.

In the Financial Times, he called the phenomena of Israeli companies selling too early as "Quick Sell" nation. Israeli newspaper Haaretz mentioned him in the article "Four Reasons Not to Hate Israel's Big Business Tycoons" as one of a small number of Israeli tech CEOs who "shunned the quick buck of an M&A deal and stayed the course." He wrote an article for Fast Company in 2012 explaining why he had largely stayed out of the press despite running an Internet company with 260 million users.