Mission Hosts

Global Capital Associates
Forbes/Gottlieb Medical Technology Investor
Harvard MIT Biomedical Engineering Center

Chair People

Prof. Rafael Beyar, Dean, Ruth and Baruch Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion
Mr. Nissim Darvish, Senior Principal, Pitango Venture Capital
Mr. Amos Goren, Healthcare Israel, Apax Partners
Dr. Avraham Ludomirski, Managing Partner, Vitalife Life Sciences Venture

Advisory Board

Dr. Ronit Bendori, Partner, Life Science Sector, Evergreen Partners
Dr. Shlomo Ben Haim, Medical Device Entrepreneur
Ms. Tamar Ciehanover, Vice President, The Challenge Funds, ETGAR L.P.
Jed Cohen, Director, Health Care Investment Banking, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Mr. Nissim Darvish, Senior Principal, Pitango Venture Capital
Mr. Jeff Dykan, Managing Partner, Vitalife Life Sciences Venture
Dr. Gal Ehrlich, Patent Attorney, Ehrlich & Partners
Mr. Yigal Erlich, Founder, Chairman and Managing Partner, The Yozma Group
Mr. Michael Elias, Managing General Partner, Tamir Fishman Ventures
Ms. Batsheva Elran, Managing Partner, Medica Venture Partners
Mr. Udi Gilboa, Managing Director, Top–Notch Capital
Mr. Amos Goren, Healthcare Israel, Apax Partners
Dr. Raffi Hofstein, Director General, Hadassit
Dr. Shlomo Kalish, Founding Partner, Jerusalem Global Ventures
Dr. Avi Molcho, Managing Director, Life Science, Giza Venture Capital
Dr. Hadar Ron, Managing Director, Israel Health Care Ventures Ltd.
Ms. Limor Sandach, Venture Capital Team, Evergreen Partners
Mr. Yoram Wilamowski, Partner, High Tech, Life Science, Ernst & Young
Dr. Benny Zeevi, Managing General Partner, Tamir Fishman Ventures

Participants

Dr. Susan Alpert, VP, Chief and Regulatory Officer at Medtronic
Larry Best, Chief Financial Officer, Boston Scientific
Benjamin Bowen, Director, Investment Banking
Brian Chee, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Dr. Jocelyn Elders, former Surgeon General and the first African American woman to have held this important post
Suraj Kalia, Rodman and Renshaw
Dr. Murray Lumpkin, Principal Associate Commissioner at the US Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Michael Nobel, Chairman, Nobel Family Society
Lewis Pell, Co-Founder, Impulse Dynamics
Edward Rubin, Managing Director, Rodman and Renshaw
Dr. Daniel Schultz, Director, FDA Center for Devices & Radiological Health
James Shapiro, Partner, Thomas Weisel Healthcare Venture Partners

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