OUR BOARD

Mats Johnson

Chairman of the board

Mats has almost 40 years of experience from the life science area in biotech supply, drug discovery and genetic modifications of plants mainly in different business positions but also from R&D with the companies Pharmacia Biotech, Amersham Biosciences, SweTree Technologies and Bio-Works Technologies. In the last two companies Mats was CEO, all-in-all, for almost 15 years. SweTree was brought to profitability and Bio-Works was built to an IPO, with relevant industrial structures and global market access. Mats has during the last 15 years been instrumental in finding financing of almost 500 MSEK for SweTree, its spin-outs and Bio-Works.

Peter Svedlindh 

Director
Peter is a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Solid State Physics, Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University. His research areas are biomagnetic applications, magnetic materials and nanoparticles and he is a co-inventor of manufacturing process of the magnetic beads.

Kristina Köhler

Director

Dr. Köhler is a senior leader with extensive experience in biopharmaceutical development and industrialization from Sobi and its predecessors. Focus areas are upstream and downstream development including scale-up and manufacturing. She has also been involved in several Vinnova funded competence centra and projects. She holds a MSc in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Biotechnology from Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Pär Nordström

Director

Pär operates several wholly-owned businesses within farming, fabrics, household goods, toys and gift items as well as sales and management of real estate activities and venture capital investments. He is a experienced investor and was the first non-founder shareholder in the company.

Kristofer Eriksson

Deputy
Kristofer has a PhD in organic chemistry from Stockholm University and is co-inventor of MAGic core technology. Has developed the manufacturing process of the magnetic beads and magnetic separators as well as the downstream applications.

Mats Ekholm

Deputy

Mats has a background as an engineer at Scanditronix and GEMS Pet systems, production, engineering, design of particle accelerators (cyclotrons) used mainly for PET cancer diagnostics. Currently he works as CEO at Uppsala Cementgjuteri, concrete products and materials industry, real estate development, facility management and venture capital investments.