Faculty overview Meet our faculty Listed here are our current faculty members. Marco Janezic 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 We will continue to add faculty members to the program! Back to LISEAD
