Lumenis’ Corporate Management team represents a deep and diverse range of scientific, engineering, financial, business management and marketing expertise. For more information on one of our Senior Executives, click on their name.
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Tzipi Ozer-Armon
Tzipi Ozer-Armon, CEO of Lumenis, joined the company in May 2012. Prior to joining Lumenis, Ms. Ozer-Armon headed the Japanese market activities of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA), a business of over $800M. Previously, Ms. Ozer-Armon served as Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing at SanDisk (Nasdaq:SNDK) with multi-billion dollars sales’ responsibility, VP General Manager of MSystems (Nasdaq: FLSH), and VP of Corporate Development at Comverse (Nasdaq: CMVT). Ms. Ozer-Armon’s impressive career includes four years at ATKearney, a Global Management Consulting company based in London, UK. Ms. Ozer-Armnon holds a BA magna cum laude in Economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA majoring in Finance and Marketing.
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Ophir Yakovian
Ophir Yakovian has served as our Chief Financial Officer since joining Lumenis on February 1, 2012. Immediately prior to joining Lumenis, Mr. Yakovian served as Vice President - Finance, for Verint Systems Inc., a global leader in Actionable Intelligence solutions and value-added services, from 2006. Prior thereto, he served as Corporate Controller at Metalink Ltd. from 2001 to 2006 and as a Senior Auditor at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu from 1998 to 2001. Mr. Yakovian holds a bachelor's degree in economics and accounting and a master's degree in business economics from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and is a certified public accountant in Israel.
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Danny Albeck
Dr. Danny Albeck, Acting Head of Lumenis Surgical SBU & VP R&D joined the company in November 2010. Prior to his appointment at Lumenis, Dr. Albeck served as General Manager of CogniTens and prior to that held leading management positions including senior physicist at Orbot Systems Ltd., VP R&D MedisEl Ltd. Dr. Albeck holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from Bar Ilan University, in addition to studying Marketing and Finance at Lahav, Tel Aviv University Business School. Dr. Albeck holds over 15 patents and patent applications.
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Robert (Bob) Di Silvio
Mr. Robert (Bob) Di Silvio, President of the Americas joined the company in October 2010. Prior to joining Lumenis Mr. Di Silvio served in various senior managerial positions including Vice President & General Manager of Safe Life Corp, Vice President of US Field Operations Physio-Control Division of Medtronic, and Executive Vice President America Region with Coherent Medical Group. Mr. Di Silvio holds a Masters in Biochemistry and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Organic Chemistry from the University of Connecticut and also completed three years at the University of Rome School of Medicine.
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Qiying Zhai
Mr. Zhai Qiying, SVP and President of Lumenis China/APAC Region joined the company in 2001. Previously Mr. Qiying held senior management positions with the Coherent Medical Group in his region, and joined Lumenis with the company’s ESC/Sharplan merger. Mr. Qiying started Lumenis’ Ophthalmic business in China in 1992 and has been with Lumenis since that time responsible for Lumenis’ China/APAC region.
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Alex Tanaka
Mr. Tanaka President of Lumenis Japan joined the company in June 2007. Previously Mr. Tanaka served as Operating Officer of Fukuda Denshi in Japan for Global Operations, and as President of Fukuda USA in Seattle, Fukuda UK in London, Kontron Medical in France. Mr. Tanaka also served in various managerial positions for GE Medical Systems Asia: Acting Director of BMD Lunar Business, Clinical Value Creation Group, and as Product Manager of the Ultrasound Diagnostic Imaging Division. Mr. Tanaka is a graduate of Aichi Prefectural University in Japan.
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Ilan Alfia
Mr. Ilan Alfia, EVP Lumenis Global Operations, joined the company in April 2011. Prior to joining Lumenis, Mr. Alfia held the position of CEO and President of Tamuz, a contract manufacturing company serving the Medical Device, Semi-Conductors and Telecom Industries with locations both in Israel and in China. Before joining Tamuz, Mr. Alfia held various senior positions with Elbit Vision Systems Ltd. and Pioneer Ltd. where he served in diverse roles in Sales, Marketing and Global Operations. Ilan Alfia holds a B.Sc. Degree from the Technion, Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.
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William Weisel
Mr. Weisel Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Lumenis, joined the company in June 2007. Prior to joining Lumenis, Mr. Weisel served as Counsel to Steel Hector & Davis in Israel, Vice President and General Counsel for Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd, and General Counsel of ADC Teledata Ltd and of Scitex Corporation Ltd. Prior to that, Mr. Weisel worked in a Los Angeles law firm for several years as a litigator. Bill Weisel is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, and is a member of both the State Bar of California and the Israel Bar.
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Rami Sharon
Mr. Rami Sharon, President Lumenis EMEA Region, returned to the company after serving as Vice President International Sales at ESC Medical Systems from 1995 – 1999. Mr. Sharon has over 25 years of cross functional leadership experience in a wide range of senior management positions (CEO, COO and VP) including Scitex, Fibronics, Eldat Communication, M-Systems and Syneron Medical. Mr. Sharon holds a B.Sc. Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel
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Shlomo Alkalay
Mr. Shlomo Alkalay, VP Customer Service, joined Lumenis in 2002, and has held various senior executive management positions with the Company, amongst these responsibility for global manufacturing, global IT, global service and corporate projects. Prior to joining Lumenis, Mr. Alkalay served as the Vice President of Business Development for Israel’s largest commercial and naval fleet supplier. He served in the Israeli Navy for 24 years, lastly as a Commander managing large-scale industrial and manufacturing engineering projects. Mr. Alkalay holds a BSC Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology with honors, and an MBA from Haifa University
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Rick Gaykowski
Mr. Rick Gaykowski, Global Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Systems, joined Lumenis in April 2010. Before joining Lumenis Mr. Gaykowski served as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs for Bard Access Systems, Inc., and prior to that held the positions of Vice President, Regulatory Affairs/Quality Assurance with the Precision Vascular business unit of Boston Scientific; Precision Vascular Systems, Inc.; InnerDyne, Inc. and Director and Manager of Regulatory Affairs/Quality Systems with CardioPulmonics, Inc. Mr. Gaykowski holds a Bachelor's Degree in Behavioral Sciences and Health from the University of Utah.
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Kfir Azoulay
Mr. Kfir Azoulay, Vice President & General Manager of the Vision (Ophthalmology) Strategic Business Unit, joined Lumenis in January 2001 and has held various management positions with the company. He brings nearly 13 years of experience working in the global medical device industry. Previously, Mr. Azoulay served as Director of Global Marketing and the acting head of the Vision Business Unit. Prior to that, he held various Marketing, Commercial and Sales Operations roles in different locations around the world. Mr. Azoulay is fluent in four languages and resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studied Cognitive Sciences; and also successfully completed the ophthalmic science program (BCSCO) at Columbia University in NY.
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