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Microbot Medical Continues to Strengthen Management Team as Rachel Vaknin Promoted to Chief Financial Officer
Company Continues to Enhance Core Capabilities to Ensure Commercial and Financial Success HINGHAM, Mass., April 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Microbot Medical
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[{"type":"text","content":"Company Continues to Enhance Core Capabilities to Ensure Commercial and Financial Success\nHINGHAM, Mass., April 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Microbot Medical Inc. (Nasdaq: MBOT), seeking to continuously enhance its core capabilities, today announced the promotion of Rachel Vaknin as its Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Vaknin, a seasoned finance executive with 20 years of experience, joined the Company in January 2022 as VP Finance, and has replaced David Ben Naim as the Company’s CFO effective April 1, 2022. She will report directly to Harel Gadot, the Company’s Chairman, President and CEO. Ms. Vaknin will be responsible for the Company’s global finance, including financial planning and analysis, investor relations and tax. Her addition to the Microbot Medical team reflects the Company’s commitment to enhancing its core capabilities. Prior to joining Microbot Medical, she was the CFO for a company in the autonomous driving sector and some of her primary duties included budget planning and forecasts, preparation for financial due diligences and fundraising. From 2004 to 2016, she has held various finance roles of increasing importance for Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a multinational supplier of computer networking products based on InfiniBand and Ethernet technology, and prior to that she worked at BDO – Ziv & Haft, a leading worldwide accounting firm. “Concurrent with the progression and success of our operating goals, including recent pre-clinical and regulatory achievements, we have also sought to strengthen critical roles within the organization to ensure we are positioned for future success,” commented Mr. Gadot. “I am excited to have Rachel join our leadership team and help build out critical infrastructure needs to support our future commercialization efforts. I believe her financial expertise, in addition to her track record leading finance functions and operations, will strongly support our business objectives over the next few years. I also want to thank David for his many contributions over the past and we wish him success in his future endeavors.” “Microbot Medical is seeking to transform the surgical robotics market, and I believe the achievements over the past few months demonstrate the Company is making great strides to achieve this goal,” commented Ms. Vaknin. “I am looking forward to working with Harel and the rest ...