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.

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.

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 Strategy & Business Development Advisor and working with a range of companies with strategy, project management and commercial/business development activities.

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 Chief Commercial Officer in Albumedix A/S, with responsibility for commercial activities, customer technical support, IP, regulatory and legal matter. He 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.

Stefan has a background in Protein Chemistry. He obtained his PhD in Molecular Microbiology from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands in 2008. After one year exploring high-throughput protein expression and analysis techniques at the Structural Genomics Consortium housed at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, he moved to Copenhagen to perform his post-doctoral studies at the Centre for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen.

Before assuming a position at CHRETO, he has been employed in a core function as a Protein Chemist at the Centre for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark.

Stefan has worked with Protein Chemistry for more than 10 years and has published more than 20 research articles covering various subjects.

He has experience in assay development, protein purification, quality control, protein-protein binding kinetics, and impurity analysis. He has managed several translational R&D projects developing  biopharmaceuticals.

Ernst has a background in protein and process technology with +25 years of experience in purification technologies, processing and fractionation technologies of proteins, enzymes, glycoproteins, oligosaccharides for industrial commercialisation. He has worked for established large companies (DuPont Industrial BioSciences, Carlsberg, LEO-Pharma, Arpida) as well as small companies in Denmark (Upfront Chromatography, Evolva and Combio).

Ernst graduated from Hamburg University as Dipl. Chemist/Biochemist in 1989 and completed his doctorate in Organic/Medicinal Chemistry in 1992. Ernst has more than 25 years’ experience in technical and science transfer for up- and down-stream protein processing technologies and as organic and medicinal research manager for organic drug-like molecules. He has a strong background with molecule characterisation, purification technologies and tech-transfer of technologies to customers and partners.

Ernst is acting as censor for biotechnology and processing, biochemistry and chemistry (bachelor and master students) at the Technical University of Denmark, Aarhus University and the School of Engineering at Aarhus.

Ann has a background in Membrane Technology. She graduated from the Technical University of Denmark as a Chemical Engineer in 2003 and completed an industrial PhD in Membrane Technology at the Technical University of Denmark and Novozymes in 2008. She worked at DHI and Carlsberg group as a research scientist before joining CHRETO.

Ann has worked with Research and development of Membrane technology for more than 10 years within various fields as water treatment, development of non-alcoholic beverages and enzyme production. She has experience in ultrafiltration, microfiltration, membrane materials and characterization and design of membrane systems.

She is experienced in managing R&D projects from various projects including work package leader in a FP7-EU project concerning development of functional membranes.

Boqian has a background in molecular biology and protein chemistry. He graduated from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) with a Master of Science in biochemistry and completed a PhD in molecular biology at Zhejiang University and National Centre for Gene Research (Chinese Academy of sciences, Shanghai) in 1996.

Boqian has more than 20 years international experience working with R&D in biotechnology in Denmark, within various fields as molecular genetics, cell biology, enzymology and membrane technology. He has comprehensive experience in downstream protein purification, characterization and formulation, reverse osmosis membrane manufacturing, protein engineering, mammalian cell culture, enzyme assay and cell-based G protein-coupled receptor assay, yeast genetic engineering and microbial fermentation.

He was worked in using lean and six sigma methodologies to manage R&D projects and various process development tasks.