Senior Leadership Team

Ahmed has an extensive background in business and corporate development, portfolio strategy, and entrepreneurial experience in the life sciences industry. Prior to joining Vicore, Ahmed was the Chief Business Officer & General Counsel of Pieris Pharmaceuticals where he played a key role in development of the company’s pipeline and execution of strategic collaborations with a range of pharmaceutical companies. Ahmed previously was an attorney representing biopharmaceutical companies in a range of matters at Covington & Burling and Kirkland & Ellis.

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Education: Undergraduate degrees in molecular biology and government from Cornell University and a master’s degree in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University. Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law with honors.

Hans has a cross-disciplinary background in finance and biomedicine. He has previously worked as a biotechnology analyst at Danske Bank as well as within preclinical research at AstraZeneca R&D.

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Education: Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Gothenburg. After he obtained his Ph.D.-degree he conducted postdoctoral studies at the Haas School of Business at the UC Berkeley in the US. He also has a background in chemical engineering with a focus on biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology.

Bertil has a long career within the pharmaceutical industry with expertise within respiratory and inflammatory diseases. Bertil has held global roles within AstraZeneca, leading the development of global brands like Pulmicort and Symbicort. He was the Head of Research and Development at Almirall, leading the development of the second to market inhaled long acting antimuscarinic, aclidinium bromide. Bertil also held CMO roles in biotech companies, among others Galecto where his leadership played a crucial role in driving innovation and advancing IPF directed therapies.

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Education: MD PhD from Lund University, Sweden.

Johan has more than 20 years of experience of medical science, pharmaceutical R&D and patenting from his work as physician, different roles within big and small pharma, co-founding and managing startup companies, as well as venture capital investment.

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Education: MD PhD from the Karolinska Institute and Vanderbilt university, USA

Johanna has a Ph.D and expertise in pharmaceutical metabolism. She has extensive experience in preclinical interpretation and is responsible for drug development projects.

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Education: MSc PhD

Åsa has more than 20 years of experience as a commercial executive in the pharmaceutical industry with focus on securing market access and launching rare disease medicines. Her previous roles include leading cross-functional teams as General Manager at Arvelle and in different senior commercial roles at Alexion, expanding innovative antibody products and heading the commercial launch of Actelion’s pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) pharmaceuticals.

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Education: BBA and B2B marketing from Lund University.

Nina has more than 20 years of experience working with HR, administration and communication in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Education: Completed training in project management, PR, communication andgraphic design at, among others, Bergh’s School of Communication.

Mikael has extensive experience from Business Development in the healthcare industry. He has led M&A and Corporate Development at the care provider Humana AB and has also worked in the global healthcare team at the strategy consulting firm Boston Consulting Group.

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Education: MSc Pharmacy, Uppsala University. PhD Neurobiology, Karolinska Institutet.

Jimmie is an experienced deal maker in the life science industry, with extensive experience in business development, corporate strategy, and financial modeling. Prior to joining Vicore, Jimmie was Senior Director, Business Development at Pieris Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for business development activities, and part of establishing strategic partnerships with multiple pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, Roche/Genentech, Seagen, Servier, and Boston Pharmaceuticals.

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Education: B.Sc. Bioengineering, M.Sc. Entrepreneurship & Business Design, Intellectual Capital Management from Chalmers University of Technology.

Helen is a pharmaceutical scientist and business leader, with over 25 years of experience delivering the technical and strategic development of novel compounds, devices and companies.

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Education: B.Sc. in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, University of Sunderland.

Megan brings extensive experience in formulating and executing early commercial and new product strategies, as well as developing corporate strategy and strategic messaging. Prior to joining Vicore, she served as Senior Director of Commercial and Strategy at Pieris Pharmaceuticals, where she led cross-functional teams to optimize clinical and commercial plans and developed compelling messaging for their respiratory and oncology portfolios. Megan’s background also includes her role as Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Artisan Healthcare. There, she was responsible for advising global pharmaceutical and clinical-stage biotechnology companies on commercial and new product strategy, including franchise and brand planning, portfolio prioritization, new product positioning, and strategic communication.

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Education: BA in Cellular Neuroscience from Colgate University

Lene has extensive experience from clinical development within pharma, biotech and CRO and has held a variety of operational, compliance, quality assurance and managerial roles. Lene is a trained ISO Lead Auditor and holds the Data Protection Officer role in Vicore. Her previous roles include individual consultancies, Global GCP QA Business Partner at LEO Pharma, VP of Quality Assurance & DPO at Larix A/S, Country Manager at Parexel Nordics and Clinical Process Manager at AstraZeneca Denmark.

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Education: Registered Nurse, Master of the Psychology of Organisations from Roskilde University, Denmark

Karin has more than 20 years of experience in Regulatory Affairs within the pharmaceutical industry, inlcuding global roles at AstraZeneca, Swedish Orphan Biovitrum and Oncopeptides. She has contributed with regulatory expertise in early and late stage programs, led regulatory agency interactions as well as overseen marketing authorisation applications and post approval activities in the US, EU and rest of the world markets.

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Education: MSc Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Sweden

Anne Katrine has a MSc in Pharmacy from University of Copenhagen. During the last 20 years Anne Katrine has worked with Clinical Operations and has held various positions within clinical development in smaller and larger companies. She has been leading clinical trials from phase I to phase IV to high GCP standard and lead internal as well as external (CROs) teams. She has broad international experience and is an experienced project- and people manager.

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Education: MSc Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Jon has been working in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for more than 25 years, in a mixture of clinical development and global medical affairs roles, primarily in the rare lung disease therapy area, with a specific focus on Pulmonary Hypertension and Interstitial Lung Diseases. Most recently he has worked in small biotech leading the global medical affairs function, particularly building and heading the CSL team, supporting the set up and recruitment of the phase 2b.

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Education: BSc with honours, Biochemistry