Lars Bäckman holds the position as VP of Corporate Development with Biotage AB since January 2007 and he is also the General Manager of Biotage subsidiary MIP Technologies. Prior joining Biotage, Lars Bäckman held the position as SVP of Corporate Development at Affibody. He has previous experiences acting as a lawyer at the Swedish law firm Hamilton & Co, specialized in Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions, and from Venture Management at the Business Development firm Googol. Mr. Bäckman holds a LLM from the Stockholm University and was born in 1961.

Kim  has a management carrier of more than 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry. He graduated  from Copenhagen University in 1984 and was licensed as a Lawyer in 1987.

From 1987 to 1992, he was Internal Legal Counsel to Lundbeck AS and Later Coloplast AS.

From 1992 to 2010 he worked at Octapharma AG in Switzerland, a swiss biotech, initially as Licensing manager and the last 10 years Vice Chairman /CEO. The Company had revenues exceeding one billion EURO and 4000 employees.

In 2010, he re-started Xeltis AG a Swiss biotech with a group of investors, specialising in self-generating heart valves.

From 2013 to 2014, he was the CEO of BPL UK a company with revenues of 300 million EURO and 2000 employees.

From 2015 he worked as CEO at Assistance HR Partners AS, where he I s co-owner, a company specialising in management training recruitment and temporary work.

Mikael Bundgaard-Nielsen holds a position as VP for Product & Process Development with Novozymes A/S since 2013. Prior to this position Mr. Bundgaard-Nielsen (2008-2012) was Managing Director for Novozymes Biopharma Sweden AB (now Repligen Sweden AB) in Lund, that manufactures affinity ligands and active pharmaceutical ingredients according to cGMP.  He has additional experience

from various leadership positions within research, development and manufacturing in Novo Nordisk A/S, Pharmexa A/S and

Novozymes A/S.

Mr. Bundgaard-Nielsen holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. He was born 1969.

Sussi is CEO of BASTAonline, a company focused on the substitution of chemicals of concern in the Building and Construction sector.

Sussi has more than 20 years of experience from the chemical industry within the environmental and commercial area. Sussi has extensive managerial experience with proven track record of leading international sales organisations during build-up, growth and turnaround phases. She held a position as European Sales Director in the Wood Industry sector with focus on the emerging markets in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Sussi has a M.Sc in Toxicology from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm

Svend is Chief Commercial Officer in Albumedix A/S, with responsibility for commerical activities, customer technical support, IP, regulatory and legal matters.

Svend brings more than 25 years managerial experience from international positions in Sales, Marketing, Business Development and M&A. His broad professional background and strong business skills have previously been utilized in companies such as Novo Nordisk and Novozymes through various positions, most recently as Global Head of Sales & Business Development in Novozymes Biopharma. Svend Erik Licht also serves on a number of life science boards.

Svend holds a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, a B.Sc. in foreign trade from Copenhagen Business School and an executive MBA with distinction from Ashridge Management College in UK.

Jan is inventor of the DAP technology and founder of CHRETO. Jan has more than 25 years entrepreneurial and managerial experience from the biotechnology and diagnostic industry. Jan held a position as senior manager in Business Development at Novozymes A/S, prior to the management spin-out of the DAP technology. Jan has been supervisory Board Member in a privately equity fund, Life Equity Sweden KB for several years and prior to joining Novozymes A/S, Jan was Vice President, R&D and Production at Vir Biosensors A/S (SPR biosensor).

Jan started his career as post doc at the Technical University of Denmark and then joined DAKO A/S where he had several managerial positions in Diagnostic assay development, Sales and Marketing, R&D manager and subsequently Director of Antibody Manufacturing.

Jan is also the inventor of Semi Dry Electroblotting, which significantly improved the Western blotting procedure. Jan was founder of JKA-BIOTECH and co-founder of Kem-En-Tec A/S and was the first to commercialize the Semi Drying Electroblotting apparatus.

Jan holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Technology University of Denmark.