Lahav Gil

Lahav Gil is a Canadian-Israeli medtech entrepreneur, executive and investor with deep roots in technology, design and operations. Lahav began his career in the late 80s as an industrial designer in the Israeli technology sector before immigrating to Canada in 2000. He brings over three decades of experience as a founder, technology innovator, entrepreneur, executive and investor, primarily in the medtech space. 

Throughout his career, Lahav has contributed to the development and launch of over 200 technology products. He has founded several companies and successfully sold two. Most notably, he founded the Kangaroo Group (ISO 13485) building it into a major Canadian brand for medtech innovation, contract manufacturing, and startup acceleration. In 2017, Lahav sold Kangaroo to its main competitor, Starfish Medical. During the seven years prior to selling, he transformed the Kangaroo Group into a private incubator, deploying the company’s know-how and infrastructure as investment capital into startups. After selling Kangaroo, he orchestrated successful turnarounds at Relay Medical and UX Data Sciences. 

Throughout his career, Lahav has advised numerous startups in both official and informal capacities. He currently serves as CEO at Arma Biosciences and chairs the board of Pulsemedica. He also co-founded a mountain bike startup with his son Ariel.  

Lahav is a Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) mentor in the Neuro and Biomedical Engineering streams, and operates as a mentor-angel to startup CEOs. In this capacity, he helps them advance science and technology into products with meaningful clinical utility while building investable, acquirable companies. Most importantly, he works with founders on their transition from a technology focus to a clinical and business-journey focus. 

Lahav is the author of the Cathedral Framework, a stakeholder-centric systems approach to life-sciences venture design and building. He splits his time between Toronto and Tel Aviv. Lahav is deeply interested in a thriving future for humanity, sustainability, ethics, values-based leadership, awareness and innovation culture.