Omer, Israel - July 21, 2015, Omer, Israel - Medigus, Ltd., a medical device company, announced that it has appointed Gilad Mamlok as chief financial officer from August 1, 2015.
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Mr. Mamlok brings more than 20 years of financial management and business development experience to his new role at Medigus.
He previously was at the helm of corporate financial planning, including leading mergers and acquisitions, investor relations and corporate governance, for several public and private medical device and technology companies located in Israel and the United States.
Most recently, Mr. Mamlok served as Vice President of Finance at Covidien plc, following its acquisition of Given Imaging, where he was Senior Vice President, Global Finance and Accounting since 2005.
Oded Yatzkan, the Company's CFO, is assuming the newly-created position of Vice President, Director of Finance & Accounting.
Mr. Yatzkan has served as Company's CFO since September 2003. He previously served as Controller and Administrative Director of the Be'er Sheva Municipal Theatre from 1997 to 2003, as an Internal Auditor of Pandor Ltd., a TASE-listed Israeli company, from 1999 to 2001, and as Assistant to Chief Financial Manager of Gold & Honey Ltd. from 1996 to 1997.
Mr. Yatzkan served as an auditor at an Israeli Accounting firm which later merged with Kesselman & Kesselman, Independent Registered Accounting Firm, a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, from 1994 to 1996, and as an Internal Auditor at Sha'al Ltd. from 1993 to 1994.
Mr. Yatzkan has also held numerous lecturer positions, including lecturer of Financial and Managerial Accounting at the Ben-Gurion University of Be'er Sheva from 2001 to 2003, lecturer of Economics, Accounting, Finance, Decision Making and Statistics at the Israeli branch of University of Humberside of England from 1999 to 2000, lecturer of Economics, Accounting and Taxation at courses sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Labor from 1993 to 1999 and lecturer of Bookkeeping (Types 1 & 2) at Etgar Communication Ltd. from 1996 to 1998. ■