Tomer
Touviano
R&D · Innovation · Executive
An accomplished executive with extensive experience in R&D leadership and as a CEO, successfully navigating technical, strategic, and financial challenges. Highly skilled in the agile startup environment, with proven entrepreneurial expertise and resilience. My multidisciplinary engineering background spans over 15 years of hands-on development in medical devices and consumer products. Ambitious, resourceful, and creative, I am passionate about innovation and design, with a keen eye for detail.
Leading the company through a profound transitional phase whilst managing all its on-going activities. Setting clear objectives and driving execution in alignment with newly defined standards.
Dec 2023 - Present
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Fundraising and Investor Relations: Successfully securing funding in two investment rounds while maintaining strong and communicative relationship with the company’s board of directors.
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Business development: actively seeking M&A and investment opportunities with prominent market leaders, venture capital and global corporations looking to venture into medical aesthetics.
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Marketing and Sales: managing the company’s global distribution network, engaging clients, launching marketing campaigns and managing the company’s social media, participating in industry exhibitions.
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Operations and Service: Personally overseeing production and quality activities. Providing customer support to distributors and clients around the world.
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R&D and Engineering: Initiating and overseeing product improvements (SW, HW and Mechanical).
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RA/QA: Lead the FDA approval effort and successfully passed all ISO and CE audits.
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HR: Recruitment, redundancies and retention of personnel.
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In charge of the development of new products, product improvements and certification activities (compliance, FDA and clinical testing) for a medical aesthetics start-up. Managing a diverse team of mechanical, HW & SW engineers.
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
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R&D: Driving the development of innovative new products and advanced software features, with a strong focus on optimising UX/UI design. Overseeing the entire project lifecycle, from requirements gathering through implementation, design review, and validation. Conducting compliance testing to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.
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Production: Took charge of the critical sub-contractor transition process. Revised and improved the production process.
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Quality & Improvements: Initiating and prioritizing product improvement activities. Overseeing plastic production in China. Personally overseeing production and quality activities.
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Engineering & Operations: Performing NPI activities, initiating and carrying out ECO’s and actively participating in sub-contractor evaluation and supply chain improvements.
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Technical Service: Providing remote and on-site customer support to distributors and clients from around the world. Assisting the technical service team with solving technical issues.
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Managing an R&D team for an international design and development company, overseeing project progress within budget and schedule while maintaining strong client relationships.
Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
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Leadership: Managing a team of 3-4 mechanical engineers, freelance electronics engineers & other external service providers. Assisting other departments and R&D teams in solving technical and design challenges. Mentoring junior engineers and designers.
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Service: Providing R&D, system engineering and project management services to both domestic and overseas companies from various industries, including medical devices, automotive and consumer electronics.
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R&D and Design: Hand-on management of multidisciplinary projects involving R&D, industrial design and digital design teams whilst also playing an active role during the actual design process.
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Project Management: Planning and overseeing project budgets, timelines, milestones and resources. Providing clients with detailed quotations, Gantt and design reviews.
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Production: Assisting clients in with relevant sub-contractors, creating work instructions, finalising the technical file, and with transferring the entire project to production.
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Business Development: Actively participating in the company’s efforts to obtain new clients.
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QMS: Responsible for establishing the company's QMS according to ISO 13485.
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In charge of leading, coordinating and organising top-priority projects whilst carrying out high-level mechanical design tasks.
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
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Leadership: Matrix management of engineers from all R&D departments (mechanical, HW, SW, physics and NPI).
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System & Project Management: Responsible for managing, planning and tracking of all of the project’s R&D tasks. Overseeing requirements, documentation, integration, validation and design reviews.
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Validation: Initiating and overseeing validation and documentation processes (ISO 13485). Performing extensive SW, HW, optical and integration tests.
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Production: Responsible for transferring the project from R&D to production. Preparing the production line and training production workers.
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Team Work: Ensuring strong collaboration with Alma’s clinical, compliance, regulatory, PM, marketing, sales, and operations departments.
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Responsible for the mechanical design of various products for the medical aesthetics and surgical fields.
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
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R&D: Developing of various types of parts, mechanisms and assemblies according to requirements and regulations. Designing CNC, sheet metal, plastic, optical and 3D printed parts. Integrating lasers, flash lamps, optical fibres, RF/US, and electronic modules, including selection of off-the-shelf components.
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Production: Responsible for transferring the project from R&D to production. Overseeing plastic mould production and testing in China.
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Certification: Participating in clinical validation tests (in-vivo/ex-vivo), compliance activities and FDA submissions.
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Validation: Initiating and overseeing validation and documentation processes (ISO 13485). Performing extensive SW, HW, optical and integration tests.
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Co-founding and leading a medical device start-up specializing in advanced solutions for airway management (intubations).
Jan 2017- Jan 2019
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Leadership: Driving vision, business and technical strategies according to market needs, opportunities and competition.
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Production: Responsible for transferring the project from R&D to production. Overseeing plastic mould production and testing in China.
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Certification: Participating in clinical validation tests (in-vivo/ex-vivo), compliance activities and FDA submissions.
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Validation: Initiating and overseeing validation and documentation processes (ISO 13485). Performing extensive SW, HW, optical and integration tests.
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Conceptual and mechanical design of prototypes at a specialised mechanical design company.
Aug 2010- Jan 2011
Assembling and testing of an innovative device for in-vivo cancer identification. Working in a clean room environment.
Aug 2008- Jul 2011
Shenkar
M. Des Design
2019 - 2021
The Technion
B.Sc Aerospace Engineering
2006 - 2010
Hof Carmel High School
Technology
1995 - 2000
English
Native Proficiency
Hebrew
Native Proficiency
Company Management
R&D & Engineering
Tools & Software
CAD & Prototyping
Microsoft
Productivity
Web Design Tools
Adobe
IDF Air Force
Ground Defence Array
2000 - 2003
A commander in the Air Forces charged with the defence of a high security base located in a high pressure zone.
IDF Air Force
968 Battalion
2004 - 2021
A squad commander in an Air Force 968 brigade tasked with general border defence deployments and other security activities.