Dr. Elena Itskovich is a Co-founder and President of Nest Catalyst Ventures and of Nest Catalyst Entrepreneurship program for scientist founders. She serves as a business development consultant at EndoCure and, formerly, at Xilis. Dr. Itskovich earned her MSc. in Neuroimmunology from Weizmann Institute of Science and her Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where she was a Welcome Trust Scholar. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University.