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THE WOMEN'S HEALTH
STARTUP STUDIO
Meet the Founders
Our team is a diverse, passionate, and ambitious group of innovators, thinkers, and doers. We are committed to making systemic change in Women’s Health. We bring together a wealth of knowledge and experience in a wide range of disciplines, from entrepreneurship and design management to medtech and scientific regulation. This means that we are able to approach problems from different angles and come up with creative solutions. Our collaborative spirit and can-do attitude make us a force to be reckoned with. We’re here to help create the best companies in women’s health. By women. For women.
Michal Shalem
entrepreneurship | innovation | competitive strategy
Michal is a serial entrepreneur, and international expert in competitive strategy and innovation. She has extensive experience in venture building and developing startup ecosystems, from idea to investment.
She loves creating spaces for systemic change in multi stakeholder arenas.
Michal is also the co-founder and CEO of Think Creative, a boutique firm specializing in the world’s most pressing problems.
She lectures at several Universities, in MBA programs.
She previously served as Jerusalem’s Chief of Staff & led Let's Grow Israel,
developing megaplans for the growth engines for Jerusalem & Israel's periphery, together with Professor Porter from the Harvard Business School.
Dr. Michal Sela. DMD. MA
health-tech | gender | entrepreneurship
Michal is a gender expert with unique expertise in the interface of gender-healthcare and technology. She is very active for the advancement of women in a designated council at the Ministry of Science and Technology. She loves to develop teams and leadership in VUCA environments and works globally with multicultural teams. She is also the CEO of co-creation consulting and the co-founder of NOGAFEM, an NGO focused on integrating a gender lens into research and health tech. She previously served as the executive director of the IWN, the Israeli Women’s Network and held a senior position in Holon Institute of Technology.
Michal Lebenthal Andreson, LlB
design thinking | partnerships | strategy
Michal is a design manager and senior strategic leader. She has extensive experience in legal advisory and policy, alongside implementable strategy, applied design and systems thinking, innovation acceleration and startup ecosystem creation.
She loves to unpack complexity, taking challenges from ideation to venture with cross border multidisciplinary teams.
Michal is also the co-founder and CEO of Think Creative, a boutique firm specializing in the world’s most pressing problems.
She lectures at several Universities, in MBA programs.
She previously served as the Deputy Legal Advisor at the Ministry of Aliya and Integration.
Dr. Ronell Klingman,MD
medtech | scientific | regulatory
Ronell is a medical strategist and clinical analyst. She has extensive experience in medical research and market analytics, working with the top 10 brands and top 20 therapeutic areas in International pharma. She does scientific writing, grant writing and regulatory submissions for Pharma and Medical Biotech companies.
She loves to unpack complex medical information for investors, HCPs and patients. Ronell is founder & CEO of Integremed an 18 year old medical strategic company, and LifesciMed, a biotech consultancy. She is co-founder of NOGAFEM an NGO dedicated to Women’s Health Technologies. She previously worked clinically in family medicine and in psychiatry.