Anders Kronborg
Chairman of the Board
Born: 1964
Mr. Kronborg has extensive financial and leadership experience spanning more than 30 years. Mr. Kronborg is currently CEO at ResoTher Pharma as well as a board member at the Swedish Biotec company Aqilion, the Southafrican HearX and the London based intelligence company SecureValue. Mr. Kronborg holds a Master of Economics and spent close to 10 years in the Ministry of Finance – ending as head of department. From 1996-2007, Mr. Kronborg held different positions as CEO or CFO in different danish media companies. In 2007, he joined the Swedish investment company Kinnevik AB. From 2012-2015 he was COO for the entire group. Mr. Kronborg then moved to the Pharma Industry – from 2015-2022 he served as CFO and interim CEO at LEO Pharma – a Danish company with a turnover of more than SEK 10 billion – spending his time growing the company through several M&A activities.
Independent in relation to the company and the company management: No
Independent in relation to the major shareholders: Yes
Holdings: See this page for updated holdings
Sten Scheibye
Board Member
Born: 1951
Mr. Scheibye has a long career in pharma and med-tech, where he has been active for over 30 years. He has held positions such as medical sales rep, medical registration officer dealing with FDA as well as EU authorities. Later he moved into other commercial roles and senior leadership positions. For 13 years Mr. Scheibye was CEO of the Danish, listed company Coloplast. During his tenure, Coloplast 6-doubled turnover and 8-doubled share performance. Later Mr. Scheibye has focused on board positions where he has held numerous in private as well as public entities. Mr. Scheibye has served as chairman of Novo Nordisk A/S where he had a seat on the board for 10 years until he became chairman of the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Mr. Scheibye has a PhD in organic chemistry from Aarhus University and a B.Com. from Copenhagen Business School.
Independent in relation to the company and the company management: No
Independent in relation to the major shareholders: Yes
Holdings: See this page for updated holdings
Sten Sörensen
Board Member
Born: 1959
Mr. Sørensen has extensive leadership experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries spanning over 30 years. Mr. Sørensen is currently CEO of the clinical stage biotech company Cereno Scientific, a company which he joined as a board member 2014 and assumed the CEO role in 2015 when the company was still an early project project stage. Under Mr. Sørensen’s leadership, the company has been propelled into a promising three candidate drug pipeline, all potentially ground breaking therapies in rare and common cardiovascular diseases with high unmet needs. Cereno is listed at NFGM with a current MCAp of approx. SEK 1 billion. Before Cereno, Mr. Sørensen has held senior positions in major pharma including Head of International Marketing Operations for SEK 10 billion pharma portfolio at Monsanto (GD Searle, Chicago, US) and Global Marketing Director for the SEK 4 billion portfolio of Secondary Prevention Products, Cardiovasculars at AstraZeneca (Gbg, Sweden). Mr. Sørensen has during his career iat Monsanto and AstraZeneca initiated two groundbreaking preventive survival studies in heart failure. Mr. Sørensen is Chairman of SARomics Biostructure since 2013. Mr. Sørensen holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Lund University.
Independent in relation to the company and the company management: No
Independent in relation to the major shareholders: Yes
Holdings: See this page for updated holdings
Jeppe Øvlesen
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
Born: 1962
Mr. Øvlesen is an experienced biotech executive and has been involved as founder/CEO/Chairman/board member in a string of successful companies including Action Pharma, CLC Bio, Cetrea, ChemoMetec, Perfusion Tech, Resother Pharma, Cercare Medical, PNN Medical, Cereno Scientific and TXP Pharma. Mr. Øvlesen was CEO of Synact Pharma from 2015-2023 taking the company public at Spotlight and later at Nasdaq (Stockholm). Mr. Øvlesen holds an MBA from University of Hartford, United States.
Independent in relation to the company and the company management: No
Independent in relation to the major shareholders: Yes
Holdings: Jeppe Øvlesen owns 50% of Quantass ApS and 26.67% of the shares in GoodWind Holding GmbH that both holds shares directly in SynAct Pharma. See this page for updated holdings