Eyal Goldberg is Co-Founder and CEO of Breeze, an insurtech platform focused on digital and embedded cargo insurance for the freight and logistics industry. Before founding Breeze, He spent six years at Amazon leading product and AI teams. He is based in London.

What was your dream job as a child?

Astronaut or a fireman. 

What’s the biggest change you’ve seen in the industry?

The analogue era is closing. The gap between those who’ve digitalised and those still running manual, fragmented processes is widening fast, and it’s becoming a genuine competitive barrier, not just an efficiency question.  

What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever shipped?

Once you’ve spent time actually inside the freight industry, very little surprises you. The variety of what moves around the world on any given day is genuinely remarkable. 

What’s one buzzword you secretly dislike?

Disruption. Every technology company says it’s disrupting something. What actually matters is whether you’re solving a real problem for a real customer. 

Window or aisle seat?

Aisle. I value the ability to move freely when I want to. 

What’s the best business lesson you’ve learned the hard way?

Change takes time in our industry. We’re asking an industry that has operated a certain way for decades to adopt a new technology and a new way of doing things. For someone who spent a lot of time in tech, where things move quickly, it was an important and humbling lesson.  

If you could swap jobs with anyone for a day, who would it be?

An olive mill owner. I want to own an olive mill in Italy some day, so it would be a good sanity check. 

Which three items would you bring to a desert island?

Some matches, a Swiss Army knife, and a good book. 

Tea or coffee?

Coffee. 

What’s your guilty pleasure TV show or movie?

I’ll leave this one deliberately vague and say it involves neither supply chains nor AI.  

What’s the most exciting place you’ve visited for work?

Singapore. It’s one of those places where you feel the pace of globalisation – the infrastructure, the density of logistics activity. It makes what we’re building feel very real. 

If you could introduce one new regulation in air cargo, what would it be?

Mandatory disclosure of actual risk coverage status at point of booking. Too many shippers still believe they’re insured when they have only limited liability cover. Closing that information gap would protect a lot of cargo – and a lot of businesses. 

What’s your go-to karaoke song?

I’ll respectfully decline to answer this on the grounds that it might undermine confidence in Breeze’s leadership team. 

What’s your hidden talent?

I’m told I’m good at explaining complex things simply. Whether that’s a talent or just something you develop after years of translating between lawyers, engineers, and freight forwarders, I’m not sure.  

If you could instantly master one skill, what would it be?

Another language. Probably Italian or Spanish.  

What’s something on your bucket list?

I don’t believe in having such a list. If there is something you really want to do find a way to do it now. 

If air cargo had a mascot, what would it be?

An albatross. Covers extraordinary distances, navigates reliably in conditions most things can’t, and keeps going regardless of what the weather throws at it. 

How did you get into airfreight/logistics?

When I moved to London, I was looking for a new startup idea and saw real potential in cargo insurance. But rather than build from the outside, I took a job with a freight forwarder to make sure I understood how they actually operated before we built anything.  

What quote has most resonated with you?

Treat other people the way you want to be treated. 

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

Be a good person. 

What’s something we wouldn’t know about you from your CV?

I trained as a lawyer before I moved into tech. It’s an unusual combination, but it’s probably the reason I find cargo insurance so interesting – it sits right at the intersection of legal obligation, financial risk, and operational processes that benefit from technology and AI. 

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