Fresh Start’s management team and global advisory board consist of seasoned R&D, regulation, finance, business, and marketing professionals who provide our companies with actionable feedback, and address market trends and requirements as part of an ongoing dialogue. With the firsthand entrepreneurial experience and deep technological expertise of food industry veterans and VC luminaries to guide your journey, You are in extremely capable hands.

TEAM

Dganit Vered

Chief Executive Officer

Tammy Meiron, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

Yuval Illuz

Chairman

Hadas Sibony Benyamini Ph.D.

Technology Analyst

A global advisory board

Prof. Barry Nalebuff

FoodTech entrepreneur

Dean Tilyard

Co founder of Sprout accelerator

Dr. Min Zhidong

Managing Director
Bright Food Intl. Ltd.

David Schwartz

Director PepsiCo

Roland Pirmez

President AMEE Heineken

Dr. Adrian Percy

Ex Head of R&D
Bayer CropScience

Rodrigo Godoi

VP PCE Portfolio Managment Tetra Pak

Dganit Vered

Chief Executive Officer
Investor, active chairperson, board member, business leader, and mentor. Extensive experience with corporates and startups from idea to execution. Senior management experience with Intel, Perrigo, and Hazera in innovation, engineering, R&D, operations, and projects. Pivoted to the startup arena of Agritech, Foodtech, Climate tech, Deep Tech, Medical devices, and more, to make an impact through technology, as an investor, venture partner, chairperson, CEO, advisor, and mentor. For example @ Entrée Capital, Cibus LLP, Smart Agro, BWR, ViAqua, Arugga, J-ventures, J-impact, and more.

Tammy MEIRON PhD

CTO

Tammy has over 25 years of experience in R&D, production, and technology transfer fields in the life-science, pharmaceuticals, and food industries.


In her last position she led the technology in two leading Israeli FoodTech start-ups, developing plant-based egg substitutes for all egg applications as CTO of Zero Egg; and developing sweet proteins as a non-GMO sugar substitute as the Amai Proteins Director of Food Technology.

Previously, she was involved in numerous startups in the fields of R&D, IP, tech transfer, production Scale-UP, operations, joint ventures with multinational companies, and more.

Since 2013, Tammy teaches a new product development course at the Hebrew University. 

 

Tammy holds a Ph.D. degree from the Hebrew University in Food Science and Technology.

Yuval Illuz

Chairman

Yuval Illuz serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Head of Incubators at OurCrowd, a global investment platform offering a broad range of investment opportunities in emerging startup companies and private market alternatives.

 

Illuz brings a wealth of experience and expertise with an extensive background in technology and business leadership. His career includes notable roles including Operating Member and CTO at SC Ventures, a division of Standard Chartered Bank focused on innovation and disruptive financial technologies.

 

Additionally, he has served as Group CISO and COO for Trust, Data & Resilience at Standard Chartered, and as Executive General Manager and Chief Information Security & Trust Officer at Commonwealth Bank.

Illuz has also built successful startups as an investor and senior executive and acts as Board / Advisory Board member in different companies.

Hadas Sibony Benyamini Ph.D.

Technology Analyst

Hadas is a biology expert with a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences specializing in developmental biology from Bar Ilan University. With over ten years of research experience in plant science and cancer genome instability, she is now fully dedicated to the challenges of foodtech. At our incubator, Hadas plays a crucial role in supporting due diligence and addressing scientific challenges for our portfolio companies. She also manages our lab facilities, ensuring top-notch operations.

Ronny Barak

Business Consultant

Ronny brings 25 years of vast experience in the life science, medical and biotechnology industries as senior executive management, general management, strategic business development, sales and marketing.

As CEO of established companies and as co-founder-inventor, Ronny led startup companies to exit-M&A deals, through regulatory approvals, product penetration and sales ramp up. 

He has rich experience in team management in global and local markets.

Ronny has proven success in funds raising, wide network of contacts with KOL clinicians, researches, industry experts, investors and strategic companies.

Ronny has a Science-Chemistry B.Sc. and a MBA.