A seasoned leader in the life science, medtech, health care sector with business leadership responsibilities since the early 90's.
Enjoy leading and shaping companies and industries as well as influencing via CEO-ship and director-ships.
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Board Positions
CEO Positions
2015 - current | LEO Pharma | BoD Member
LEO Pharma is a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on Dermatology. LEO Pharma is a privately held, fund owned company.
2015 – current | Immudex | BoD Member
Immudex is a world leading company in Immunology and detection of antigen specific T-cell response, based on its unique MHC Dextramer technology. Immudex is privately held and backed by business angels.
2015 - current | Visiopharm | Chairman of the BoD
Visiopharm is the technology leader in Quantitative Digital Pathology. Visiopharm software combines the strengths of image analysis and stereology in one platform. Visiopharm is a venture capital backed company.
2013 – current | AdvaLight | Chairman of the BoD
AdvaLight is a leading innovator in the area of yellow light lasers. AdvaLight has developed a laser for the dermatological market.
2013 – current | Immunovia | BoD Member
Immunovia is a leading company in early diagnosis of pancreas cancer. Immunovia’s unique biomarker discovery platform enable early diagnosis of pancreas cancer. Immunovia is privately held, and financed by angel investors.
2011 - current | Anapa Biotech | Chairman of the BoD
Anapa Biotech A/S' scientific focus is to unlock the potential of nucleic acid analogs. The technology is proven to improve sensitivity, accuracy and speed when performing PCR based assays. Anapa Biotech is a venture capital backed company.
2010 - 2012 | Sophion Diagnostics | Chairman of the BoD
The Sophion product range offers the most flexible automated patch clamp systems on the market today. The systems cover a wide range of throughput needs and provide the user with genuine whole-cell patch clamp data based on true gigaseals. Sophion was succesfully divested to Biolin Scientific in 2011.
2009 - 2012 | Contura International | BoD Member
Contura is a medical technology company based in Denmark that develops and commercialises soft tissue fillers. Contura was acquired by Specialty European Pharma (SEP) in May 2013.
2009 - 2011 | Olink Biosystems | BoD member
Successfully sold to Next2Be investment.
2009 | DxS Diagnostics | BoD member
Successfully sold to Qiagen
2005 - 2010 | Proxeon A/S | Chairman of the Board
Successfully sold to ThermoFisher
2005 - 2006 | Cantion A/S | Chairman of the Board
2003 - 2005 | Copenhagen International School (CIS) | Chairman of the Board
2003 - 2005 | DakoCytomation | Board member
2012 - 2015 | IDS | CEO
IDS is listed on the AIM list in London and focused on immunodiagnostic solutions for laboratories ranging from small physician office labs to the largest of reference lab chains in the world. (Non-executive Director 2009-2012)
2010 - 2012 | Neurosearch | CEO
NeuroSearch is a publicly traded drug development company focused on neurosciences. Since 1989 the company has focused on bringing new drug candidates to the market. Due to lack of funding liquidation of the company was initiated in 2012.
2005 - 2009 | Dako A/S | CEO
A world leading cancer diagnostic company focusing on pathology laboratories with 1,000 employee’s and revenues of over 1.6 B DKK. Dako was succesfully sold to private equity fund EQT Partners in 2007. Dako became part of Agilent Technologies in 2012.
2001 - 2006 | BioImage A/S | CEO
A 40 people venture cap backed biotech start-up based in Medicon Valley, Denmark. Focused on drug discovery through modulation of protein translocation. Bioimage was divested to ThermoFisher in 2006.
Former Research and Executive Positions 1984 - 2001
1999 - 2001 | PerkinElmer Life Sciences and PerkinElmer | President and Sr.VP, respectively
1999 | EG&G Reticon, CCD | General Manager
1995 - 1999 | EG&G Wallac, USA | Director of Diagnostics division
1994 - 1995 | EG&G Wallac, Turku, Finland, In vitro Diagnostics| Division Head for Diagnostics Systems Division
1990 - 1994 | Wallac OY, Turku, Finland | Product line manager, Screening products, (Diagnostics Systems Division)
1988 - 1990 | Pharmacia Genetic Engineering, Inc., San Diego, California, USA | Project leader
1984 - 1988 | Wallac, Finland | Junior to senior researcher and project leader, DNA probe group