TiE Mumbai and the Economic and Trade Mission of Israel (Mumbai) brings together a series of digital activities aimed at connecting Indian and Israeli startups to explore strategic tie-ups. As a part of this cross border connect and dialogue, we have put together a bunch of activities:

• Knowledge Series

• B2B connect programs

• Investor Connect & Fund Raising    

The first of such knowledge series is a webinar planned for Wednesday 11th November from 4.30 to 6 pm, addressing the Future of Healthcare & Healthtech. We are inviting experts & founders from both the countries to address and articulate the developing trends. 

Watch out for more updates.

Speakers

Assaf Barnea

Chief Executive Officer,  Sanara Ventures

Healthcare Innovation Fund, Israel.

Mr. Assaf Barnea is a seasoned entrepreneur and venture professional, with extensive, multidisciplinary experience in building innovation platforms and leading commercialization processes in healthcare. He leads Sanara Ventures, a healthcare innovation fund backed by Phillips and Teva. In addition to leading Sanara, Mr. Barnea chairs the Life Science Advisory Board at The Israel Export Institute, on behalf of the Israeli government, promoting and advancing the export of Israeli technologies in the medical, biotech, pharma and digital fields in global markets. A valued consultant, Mr. Barnea also advises the World Bank’s IFC venture capital team and is a co-founder of the IFC’s Tech Emerge initiative; a unique acceleration platform that connects healthcare startups from around the world with leading corporations and hospitals in emerging economies. On December 2018, Tech Emerge Health has won the world bank group president’s award for innovation. Formerly, Mr. Barnea was one of the founders of CardioSense, a medtech startup company that developed a probe for early shock detection in various medical settings. Before lending his multidisciplinary acumen to Sanara Ventures, Assaf served as CEO of Kinrot Ventures, spearheading its acquisition by Hutchison Water in 2012. Prior to this, he headed business development at Mekorot, Israel’s national water company, where he oversaw the establishment of WaTech, the Entrepreneurship & Partnership Center for Water Technologies. For his accomplishments in both Mekorot and Kinrot, he received the Cleantech Group’s Innovation Hero Award in April 2013, which recognizes individuals whose commitment, drive and passion have made a tangible difference for innovation in general and specifically for many start-up companies. Previously, Mr. Barnea served for four years as director of business development at Comverse, where he also co-chaired the Mobile Marketing Association. A unique highlight in Assaf’s story is his former stint as a college basketball player at New Jersey’s Seton Hall University, where he won the Big East championship against Georgetown. He went on to play professional basketball in Israel’s national league, while completing multiple academic degrees. A certified lawyer, Mr. Barnea holds both law and business degrees from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzelia, as well as a BA in political science and psychology from Tel-Aviv University.

Amit Mookim

President, TiE Mumbai

Managing Director, IQVIA South Asia

Mr. Amit has been a management consultant turned into a business leader and currently oversees the India operations of IQVIA, a global healthcare technology, information and clinical research organization. His

experience in digital health has extended to supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in India. He is an advisor to the NHA on innovation, Vice-president at TiE Mumbai and mentor to health startups.

Prior to IQVIA, Amit was Head of Healthcare at KPMG. Amit was one of the youngest Partners in KPMG and helped the firm build and grow the Private Equity and Strategy business and also the Healthcare Practice for India and across Asia Pacific. He worked across 11 countries across India and Asia Pacific as part of this role.

Amit has done his Bachelor in Economics from University of Kolkata and his MBA from FMS, Delhi. Amit believes that spirituality and fitness are the key aspects for personality development. Amit is an amateur marathon runner and also coaches entrepreneurs on managing stress while being centred in spirituality.

Gur Illany

Co-Founder, CEO GGTUDE

Mr. Gur is the co-founder of GGTUDE, GGTUDE combines cognitive behavioural psychology, mobile technology and brain science to create personal health products with ready-to-use training and self-management tools for dealing with anxiety, obsession, body image and self esteem issues.

His experience includes producing, designing, animating, writing, editing, programming, composing and publishing digital content using a plethora of technologies. He has always been a master of many disciplines with a core skill base of business, design, animation, coding and strong understanding of strategy and brand. He always seek to expand his horizons and fields of knowledge, especially when it requires truly challenging the things he already know.

He is also a writer, and published three children's books with Yediot Books and Matar Publishing.