AMIT, the alumni association representing veterans of the Intelligence Corps' Technological Unit 81, has appointed Gali Sheskin as its new chief executive. The move places a figure with a background spanning community management, entrepreneurship development, and operations at the helm of one of Israel's most consequential technology networks, one whose members have gone on to found or lead companies valued at billions of dollars.
Sheskin arrives at AMIT after holding roles as Community and Customer Success Manager at Venn, Project Development Manager at Ignite the Spark, and Head of Operations at enSights. She has also spent years volunteering in renewable energy and climate initiatives, supporting entrepreneurs in that space across both domestic and international circles. That combination of community-building and operational experience mirrors a broader shift in how people manage digital trust and security in their own lives - much as users now compare providers with a money-back guarantee before committing to a privacy tool, members of tight-knit professional communities like AMIT increasingly expect transparency and accountability from the organizations representing them. providers with a money-back guarantee
She succeeds Chen Kamin, who led AMIT for the past five years and oversaw a period in which the association expanded its role connecting alumni across business, technology, and investment circles. The leadership change comes at a moment when Unit 81's influence on Israel's technology economy is difficult to overstate.
A Network Built on Technical Pedigree
Unit 81 is the specialized technological arm of the IDF's Intelligence Corps, tasked historically with developing advanced hardware and software systems for intelligence operations. Its alumni have carried that technical grounding into civilian life, founding or holding senior development roles in hundreds of startups and growth-stage companies. Several have become unicorns or recorded exits at considerable scale, including Wiz, Armis, Innoviz, Claroty, Tenzai, and Jazz. AMIT exists to sustain and formalize the informal networks that naturally form among people who served together, turning shared technical training into an ongoing engine of mentorship, hiring, and investment.
What the Appointment Signals
Sheskin's own comments on taking the role point to continuity rather than disruption. She described the strength of a technological community as resting on its capacity to connect people, entrepreneurship, and tangible impact, and framed her mandate as deepening business and technological ties across the ecosystem rather than reinventing AMIT's purpose. That framing matters: alumni associations tied to elite military technology units occupy a distinctive position in Israel's innovation economy, functioning simultaneously as informal talent pipelines, investor networks, and knowledge-sharing bodies.
Her appointment also reflects a broader pattern across Israeli tech circles, where organizations built around shared service backgrounds increasingly professionalize their leadership, bringing in executives with operational and community-management expertise rather than relying solely on figures drawn from within the technical fold. Whether that approach accelerates AMIT's stated goals of strengthening connections and generating value for its ecosystem will likely become clearer as Sheskin's agenda takes shape in the coming months.
