Humanizing digital communication
Shaping the age of digital humans
At D-ID, we believe communication is most effective when it feels human. Our platform helps organizations deliver clear, consistent, and high-impact communication through professional, multilingual avatar videos and interactive experiences with visual agents.
Organizations worldwide use D-ID to elevate customer experience, streamline support, accelerate training and onboarding, enhance learning, and strengthen brand messaging across channels, ensuring communication that remains consistent, effective, and easy to scale.
About Us
Established in 2017 and backed by tier-1 venture investors, D-ID has been at the forefront of generative AI for nearly a decade—pioneering the technologies that now define the emerging era of Digital Humans. Our self-service studio and API have powered more than 200 million avatar videos and attracted a global community of over 280,000 developers building AI-driven solutions for customer experience, training, marketing, and communication.
In 2025, D-ID expanded its leadership through the acquisition of simpleshow, uniting two innovators in AI video creation and interactive communication. This milestone accelerated our vision of delivering a unified Digital Human platform, combining enterprise-grade video creation with real-time, humanlike interaction. Today, leading organizations including PepsiCo, Fidelity, J.P. Morgan, SoftBank, NTT, Deutsche Telekom, PwC, Deloitte, Burda Media, AXA Insurance, and Gameloft rely on D-ID to create impactful, scalable digital experiences powered by expressive, intelligent Digital Humans.
Pioneers in interactive avatars and AI video creation
Our technology, available via a self-service studio, API, or integrations blends advanced generative models with expressive avatar animation, automated narration, and multilingual capabilities to produce polished, on-brand video content at scale. Building on this foundation, our real-time visual agents add natural speech, conversational intelligence, and task execution, creating interactive, humanlike experiences that adapt instantly to each user.
Leadership Team
Gil Perry
Co-Founder, CEO
Gil is the Chief Executive Officer of D-ID. He was among the first developers in Generative AI, working in the space since it emerged in 2014, developing the first algorithm in the world to protect against face recognition technology. Prior to founding D-ID, he served in various technical and business roles in leading global tech companies, including Meerkat / Houseparty, where he was a senior software engineer.
Gil has served in an elite intelligence unit of the IDF. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, with expertise in computer vision, and Deep Learning.
Karsten Boehrs
President & COO
Karsten is President and Chief Operating Officer of D-ID, responsible for the company’s Go-To-Market strategy and driving operational efficiency to achieve ambitious growth targets. He brings extensive experience as a sales and business management executive with a strong track record in scaling international organizations.
Prior to joining D-ID, Karsten served as CEO of simpleshow, which was acquired by D-ID in September 2025. His corporate career spans C-level leadership roles across international logistics and media companies, with a focus on sales excellence, operations, and end-to-end organizational performance. In addition, Karsten has acted as an angel investor, supporting promising and innovative business models.
Karsten has an engineering background, combining technical understanding with strategic and commercial leadership. He is married and the father of four adult children.
Dr. Sandra Boehrs
CMO
Sandra is the Chief Marketing Officer of D-ID, responsible for marketing, product, and market strategy. She is an accomplished business management, strategy, and marketing executive with a strong track record in building customer-centric, growth-oriented organizations.
Prior to joining D-ID, Sandra served as CMO at simpleshow, which was acquired by D-ID in September 2025. Her career includes a wide range of senior management roles in leading international organizations, including Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Bahn, where she held key positions across marketing, CRM, and strategic management functions.
Sandra brings deep expertise in customer relationship management and go-to-market strategy. Widely experienced in international environments, her core focus is creating satisfied and loyal customers through clear value propositions and effective market execution. She is married and a mother of two boys.
Sella Blondheim
Co-Founder, CSO
Sella is the Chief Strategy Officer of D-ID, leading strategic and corporate development initiatives. He was previously Chief Operating Officer of D-ID with responsibility for the operations, product, legal, human resources and financial teams. Prior to founding D-ID, Sella held various management, business and marketing roles in leading global tech companies, including at Natural Intelligence, a global leader in online marketing and among Google’s top ten partners, where he managed eight digit budgets, improving the audiences and products, and increasing ROI.
Sella has served in an elite intelligence unit of the IDF, where he and Gil first met. Sella holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management, with a specialization in operations management.
Torsten Friedrich
CRO
Torsten is Chief Revenue Officer at D-ID, where he leads global revenue strategy with a focus on scalable growth, customer-centric go-to-market execution, and high-performing sales organizations.
Before joining D-ID, Torsten held senior commercial leadership roles in software and tech environments. Most recently, he was Managing Director, Head of Europe Sales & Customer Success at simpleshow, a company that was acquired by D-ID in September 2025.
Earlier in his career, he served as Managing Director & Chief Sales Officer and held strategic sales roles at global companies including Adobe, Oracle, and IBM.
He has an academic background in business management, engineering, and information technology.
Eliran Kuta
Co-Founder, CTO
Eliran is the Chief Technology Officer in charge of the company’s technology roadmap. Under his leadership, the company has been granted numerous ground-breaking innovative technologies and patents. Previously worked at Houseparty (acquired by Epic Games) together with Gil Perry. Eliran quickly established the R&D department at D-ID from scratch, attracting and recruiting the top AI and deep-learning experts in Israel.
Eliran served for 10 years in Israel’s prestigious 8200 intelligence corps unit – as a Captain, he led large teams of engineers. He holds a B.Sc in computer science, and extensive expertise in software engineering, computer vision and machine learning.
Noa Sella
CFO
Noa is the Chief Financial Officer of D-ID, responsible for all financial and legal aspects of the company.
In this role, Noa leads strategic and financial planning, accounting, treasury, investor relations, and legal operations, partnering closely with the leadership team to support D-ID’s growth and long-term vision.
Noa brings over a decade of financial leadership experience. Prior to joining D-ID, Noa was VP of FP&A at Coro, a fast-growing cybersecurity company. Before that, Noa served as VP of FP&A at Riskified (NYSE: RSKD), where she built and scaled the finance function from early stage through IPO. Noa began her career at PwC.
Noa is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a BA in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University.
Or Gorodissky
SVP R&D
Or is a skilled Generative AI researcher and advocate, known for his expertise in delivering impactful products at scale using emerging technologies. With a strong academic background and research publications from his Msc. Computer Engineering studies at Tel Aviv University, combined with practical experience in the Israeli startup scene, including successful exits and M&As, NVIDIA (Mellanox), REFAEL (VisionMap), Or brings a unique blend of theoretical knowledge and hands-on expertise.
Joining D-ID as an AI researcher in 2018, he now leads the entire R&D department. His team delivered the first Generative AI globally viral product and is consistently viewed as a formidable force in this highly competitive field of Generative AI.
Susanne Ilemann
SVP Marketing Strategy & BI
Susanne is Senior Vice President Marketing & Business Intelligence at D-ID. She defines the global marketing strategy, leads marketing operations, and builds a robust customer data and business intelligence foundation to support scalable growth. Her focus is on creating clarity and measurable impact across the full customer lifecycle to strengthen brand and market positioning, and aligning marketing closely with sales and revenue objectives.
Prior to joining D-ID, Susanne was Managing Director at simpleshow, a company acquired by D-ID in September 2025. She brings two decades of international marketing and management experience across tech, media, and consulting environments, combining strategic thinking with rigorous analytical execution and robust operational know-how. Her academic background is in business management, marketing, and communications.
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Ofer Ben-Noon
CEO & Founder of Talon Cyber Security
Ofer Ben-Noon
CEO & Founder of Talon Cyber Security
Ofer Ben-Noon is the CEO and co-founder of Talon Cyber Security. Prior to that, he was co-founder of Argus, the global leader in automotive cyber security, which was sold to Continental in 2017. Ofer served as Captain in the IDF Cyber Intelligence Unit 8200 and was a team member of two Israel Defense Prize winning projects.
Dr. Ann Cavoukian
Creator of Privacy by Design; Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre
Dr. Ann Cavoukian
Creator of Privacy by Design; Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre
Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts.. Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There she created Privacy by Design, a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies, networked infrastructure and business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an international standard.
Howard Edelstein
Active advisor, mentor and investor in early-stage high-tech companies
Howard Edelstein
Active advisor, mentor and investor in early-stage high-tech companies
Debra Farber
Privacy Tech Expert & Investor at AWS, BigID, Visa, IBM
Debra Farber
Privacy Tech Expert & Investor at AWS, BigID, Visa, IBM
Debra Is a globally-recognized Privacy, former head of privacy at Amazon, Security and Ethical Tech Advisor and Principal and Host of The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast. With 17 years of experience managing privacy and data protection issues, Debra has shifted left to work with companies seeking to unlock the value of their data with privacy by design (PbD) strategies, privacy enabling technologies (PETs), and privacy engineering methodologies.
Richard Purcell
former Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft
Richard Purcell
former Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft
A recognized expert in information privacy and data protection andMicrosoft’s first Chief Privacy Officer. He has extensive expertise in information privacy and data protection both domestically and internationally. He developed Privacy by 3PT: A Management Model and ACT: A Privacy Education Model.
Benny Schnaider
Co-Founder of Qumranet, PentaCom, Salto, P-Cube, Ravello Systems
Benny Schnaider
Co-Founder of Qumranet, PentaCom, Salto, P-Cube, Ravello Systems
Benny is a high-tech serial entrepreneur. Benny was the CEO and co-founder of five different tech companies all the way to an exit or an IPO (Qumranet, PentaCom, Salto, P-Cube, Ravello systems).
Prof. Adi Shamir
Co-Inventor of the RSA Algorithm
Prof. Adi Shamir
Co-Inventor of the RSA Algorithm
Prof. Shamir is an internationally recognized cryptographer. He has a number of claims to fame including being a co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptography algorithm for encoding and decoding messages, co-inventor of a zero-knowledge proof scheme, and a major contributor to what has become known as differential cryptanalysis as well as other significant contributions to computer science.
Prof. Lior Wolf
Deep Learning Researcher, Former Director, Facebook AI
Prof. Lior Wolf
Deep Learning Researcher, Former Director, Facebook AI
Prof. Wolf is a research scientist in Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and a full professor at the School of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University. Prof. Wolf’s work has received several awards including the best paper awards at ICANN’16 and at the CVPR’13 workshop on action recognition.
Prof. Wolf has extensive experience in forming, advising and heading R&D at multiple computer vision startups and his research focuses on computer vision and deep learning and includes topics such as face identification, document analysis, natural language processing, digital paleography, and video action recognition.
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