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Our Team
Guy Shinar, PhD, MBA
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Guy is a physicist with 20 years of experience as a medical device entrepreneur and executive. Prior to founding Javelin, Guy served as CEO of X Technologies, an interventional cardiology company, and is a co-founder of EarlySense, a remote patient monitoring company. Guy has authored several scientific papers published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
Ofer Yodfat, MD
Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer
Ofer is a specialist in internal medicine with 20 years of experience as a medical device entrepreneur and executive. Prior to founding Javelin, he was founder and CEO of MindGuard, a stroke-prevention medical device company, and Medingo, a developer of ultra-small insulin pumps. Ofer is the recipient of the 2010 Diabetes Technology Society Leadership Award. He is the author of numerous patents in the field of medical device technology.
Yoni Ben-Zvi
CEO
Yoni brings 16 years of medical device industry experience, with 12 years managing
cardiovascular companies to Javelin. Holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering (BSc), MBA from Technion technology institute. Prior to joining Javelin, he was Co-Founder and General Manager at Mitralix Ltd., a percutaneous Tricuspid and Mitral valve regurgitation repair device, R&D manager at Pi-Cardia and project manager at Optonol. He is author of several patents in the field of Cardiovascular and Ophthalmology medical devices technologies. Yoni has a proven success record in various R&D, manufacturing, quality, and clinical aspects.
Yair Dan
VP R&D and Engineering
Yair is a mechanical engineer with 15 years of experience in medical device development. Prior to joining Javelin, he served as Director of Engineering of Medingo, and as a development engineer at Ziv Av, an engineering consulting firm.
Sagit Broder
VP Clinical and Regulatory
Sagit is a biologist with 20 years of experience in medical device development. Prior to joining Javelin, she was a pre-clinical Study Director at Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center and Head of the pre-Clinical unit at TransPharma, a combined product (medical device and drug) company.
Alon Baranes
Production and Operation Manager
Alon is a civil engineer with 6 years of experience in medical device manufacturing, QA and bench testing.
Marat Kveler
Engineering Manager
Marat is a mechanical engineer with 10 years of experience in medical device development.
Prior to joining Javelin, he was R&D engineer at Edwards Lifesciences, development
engineer at Positech, and NPI engineer at Agam Tefen.
Monique Robas
QA Manager
Monique is a specialist in quality assurance with over 15 years of experience in Medical device production and assembly. Prior to joining Javelin, she served as QA manager in 3BY, StePac Ltd, and Delta Karmiel
Maria Berson
Clinical and Regulatory Associate
Maria is a Biologist with 10 years of experience in the field. Prior to joining Javelin, she was a pathology assistant (Histology department) at Maccabi Healthcare Services and pre-clinical study assistant at Transpharma, a combined product (medical device and drug) company.
Esti Oz
HR & Administration Manager
Esti has a master degree in political science. Prior to joining Javelin she worked over 10 years as a team leader in the Israeli ministry of defense.
ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED
Avi Neta
General Manager
The Javelin team will always remember Avi’s contribution to the company. Avi helped Javelin to become the company and team that we are today, aiming to bring a never-before-seen technology to the benefit of patients.
Avi was a mechanical engineer with over 40 years of experience in engineering, management and product development. Prior to joining Javelin, he served as VP R&D and Chief Engineer of Medingo, and Head of Mechanics in Elbit’s dialysis machine development program.