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Business Development, Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Market Access, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Dr. Alrik Koppenhöfer
Managing Director


Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management, Coaching & Mentoring

Alrik Koppenhöfer is the founder and Co-managing director of the Life Science Consulting Network. He offers consulting services to executives and investors in the Life Science industry since 2004.

Services

  • Market assessment & competitive intelligence
  • Access to experts & KOLs
  • Business planing & due diligence
  • Business & marketing strategy
  • Strategic alliances & partnering
  • Interim management in S&M

Background

  • 20 years of experience in strategic and operational business consulting, interim management, business development & management roles on the executive level (LION bioscience AG; Axaron Bioscience AG)
  • Substantial deal experience
  • Deep international network throughout Life Sciences industries, especially in R&D, medtech, diagnostics, white biotech

As a Marie-Curie-Fellow Alrik Koppenhöfer earned his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Oxford and holds a degree in chemistry from Freiburg University, Germany. His working languages are German and English.

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Market Access, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Intellectual Property, Legal, Patents & IP

Dr. Thomas Wirth
Managing Director


Advisor

Thomas Wirth is a certified IP-lawyer and together with his partners at Wirth Rechtsanwälte offers legal services world-wide. The core competence of his practice is the drafting and executing of licence- and distribution contracts as well as support regarding all questions related to the protection and enforcement of industrial property rights. Furthermore, he focuses on copyright issues in particular related to software, databases, file sharing systems and digital rights management.

He started his professional career in 1991 as an in-house lawyer at Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg specialising in European competition- and distribution law. He worked for Seat S.A. in Barcelona and was responsible for international cooperation contracts, research and development contracts, as well as for technology-transfer of the Volkswagen Group. In 2001 he became director for legal and patents for the biotech company LION bioscience AG, Heidelberg, prior to setting up Wirth Rechtsanwälte, Mannheim.

Thomas Wirth is a member of the Licensing Executive Society (LES), the European Institute for Media-law (EMR) and the Gesellschaft für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR). As a councillor for the European Commission he works on the harmonisation of European contract law. His working languages are German, English, French and Spanish.

Intellectual Property, Legal, Patents & IP

Corporate Development, Investor Access

Hilmar Platz

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Project Management, Coaching & Mentoring

Hilmar Platz is founder and managing director of Concepts4Value GmbH. His focus is on Life Science, Photonics & Cleantech. Fundamental corporate concept is integration of industrial expertise and corporate finance. He has a special expertise in the DACH-region, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. His work involves in depth cooperation with VC, PE, FOs and industry. Support of VC- and PE-grade medium-sized companies. Identification of financial and industrial investors, establishing of industrial alliances.

Services

  • Corporate Finance based services
  • Project based management functions and mentoring
  • M & A based services
  • Industrial services

Hilmar and his team has been involved in a large number of IPOs in the core sectors mentioned as well as an advisor for industrial players and professional investors. After 25 years of business experience, he has a proven track record in the chemical sector, Medtech, Red & White Biotech, Photonics, and Cleantech

Corporate Development, Investor Access

Market Access

Dr. Manfred Caeser

Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

Manfred Caeser works as a consultant to the pharmaceutical, biotech and medtech industries since 2007. He offers strategy consultancy and services in the areas of market access, pricing, reimbursement and health economics. Till end of 2011 he has worked for Easton Associates LLC, USA, as strategy consultant and pricing and reimbursement specialist for 4 years.

Areas of expertise and services:

  • Global pricing and reimbursement strategies and adaptation for local market requirements
  • Pricing and reimbursement expertise in portfolio evaluations and due diligence
  • Qualitative pricing and reimbursement research, resource use and cost studies
  • Integration of pricing and reimbursement requirements into product development activities
  • Execution, analysis, reporting and publication of pharmaco-economic and health outcomes data
  • Involved in AMNOG cost-benefit assessments, editing and submission of dossiers to GBA in Germany
  • Focus on the markets in Germany and other main EU5 countries, U.S. and Canada.

Manfred Caeser has broad experience in the pharmaceutical industry with ALTANA/Nycomed, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (SB), Diversified Healtcare Systems (DHS), Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD). He has worked in the areas of disease management and integrated healthcare, pharmaco-economics, pricing and reimbursement in corporate and local roles for 12 years and in preclinical research for 4 years.

He holds a Ph.D. in neurosciences from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. His working languages are German and English.

Market Access

Finance & Controlling

Dipl.-Ing. Manuela Habeker

Project Management

Founder and managing director of Evosciences Leasing GmbH

Services

  • Leasing strategies and programs of instruments and facilities in Life Science industries
  • B2B Financing of movable assets for start ups, companies and vendors
  • Financing technology refresh
  • Supporting vendor finance programs
  • Development of new finance and leasing products
  • Asset management for companies and vendors

Experience

  • Leasing and financing of movable assets
  • Independent from banks and leasing companies
  • Strong network of international and local leasing companies
  • 20 years in financial solutions
  • 10 years in sales management of instruments
  • Working Languages: English, German

Finance & Controlling

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Change Management, Corporate Development, Market Access, Marketing, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Salman Bokhari

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management, Coaching & Mentoring

Salman Bokhari, managing director of Sidrapex Pte. Ltd., provides a range of services, primarily focused on the Asia-Pacific Region.

Salman is an entrepreneurial and a hands-on leader who delivers competitive advantage and market share gains for internationally-driven and regional companies in start-up, turnaround, and growth environments. He has a proven expertise in formulating lean operations and executing market-winning strategies.

Salman drives above-average growth and profitability by repositioning businesses, establishing strategic alliances and licensing agreements, building high performance teams, and reorganizing distribution channels. He is an international manager who combines Eastern cultural sensitivity with Western business practices to accelerate growth while ensuring integrity.

Salman's extensive background with blue-chip pharma companies (Ciba-Geigy/Novartis, Schwarz Pharma/UCB, Lundbeck, Perrigo) in the Asian and Middle Eastern contexts includes:

  • Setting up and leading country and regional operations
  • Establishing organizations in China, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Indonesia.
  • Devising market-entry strategies for India and China.
  • Completing strategic consolidations of existing operations in Korea and Pakistan.
  • Handling marketing and product management in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

An innovative and energetic leader and a skilled negotiator, Salman also mentors start-ups and senior executives, not confined only to life sciences.

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Change Management, Corporate Development, Market Access, Marketing, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Business Intelligence, Communication, Corporate Development

Eric S. Langer, MSB

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Project Management

President & Managing Partner, BioPlan Associates, Inc.

Services

  • For 31 years providing market analysis and strategy to biotech and biopharma

Focus

  • Strategy planning
  • Market valuation
  • Research

Professional Experience

  • Senior management / marketing at biopharma supply companies
  • Experienced biotechnology strategist; advised 100s of companies strategy, valuation, pricing, based on quantitative analysis
  • In 1989 co-founded BioPlan Associates, Inc. to provide strategy
  • Strategy Advisor for International M&A / Falls River Group
  • Valuation services to investors and senior managers
  • Teaches graduate biotechnology marketing at Johns Hopkins University and biomedical valuation to the NIH Graduate School
  • Published, edited and authored numerous books and texts.

Business Intelligence, Communication, Corporate Development

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Marketing, Product Management, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Dr. Volker Ungermann

Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

Volker Ungermann has more than 20 years of management experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics industry, with most of his career dedicated to global corporate and business development as well as marketing. Most recently he founded Volker Ungermann - Business Development in Life Science advising Health Care companies in all aspects of business development operations from identification of projects to contract drafting and negotiation. He offers strategic advice to executives and interim management on a corporate level.

He has held senior management positions - Vice President Business Development at immatics biotechnologies, Global Senior Director Corporate Licensing at ALTANA Pharma and at Nycomed Group, Head of Project Coordination and Business Development at Sanofi and Product Manager and Project Manager at DIFCO Laboratories (Becton Dickinson). In these roles he successfully accomplished more than 20 international License and Partnering agreements covering projects at all stages of the pharmaceutical value chain from pre-clinical projects to marketed products. He also played a key role in several Mergers & Acquisitions transactions. During the merger of Sanofi and Synthelabo he served as an Integration Manager successfully securing the re-organization of the companies and the respective change management processes.

Volker Ungermann studied biology in Frankfurt and Tuebingen and completed his studies with a PhD in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology from the University of Tuebingen. His working languages are English and German.

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Marketing, Product Management, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Clinical Development, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Dr. Eckhard Schwenner

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management, Coaching & Mentoring

Corporate Development Expert

Services

  • Strategy and Business Development
  • Internationalization in Diagnostics and Medtech
  • Strategic Alliances, Partnering, Investor Acquisition
  • Program and Interim Management
  • Management Coaching

Background

  • Over 30 years general management experience in international Healthcare leadership positions in Business, Program management, strategy and R&D roles in Bayer (Pharma, Corporate, Diagnostics (VP), Siemens (Diagnostics) and Philips (CEO Healthcare Incubator Emerging Markets)
  • Start up and deal making experience as CEO of diagnostic (pes GmbH) and medtech (enverdis GmbH) companies
  • Lived and worked in Germany, the USA, Japan, worked in China and India.
  • Consulting start ups and providing interim management since 2013

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Clinical Development, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Market Access, Marketing, Product Management

Dipl.-Eng. Jürgen Schipper, MBA

Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management

Business and Sales Development Expert

Services

  • Business & Sales strategic planning in Diagnostics
  • Market Access and Reimbursement in Diagnostics
  • Market Assessment and Market Research
  • Strategic Alliances & Partnering
  • Project and Interim Management in Diagnostics

Background

  • 20 years of experience in General Management, Business and Commercial Development
  • Founder and Managing Director of Microbionix GmbH and Diagnostics & Life Science Consulting
  • Interim Management at companies such as Luminex and Omega Diagnostics
  • Strong international network in Medical Diagnostics

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Market Access, Marketing, Product Management

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Communication, Marketing, Product Management

Jürgen Heise

Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

Senior Consultant for In Vitro Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Technology, and Hospital Workflow Solutions

Services

  • Business & marketing strategy
  • Market assessment & competitive intelligence
  • Business development
  • Product launch, marketing campaigns, solution selling
  • Workflow and business processes, lean & business tools
  • Interim projects

Background

  • 30 years of experience in leading IVD companies in international roles at Boehringer Mannheim (Roche), Byk-Sangtec (DiaSorin), Beckman Coulter
  • Profound expertise in sales cycle management, business relationship, business intelligence, leadership roles in international matrix organizations
  • Master in biology with a focus on molecular biology
  • German, English, and Spanish

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Communication, Marketing, Product Management

Business Intelligence, Market Access, Marketing, Product Management

Dr. Katja Schröder

Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

Senior Consultant at
Kalms Consulting GmbH



Services

  • Market Access, Reimbursement and Health Economics for Medical Device Companies
  • Development of Reimbursement and Marketing Strategies
  • Evidence Based Market Access Strategies
  • Reimbursement Applications and Dossiers
  • European Market Access Management
  • Focus Areas: Urology, Gynecology, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Molecular Medicine

Background

  • More than 20 Years of Experience in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry (AstraZeneca, C.R. Bard, American Medical Systems, Vitaphone)
  • Strong Operational Experiences as Marketing Manager, Sales Manager, European Marketing Director
  • PhD in Molecular Cell Biology
  • Working Languages: English, German

Business Intelligence, Market Access, Marketing, Product Management

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Marketing, Product Management, Recruiting, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Dr. Frank Sehlmeyer

Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management, Coaching & Mentoring

Consultant, Coach & Interim Manager

Services

  • Interim management
  • Business strategy development & execution
  • Sales, marketing & business development
  • Business matchmaking (sales & distribution channels)
  • Coaching (CxO, BD & sales managers)

Focus markets

  • Reagents, consumables, instruments, services & technologies for:
  • Research & development (R&D)
  • Molecular diagnostics (MDx)

Background

  • over 20 years of experience in life sciences with extensive network worldwide
  • Expert in molecular biology; and life science business strategies
  • Worked with manufacturers, developers & distributors, e.g. ThermoFisher

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Marketing, Product Management, Recruiting, Spin-offs & Start-ups

CMC, Manufacturing, Quality Management & Audit

Ralf Fehrenbach

Advisor, Interim Management, Project Management

Services

  • Recombinant Proteins, Vaccines, ATMP Process Development
  • Operational Excellence
  • Process Equipment
  • Facility Design
  • Tech Transfer
  • CMO, Outsourcing
  • cGMP Manufacturing
  • Quality Assurance
  • CMC

Experience

  • more than 25 years of operational experience in the biopharmaceutical industry and CDMO, e.g. Glenmark, Henogen, Rentschler, GSK Biologics
  • Strong industrial network for biopharmaceuticals, biologicals
  • Working Languages: English, French, German

CMC, Manufacturing, Quality Management & Audit

Business Development, CMC, Corporate Development, Manufacturing

Dr. Manfred Papaspyrou

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management

Consultant for biopharma business & technology

Services

  • Acquisition of new business opportunities
  • GMP-manufacturing of Drug Substance & Drug Product
  • Engineering services
  • CDMO search & selection
  • Evaluation of new markets for technologies & services

Background

  • Over 25 years professional in biopharma, CDMOs & bioreactor industry
  • Substantial experiences in sales, management and process technologies
  • Large personal network within the international biopharma industry
  • Dr. rer. nat. (Düsseldorf) & Diplom-biologist (Cologne)

Business Development, CMC, Corporate Development, Manufacturing

Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Investor Access

Dr. Tomas Kahn

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Project Management, Non-Executive Director

Services

  • Overall strategic positioning and business development support
  • Strategic alliances and partnering, geographic expansion plans
  • Market research and competitor analysis, medical need and patient potential
  • Optimization of financing and exit strategies

- Background
Over 35 years of academic, industrial and healthcare finance experience in biotech, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical devices, member of two advisory Boards and one supervisory Board

  • 19 years healthcare finance experience at Deutsche Bank AG. Deal team member – often as Originating Director - in +200 transactions including debt and equity financing, M&A and IPOs for clients in all sizes from start up to mid cap companies including + € 1 billion sales corporations
  • Previous positions as Director and Head of the Expert Team Life Sciences at Deutsche Bank AG, at the German Cancer Research Center at the team of the 2008 Nobel laureate Harald zur Hausen, the BioSidus foundation team (Buenos Aires), and Behringwerke
  • PhD in microbiology and molecular biology
  • Working languages: bilingual in German and Spanish, English

Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Investor Access

Finance & Controlling, Investor Access, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Dr. Björn Mamat

Project Management

Services

  • Public R&D funding for German tech companies
  • Comprehensive service package: grant selection, preparation of proposal documents, project administration, accounting and reporting
  • Strong track record in (but not restricted to) Life Science
  • Largely success-based fee model

Experience

  • 19 years of experience with R&D projects
  • Supported >100 funded R&D projects across sectors & industries during last 3 years
  • Advised several hundred Life Science clients with corporate finance & strategy at Deutsche Bank

History

  • Founder & Owner, ifectis Innovationsförderung
  • Senior Consultant specialized in public R&D funding
  • Life Science Industry Expert at Deutsche Bank
  • Team Leader in Drug Discovery at deCODE genetics (Reykjavík, Iceland)
  • Ph.D. in biochemistry (Frankfurt/Marburg)

Finance & Controlling, Investor Access, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Corporate Development, Finance & Controlling, Investor Access, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Kring

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

High Tech Services GmbH

Founder and managing director of High Tech Services GmbH; complete realization of operative and financial services in start-up companies. This includes the establishment, structuring and management of the administrative divisions corporate finance planning and controlling in young start-up and high-growth companies.

Portfolio:

  • Interim and Project management (acting CFO)
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Planning and controlling
  • Accounting and Bookkeeping
  • Administrative and personnel services

Since 2005 High Tech Services GmbH combines a number of high qualified free-lancers and employees who have gathered many years of operative experience in more than 100 companies and are thus in a position to provide support in all aspects of commercial issues and projects.

In addition, High Tech Services GmbH offers a network to investors, lawyers, auditing firms and other service providers.

Corporate Development, Finance & Controlling, Investor Access, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Communication, Marketing, Multimedia & Design

Fabian Kaske

Strategic Consultancy, Project Management

Managing Director of Dr.Kaske - the Multi Channel Data-Driven Pharma Marketing Agency

Services

  • Creating and implementing Rx and OTC marketing strategies
  • Rx:
    • Digital KOL Strategies
    • HCP Influencer Portals (websites capitalizing on emerging digital information need of HCPs)
    • Patient Awareness Campaigns (HWG-compliant1 - Multi Channel patient-activation)
  • OTC:
    • Multi channel media planning, media buying, execution and Public Relations
    • Online portal setup and optimization
    • Online pharmacy strategy and optimization

Background

  • Professional experience (excerpt): Oliver Wyman GMC, Procter & Gamble
  • Ph.D. (University of Augsburg, ongoing): Impact of Social Media Crises on Firm Value
  • Grande École Master (ESCP: Paris, Hong Kong)
  • B.Sc. (EBS: Oestrich, Singapore)

Communication, Marketing, Multimedia & Design

Business Intelligence, Clinical Development, Preclinical Development

Dr. Petra Heine

Interim Management, Project Management

Founder and manager of Petra Heine Life Science Consulting (PHLSC)

Services include:

  • Strategic R&D consulting
  • Interim project management for R&D programs and clinical research projects
  • Preparation of R&D and clinical study documents, e.g.:
    -- Development and project plan, target product profile
    -- Clinical study protocol, investigator’s brochure, clinical SOPs
    -- Clinical trial guidelines, clinical submission documents
    -- Publication support

Petra Heine studied chemistry and has over 12 years of experience in pharmaceutical R&D industry with in-depth and hands-on experience in preclinical and clinical development of drugs, diagnostics and medical devices comprising all phases up to filing preparation and pre-Submission/ pre-BLA meetings (EMA/FDA).

She combines a broad scientific, clinical and regulatory expertise with managerial experience in big pharma, CRO and biotech companies covering many aspects of project management, outsourcing, licensing and pharma/biotech collaborations.

Business Intelligence, Clinical Development, Preclinical Development

Change Management, Recruiting, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Yves Guillermet

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Coaching & Mentoring

Services

  • Strategic HR consulting
  • External personnel leadership for SMEs, especially for challenging Issues
  • Business coaching for executives and managers
  • Leadership training
  • Potential analysis / identifying and developing “high potentials”

Background

  • 20 years of experience as a Business Coach, Leadership Trainer & HR Consultant
  • 15 years of experience as a HR Director & management roles on the executive level (Bausch & Lomb, Novaliq, LION bioscience, WMT etc.)
  • 150+ people coached, 500 hired, 600 dismissed, 1,000+ trained
  • Deep international network throughout Life Sciences industries
  • B.A. in Mathematics, B.A. & M.A. in Business Administration, M.A. in Organizational and Personal Development
  • Trained as a systemic business coach, certified in logotherapy & existential analysis
  • Working Languages: German, English, French

Change Management, Recruiting, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Business Development, Clinical Development, Corporate Development

Klemens Schütte

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

Klemens Schütte is the Founder and Managing Director of Arcus Pharma Consult GmbH.

Services

  • Strategic CRO Consulting and Corporate Development
  • Clinical Development Consulting, Board Advisor
  • Clinical Trials Budgeting Consulting
  • CRO selection support for Biotech Co.
  • Pragmatic Clinical Trials Set Up solutions

Background

  • An international seasoned industry professional combined with commercial experience within BioPharma and CRO companies.
  • More than 30 years in international clinical development, thereof 10 years in Pharma (ASTA Medica) and 20 years of executive positions (CEO, COO, Board Member) in CRO industry (Ergomed, Ecron Acunova, Pivotal).
  • CRO and Biotech Advisor, Strategic growth of CROs, Trial Budget Management, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Business Development.
  • University of Konstanz, Germany, and University of Florida (Gainesville, US) background in biology and biochemistry.

Business Development, Clinical Development, Corporate Development

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Change Management, Marketing, Product Management

Dr. Bela Kelety

Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

Bela Kelety offers strategic advice and interim-management services to the Life Science industry. As a business consultant Bela Kelety helps to plan and implements sales organizations and sales support. He advises life science companies in their start-up phase, market introduction and strategic planning. He also supports the search for early stage capital as well as the realization of business concepts. In the role of an interim manager Bela Kelety is introducing new products for the European market on behalf of a leading German biotech company.

Bela Kelety is a coach and evaluator in business plan competitions (Science4Life) and registered coach of the High-Tech Gründerfonds. He has more than 12 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. As a co-founder of IonGate Biosciences GmbH he led the successful development of a fundamentally new screening technology before focusing on customer support strategy and sales support. During his work at Hoechst Marion Roussel and Intervet he gained substantial experience in the area of preclinical drug discovery for human and animal health.

During his PhD work at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Bela Kelety worked on functional analysis of electrically active proteins. He studied chemical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His working languages are German and English.

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Change Management, Marketing, Product Management

Intellectual Property, Legal, Patents & IP

Dr. B. Bettenhausen
Patent Attorney


Advisor

Berthold Bettenhausen is co-founder and managing partner of Dehmel & Bettenhausen, a patent law firm with a main office in the city center of Munich and a branch office in the BioPark Regensburg. Since about 20 years he advises national and international clients in all intellectual property issues. He is widely experienced in the care, advice and coordination of strategic patent portfolios of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical engineering as well as nutritional and environmental technology.

Conducting and coordinating patent litigations is another specialism. Moreover, he is regularly involved in the drafting of patent infringement and validity opinions as part of freedom-to-operate (FTO) and due-diligence analyses. He is equally widely experienced in the drafting and negotiation of all manner of contracts that are needed in the field of protection of intellectual property for the economic exploitation of property rights.

Berthold Bettenhausen studied molecular biology at the University of Cologne (Germany) and worked as a Ph.D. student and Post-doc at the Max-Delbrück-Laboratory in Cologne. He then started his career as a Patent Attorney in 1996 in a renowned Munich based patent law firm and co-founded Dehmel & Bettenhausen in 1999.

Intellectual Property, Legal, Patents & IP

Legal

Dr. Philip-André Zinn
External Attorney


Advisor

Since 1999 Philip Zinn has been based in Mannheim where - together with his two partners - he built up a renowned law firm, ZinnBoecker Rechtsanwälte, focussing on corporate and international mandates. He is specialized in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Joint-Ventures, corporate and labour law as well as cross border issues.

He has more than 15 years experience in providing comprehensive legal support for small and mid-sized companies. After his studies and work experience in the United States and Singapore he joint one of the biggest law firms in Frankfurt, Germany.

Philip Zinn is a member of the Corporate Lawyers Association (VGR) and of the M&A and International Business commissions of AIJA (Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats). He is also a member of the board of the German-Mexican lawyers association and member of the German-American lawyers association. His working languages are English, Spanish and German.

Legal

Business Intelligence, Communication, Marketing

Dr. Holger Bengs

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Project Management, Coaching & Mentoring

Holger Bengs is the founder of BCNP = Biotech, Chemistry, Nanotech, Pharma

Marketing Management

  • Strategic Communications and
    public relations advisory services

Market Intelligence

  • Analysis of competition and growth options

Background

  • Since 2010 BCNP Consultants GmbH; CEO and Managing Partner
  • Since 2002 Biotech Consulting; Founder and Managing Director
  • 2000 - 2001 Biotech Media GmbH; Co-Founder and Managing Director
  • 1993 - 1999 Hoechst AG / Aventis S.A.; Project Manager Biocatalysis
  • PhD in chemistry (Hannover, Mainz); studies in economics (Hagen)

Business Intelligence, Communication, Marketing

Communication, Translation

Diana Polkinghorne

Project Management, Coaching & Mentoring

Founder/manager of DP Business & Financial Translations Ltd

Services
■ Specialist translations from German to English
■ Focus areas: financial, business, financial reports (annual/quarterly), business plans, analyst coverage, PR/IR, marketing, contracts
■ General support in drafting text, incl. consultation (telephone/Skype), editing and, on occasion, copywriting
■ Customized language skills training, including option of total immersion in UK

Background
■ Over 30 years living and working in Germany
■ 25 years work experience, including as team leader of Language Services for a German bank
■ Clients in a wide range of sectors: financial+banking, IT, steel, biotech, real estate etc.
■ BA (German/History of Art); MBA (focus: strategy+knowledge management)

Communication, Translation

Communication, Marketing, Multimedia & Design

Thomas Rauch

CEO & Art Director

Founder and CEO of creativecats

Services

  • Brand-creation/Branding
  • Corporate Development & Design
  • Web-, App- & Interactive Solutions
  • Virtual & Augmented Reality
  • Film-production & 2D/ 3D Animation
  • Photo-production
  • Artwork

Background

  • Experience in creative business since 2007: chemical Industry, energy provider, product development, entertainment and lifestyle industry.
  • Implementation of over 340 creative solutions and projects since 2007
  • Communication design (B.A.) HS Mannheim

Communication, Marketing, Multimedia & Design

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Marketing, Product Management, Recruiting, Regulatory Affairs, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Dipl.-Bw. Steffen Kahdemann

Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

Focus

  • Med Tech
  • Dental Regeneration
  • Dental Implantology

Services

  • Strategic business development with focus on marketing and sales strategy
  • Market assessment & competitive intelligence
  • Project and interim management
  • Product development and Regulatory Affairs support

Expertise

  • More than 20 years marketing, sales, R&D, RA experiences in Med Tech/ Dental business
  • Distinctive experiences of successful development of sales and distribution organizations
  • Successful development of start ups
  • Development of product specific marketing concepts and corporate identity
  • Strategic restructuring and turnaround in international business
  • Broad international network to opinion leaders, innovators, manufacturers, public media

Background

  • 2011 - 2015: Sen. Manager, leading Global Regenerative business unit of Dentsply Implants
  • 2005 – 2011: Founder and CEO of Ziterion GmbH. Inventor and developer of an unique ceramic implant product concept. Successful market launch. Takeover of Dentsply Friadent GmbH.
  • 2003 - 2005: Founder and owner of Dental Coach Event Management
  • 1996 - 2003: Sales & Marketing Manager Northern Europe for Regen Technologies, W.L. Gore & Ass.

Business Development, Business Intelligence, Corporate Development, Marketing, Product Management, Recruiting, Regulatory Affairs, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Business Development, Corporate Development, Investor Access, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Dr. Siegfried Bialojan

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Project Management, Coaching & Mentoring

Services

  • Strategic positioning, business planing
  • Partnering, strategic alliances
  • Business development
  • Financing and exit strategies

Background

  • 35+ years of professional experience in academia, pharma industry and Life Science consulting (focus on biotech); member of advisory and supervisory boards
  • 20 years at EY: industry expert in Life Sciences with strong focus on biotech (2001 – 2021)
  • Initiating EY Life Science sector
  • Establishing EY global life science database (Biotech/MedTech/ Pharma)
  • Authoring and publishing 20 EY German Biotech Reports with industry trends, business analysis, company financials, financing & deal statistics
  • Data provider and content support for Global and European EY Biotech, MedTech and Life Science Reports (Beyond Borders, Pulse of the industry, Progressions) – strong ties with US and international Life Science sector of EY
  • Substance Matter industry expert supporting EY consulting projects (e.g. Alliances, Financing, Cluster Organization, Startup-Support, BD etc.)
  • 14 years in pharma: BASF Pharma / Knoll AG / Abbott (1987 – 2001)
  • Head of DMPK group at Knoll AG / Abbott (1999 – 2001)
  • Assistant to Global Head R&D at Knoll AG (1996 – 1999)
  • Senior Researcher at BASF Main Laboratory (1987 – 1996)
  • 2 Years at German Cancer Center, Heidelberg (1985 – 1987)
  • Studies University of Heidelberg (1975 – 1985)
  • Biology (PhD / Dr.rer.nat. in Molecular Biology), Human Medicine
  • Languages: German, English fluent

Business Development, Corporate Development, Investor Access, Spin-offs & Start-ups

Market Access, Quality Management & Audit, Regulatory Affairs

Dipl.-Ing. Werner Wiatrek

Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

Werner Wiatrek is founder and managing director of WQS Management Consultants (Hamm, Germany), a service provider for the development and approval of medical devices.

The WQS team consists of 8 people, who offer a wide range of expertise and services for the medical device industry:

  • CE Mark for medical devices
  • European Representative for medical devices
  • Implementation of QM-systems according to ISO 13485
  • Reimburement for medical devices in Germany

Werner Wiatrek has more than 20 years experience in the medical device industry. He has served more than 100 organizations as a Consultant. He acts as an external safety officer for medical devices in more than 10 companies. He is a quality engineer for electrical stimulation devices and is a member of scientific advisory council in a major enterprise. In addition, Werner is a staff trainer for innovative medical devices.

Market Access, Quality Management & Audit, Regulatory Affairs

Business Development, Corporate Development, Product Management

Ken West

Advisor, Strategic Consultancy, Interim Management, Project Management

Partner, Technology Commercialization Group, LLC

Primary Areas of Expertise: Medtech Companies

Interim Leadership:

  • Interim CEO /COO medtech companies
  • Product development and launch
  • Geographic expansion plans and execution

Strategic Transactions:

  • In- and out-licensing/ asset sales
  • Strategic partnering, M&A advisory services

Experience

  • 30+ years in the medical device, specialty materials industries
  • Global experience in general management, marketing/sales, business development for large companies and start-up / small companies
  • Extensive experience in EU / US market entry
  • Held senior management roles and managed successful exits as
  • CEO/COO of private Medical Device, Diagnostic and Healthcare IT companies
  • BS, Chemical Engineering, Cornell; MBA, Wharton
    Working languages: English, French

Business Development, Corporate Development, Product Management

Business Development, Communication, Corporate Development, Investor Access, Marketing, Product Management

Christopher Jackson

Interim Management, Project Management

  • Japan-centric business specialist and technology consultant
  • Advising and supporting R&D intensive companies either going into Japan or coming out of Japan, chiefly in meddev/biopharma (Key themes – disruptive, transformative, convergent, leading-edge)

Services

  • Formulation and implementation of R&D/business strategies
  • Securement of partners/investors/ licensees/distributors
  • Identification of/liaison with key opinion leaders, regulatory consultants, etc.,
  • On-going business development and marketing activities
  • Background & Some Recent Client Examples
  • 23 years in Japan – Fluent Japanese & basic level Korean
  • Kyphon (now part of Medtronic) – Responsible for all aspects of Japan market entry strategy and implementation
  • Tokyo Electron Limited – Globalisation strategy for novel cell therapy platform utilising semicon know-how. Secured multiple partners and established R&D lab in UK
  • Tokyo Electron Venture Capital LLC: Scouting of life science investment opportunities
  • Asahi Kasei Corp – Securing development partners/customers for application of novel smart materials in new fields incl. wound-care and diagnostics
  • Foundation for Biomedical Research & Innovation, Kobe – Business development

Business Development, Communication, Corporate Development, Investor Access, Marketing, Product Management

Business Intelligence, Market Access

Tosh Nagate, DVM PhD

Strategic Consultancy, Project Management

Japan-Based Market Analytics & Business Development Specialist

Services

  • Local market analysis: supporting market entry decision making by summarizing detailed local marketplace information
  • Sales forecasting: fact based/data driven quantitative assessment of both local and global product performance
  • Competitive intelligence: identifying emerging players in the therapeutic arena and predicting their moves in order to understand the competitive landscape
  • Pricing and Market Access research: developing P&MA strategy by discerning the payor perspective and local health technology appraisals
  • BD Partnering arrangement: from local company screening, arrangement of visiting tours, to introduction to key players in the local market

Background

  • Director of Sales Forecasting and Analytics at Takeda, Product Manager at Abbott/Abbvie, BD Manager at Kissei Pharma
  • PhD in medicine, MBA w/ honors at University of Chicago

Business Intelligence, Market Access