Selected Impact

From Possibility to Real Programs

Examples of how I identify hidden capacity, shape the opportunity, align the right people, and build the structure that lets something new exist.

Tzafon / Poria Medical Center

Won external funding for a hospital innovation program

Mapped the hospital’s innovation assets, identified the right external funding opportunity, built the business and innovation plan, aligned leadership, presented the initiative, and secured government funding to establish the innovation center.

SUN – Start-Up North

Built an innovation ecosystem where none existed

Built a regional innovation hub from the ground up, including a pre-accelerator, accelerator, co-working space, founder community, and cross-sector collaborations with municipalities, government bodies, companies, and entrepreneurship stakeholders.

Geha & Tzafon Medical Centers

Turned healthcare needs into structured innovation activity

Established innovation methodologies, translated clinical and operational needs into solution concepts, coordinated partners and stakeholders, and shaped pilots around KPIs, adoption criteria, and implementation.

Experience Behind the Work

Samsung Research Israel

Open Innovation Manager – Mobile & Digital Health

Built and managed end-to-end innovation programs across AI, digital health, communications, energy harvesting, new materials, and emerging technologies — prioritizing opportunities, aligning startup partners with Samsung global business units, and driving POCs from use-case definition through integration and adoption.

SUN – Start-Up North

Co-Founder & Manager

Co-founded and built a regional innovation hub from the ground up, created cross-sector collaborations across municipalities, public bodies, regional companies, and entrepreneurship stakeholders, and guided founders from early ideas toward clearer plans and execution.

T3 – Technion Research & Development Foundation

Business Development Manager – Engineering Arena

Connected researchers, industry partners, investors, incubators, and commercialization stakeholders around engineering innovations, translating technical capabilities into market-oriented opportunities, use cases, and collaboration paths.

Healthcare Innovation Centers

Innovation Consultant & Innovation Center Founder

Established healthcare innovation methodologies at Geha and Tzafon Medical Centers, translating clinical and operational needs into structured pilots, partner collaborations, KPI frameworks, adoption pathways, and a successful grant-funded innovation-center initiative.

Deep-Tech Engineering Foundation

R&D Leadership, Product Development & Systems Engineering

Earlier career across hardware, firmware, FPGA design, ASIC development, electro-optics, industrial sensing, cellular communications, and defense programs — including cross-site R&D coordination across Germany, Israel, and Canada and major projects with Rafael, Israel Aerospace Industries, Bosch, and other industrial customers.