Maya Ashkenazi Otmazin B.sc, M.E.

CEO/Biomedical Engineer/Entrepreneur

Maya is an experienced entrepreneur in the field of R&D with a proven professional track record in the health and wellness industries and Israel’s FoodTech community. Maya has an M.E. and a B.Sc in Biomedical Engineering and Pharmaceutical Engineering. She was listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 Class of 2020.

Maya is an experienced entrepreneur in the field of R&D with a proven professional track record in the health and wellness industries and Israel’s Food Tech community. Maya has an M.E. and a B.Sc in Biomedical Engineering and Pharmaceutical Engineering. She was listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 Class of 2020 . Maya has an engineering background with a degree in pharmaceutical engineering and another one in biomedical engineering. Throughout her career, she has created new products for different industries and worked in a pharmaceutical company where she created products from concept through production and scale-up. She is the CEO and Co-founder of Maolac.

Maolac is an Israeli food tech company that develops biofunctional proteins (BFPs) from animal and non-animal sources to make human milk proteins accessible to everyone. The company uses AI technology to identify proteins in bovine colostrum that are similar to those found in human milk. Maolac's first products, Maolactin for Gut Health and Maolactin for Anti-Inflammatory Activity, are bio-functional protein mixtures that are designed to have similar benefits to breast milk