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.

A seasoned CTO in the medical device industry, fluent in development methods, regulatory strategy, manufacturing establishment and IP. Dr. Eliyahu has a Ph.D. in Chemistry Nano-Technology from the Weismann Institute of Science and Ben-Gurion University. Mrs. Eliyahu is the Co-Founder of Core Scientific Creations and polyMERit Ltd.

Ms. Zatler-Desaeva was the first employee of Virtual Ports 2.0 constructing the foundation of the company in all aspects of manufacturing, operations quality and regulatory. Mrs. Dasaeva is the VP of business development, responsible for executing the company’s new clinical strategy and customer success.

Hani Shua joined  Virtual Ports in 2021 after fulfilling  multiple rolls over 20 years of experience in the Medical Field.

Hani is a Medical Device sales professional, with an affinity to surgically oriented medical technologies and devices. Specializes in Laparoscopy and Orthopedic surgeries, but also recruiting and training sales reps, setting up great back-office teams, reaching targets, and managing direct contacts with KOLs.

“I’m passionate about Medical Technology and my favorite working place is the OR”.

Udi is a seasoned medical device R&D engineer, with more than 20 years of experience turning ideas to engineering reality. Udi is responsible to verify and scale up the Virtual Ports line of products and is a key member in our Freedom to Operate movement.

Ofra Rivlin has joined Virtual Ports in 2022 with more than 10 years experience as manager of quality assurance in the medical device and pharmaceutical field. Prior to that, Ofra worked at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries for 10 years in a variety of roles in the operations and manufacturing departments.

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.

Michael J. Leinwand is a pediatric surgeon, Director of Surgical Innovation, Bronson Children’s Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has a “true passion for innovative minimally invasive surgical techniques.” At Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine in Kalamazoo,  serves as an Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, and as an Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.