Management and Board Members

Dr. Amnon Gonenne, President, CEO and Director
Dr. Amnon Gonenne holds a doctorate degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Syracuse University, New York and completed his post-doctoral training at the University of California San Diego, School of Medicine. Dr. Gonenne has more than 20 years experience in the biotechnology field in the US and has held a number of top executive positions in regulatory affairs, supervision of international clinical trials, VP of Corporate Development (BioTechnology General Corp., NY) and CEO (Immunotherapy Inc., NY). He has led the successful registration and licensing of several genetically engineered products in the US. Between the years 2000-2002 he served as CEO of a VC fund (Elscint Biomedical Investment, Israel) which has made major investments in Gamida Cell Ltd. (Israel), a leading world class stem cell company.

Dr. Gonenne received his doctorate degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Syracuse University and completed his post-doctorate training at the University of California, San Diego Medical School.

Dr. Eli Orr, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Orr is the developer of the MabCure technology and novel Mabs. Dr. Orr has been serving as a senior research scientist at the University of Leicester, Department of Genetics, for the past 30 years. He has received awards from several institutions, including a Wellcome Trust Personal Chair award for five years (1987), a Royal Society (UK) award for a visiting Professorship in Israel (1994) and an EU award for a visiting Professorship in Israel (1998).

Among his scientific accomplishments is the discovery, characterization and cloning of a number of proteins and genes (e.g. bacterial DNA gyrase, yeast non-muscle heavy chain myosin and bacterial genes involved in the production of antibiotics).

Dr. Orr received his Doctorate degree in Microbiology & Molecular Biology from Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem. He completed his post-doctorate training at the Department of Genetics, Medical School, at the University of Leicester, in the United Kingdom.

Ron Kalfus, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Kalfus serves as the Company's Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary. Prior to joining MabCure, Mr. Kalfus held various positions at Toys "R" Us, Inc., both in the SEC Reporting department, responsible for the Company's financial reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as in the Financial Planning & Analysis department, responsible for the Company's multi-billion dollar budgets. Prior to working at Toys "R" Us, Inc., Mr. Kalfus worked as an auditor for two large public accounting firms, specializing in audits of medium-sized enterprises as well as public companies.

Mr. Kalfus is a Certified Public Accountant, holds an MSc in Accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia

Dr. David S. Frank, Director
Dr. Frank is the Managing Director of MEDx Associates, a consulting company in the field of diagnostics. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Nehora Photonics Ltd., a medical device company located in Israel. From 2007-2008, Dr. Frank served as a faculty member at the LAHAV-Tel Aviv University Graduate School of Business, where he taught “Health Care Technology” courses for bioscience entrepreneurs. From 1995-2007, Dr. Frank was the executive director of business development at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson company. From 1982-1994, Dr. Frank was the director of marketing and planning management at Kodak Clinical Diagnostics (Eastman Kodak Company).

Dr. Frank received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cornell University

Itshak Zivan, Director
Mr. Zivan is the founder of Zivtex Ltd. (UK), and served as its chief executive officer and a director from 1992 to 2007. He is a graduate of the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in computer science and engineering and has more than 20 years experience in business development and management. He also served as deputy managing director of Pex Ltd. (UK) and as managing director and a member of the board of Delta Textiles (Israel).

Mr. Zivan received his Bachelors of Science Engineering degree in computer science from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).

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