EXPERTS IN FIXATION SOLUTIONS
Led by a vibrant, knowledgeable, and passionate team, Via Surgical is the first and only company to create suture-like fixation solutions to address imminent market needs.
Experienced engineers and renowned surgeons have come together to create the ultimate soft-tissue repair system. One that uses the most advanced technologies and meets the highest standard, with no compromises and no shortcuts.
We are not stopping there: we are developing a pipeline of novel solutions for robotic and wound closure markets.
Via Surgical was founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneurs who have a lifelong commitment to making hernia repair better with fewer adverse events. Its founders led PolyTouch Medical, the developer of an advanced mesh-positioning device, from inception to exit.
LEAD TEAM
MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD
Stephen Blumenreich
Corporate Board Advisor and BOD Observer
Karl A. LeBlanc, MD, MBA, FACS
David B. Earle, MD, FACS
Brian P. Jacob MD, FACS
David C. Chen, MD, FACS
Brian Cole, MD, MBA
Gautam Yagnik, MD
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Ofek Levin is Co-founder and Chairman of Via Surgical. Prior to, he was Co-founder & CEO of PolyTouch Medical Ltd. where he led the company from inception to a successful M&A transaction with Covidien. Ofek has over 12 years of experience managing medical device companies having completed numerous capital raisings, and filed over two dozen patents with 16 issued. Ofek received an MBA from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.
Lena served as Co-founder & CFO of PolyTouch Medical (acquired in 2011). As an expert in financial and accounting management of growth-oriented medical device companies, she has completed numerous capital raisings from private investors and OCS and completed an M&A transaction with a multi-billion-dollar international medical device company. Prior to that, she worked at the BDO Ziv Haft Accounting firm, serving as a corporate analyst in the Corporate Finance Dept. and as an associate in the Professional Dept. She received an MBA from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, a BA in Accounting (magna cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University and a BA in English Language and Literature & Sociology and Anthropology (magna cum laude) from Haifa University.
Arik served as Co-founder & CTO of PolyTouch Medical, which was acquired in 2011. Mr. Levy boasts experience in R&D in academic medical research, in industry (Intel), and military (IDF). He filed more than dozen patent applications with 8 patents issued. Arik received an MSc and a BSc in Biomedical Engineering (cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University.
Lihi Dotan has more than 15 years of experience in manufacturing, operations and logistics, in large global organizations. After a few years of running logistics and operational excellence, she was relocated to Pennsylvania USA, and worked as a C-level executive as the director of supply chain for 5 years. Following her time in the US, she returned to Israel to manage a PVC extrusion production plant, as Plant Manager. Lihi received a M.Eng. in Industrial Engineering with a production management specialty from the Technion –Israel Institute of Technology and a BSc in Biotechnology Engineering from the Technion.
Sarah A. Ellis is an accomplished executive with over 15 years’ experience in global customer and investor facing roles within healthcare, real estate investments, BioMed, FinTech and more. Sarah holds a BSc in biology, with an emphasis in pre-med, and double minors in chemistry and psychology. Sarah has held a variety of managerial roles within start-ups and leading global large-scale companies traded on the NYSE. Sarah specializes in customer success and project management, with a proven track record managing teams and projects, creating solution-driven outcomes, and forming synergistic partnerships generating growth engines and revenue.
Stephen Blumenreich
Corporate Board Advisor and BOD ObserverManaging Director at Healthcare Investment Banking, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Over 20 years of experience advising growth-oriented medical device companies. Completed numerous capital raisings and M&A transactions in the healthcare sector. MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an AB from Dartmouth College.
Karl A. LeBlanc, MD, MBA, FACS
Managing Partner of the Surgeons Group, Baton Rouge. Clinical Professor of Surgery, Louisiana State University School of Medicine. Past president of the American Hernia Society.
David B. Earle, MD, FACS
Attending Surgeon, Lowell Surgical Associates, Lowell General Hospital, Lowell Massachusetts. Chairman at SAGES Guidelines Committee.
Brian P. Jacob MD, FACS
Partner at the Laparoscopic Surgical Center of New York and Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City. Founder of International Hernia Collaboration, Regional Medical Director, NY – AngelMD.
David C. Chen, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica. Associate Director of Surgical Education Clinical Director, Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic at UCLA.
Brian Cole, MD, MBA
Dr. Brian Cole is an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and a Professor of Orthopaedics, Anatomy and Cell Biology at Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Cole is Managing Partner of Midwest Orthopaedics and is the Department’s Associate Chairman and the Section Head of the Cartilage Research and Restoration Center.
Gautam Yagnik, MD
Attending Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Surgeon at the Miami Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Institute and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at West Kendall Baptist Hospital. Dr. Yagnik also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Florida International University and as Assistant Program Director for the Doctors Hospital/UHZ Sports Medicine Institute’s Sports Medicine Fellowship Program. He is the team physician for the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the NHL’s Florida Panthers.