Profile
An accomplished executive with extensive experience in R&D leadership and as a CEO, successfully navigating technical, strategic, and financial challenges. Highly skilled in the agile startup environment, with proven entrepreneurial expertise and resilience. My multidisciplinary engineering background spans over 15 years of hands-on development in medical devices and consumer products. Ambitious, resourceful, and creative, I am passionate about innovation and design, with a keen eye for detail.
Experience
LIGHTFECTIVE
CEO
Dec 2023 - present
Leading the company through a profound transitional phase whilst managing all its on-going activities. Setting clear objectives and driving execution in alignment with newly defined standards.
Fundraising and Investor Relations: Successfully securing funding in two investment rounds while maintaining strong and communicative relationship with the company’s board of directors.
Business development: actively seeking M&A and investment opportunities with prominent market leaders, venture capital and global corporations looking to venture into medical aesthetics.
Marketing and Sales: managing the company’s global distribution network, engaging clients, launching marketing campaigns and managing the company’s social media, participating in industry exhibitions.
Operations and Service: Personally overseeing production and quality activities. Providing customer support to distributors and clients around the world.
R&D: Initiating and overseeing product improvements (SW, HW and Mechanical).
RA/QA: Lead the FDA approval effort and successfully passed all ISO and CE audits.
HR: Recruitment, redundancies and retention of personnel.
LIGHTFECTIVE
VP of R&D
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
In charge of the development of new products, product improvements and certification activities (compliance, FDA and clinical testing) for a medical aesthetics start-up. Managing a diverse team of mechanical, HW & SW engineers.
R&D: Driving the development of innovative new products and advanced software features, with a strong focus on optimising UX/UI design. Overseeing the entire project lifecycle, from requirements gathering through implementation, design review, and validation. Conducting compliance testing to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.
Production: Took charge of the critical sub-contractor transition process. Revised and improved the production process from documentation to final inspection.
Quality & Improvements: Initiating and prioritizing product improvement activities. Overseeing plastic production in China. Personally overseeing production and quality activities.
Engineering & Operations: Performing NPI activities, initiating and carrying out ECO’s and actively participating in sub-contractor evaluation and supply chain improvements.
Technical Service: Providing remote and on-site customer support to distributors and clients from around the world. Assisting the technical service team with solving technical issues.
Manyone TLV
R&D Team Leader
Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
Managing an R&D team for an international design and development company, overseeing project progress within budget and schedule while maintaining strong client relationships.
QMS: Responsible for establishing the company's QMS according to ISO 13485.
Business Development: Actively participating in the company’s efforts to obtain new clients, including
Production: Assisting clients in with relevant sub-contractors, creating work instructions, finalising the technical file, and with transferring the entire project to production.
Project Management: Planning and overseeing project budgets, timelines, milestones and resources. Providing clients with detailed quotations, Gantt and design reviews.
R&D and Design: Hand-on management of multidisciplinary projects involving R&D, industrial design and digital design teams whilst also playing an active role during the actual design process.
Service: Providing R&D, system engineering and project management services to both domestic and overseas companies from various industries, including medical devices, automotive and consumer electronics.
Leadership: Managing a team of 3-4 mechanical engineers, freelance electronics engineers & other external service providers. Assisting other departments and R&D teams in solving technical and design challenges. Mentoring junior engineers and designers.
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
In charge of leading, coordinating and organising top-priority projects whilst carrying out high-level mechanical design tasks.
Team Work: Ensuring strong collaboration with Alma’s clinical, compliance, regulatory, PM, marketing, sales, and operations departments.
Production: Responsible for transferring the project from R&D to production. Preparing the production line and training production workers.
Validation: Initiating and overseeing validation and documentation processes (ISO 13485). Performing extensive SW, HW, optical and integration tests.
R&D: Key contributor to mechanical design and management processes. Introducing a user-focused approach to software design, enhancing UX/UI.
System & Project Management: Responsible for managing, planning and tracking of all of the project’s R&D tasks. Overseeing requirements, documentation, integration, validation and design reviews.
Leadership: Matrix management of engineers from all R&D departments (mecahnical, HW, SW, physics and NPI).
Alma Lasers
Senior Mechanical & System Engineer
Alma Lasers
R&D Mechanical Design Engineer
Aug 2011 - Jan 2018
In charge of leading, coordinating and organising top-priority projects whilst carrying out high-level mechanical design tasks.
R&D: Developing of various types of parts, mechanisms and assemblies according to requirements and regulations. Designing CNC, sheet metal, plastic, optical and 3D printed parts. Integrating lasers, flash lamps, optical fibres, RF/US, and electronic modules, including selection of off-the-shelf components.
Production: Responsible for transferring the project from R&D to production. Overseeing plastic mould production and testing in China.
Certification: Participating in clinical validation tests (in-vivo/ex-vivo), compliance activities and FDA submissions.
Validation: Initiating and overseeing validation and documentation processes (ISO 13485). Performing extensive SW, HW, optical and integration tests.
ASAP View
CEO and Co-Founder
Jan 2017- Jan 2019
Co-founding and leading a medical device start-up specializing in advanced solutionsfor airway management (intubations).
Leadership: Driving vision, business and technical strategies according to market needs, opportunities and competition.
R&D: Leading all R&D activities. Generating and iterating through solutions.
Fund Raising: Approaching and pitching to investors, technology hubs and other potential stakeholders.
IP: Identifying unique IP opportunities and overseeing patent submissions.
Accolades: Successfully participated in the Technion’s Biztec accelerator program, reaching the top 10 finalists. Securing an R&D grant from the program beneficiaries - Judith and Yehuda Bronicki.
Rogel Engineering
Mechanical Design Intern
Aug 2010- Jan 2011
Conceptual and mechanical design of prototypes at a specialised mechanical design company.
Dune Medical Devices
Production & QC
Aug 2008- Jul 2011
Assembling and testing of an innovative device for in-vivo cancer identification. Working in a clean room environment.
Education
Shenkar
M.Des Design
2019 - 2021
The Technion
B.Sc Aerospace Engineering
2006 - 2010
Hof Carmel High School
Technology
1995 - 2000
Language
English
Native Proficiency
Hebrew
Native Proficiency
Skills
Company Management
R&D & Engineering
CAD & Prototyping
Microsoft
Productivity
Web Design Tools
Adobe
Tools & Software
Military Service
Nov 2000- Jan 2003 (Conscript Service)
A commander in the Air Forces charged with the defence of a high security base located in a high pressure zone.
IDF Air Force
Ground Defence NCO
Nov 2003- May 2021 (Reserve Duty)
A commander in an Air Force 968 brigade tasked with general border defence deployments and other security activities.
IDF Air Force
Squad Commander
Tomer Touviano
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