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Talia Cohen, MBA
Strategy & Business Development
Founder, Managing Partner
Over 20 years of experience in Management, Business Development and Finance. Passionate and results driven.
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Lead CICC (CA-Israel-Chamber of Commerce) for over 6 years, worked with hundreds of Israeli startups to introduce them to the US market, and with corporates and VCs in different industries including MedTech.
Prescreened, mentored and connected startups to potential customers, partners and investors. Recruited hundreds of new members and advisors to the CICC, including VCs, corporates, start-ups, service providers, universities, and government officials.
Founded the annual conferences: CiMED ; CiConnect; The Israeli Cyber Innovation
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Served as VP of Lending and Business Development at Bank Leumi USA.
Charles Barr, MD, MPH
Chief Scientist
Partner
Passionate about improving health care and outcomes of patients with serious disease through better data, evidence and decisions.
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Extensive leadership experience in scientific research, the pharma industry, clinical medicine, health care quality improvement and managed care.
Leverages innovations in data science, informatics, analytic and technology platforms to help clients understand causal mechanisms of disease, optimize drug development, and use of diagnostic tests and treatments. Enable use of real-time data, evidence and knowledge to inform decisions about populations and individual patients.
Works with healthcare delivery, patient advocacy and research organizations; pharma, diagnostic and medical device companies, government regulators and policy groups; investors and technology companies.
Ayelet Hirshfeld PhD
Mental Health
Partner
Dr. Ayelet Hirshfeld, PhD is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, Lacanian Psychoanalyst, and Psychotraumatologist with over a decade of clinical, consulting, and advisory experience at the intersection of psychology, psychoanalysis, technology, and human behavior. A Stanford Postdoctoral Fellow, she holds a PhD from Alliant International University and completed her psychoanalytic training at the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis. She also completed the Healthcare Executive Programme at UCL’s Global Business School for Health. She is the Founder and CEO of PsyEcology Inc., an agentic AI mental health platform that streamlines therapist–client matching.
Zorina Sendler, CFA, MS
Finance and strategic operations
Partner
25 years of progressive financial leadership experience in professional services and healthcare industries. A seasoned Finance leader with extensive experience in driving operational excellence and scaling operations in fast growing private and PE backed companies. Mrs. Sendler has deep expertise in M&A transactions, setting effective financial strategies and elevating decision-making capabilities through process optimization and financial oversight.
Asaf Bar, BA
Medical Devices
Partner
20 years of senior level business development, upstream marketing, and finance roles in digital health, medical devices and biopharma companies. He has hands-on expertise in growing successful businesses by creating strategies, leading business development (mergers, acquisitions, licensing, joint ventures), commercialization, fundraising and financial analyses.
Worked for J&J, Omrix Biopharmaceuticals, Lumenis, PolyPid and Sensifree.
Deepa Madhavan, MBA
Health Care Consumer
Partner
Deepa is an investor, mentor and advisor to startups, accelerators that meet the needs of healthcare consumers in bold and new ways.
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Senior Director, Digital Innovation Lab Leader at Baxter.
Former innovation leader at Anthem,
Blue Shield, Deloitte, GE Healthcare
Jeff Voigt, MBA, MPH, BA
Reimbursement
Partner
Jeff is an expert in the fields of reimbursement, evidence development and assessment, and cost effectiveness/value analysis and heads up his own firm – Medical Device Consultants of Ridgewood, LLC. In this capacity, Jeff has earned tens of millions of dollars for his clients in additional reimbursements. He has authored over 35 peer reviewed journal articles in these areas. He is also an Associate Editor of a peer reviewed journal, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation and; serves as a peer reviewer for a number of medical economic and evidence assessment journals. Jeff has also helped set up registries for companies to gather clinical data for outcome assessment and ultimate publication.
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Ani John, PhD, MPH
Pharmaceutical, Diagnostic, Digital Health
Partner
Omer Malchin, MBA
Marketing and Branding
Partner
Senior life sciences leader with 20+ years of experience across pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, digital health, and AI/ML-based medical software. Led global clinical evidence generation and real-world data strategies across the full product lifecycle in Oncology, Immunology, Cardio-metabolism, Respiratory, Diabetes, and Infectious Disease. Partnered/collaborated with leading organizations including FDA,MDIC, Merck, Bayer, and Novartis to drive regulatory approval, market access, and innovation, and authored 65+ peer-reviewed publications.
Applying strategic and creative thinking to a wide variety of brand, product and marketing initiatives.
Founder and CEO of Moxie Method.
Limor Amit, MD
Oncologist, Entrepreneur
Partner
Medical oncologist with over 12
years of clinical experience in the Davidoff oncology center.
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Founded DocBoxMD to create an AI based, advanced, complex clinical decision support system in order to optimize and personalize patient care.
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Advises biotech companies on strategy and business development based on
her clinical experience.
David Libby, BA
Public relations
Partner
Results-driven and success-oriented public relations professional with over 25 years of developing and executing award-winning communications campaigns for clients. In the biotech and healthcare sector, he has represented Novartis Diagnostics, BayBio, The Bay Area Area Air Quality Management District, among others.
Uli K. Chettipally, MD, MPH
Physician, Clinical Intelligence Innovation
Advisor
Physician, researcher, author, innovator. Was
the CTO of CREST Network, he designed, developed and implemented a region-wide clinical decision support platform to deliver
real-time predictive analytics at the point of care.
Received the Pioneer Award for Innovation
from Kaiser Permanente and Morris F. Collen Research Award from The Permanente Medical Group. President-elect, San Mateo County Medical Association; Chairman, Society of Physician Entrepreneurs, San Francisco Bay Area chapter. Author of “Punish The Machine” book.
Yan Chow, MD, MBA
Digital Health
Advisor
Global Healthcare Industry Leader at Automation Anywhere. Previous roles include:
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Medical Director for Digital Medicine in the Translational Medicine group at Amgen
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Chief Innovation Officer at LongView International Technology Solutions
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The national Director of the Innovation & Advanced Technology group (IAT) at Kaiser Permanente
Yaron Hadad, PhD
Digital Health
Advisor
Mathematical physicist whose expertise is in general relativity and nonlinear mathematics.
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Co-founder and the Chief Scientist of Nutrino Health (acquired by Medtronic), where he leads the technological and scientific efforts of the company.
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Currently leads the AI and Data Science for Medtronic Diabetes, specifically the efforts to use Machine Learning to build a Personalized Close Loop system (an artificial pancreas).
Kwame Ulmer, MS, MBA
Medical Device Regulatory Strategy
Advisor
Twenty years of experience evaluating medical technologies in the government and serving in senior operating roles at medical device companies. This experience allows him to help companies at all stages efficiently navigate global regulatory agencies.
Kwame has particular expertise in all aspects of the USFDA, from premarket applications to post market compliance. Kwame has in depth knowledge of the cross-functional activities needed to take a medical device from concept to product launch in markets including North America, EU, EMEA, China and LATAM.