About Us
Quality Assurance
Sky Medical a.s. is comitted to provide high quality service in medical device field, including manufacturing of innovative life-enhancing medical devices in compliance with ISO 13485 and relevant regulatory requirements to ensure safety to the patient and caregiver.
We maintain the effectiveness of our quality system by continually pursuing measurable objectives related to:
- Processes and infrastructure development and improvement: Seeking for opportunities to improve manufacturing processes performance by employees’ involvement and technological innovation, development and maintaining of infrastructure, minimizing risks of production processes on safety and performance of products.
- Quality system effectiveness and risk reduction: Effective usage of tools and methods of quality management and ERP tool to continuously monitor processes´ effectiveness and efficiency to reduce risks.
- Supplier quality assurance: Building effective network of suppliers, continually monitor their performance, and improve purchased products and services quality based on establishing of structured supplier evaluation.
- Personnel awareness and competence: Promoting awareness, competence and skills of all the employees by establishing effective training program and motivation system.
- Regulatory compliance: Precise mapping of applicable regulatory requirements and maintaining system to continuously meeting them.
- Customer focus and flexibility: Creating a continuous improvement culture to provide products and services offered to the customers such as, production technology, production planning, product delivery, product quality, logistics network and other services.
CERTIFICATES
Our Value Proposition
Extensive experience in the medical device market
Our founders have more than 20 years of experience in the medical device world. This means we speak your language, understand the stringent demands of the market and are agile in our project management and responsiveness. We are your partner of choice for long-term relationships.
Flexibility to meet different partner requirements
Our experience and flexibility mean that we can address both small and large product runs. We supply solutions to complex challenges, with a focus on providing quality, cost-effective products that maintain the exemplary reputation of Sky Medical and of our OEM partners.
Responsive to the needs of our partners
Our dedicated teams listen to our partners, so that we can help them achieve their goals. We are committed to finding the optimal solutions for all our partner’s needs, from development and manufacture to packaging, labeling, branding, logistics and warehousing.
Cost-effective central European location
We are located in the Slovak Republic. In addition to being a cost-effective location close to key European markets, the area has a culture of professionalism and expertise in production at competitive prices. This enables us to offer optimal, cost-effective solutions.
Leadership
Amos Nahir
ChairmanAmos served for more than 18 years as the Managing Director of Degania Silicone Ltd., a world-class manufacturer of indwelling medical catheters and a contract manufacturer of medical catheters servicing many leading multinational medical companies. He gained his professional expertise in several top management positions, including CEO of Chromagen (Israel) and Tali Ltd. (UK), and Chairman of the Board for several Degania Silicone subsidiaries. Amos has also been active in medical start-ups, and was the co-founder and director of AngioSlide Ltd. and EndoCross Ltd. He has a BA in Economics and Business.
Pavel Grinshpun
Managing DirectorPavel is an innovative leader, illustrated in more than 12 years of experience in management, operations and production positions where he nurtured technological innovations into successful products. He is an inspiring, eloquent and creative leader, highly respected both as a person and a professional. Prior to Sky Medical, Pavel established and managed a medical device manufacturing company in the Slovak Republic. In Sky Medical, he is responsible for the management and operation of the company’s medical device production facility. Pavel has a BA in Business Administration.
Barak Lavi
Director, Business DevelopmentBarak understands that business development is about being present, relevant and adding value. A firm believer in caring for both company and customer interests, he is a focused, motivated and result-oriented executive with more than 20 years of experience in medical device companies. This experience includes serving as a VP Marketing & Sales and establishing and managing global distribution chains. In Sky Medical, Barak’s job is to understand our customers – their pains, their goals and their needs – and to accompany them on their journey to optimal, cost-effective solutions and a fruitful partnership with Sky Medical. Barak has a MA in Technology Management, a BSc in Polymer and Plastic Engineering and a BA in Life Sciences.
Yulia Surinova
Plant ManagerYulia is an experienced quality and industrial management professional. An expert in ISO 13485 implementation in the medical device industry and problem solving, she has more than 12 years of experience in quality and industrial management. Yulia has authored multiple publications on quality management, QM tool applications, statistics, lean management and risk-based thinking, and is a board member of the Slovak Society for Quality. She has a BA in Quality Engineering and PhD in Industrial Management.