Our Team

A strong committed leadership focused on advancing the future of pain management

Galit Zuckerman Stark

Founder, CEO and board member

Galit Zuckerman Stark brings to Medasense over twenty years of entrepreneurship, management and engineering experience in both start-ups and large corporations. She founded Medasense upon discovering that while advanced algorithms are used frequently in many different industries such as semiconductors, communication, and many others, the discipline of medicine and specifically pain was still left behind....

Before founding Medasense she led algorithm teams at Applied Materials and worked at Nokia-Siemens and Nice Systems. Galit started her technology career at the elite Israeli Defense Forces “Haman Talpiot” program. She also served as a consultant for several start-up companies in the field of signal and image processing including BoneTone Communications which was successfully acquired by DSPG Inc in 2011.

Galit holds an MSc degree in Electrical Engineering (cum laude, Engineering Faculty Excellence Program) and a BSc in Computer Engineering (cum laude, Adi Lautman special program for outstanding students TAU) from Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Walter Tabachnik

CFO

Walter Tabachnik served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Oridion Systems, a successful patient monitoring company. He led their successful acquisition by the global healthcare company, Covidien, for $346M in 2012. He later served as Covidien’s Director of Strategy and Portfolio EMEA....

Previously Walter has held a number of senior accounting positions in various distinguished firms in Israel and South Africa. He is a certified public accountant in Israel and holds a BA in Accounting and Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Rachel Weissbrod

VP Clinical & Market Development

Rachel Weissbrod brings twenty years of experience in the medical device industry in clinical strategy and market development, regulatory affairs and quality assurance, product innovation and management. Prior to joining Medasense, Rachel was a Global Director of Medical Affairs & Value Based Healthcare at Medtronic focusing on clinical market development for patient monitoring devices....

She has held leadership roles in Quality Assurance, Regulatory & Clinical Affairs at Covidien, Oridion Medical and additional start-up companies with extensive experience in leading teams in the development and execution of global regulatory, quality and clinical strategies supporting new product development and commercialization.

Rachel holds B.Pharm and MBA degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Enrique Linaza

VP of Sales, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC

Enrique Linaza brings over fifteen years of medical device business development experience. Prior to joining Medasense, he led business development in Iberia at Oticon Medical (Demant group) as well as other roles including Sales Director Eastern Europe & Asia focused on cochlear implant hearing solutions. Throughout his career, Enrique has worked for big global structures and with local distributors gaining experience in growing both new and mature businesses at different stages of the product life cycle in both public and private health systems. ...

He couples hands-on clinical knowledge with commercial strategy, leading teams to achieve commercial success.

Enrique holds an Executive MBA from the IE Business School, an MSc from UCAM University and a physiotherapy degree from CEU University.

Holly Stewart

VP OF SALES, NORTH AMERICA

With over 30 years of experience in healthcare across the Americas, Holly Stewart's expertise lies in launching cutting-edge technologies in healthcare and building high-functioning and successful teams. She has held and excelled in sales, marketing, clinical, people and distribution management roles with Medtronic, Covidien, Oridion, SafeBVM, and BOMImed. ...

Holly and her teams have assisted thousands of customers in implementing and adopting new technologies across the care continuum. Most recently she started her own consulting business, MedMERIT Consulting, LLC, to bring new technologies to the market that improve patient safety, outcomes, and quality of life.

Holly holds a BSc in Business Administration from Capella University and an Associate Degree in Respiratory Therapy from SAIT. She resides in Texas with her family.

Ofir Gur

VP R&D

As a versatile and experienced R&D professional, Ofir Gur has a passion for innovation and a proven track record of success in managing and delivering complex projects in key roles across a variety of organizations. His expertise encompasses a wide range of technologies, from cloud-based systems to low-level embedded projects.

Before Medasense, Ofir lead a team in the Technology Research & Innovation group at Perion and later was a part of the CTO office leading adoptions of new technologies (NASDAQ: PERI).

He is skilled at building and leading high-performing teams, coordinating complex tasks and activities, and driving results in challenging, ever-changing environments.