Shy Hefetz

Shy Hefetz

CTO & Co-Founder

Shy Is a biomedical engineer with over 15 years of product development experience. Shy co-founded NavonTech after serving as the CTO of Big Medical, Night Sense, and Med Bright Medical Solutions. Shy’s specialties are, hardware, signal processing, algorithms, and sensors, with experience from designing a concept and prototypes to design of products for mass production. Shy’s professional expertise include an unusual combination of wide multidisciplinary engineering expertise with physiological knowledge and experience in medical equipment. This combination enables Shy to take into account the “whole picture” when designing medical products.

Shy holds a BSc and an MSc in Bio-Medical Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University in Israel. Shy’s master thesis covered algorithm development for EEG analysis, including applications of machine learning\pattern recognition techniques, signal processing, and statistical analysis.

When serving in the IDF Shy developed electronic warfare technologies laying the foundation of his special skills. The work in the IDF included research, development of field and lab equipment and integration of equipment for daily use by soldiers in the IDF.