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Ronnie Hershman

CEO/founder
HealthEffect

Dr. Ronnie Hershman has been a cardiologist in New York for 30 years where he has performed over 18,000 procedures and sees over 250 patients per week.

In 2016 Dr. Hershman started his own company, HealthEffect. HealthEffect is a Healthcare-specific disruptive marketplace where a global community collaborates to bring medical innovations to market quicker, and improve the health of the world.

HealthEffect leverages emerging technologies in the domains of Talent Marketplaces, Crowdsolving, and Equity Crowdfunding, rolling them all into one disruptive tech platform.

For the last 15 years Dr. Hershman has also been an active Angel Investor. He has personally evaluated hundreds of deals and has made investments in 6 different countries.

As an Angel Investor, he is the Founder and Principal Owner of Hershman Holdings, and he is also a limited partner in Signet Healthcare Partners, a Venture Fund that has invested in more than 45 companies with total capital commitments of over $400 million. In addition, Ronnie is an investor in Israel's OurCrowd platform, which has deployed $200M into 91 companies in just over two years.

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