Hila Karah

Biography

Ms. Hila Karah has served as one of Intec Pharma’s directors since December 2009. Ms. Karah was the chief investment officer of Eurotrust Ltd., an investment company, from 2006 until 2013, where she focused primarily on making early-stage investments in life science companies. Ms. Karah has been a private and public equity investor in several high-tech, bio-tech and internet companies since 1999. Prior to joining Eurotrust, she served as a partner and financial analyst at Perceptive Life Sciences Ltd., a New York-based hedge fund. Prior to her position at Perceptive Life Sciences, Ms. Karah was a research analyst at Oracle Partners Ltd., a healthcare-focused hedge fund based in Connecticut. Ms. Karah currently serves as a director at Cyren Ltd., a publicly-traded technology and security company (NASDAQ CYRN), a director of Labstyle Innovations Ltd., a publicly-traded biodiagnostics company headquartered in Israel (OTCMKTS: DRIO) and from May 2011 until May 2013, Mrs. Karah served as a director of Glycominds Ltd., a publicly-traded Israeli biodiagnostics company (TASE: GLCM). She has a B.A. in molecular and cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley, California and has studied at the University of California, Berkeley – University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine Joint Medical Program.

Research Interest

Molecular biology