Supervisory Board Members

Guido has over 15 years of experience in the private equity industry. After several years in the investment banking department of Merrill Lynch, Guido gathered international investing experience at TPG Capital and Allianz Capital Partners. In 2008 he built Deutsche Private Equity as the preeminent growth private equity platform for Mittelstand companies in the German speaking region. Ever since, he has supported numerous fast growing SMEs as an investor and board member.

Guido studied business administration at the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, De Paul University Chicago and Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Buenos Aires.

Dr. Birner, Managing Partner, Montreal and Munich, is responsible for TVM Capital Life Science’s overall investment strategy and fund operations in North America and Europe. Dr. Birner joined TVM Capital in 2000 as an investment manager. He currently serves as Chairman of the board of directors of Noxxon Pharma N.V., SpePharm Holdings BV, leon nanodrugs GmbH, Argos Therapeutics and AL-S Pharma AG. He is also a member of the board of directors of Proteon Therapeutics Inc. and Acer Therapeutics Inc. Dr. Birner previously served on the board of directors of Horizon Pharma, Inc., Bioxell SA, Evotec AG, Probiodrug AG and Jerini AG. Prior to his current tenure, he was Head of Business Development Europe and Director of Marketing for Germany at Zeneca Agrochemicals. Dr. Birner joined Zeneca from McKinsey & Company’s European Health Care and Pharmaceutical practice. As a management consultant he gained extensive experience in R&D management, marketing and sales, and joint venture structuring and business development.

Before starting his professional career in business, he earned substantial academic merits, including a position as Assistant Professor for biochemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), following his summa cum laude doctoral degree in biochemistry at LMU; his doctoral thesis was honored with the Hoffmann-La Roche prize for outstanding basic research in metabolic diseases. Dr. Birner also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Eric has an extensive track record in the Lifescience and Biotech industry for the past decades. He initiated his career in medical research at the National Institute of Health (USA), being a former Assistant Professor of Paris Medical University. He holds a PhD in Neurosciences by the Marseille University and a Medical Degree (MD) by the Medical University of Nice. He founded Benefit, a research and consulting company in 1990, that expanded rapidly to over six European countries and Canada before being acquired by Quintiles Inc. (USA) in 1995. As board member, Eric then took over worldwide responsibility in consulting for Quintiles Inc. and remained as a board member for several years.

In 2003, he co-founded Labco, and led the company to a European leadership as chairman and CEO until late 2010. Eric then remained as active board member, especially involved into the selling of Labco to Cinven in 2015.