About Us

Dr. Yishai Mishor is MTE's founder. Prior to MTE, Yishai was founder and CEO of Ein Hamishpat, a legal-tech start-up.

His 20-year career spans law, business, academia and politics, including serving as Chief of Staff to the President of Israel. Yishai holds a PhD in Law from the University of Oxford and was a professor at Oxford.

Yochanan Gerber is a meat analogue specialist. With experience in food-tech start-ups and consultation for academic bodies,

Yochanan teaches Food Product Development at the Tel Hai Academic College and is the academy’s chef.

Dr. Nico Kist is a computational biologist and founder of FoldChanges.com.

He has over ten years' experience researching and consulting, applying that expertise to problems in cellular agriculture and plant-based meats. Dr. Kist holds a DPhil in Computational Biology from the University of Oxford. 

Caio Malufe is the founder of Be Plant Advisory and has worked globally consulting for private equity bodies and start-ups in the food and agriculture sectors.

He worked as an M&A and strategy senior manager at Cargill and in addition, brings experience from Blackstone and Orbillion. He holds a BBA in Corporate Finance & Financial Markets.

David Bensal brings rich experience as Chief Technologist and Operation Manager at some of the leading companies in the Israeli food and oil industry,

including working as Chief Technologist at Strauss Coffee, the 5th largest coffee company in the word.

Dr. Anna Vitlin Gruber has 16 years of hands-on experience in protein biochemistry, molecular biology, and plant development,

having held research and teaching positions at Tel Aviv University and UCLA. Anna holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Tel Aviv University.

Moshe Iserowich, VP of Technical Process & Technology

Moshe Iserowich has rich experience in food extrusion and die design, having previously worked as Chief Mechanical Engineer at Unilever Israel.

Moshe is the owner of several registered patents in the field of food extrusion.

Dr. Helena Andres-Terre is an expert in AI solutions for Clinical Research, focusing on Deep Learning, Generative Modelling and data integration on Complex Systems.

With over 8 years of experience in Unsupervised Learning and Generative Models for multi-modal data integration, she has worked on a wide range of AI applications for healthcare and biology. She holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence - Computer Science by the University of Cambridge.

Francisco Conti has over 5 years of experience working in life science production and research positions in the pharmaceutical and food industries.

He holds a MSc in chemistry from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

Idan Gazal brings seven years of theoretical and practical experience in food science, QA and regulation in the Israeli culinary industry.

He was previously in charge of QA at Tamam Kitchen. Idan holds a BSc in Food Technology from Tel-Hai Academic College.

Moshe (Juky) Nesher brings extensive expertise in global development, production, purchasing and marketing of plant-based food products.

Moshe’s previous experience includes Chief Technologist for Nestle Israel, Chief Technologist for Tivall Food Industries and Head of Procurement for Osem-Nestle Group in Israel.

Dalia Mandelman is the former CEO of Strauss Coffee Israel and former CEO of Carmel Winery.

She brings 30 years of management, marketing and sales experience in the food, medical and hospitality industries.

Shlomo Benshimol brings extensive experience in accounting, budgeting, and financial management for multinational companies.

Shlomo is also a certified public accountant in Israel and was the Chief Internal Auditor for Checkpoint, an Israeli tech giant, Strauss Group, Israel’s second-largest food company, and Bank Mizrahi. He was previously a Deloitte partner.

Yafit Armon is a software engineer and industrial designer with over 15 years of experience in project management and software development.  

Alongside expertise in wellness and health, Yafit developes and integrates e-commerce sales channels, ERP systems, web applications and other digital solutions.

Sapir Matlaw is a Research Assistant, specializing in food biotechnology.

Sapir is a BSc student for Biotechnology Engineering at Ben Gurion University.

Ilana Chernokozinsky has over 15 years of experience in food science and technology, specializing in plant-based product development and applications.

Illana joins the MTE team following 3 years in Nestle’s R&D center in Ohio, USA, and a senior developer and team leader in Tivall.

Dr Florian Wild is a world-leading extrusion expert in MTE’s European R&D department.

He has previously led dozens of R&D projects focusing on plant protein processing for premium meat and dairy alternatives, and was Senior Researcher at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Florian holds a PhD from Technische Universität Berlin.

Sigal Spirman has over 10 years’ experience managing operations, working as a policy advisor for a governmental minister, parliament members and NGOs.

Sigal holds an MA in Human Rights from University College London.

Professor Anwesha Sarkar is the Director of Research and Innovation and the Chair of Colloids and Surfaces at the University of Leeds.

Her research focuses on the tribological properties of soft surfaces for applications in food, healthcare and allied soft materials focusing on novel plant-based sustainable biomaterials. She is the co-inventor of 6 patents.

Noa Sarusi has 5 years of experience in operations, production and team management in the food, events, animal welfare and retail sectors.