About Virtual Ports

With more than 20 years of management and investment in medical device companies, Mr. Yaskil is responsible for the establishment and financial realization of multiple startups in the
Surgical field, nano polymers and bio-responsive medical devices.
Mr. Yaskil is the co-founder of polyMERit, Core Scientific Creations and Moringa Virtus and a co-founding member of the Freedom to Operate movement.

In 2022, Ofra Rivlin became a part of Virtual Ports, bringing with her over a decade of experience as a manager in the field of quality assurance within the medical device and pharmaceutical industry. Before joining Virtual Ports, she dedicated 10 years to various positions within the operations and manufacturing departments at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.

15 years of vast experience in medical device industry in QA / RA Management. Ms. Yutkevich holds MBA with a Specialism in Human Resource Management from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and Certificate of Regulatory Affairs Specialist (RAS) in Medical Devices. In her RA role over the years Ms. Yutkevich has worked with majority of regulatory bodies worldwide, such as EU Notified Bodies, US FDA, KFDA, Chinese NMPA, Brazilian regulatory bodies TUV Brazil and UL Brazil, Japanese Ministry of Health, Israeli Ministry of Health (AMAR), Australian TGA and others. Ms. Yutkevich is dedicated to spreading the Freedom to Operate principle and helping Virtual Ports register its products around the globe.

Anna Babayev is an experienced medical device mechanical engineer and production manager with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Biomed. Anna as mechanical engineer in Virtual Ports, is a member of the R&D team of “The Freedom to Operate” movement. She is responsible for product design, tech transfer and streamlining of the manufacturing process.

Prof. Pansky is an internationally recognized expert in Obstetrics and Gynecology who specializes in advanced gynecological surgery.
He is a pioneer of endoscopic surgery in Israel, and his mission is to continuously improve the safety and efficacy of GYN/Endoscopy Technology and Practices to benefit women world-wide.

Professor Yoav Mintz completed his medical training at the Hebrew University Medical School followed by residency at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
He completed a surgical fellowship at the University of California San Diego under the mentorship of internationally renowned MIS and robotic surgeons.
Professor Mintz is the first surgeon in Israel to perform robotic assisted surgery, surgery using NOTES (an innovative minimally invasive surgical technique) as well as single port surgery.
Professor Mintz is currently the only surgeon in Israel performing the Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy.

Chairman and Medical Director of Assia Medical. Senior surgeon and prominent expert in minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic surgery). Founder of the Endoscopic Surgery Division at Ichilov hospital and founder of the Israeli Society for Endoscopic Surgery.
Specialized in laparoscopic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, in the early 90’s. Returned to Israel as one of the few surgeons who specialized in laparoscopic surgery. He lectured hundreds of times at medical conferences around the world, including in the US, Europe, China, and India, and is often invited to guide surgical workshops and perform live surgeries all over the world. His special interests currently are upper GI surgery, abdominal wall and general surgery.

Attending colorectal surgeon, heads the Digestive Disease Institute at Cleveland Clinic Florida. He’s renowned for pioneering the double-stapling technique in J-Pouch surgeries and championing global collaboration in colorectal surgery for decades.