Baliopharm / Management

Dr. Andreas Herrmann

CEO and Founder

 

Andreas received his Ph.D. in 1994 in biochemistry in the field of neurobiology and worked as an associate professor in the department of cardiovascular physiology at the University of Cologne.
 

In 1996 Andreas was cofounder of Cardion AG (Erkrath, Germany) where he was heading the R&D department until 2003. In parallel he was heading all antibody related research activities in Cardions subsidiary Cardion INC in Boston (USA). As part of the management team he was responsible for fund raising and for the CMC and preclinical development of biopharmaceutical compounds, up to final licensing of the lead compound to Roche.
 

Since then Andreas has (co)founded seven biotechnology companies which he also led as CEO, including Celonic AG (service company), Baliopharm AG, Probiocon GmbH (consulting company), Synimmune GmbH (bispecific antibodies, oncology), Alvotech hf (biosimilars), Valerius Biopharma AG (specialty biosimilars) and Icelandic Natura (Topica). In 2002 Andreas took over Celonic GmbH (Germany) and re-structured the company towards a profitable contract development and manufacturing company (CDMO) with about 30 employees in Germany and 60 employees in Basel (Switzerland). In 2011 the service unit of Celonic AG was sold and the remaining part focusing on the development of therapeutic antibodies renamed to Baliopharm AG (Basel). To further support the research activities, Baliopharm GmbH was founded in Germany with operations in cell culture, process development and analytics.  From 2013–2016, Andreas built up Alvotech hf, a leading biosimilars company based in Iceland with a 4-product pipeline and 14,000 sqm manufacturing plant and made 2 successful acquisitions, a license deal with a top 10 globally acting pharmaceutical company and other strategic initiatives.


Dr. Hartmut Voss

Head of Business Development
 
Hartmut received his Ph.D. in 1991 in molecular biology working as a scientist in automated DNA sequencing method development to EMBL, Heidelberg. During this time was focused on technology development and its application in early genome projects of model organisms and later the human genome project in the EU. In 1997 he co-founded LION bioscience AG, the first commercial genome big data producer and bioinformatics analyzer for the pharmaceutical industry in Europe around 2000.
 
From 2004 to 2017 Hartmut was part of the DieviniHopp biotech investment team, which built the life science portfolio of SAP-founder Dietmar Hopp, backing 10+ biotech and biopharmaceutical companies including Novaliq GmbH, Molecular Health GmbH, CureVac NV, Immatics GmbH, LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG, AC Immune SA, Cosmo Pharmaceuticals NV, Apogenix AG and Heidelberg Pharma AG. Later he co-founded the medtech IoT and digital health company MCG motion capture GmbH and the digital health company Amabie Health GmbH.
 

Hartmut held several part-time Co-CEO and leading business management positions, as well as board positions (among them Apogenix AG and Epontis GmbH, acquired by Precision for Medicine Inc.). Since December 2022 he serves also as Chief Business Officer for Corat Therapeutics GmbH.

 

 

Dr. Andreas Herrmann

Dr. Hartmut Voss