Sector Experience

Business Services
Healthcare
Life Sciences & Pharma
Technology

Languages

English
German
French

Experience

Cephalion Technologies Start-Up
Managing Director
4/2019 - Present
Managing Director, responsible for leading business and technology strategy across Zurich, Switzerland, and Cambridge MA in USA, providing digital business solutions for automation, data analysis, data management, storage, deep learning, and digital endpoints, leading team of 3 consultants.
Led business and technology innovation strategy, covering digital business solutions spanning automation, data analysis, data management, data storage, machine deep learning and digital endpoints.

Trilliome Consulting Management Consulting
Co-Founder, Partner
3/2020 - Present
Co-Founder and Partner, responsible for providing interim support to biopharmaceutical companies covering executive management, portfolio valuation / re-organization, R&D, product pipelines & launch, team challenges, digital transformations, immuno-oncology, complex in-vitro models, digital clinical endpoints, cell and gene therapies.

InSphero Corporate Strategy & Development
Chief Scientific Officer
9/2016 - 4/2019
• Leading Product Management, Services, R&D and Innovation
• Strategic Planning, Member of C-level Management
• Key Accounts Relationship Development
• Budgetary planning and oversight for three departments (R&D, Product Management, Services) and four Groups
• Product Lifecycle Management and Business Development
• Customer and KOL management, Strategic Collaborations & Partnerships
• Responsible for three departments / 20+ people: Group Heads, Senior Scientists, Product Managers

NewCo Start-Up
Project Manager / Advisor
2/2016 - 9/2016
Advising for and planning the scientific roadmap
Business plan establishment, R&D strategy and milestones, strategic business
planning & decision analytics, scouting and interviewing potential employees.
Planning CAPEX acquisitions, seed money and negotiating patents/licences

Sanofi Operations
Group Head
10/2014 - 12/2015
Cell Therapy, Directed Differentiation of Human Stem Cells, Biotherapeutics, Organotypic Tissues & Screening Models, Genomic/Genetic Engineering & Synthetic Biology.

• Established and heading a new lab (human stem cell-derived cells for cell therapy & drug screening) in Diabetes
• Co-heading a research group in Global Biotherapeutics
• Spearheading new R&D innovation approaches
• Identifying and managing external collaboration opportunities (academic & industrial)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Other
Project Leader, Research Scientist
7/2009 - 9/2014
Project Leader, Research Scientist, Mammalian Synthetic Biology
Leading a team of Scientists, Post-docs and students, developing organotypic tissues and organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

Princeton University Other
Postdoc
7/2007 - 8/2008
Spearheading Mammalian Synthetic Biology for developing smart cell therapies