ESG committee president

During his 31 years with the Boston Consulting Group, Philippe advised several international companies in the pharmacy, biotechnology and medical device sectors in several areas, including Corporate Strategy and Business Units, Research and Development, Marketing and Manufacturing as well as Large-Scale Transformation and Integration following mergers/acquisitions. Previously, Philippe Guy was Global Head of Health Practice at BCG from 1997 to 2006. As a member of the Executive Committee of BCG, he was responsible for all BCG’s practices from 2003-2006. Philippe Guy is a graduate of the prestigious HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) business school.

Member of the Board

Co-founder and CEO of Clexio Biosciences, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel drugs for neurological and psychiatric conditions, Elisabeth Kogan has over 20 years’ experience in the Pharmaceutical industry where she has held senior executive leadership roles with management responsibilities in R&D and sales & marketing. She has extensive experience of delivering innovation and new technology introduction from concept to implementation.

Audit committee president

Tone Kvåle is the CFO of Herantis Pharma, and she has more than 25 years of experience from the biotech and life sciences industry. She was CFO at Nordic Nanovector, a publicly listed company in Norway, for 7 years, and prior to that, she held CFO roles at NorDiag (publicly listed company), Kavli Holding, Dynal Biotech, as well as senior management positions at Invitrogen/Life Technologies, in US, now part of Thermo Fisher. In these roles, she helped raise over EUR 200m in financing, was involved in IPO’s and M&A’s and was responsible for financial reporting under various reporting standards including US GAAP and IFRS. She has been board director and chair of the audit committee of Bonesupport AB (BONEX), Sweden from December 2016 until May 2022. Tone has a diploma in finance and administration from UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Harstad. She has completed the prescribed course of study and the examination for Advanced Programme in Corporate Finance at The Norwegian School of Economics, NHH in 2022.

Remuneration committee president

The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of L3S, one of Europe’s leading life sciences research firms, Virginie Lleu held a variety of health recruitment positions before setting up her first recruitment firm specializing in healthcare in 2003, which was sold to Whitehead Mann five years later. Virginie Lleu is also a member of two Boards of Directors: La Fondation Fondamentale (foundation for scientific cooperation dedicated to combating major psychiatric disorders) and LNC (a start-up specializing in the treatment of chronic metabolic diseases, specifically pre-diabetes and obesity). With a background is in clinical psychology (graduate degree), she began her career as a neuropsychologist in leading university hospitals in Paris. Virginie Lleu is a graduate in clinical psychology and pathology (DESS).

Vice-president

A specialist in neuroscience and a graduate in pharmacology, Dr Sabri Markabi has spent more than twenty-five years in international positions in the pharmaceutical industry. In particular, he led the clinical neuroscience department and supervised the development of the ophthalmology unit at Novartis before heading up R&D at the Alcon pharmaceutical company from 2008 to 2015. During his career, Sabri Markabi has taken part in or chaired many corporate governance bodies in private or listed companies. Since 2015, he has advised many companies, specifically regarding their investment strategy and R&D.

President

Dr Anh Nguyen, co-founder and Chairman of the Company’s Supervisory Board, is an experienced biotechnology entrepreneur. He co-founded Syntro, first listed on NASDAQ in 1987, and Invitrogen, first listed on NASDAQ in 1999, which later became Life Technologies and was acquired by ThermoFisher in 2013 for US$16 billion. Anh Nguyen is a molecular biologist with a PhD from the University of California at San Diego, and also completed the MBA program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.