Marketing leadership · AI enablement · Training · Since 2001

Joseph Dov “Yosi” Kohan

I make complex technology usable by the people who have to sell it, buy it and run it.

Training, configurators and sales kits since 2001. Now also AI systems running in production. Spanish, Hebrew, English.

Defense & HLSTelecom & data centersPro AVRetail AI
AI systems in productionTender qualification engineOne pipeline, one viewTrilingual sales kickoffsOne glossary, every marketConfigurators & sales toolsCertification curricula3 working languages AI systems in productionTender qualification engineOne pipeline, one viewTrilingual sales kickoffsOne glossary, every marketConfigurators & sales toolsCertification curricula3 working languages

The hard part of marketing moved. It's no longer producing the material. It's deciding what's worth producing, and getting an organization to actually use it.

Career · 2001 → now

Taking the stairs two at a time.

Each step a bigger scope. The verb underneath stayed the same: make it learnable, usable, repeatable.

  1. 2001

    Degem Systems

    Training DevelopereLearning, technical animation, interactive simulationsMake a technical system learnable.
  2. 2007

    Kramer Electronics

    Software Dev → Marketing PMProduct configurators, RIA sales tools, iOS & Android control appsLet a partner spec a system without an engineer.
  3. 2016

    Kramer Electronics

    Technical Marketing ManagerGlobal certification curriculum, delivered face to faceMake a channel competent.
  4. 2021

    Fibernet

    Director of MarketingFull-scope strategy and execution, planned against revenueTake the whole function.
  5. 2022

    Shopic

    Product Marketing ManagerLMS academy from zero; multilingual release notesMake customers self-sufficient.
  6. 2024

    MER Group

    Marketing Technology ManagerTender qualification engine, Power Platform tooling, group-wide AI enablementMake judgment repeatable and auditable.
Yosi jumping, arms out, at the top of the staircase

Training developer, software developer, marketing PM, technical marketing manager, director of marketing, and now group level across several business domains at a publicly traded company.

ISEInfoCommDEFEAFIDAEGITEX Dubai 2020Live interpretationPre-sales to integratorsCertification on site ISEInfoCommDEFEAFIDAEGITEX Dubai 2020Live interpretationPre-sales to integratorsCertification on site
What I get hired for · long cycles, technical buyers

A cabinet with five drawers.

Open one. Each holds a capability and the proof that it ran in real life.

A nine-dimension tender qualification engine producing bid, conditional-bid and no-bid decisions across several national procurement landscapes, with a compliance gate that overrides the score and routing to the unit that owns the response. A fragmented sales pipeline consolidated into one CRM-ready dataset. Internal tooling on Power Platform and the Claude API, and the program that moved colleagues from consuming AI output to producing their own.

What changedBid decisions used to live in whoever's judgment was in the room. Now they leave a record. And the group sees its whole pipeline in one view.

Channel partners, end customers, internal teams. I write the curriculum, produce the video and the instructional design in-house, then get on a plane to deliver it. Shopic Academy was founded from nothing and localized into several languages against a glossary I defined first. Before that, a Pro AV manufacturer's global certification curriculum, delivered face to face.

What changedProduction came in-house, so the curriculum could be revised at the speed the product changed.

Ran the whole function as Director of Marketing; run it at group level now across several business domains. Direct reports and matrix teams, plus agencies and studios. Including the parts most marketing leaders hand off: corporate narrative and deck architecture, investor relations for a public company, demand gen with agency selection across markets, a multi-division website rebuild with its redirect map, and HubSpot underneath it all.

What changedOne modular base deck serves investor, client, partner and tender audiences. Every business line, one story.

A global sales kickoff with people flying in from across the world, run trilingually with live interpretation. Pre-sales support to integrators and distributors. Show programs at ISE, InfoComm, DEFEA, FIDAE, and GITEX Dubai in December 2020, among the first Israelis openly representing Israeli technology there.

Why it mattersIn a procurement cycle measured in quarters, being in the room is the part nobody can do on your behalf.

Three roles at Kramer Electronics, one step at a time: software developer, marketing project manager, technical marketing manager. Built the configurators and RIA sales tools on the global site, developed iOS and Android control apps for IP-based AV management, wrote and delivered the partner certification curriculum, ran the ISE and InfoComm programs.

What changedIntegrators specified signal management and room systems on their own. The configurator did the part that used to need an engineer on the phone.
How I work · curious by default, easy to work with

Your fortune, in six cards.

Tap a card to flip it.

Yosi sitting on the floor, smiling, looking off to the side
I

The Conductor

I run teams and suppliers.

Direct reports and matrix teams, plus the agencies, studios, freelancers and vendors around them. Somebody has to own the plan, the brief and the money. That is usually me.

II

The Maker

I build it myself.

Software, graphic design, UX, interactive content, animation, video, training material. Years as a developer before marketing: configurators, IoT control apps on the App Store and Google Play, Power Platform, the Claude API. This page included.

III

The Autodidact

Self-taught, all of it.

Developer, instructional designer, marketer, pre-sales, AI systems. Each one learned by building the thing and shipping it. Give me a discipline I haven't met and the answer is the same: I go and learn it.

IV

The Labyrinth

I take the complex ones.

Complex, multidisciplinary and unknown. No precedent, no template, nobody who has done it here before. An academy built from nothing. A trilingual kickoff with people flying in from across the world. That is the part I enjoy.

V

The Yes

I don't answer “no”.

If it hasn't been done here before, the question is what it would take: which process, which tool, which person. I come back with the route and what it costs, rather than a reason it can't happen.

VI

The Polyglot

Three working languages.

EspañolעבריתEnglish

Native Spanish, raised in Caracas. A curriculum localized across languages, kickoffs run trilingually, training delivered in person across international markets.

Latest projects · AI enablement, pre-sales, demand gen, tooling

Currently open on my desk.

Drag the windows around. Nothing will break.

AI enablement

Claude Design, rolled out to sales and pre-sales

Sales and technical teams now produce finished branded presentations, video, UI screens and brochures themselves. A shared design system, reusable prompt patterns and a short curriculum, so output arrives on brand and complete.

Pre-sales

Tender intelligence system

Bid, conditional-bid and no-bid engine on Power Automate and the Claude API, delivered through SharePoint and Teams. Sources and scores public tenders across national markets and routes each to its owner.

Demand generation

Account-based targeting model

For markets where every account counts: a region-wide channel analysis and a calculator the sales lead drives live. Change the assumptions, watch the number move, agree the plan in the same meeting.

Internal tooling

Secure offering catalog

The whole offering in front of sales anywhere in the world, behind single sign-on. Plus a bilingual stock app, trade show lead capture, and an email signature generator adopted company-wide.

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Contact

Tell me what your organization can't do yet.

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