Consultant in Life Sciences and expert in Regulatory Affairs, QA, and Quality Management Systems

Prior to retirement from Medtronic International Trading, Switzerland, where he served from July 2004 – May 2019 as Vice President EMEA Regulatory Affairs & Quality, and as Founder and President of Medtronic BioPharma EU and CH, he held the following positions:

• Head of Global Drug Regulatory Affairs at Novartis Consumer Health, Nyon-Switzerland (currently GSK Consumer Healthcare)
• Director Regulatory Compliance, Quality Assurance and Quality Control at Chiron Vaccines (currently GSK Vaccines), Siena- Italy
• Director of QA/QC at Serono Biotech, Aubonne-Switzerland (currently Merck–Serono)
• Director Operations Technical Support at IFS-Serono, Rome-Italy
• Director R&D and QC at Serono Diagnostics, Rome-Italy
• Head of the Immunochemistry Department at the TNO Medical Biological Laboratory, Rijswijk-Netherlands
• Researcher at the Dept of Human Genetics of the University of Leiden, Netherlands

Current positions:

• Board of Directors member of EFGCP, Belgium
• Board f Directors member of SimpliNext, Switzerland,
• Advisory Board member of REA Diagnostics,
• Supervisory Board member of Diabeter, a group of Diabetes clinics in the NL
• Chair of the Supervisory Board of NOK, a group of Obesity Clinics in the NL.

Education:

• (1977) in Biochemistry & Genetics, University of Leiden, the Netherlands
• (1975) in Biochemistry, University of Leiden, the Netherlands