Martin Gerstel (; born June 26, 1941) is an Israeli businessman. He was the CEO and co-chairman of Alza Corp. Martin Gerstel founded ALZA Corp. and Itamar Medical Ltd. M

History

Gerstel attended

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

from which he received his undergraduate degree. He went on to receive an MBA from

Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the Postgraduate education, graduate business school of Stanford University, a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective ...

. Gerstel held the position of Co-CEO of Compugen Ltd. and chairman for Keddem Bioscience Ltd. He founded ALZA Corp at which he was a chief executive and financial officer. He is the chairman of

Compugen (Israeli company) Compugen Ltd. () is a clinical-stage publicly traded predictive drug discovery and development company headquartered in Israel, with shares traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Compugen was established as comput ...

, Evogene, Keddem Bioscience, Mada Ltd. Gerstel is the co-founder and co-chairman of Itamar Medical, and serves as a director of Yissum Research Development Company of Hebrew University Ltd., Yeda Ltd. and the Foundation for the U.S. National Medals of Science and Technology. Gerstel is a member of the Board of Governors and the Executive Committee of the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli uni ...

and the Board of Governors of The

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

. He is an advisor to the Burrill Life Science Funds and the board of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation ("BIRD"). As of 2019 Gerstel is the CFO and a director of a cybersecurity company preventing DDoS attacks
MazeBolt Technologies Ltd

References

External links

"Martin Gerstel's back in business, this time in Israel"
– Israel21c
Martin S. Gerstel Profile
– Forbes.com
Evogene official site

Yissum official site

Yeda official site
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