About Us

EarlySign started in 2009, where a group of machine learning pioneers decided to use their skills in analyzing medical data and finding subtle unutilized signs of serious disease including cancer. Joined by physicians, scientists, and engineers, the company started its commercial operation in 2013. We work with some of the world’s leading health systems in the United States, Europe, and Asia. EarlySign is differentiated due to the speed and accuracy of its models; global leadership in bringing explainability to healthcare AI; a purpose-built AI infrastructure; solutions that work in practice delivering value day by day and a reputation for superior client service.

Leadership

Ori Geva

Co-Founder and Acting CEO

Itai Katzir

Chief Operating Officer

Eran Choman

Chief Clinical Research
and Compliance Officer

Alon Lanyado

Head of Data Science

Eran Hertzmann

VP of Innovation and Security

Ori Geva

Co-Founder and Acting CEO

Ori Geva is an executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the IT, Internet, and medical related software and telecommunications industries. Prior to Medial EarlySign, he was involved in VLDB projects related to data modeling, knowledge representation, search and analytics in diverse roles. Ori worked with the Department of Defense, software innovation group in a medical devices company, was co-founder and CEO in an internet community venture and a later co-founder of financial services company, and VP Professional Services and VP Product Management at Pontis, a company involved in Big Data real-time personalized marketing for large network operators. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, Cum Laude, from Bar-Ilan University. 

Itai Katzir

Chief Operating Officer

Itai has more than twenty years of financial, operational, and management experience at multinational companies in the healthcare and hi-tech industries. His diverse financial practice includes managing financing rounds, overseeing 9-figure budgets, leading the buyout of a foreign joint venture partner, and a wide variety of corporate financing matters. Prior to joining Medial EarlySign, Itai served as CEO and Founder of Home Care and Share, a patient generated data platform for patients with chronic diseases. Itai was previously CFO and COO of dbMotion (acquired by Allscripts), CEO of a medical device company in the dermatology space, and CFO of multiple Comverse divisions. Itai was awarded his MBA in Finance and Marketing from Tel Aviv University, and BA in Economics and Management from The Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology.

Eran Choman

Chief Clinical Research
and Compliance Officer

Eran Choman brings over 15 years of experience as a bio-statistician and clinical research manager, having supported hundreds of FDA and other regulatory submissions worldwide. At Medial EarlySign, Eran manages the clinical research, supervising activities of five clinical studies simultaneously and providing cross-company statistical services. Previously, Eran served as VP Clinical Affairs and Statistics at NiTi Surgical Solutions, a start-up developing surgical equipment. Eran was also Statistics & Data Management Manager at Given Imaging, supporting algorithm and electronic R&D activities and clinical trials. He practiced industrial statistics at HP Indigo division, as part of the production team. Eran was a member of Push-Med, a regulatory consulting firm, and headed the statistical squad for a few basketball teams. He holds an MSc. in Statistics from Bar-Ilan University and a BSc. in Economics and Statistics from Tel-Aviv University.

Alon Lanyado

Head of Data Science

Alon is Talpiot alumni who holds Bsc in Computer Sciences and Physics from The Hebrew University In Jerusalem. Alon Possess rich experience with modeling on medical data and clinical data and Prior to Earlysign he served at IDF 8200 Intelligence Unit and headed Machine Learning team and R&D team.
Alon was honored with “Makor Haim” intelligence prize and took a leading role in the joint Geisinger EarlySign team effort that resulted in being a prestigious award winner of the CMS AI Challenge.

Darrell Atkin

VP Marketing

Darrell brings the highest regard for transformational technologies designed for improvements in the health of populations and the patient experience of care. At EarlySign, Darrell provides strategic marketing leadership focused on accelerated growth and market adoption. Previously, he held marketing leadership positions with TruthPoint (now part of pCare), Skylight Healthcare Systems (now GetWellNetwork), and iMetrikus (now Numera Health). He serves in an advisory capacity to The Beryl Institute for patient experience and is a member of the executive committee of the San Diego Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He is a magna cum laude graduate from the University of New Mexico through their General Honors program, and has been awarded the designation of Certified Patient Experience Professional, CPXP.

Eldan Halberthal

Head of Engineering

Over 25 years of hardware/software development and project management experience. Eldan has a diverse background combining multiple design and development engineering disciplines from hardware, firmware to pure software – working on chip design, audio signal processing, nuclear imaging for medical device imaging, design and implementation of optical components for the optical fiber telecommunication all the way to pure web/cloud based software applications and large database programming, having hands-on and team leadership experience.
Eldan is registered as an inventor in a portfolio of patent applications to which he contributed in writing, filing and maintenance. Eldan has a B.S. Electrical Engineering from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Eran Hertzmann

VP of Innovation and Security

Eran’s expertise is using technology to solve real market problems by creating new products and solutions. He’s been doing that for over 20 years in different fields as a product manager and technology analysis expert. Prior to joining Medial EarlySign, Eran was one of the first members of Israel’s National Cyber Security Authority, where he headed the Threats Research & Analysis Center, and was responsible for modeling threat impact on a national scale. In previous roles, Eran led large technology assessment teams in the IDF, and served as a product manager for a variety of companies in the telecom industry. He was a pioneer in the of mobile advertising field, and was the head of Mobixell Network’s mobile advertising business unit (acquired by Flash Networks). Eran is a Talpiot graduate. He was awarded his MBA from Tel Aviv University, and holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Math from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.