Management
Uri Blackman,
Founder & CEO
Stephen Berger,
MD, Founder & Medical Advisor
Medical Advisory Board
Uri Blackman,
Founder & CEO
Uri Blackman is founder and CEO of GIDEON Informatics
an online medical publishing company he founded with Dr. Berger while in
undergrad. The flagship product, GIDEON, is installed in hundreds of
institutions in over 45 countries.
Uri served as Vice President of Corporate Development at Speedbit. In this role, Uri developed and managed strategic relationships for Download Accelerator, a software product whose user base grew from 13 to over 90 million users during his time with the company. Uri also managed a successful M&A process for the company. Uri came to Speedbit after founding Oloop, a venture backed online insurance brokerage firm. Prior to Oloop, Uri managed the computing and download channels on Netscape's website and was a product manager for two generations of the Netscape browser. Following the AOL-Netscape merger, he worked in Business Development at AOL.
Uri is the President of the Technology Council of Southern California and has served on the advisory board of a number of technology companies in the Silicon Valley. Uri served as Commander in the Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Corp. He received his BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University and his Masters of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Stephen
Berger MD, Founder & Medical Advisor
Dr. Stephen A. Berger, M.D. is currently affiliated with the Tel Aviv Medical
Center as both Director of Geographic Medicine and of Clinical
Microbiology.
He also serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at the
University of Tel-Aviv School of Medicine.
Dr. Berger was educated at Brooklyn College in New York, where he received his B.A. and New York Medical College, where he received his M.D and was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine. His post graduate training included fellowships in infectious diseases at the Montefiore Hospital Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center and the New York V-A Hospital.
In 1979, Dr. Berger became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has been awarded the New York Medical College Teaching Award 5 times, and received the Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1998.
Dr. Berger has published over 180 professional articles and books, including Introduction to Infectious Diseases and The Healthy Tourist. He is regarded as one of the foremost experts in his field, as evidenced by the his vast number of published articles, speaking engagements, professional appointments and awards.
