Meet our faculty
Listed here are our current faculty members.
Listed here are our current faculty members.
Marco Janeciz
- MD of Blue Ribbon Partners
- MD of Life Science Factory
- Mentor at Creative Destruction Lab Oxford for Health-focused Start-ups
- Experienced entrepreneur and life science enthusiast with 2+ successful exits
Daniela Sommer (MBA)
- CFO, CTO (acting) and Head of HR @ Helmholtz Munich
- Expert and certified coach in Systemic Organizational Development, Change & Leadership Coach
- 3+ years as Head of BSH corporate Academy
Prof. Matthias Tschöp
- CEO @ Helmholtz Munich
- Prof for Metabolic Diseases @ TUM and for School of Medicine @ Yale University
- 15+ years of teaching experience for scientists
- Co-Founder of Helmholtz Pioneer Campus
Prof. Jörg Rocholl
- President of ESMT Berlin since 2011
- 19+ years of teaching experience
- Finance and Corporate Governance
- Vice Chair of Economic Advisory Board to the Ministry of Finance
Sonia Allinson-Penny
- Transformed and led the Allianz Group Leadership Academy and Corporate University
- 20+ years of experience in the people side of success for start-ups and corporates
- Qualified psychometric practitioner & human factor due diligence assessor for VC and private equity
Oliver Hennig
- Senior Vice President Operations at BioNTech SE and Managing Director of Biontech Manufacturing GmbH
- responsible for the successful scale-up of the production to a commercial capacity during “Project Lightspeed”
- 10 years in R&D @Siemens in the field of renewable energy
Dr. Grit Zahn
- Head of Research for Life Science Start-up Eternygen
- 4+ years Senior Director for Biology Lead Discovery @ Jerini AG
- 12+ years Life Science Consultant for pre- and clinical drug development
Dr. Nora Grasselli
- Program Director Executive Education @ESMT Berlin
- 19+ years of teaching experience
- “Young Physician Leaders” and “Women’s Leadership Excellence” Program lead
Dr. Thorsten Lambertus
- Head of neurotechlab @Biogen
- 6+ years @ Fraunhofer, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Technology Transfer Program AHEAD
- 7+ years of teaching experience for Innovation & Entrepreneurship @ WU Executive Academy
- Business Coach for scientists @ Max-Planck
Dr. PD Camin Dean
- Group Leader @ DZNE / Charité Berlin
- 15+ years in life science academic research with PhD in Molecular & Cell Biology
- Early- stage Start-up Founder with +500k investment for Dementia Drug Screening Platform
Dr. Jens Weinmann
- Program Director Executive Education @ESMT Berlin
- 10+ years of teaching experience
- Program Lead e.g. “Leading People & Businesses”
- PhD London Business School “Decision Making”
Prof. Francis de Véricourt
- Professor for Management Science and Director of Center for Models & Data @ ESMT Berlin
- 9+ years teaching experience
- Professor @Duke University, INSEAD and Researcher @ MIT
Dr. Martha Smets
- Venture Manager @ Blue Ribbon Partners
- Life Science company-building and consulting for entrepreneurial scientists
- Jury Member of Catapult by EIT Health 2022
- PhD in Chromatin Biology from LMU
Dr. Robert Macsics
- Managing Director, Co-founder and Scientific Lead at smartbax GmbH
- PhD in Biochemistry from the Technical University of Munich and an MSc in Pharmacology from the University of Oxford
- His PhD was funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds and formed the basis for co-founding smartbax in 2021
Barbara Diehl
- Head of Partnerships @ SPRIND
- Passionate entrepreneurship educator & enthusiastic creator of applied entrepreneurship learning programmes & experiences
- 12+ years teaching experience in creativity, entrepreneurship & innovation in UK, Ireland & Germany
Dr. Jonas Helma-Smets
- CSO and co-founder of biotech startup Tubulis GmbH with recently closed 60Mio Series B
- Co-founder of Chromotek GmbH, aquired by Proteintech in 2020
- 10+ years of research experience as PhD, PostDoc & group leader @ LMU
Prof. Dr. Pradeep Kumar
- Prof for Pharmaceutical Sciences @ Wits University
- 14+ years of lab experience in biomaterials and bioengineering
- Prolific innovator and inventor on 28 granted patents from 08 patent families
Dr. med. Verena Schoewel (MBA)
- Co-Founder and CEO of the stem cell biotech start-up MyoPax
- MBA in Healthcare Management with focus on gene- and cell therapies
- MD, 10+ years as clinician scientists for muscle diseases & ATMP development at Charité & MDC/Helmholtz Association Berlin
Tasdik Hasan
- Global Mental Health researcher with 80+ scientific, peer reviewed, international publications
- Medical doctor with a MPH (Epidemiology) and a MSc (Global Mental Health); Assistant Professor of Public Health in Bangladesh
- International recognitions as Young Physicians Leader (Germany), New Voices in Global Health (World Health Summit) and Commonwealth Scholar (UK)
Prof. Stefan Wagner
- Prof for Strategy & Innovation and Director of PhD studies @ ESMT Berlin
- 11+ years of teaching experience
- Expert at intersection of law, technological innovation, firm strategy and industrial organization