Management Team
Martin Welschof
Chief Executive Officer
Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in recombinant antibody technology. Employed since 2018. He did his postdoctoral training at the German Cancer Research Center, Department for Recombinant Antibody Technology and at the University of Heidelberg, Department of Transplantation
Immunology both in Heidelberg, Germany. Martin has a broad international experience from executive positions within the biotech industry, including Director of Technology at Axaron Bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany, CEO of Affitech (Nasdaq Copenhagen) and CEO of Opsona Therapeutics, Dublin, Ireland. Member of the Board of APIM Therapeutics AS, Nextera AS and Uni Targeting Research. Born 1961.
Shareholding: 250,000
Björn Frendéus
Chief Scientific Officer
Doctor of Immunology. Employed since 2001. Graduated from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research funded Biomedicine programs within the Infection & Vaccinology program. Visiting Professor at University of Southampton. Born 1973.
Shareholding: 483,083 (own and affiliated holdings)
Options: Conditional employee options 393,852 (own and affiliated holdings)
Stefan Ericsson
Chief Financial Officer
MBA, Lund University. Employed since 1998. Chief Financial Officer since 2016 and has previously served as Director Business Control. Previous experience from the Swedish Tax Agency and as auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Born 1963.
Shareholding: 145,892
Options: Conditional employee options 200,000
Andres McAllister
Chief Medical Officer
Doctor in Medicine and Surgery from the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá), and holds a PhD from the Pasteur Institut/Université Paris. Employed since 2017. He has performed academic work at the Pasteur Institut and the University of California San Francisco
on cancer immunotherapy. Andres joins BioInvent from a position as Chief Scientific Officer at Debiopharm, and has previously held senior roles at IDM and BioMérieux/ Pierre Fabre. Born 1956.
Shareholding: 75,228
Options: Conditional employee options 162,281
Kristoffer Rudenholm Hansson
Senior Vice President, Technical Operations
Master of Science in Chemical engineering. Employed since 2016 and is responsible for process development and production of antibodies for clinical studies. He has more than 15 years’ experience from managing manufacturing of antibodies and other proteins for clinical use. Kristoffer has held a numerous positions within CMC Biologics A/S, DAKO A/S and Symphogen A/S. Born 1974.
Shareholding: 557,584 (whereof 179,430 in endowment insurance)
Options: Conditional employee options 167,028