Meet the Team

The Orsyx team has a substantial background in creating, commissioning and supporting laboratory information systems. Primarily of graduate level and all at least bilingual, many team members have been with Orsyx since its founding.

Dr. Moshe Ben Shaul, CEO

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Dr. Moshe Benshaul founded the Ilex Group in 1984, and since then has led the group to success as its CEO and Chairman. Dr. Benshaul developed the group from a diagnostic supplier for the laboratory market in Israel to a multinational business group.
Prior to founding Ilex, Dr. Benshaul was group country manager for Instrumentation Laboratory (IL), a biomedical company with HQ in Lexington Mass. USA. From 1970 to 1976 he served as the Managing Director for the Israeli subsidiary of Varian Associates, which developed scientific instrumentation, medical and industrial linear accelerators and large scale information systems.
In 1969 Dr. Benshaul joined C.E.R.B.A., a large biomedical laboratory group located near Paris, as Laboratory Manager, following his graduation from Paris University.

   

Michael Avram, General Manager

 

Before joining ILEX Medical Ltd as General Manager at ORSYX, Michael served as Regional Manager at Ericom Software and Infrastructure Practice Manager at Compaq Global Services and HP responsible for Sales, Business and Marketing Development. Michael brings over 25 years of sales, business development, marketing and general management experience, and holds a B.A. degree in Economics.

   

Eran Ohayon, R&D Manager

Eran joined the Orsyx group in 2002. He was a key member of the team that initiated the design and development of the new generation of eL@b (eLab) products, implementing the Microsoft modern development environment .Net. Eran was appointed R&D manager in June 2005. He leads the enhancement of eL@b (eLab) functionality and the IT infrastructure as chief system architect. Eran is a graduate of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology holding a BSc and is studying for an MBA in Information Systems at Bar Ilan University.

   
Avner Belisha, Support Group Manager
 

Avner has been with Orsyx for the past 17 years. He was a member of the programming team that developed ILIMS. During his service, Avner has held  positions at Orsyx as Developer, IT Manager, Project Manager and was recently promoted to Service Manager.  He has participated in many eL@b (eLab) installations worldwide and has created good relations with our customers. Avner graduated from the Technion as a Practical Engineer in computers and is currently completing a BSc in Computer Science from the Open University.

   
David Katz, Consulting & Integration Manager

David has been with Orsyx for the past 20 years and was the team leader that developed ILIMS, the flagship software that is currently installed in more than 300 laboratories worldwide. David contributed from his experience and profound understanding of the clinical lab to the development of the new eL@b (eLab) line of products. David has recently been promoted to the position of Product Manager. David has a BSc in Mathematical & Computer Science from Tel Aviv University. 

   
Victoria Maksimenko, QA Manager

Victoria (Vika) has more than 10 years experience in information systems design and implementation. For the last 4 years, Victoria was in charge of the Software Validation Department of Teva Pharmaceuticals (Europe). She has responsibility for the implementation of the Quality Management System, and ensures that Orsyx maintains its excellence in conforming with all quality requirements. Vika holds an MBA in Production Engineering and Management from the Technology and Engineering University, Novosibirsk, Russia.

   
Ralph Katzenell, Senior Consultant and Training Manager

Ralph specializes in clinical diagnostics, analyzers and Clinical LIMS specifications and documentation. He has over 10 years experience as an analytical chemist in industrial, academic and biological laboratories. Ralph has an interest in clinical laboratory quality control and has contributed to the specification and development of Orsyx laboratory information management systems. He has an MSc in Analytical Chemistry (Chelsea & Imperial, London).

   
Galit Katz, Senior Programmer

Galit has a degree in Mathematics and Computing from Tel Aviv University. She has more than 18 years experience in Clinical LIMS design and development. Galit specializes in the development of system business logic, communication with laboratory devices and external systems.