Sr Project Manager Life Science & Health

• Apr 2022 - Present

Making connections between the Life Science sector in Sweden and the Netherlands. This includes trade promotion, foreign direct investments and collaborations between the countries. Concrete results are signed agreements of collaboration, trade missions and attendance of Dutch companies in conferences in Sweden and vice versa. This is a two-year project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the The Netherlands. Making connections between the Life Science sector in Sweden and the Netherlands. This includes trade promotion, foreign direct investments and collaborations between the countries. Concrete results are signed agreements of collaboration, trade missions and attendance of Dutch companies in conferences in Sweden and vice versa. This is a two-year project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the The Netherlands.

Board Member

• Apr 2021 - Present

As board member I am part of starting the company with strategy, financing and guidance. As board member I am part of starting the company with strategy, financing and guidance.

CEO and owner

• 2006 - Present

The main activities in Beronem are business development with a broad perspective, contributing with a clear strategic view and new approaches. Previous works have been - mentoring a Norwegian medtech company in start-up phase, through Innovasjon Norge and Connect Vest-Norge - Life Science strategy for the Skåne Region as sub-consultant to PwC - make a strategy for foreign direct investment in the area of Life Sciences for the Region Västerbotten.Present assignments have been in sales for foreign companies entering Sweden/the Nordics rough providing connections, sales and marketing and M&A. Companies with a tech focus entering life sciences are also in the portfolio.

Senior Advisor

• Mar 2019 - Jun 2021

My work was mainly as representative in EU SME Support, which is a project to help Swedish SMEs to apply for funding under Horizon2020 and Eurostars. It involves actions like going through business strategy, reading application and preparing for interview. For SwedenBIO, I also manage the workgroup for Process development and Manufacturing. As responsible for our members, was one of their main links to SwedenBIO.

Program Director

• Sep 2016 - Mar 2019

SwedenBIO helps innovative companies succeed!SwedenBIO is the national Swedish Life Science Industry Organization, a non-profit organization with 200 member companies. SwedenBIO is the producer of Nordic Life Science Days, an annual investor, partnering and network meeting - www.nlsdays.com. We have also launched vc2vc, a new concept for partnering between investors - www.vc2vc.com. My role is to manage the SwedenBIO events and the program at NLSDays. I also manage work groups and supervise master students for their master thesis.

Board Member

• Mar 2017 - Apr 2019

HealthTechArena is a network for knowledge sharing and business development for people with commercial responsibility within biotech, medtech, digital health and pharma with the base in Gothenburg. HealthTechArena is a network for knowledge sharing and business development for people with commercial responsibility within biotech, medtech, digital health and pharma with the base in Gothenburg.

Chief Operating Officer

• Sep 2015 - Jan 2017

Optimizing Drug Discovery. N2MO is a biotechnology company developing insect based screening models for predicting ADMET properties of chemical agents in the early drug discovery phase. N2MO retains the patents on insect models used for drug development. Our Grasshopper ex vivo model addressed the uptake of drugs in the brain across the blood-brain barrier. As a result we enables the identification of “false negatives” and “false positives” at a very early stage in the drug discovery development and thereby contributes to potentially significant savings of time and money in the drug discovery process – which forms the key challenge for the industry todayMy role was to manage everything from the IP portfolio and assay development to sales and business development.

Investment Promotion Manager

• Jul 2009 - Mar 2015

I worked with inward investment in the area of Life Science for the Region of Västerbotten. This work involved identifying business opportunities in Västerbotten, packaging them and then through marketing and sales, attract foreign companies. The goal was to get the foreign companies to either establish subsidiaries in Västerbotten, make strategic alliances or to provide venture capital to local companies. I managed to get organisations in Umeå to focus on a therapeutic area, infectious diseases, in order to give all we got at one thing. I also managed to start a national infectious disease initiative in Sweden. In the field of forest biotechnology we succeeded in making a large South American forest company to out-source research to the Umeå cluster. The latest initiative includes a national pilot project between Biotech Umeå and Dubiotech, in Dubai. After a delegation to Dubai a number of discussions regarding business partnerships has evolved. The last year I started an initiative together with Business Sweden to make foreign companies to reinvest in their sites in Sweden. This work has shown great results.VIA was a project funded partly by European Strategic Funds and was a regional partner to Business Sweden.

Advisory Board Member

• 2009 - 2011

Senior Scientist

• Jan 2002 - Sep 2007

Bioinformatics and project management Bioinformatics and project management

Associate Professor

• Jan 2002 - Nov 2005

In my group I supervised in total two post-docs, one PhD student and around 10 master students. The field was bioinformatics/genomics. In my group I supervised in total two post-docs, one PhD student and around 10 master students. The field was bioinformatics/genomics.

Post-doc

• 2000 - 2002

Post-doc

• Apr 2000 - May 2000

I was a part of Gert Vriends Group in molecular modelling I was a part of Gert Vriends Group in molecular modelling

Post-doc

• 1999 - 2000

Doctoral student

• 1993 - 1999

Research volunteer

• 1986 - 1987

I was a reasearch volunteer working in the lab of Prof. Tim Flegel at Dept. of Biotechnology / Dept. of Microbiology I was a reasearch volunteer working in the lab of Prof. Tim Flegel at Dept. of Biotechnology / Dept. of Microbiology