Irit Yaniv

Dr. Yaniv 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.  Dr. Yaniv has served as partner at Accelmed since 2012.  A global group of funds investing and acquiring control in HealthTech companies focused on Buyout and Non-Control transactions in commercial stage companies. During this time she led Eximo from pre-clinical development through acquisition.

Dr. Yaniv holds an MD degree from the Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.

She is heavily involved in the Israeli Eco-System, taking an active part in the BioMed, ICI and WHII conferences as well as 8400 project.  She is one of the co-founders of WE@HEALTHTECH, a HealthTech launchpad program that aims to promote women managers to C-level executive positions throughout the Israeli ecosystem and build their skills for successful executive careers.