Irit Yaniv, Almeda Ventures' (a public R&D partnership) Founder & CEO, has more than 25 years of experience in the venture capital, pharmaceutical and biotech industries. As a senior manager, skilled physician, and experienced board member, she possesses a highly developed combination of leadership, decision making and business skills. Irit has served as partner at Accelmed since 2001. During this time she led Eximo from pre-clinical development through acquisition. Irit previously served as Executive Director and Chairperson of Accelmed's Innovation Hub portfolio companies. A global group of funds investing and acquiring control in HealthTech companies focused on Buyout and Non-Control transactions in commercial stage companies.