Senior Management Team

Erez Gavish

President and CEO

Erez Gavish co-founded the company in 1994 together with Dr. Benjamin Gavish, the inventor of the technology.

Mr. Gavish is the creator and driving force behind InterCure's business and its strategic product vision, as well as providing overall leadership for the company. With limited human and capital resources, he has managed to steer InterCure successfully through the processes of product development, clinical trials, regulatory approvals, and finance rounds. Under his leadership, the company turned into a highly attractive and valuable medical technology enterprise.

Mr. Gavish is a respected entrepreneur in Israel, particularly in the medical technology arena. He has advised several venture-stage healthcare companies on strategy and business models. Before founding InterCure, Mr. Gavish worked for five years as an industrial consultant for Yissum Engineering Systems Ltd. and Pomegreen & Co., where he specialized in employee compensation systems and enhancing productivity. He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering with distinction from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and received his M.B.A. in 1997 from The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University.

Benjamin Gavish, Ph.D.

Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Benjamin Gavish is the inventor of InterCure's technologies. He co-founded the company in 1994, and is responsible for the company's research and development, patenting, regulatory applications, and the enrollment of the company's world-class Scientific Advisory Board.

Dr. Gavish has had numerous appointments, including the Katchalsky Postdoctorate Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute, a Fullbright Fellowship and Assistant Professorship at the University of Illinois, and an Allon Fellowship at the Hebrew University -- Hadassah Medical School. Throughout his career, he has concentrated his research activities in biophysics and biomedical engineering with a particular focus on protein biophysics, ultrasound biophysics, small blood vessels, blood rheology, and non-invasive monitoring.

Dr. Gavish is currently working on the mechanisms associated with the therapeutic effect of breathing exercises and on new characterizations of blood vessel properties using non-invasive measurements. He has numerous patents, mainly in biomedical engineering, and has published more than 40 scientific papers, mostly in leading science and technology journals. Dr. Gavish has served as the President and the Secretary of the Israeli Society for Microcirculation, is a member of the International, American and Israeli Societies of Hypertension, and the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research. Dr. Gavish received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Tel Aviv University in 1974.

Ari Benami

Vice President of Operations

Mr. Benami brings vast experience in electronic retailing and logistics as well as an array of relationships with suppliers and manufacturers. He was a co-founder and Chief Information Officer for the first online grocery retailer, www.Netgrocer.com, in which he had built considerable expertise in supply chain management and technologies and a valuable experience in the food retailing industry. Prior to joining InterCure, Mr. Benami engaged in creating multiple internet properties such as an online stock photography service, a joint venture with Black Book Photography, Index Stock Imagery, and Exit 15 Corporation, www.exit15.com, which is Mr. Benami's most recent e-commerce venture.

As Vice President of Operations, Mr. Benami is responsible for the development of InterCure's technical and logistical infrastructure as well as the customer communication programs needed to enhance the company's overall conversion of visitors to customers.

Mr. Benami holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of the City University of New York's philosophy department.