Management Board

Heikki Lanckriet (PhD) has developed broad expertise and commercial experience in the Life Science Tools and Reagents area. In 2003, whilst at Cambridge University, Heikki co-founded Expedeon. He accumulated a deep knowledge of the many facets of business by evolving through the roles of COO, CSO and CEO at Expedeon.

Heikki has a passion for science and innovation with strong sense of commercial pragmatism. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Biochemical Engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium and a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.

He has published papers in high impact peer-reviewed international scientific journals and is named inventor on a multitude of patents.

David Roth is a UK chartered accountant. Over the past twenty years, David has worked across listed and private equity backed companies primarily as CFO with a particular focus on healthcare growth companies. This has also led to his involvement in various buy and sell side corporate transactions. Prior to this, David spent a little over ten years in professional services, having trained with KPMG and moving to Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. David also holds a BA in Business Studies.

Hansjörg Plaggemars is an independent consultant (Value Consult) as well as, as part of his projects, Member of various Management Boards such as Alpha Cleantec AG, MARNA Beteiligungen AG, Youbisheng Green Paper AG, Strawtec Group AG. Until April 2018 he was a board member of Delphi Unternehmensberatung AG and before that Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer at CoCreate Software GmbH, KAMPA AG, Unister Holding GmbH and Müller Holding Ltd. & CO. KG as well as board member of Deutsche Balaton AG. Hansjörg is also a supervisory board member of Ming Le Sports AG, Deutsche Balaton Immobilien I AG, Carus AG und Nordic SSW 1000 Verwaltungs AG. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Bamberg.