Supervisory board

Dr. Werner Cautreels was President and CEO of Selecta Biosciences (Boston and Moscow) from July 2010 until his retirement in December 2018. He is now pursuing a portfolio career.

Previously, he served as Global CEO of Solvay Pharmaceuticals until it was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in 2010. Prior to joining Solvay heworked at Sanofi, Sterling Winthrop and Nycomed-Amersham in a variety of R&D management positions in Europe and in the United States.

Dr. Cautreels was a Director of Innogenetics NV (Gent, Belgium) and of Arqule Inc. (Woburn, MA, USA), and was until April 2019 a Director, and Chair of the Audit Committee of Galapagos NV (Mechelen, Belgium). He was also the President of the Belgian Chamber of Commerce for Russia.

He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Antwerp, Belgium and an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dr. Krul is the founder and a partner of Aglaia BioMedical Ventures.

He has been involved in anticancer drug development since 1993 and has a background in molecular biology and immunology.

Before founding Aglaia BioMedical Ventures in 2003 he was Program Director of the NDDO Research Foundation. He held several positions at NDDO Oncology BV (formerly the EORTC New Drug Development Office) with respect to oncology drug development strategies (1997-2002). From 1993 till 199.

Dr. Krul was Research Manager of the European Cancer Center and headed the Department of Molecular Virology at the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection from 1989 till 1993.

Dr. Kloosterman is (senior) investment manager for DSM Venturing (DSM’s corporate investment group), Limburg Ventures and Chemelot Ventures (both funds co-founded by DSM Nederland with regional focus). He has worked at DSM NV in various positions since 1985.

Dr. Kloosterman focuses on breakthrough private and listed companies in the areas of Life Sciences and Performance Materials that are looking for equity financing. He serves in non-executive boards of several European startup companies, and acts as advisory board member or jury member in several European panels.

Dr. Kloosterman holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Leiden University.

Dr Riddell MSc. MB ChB. DSc., has over 30 years experience in the pharmaceutical, life science and biotech industries including 20 years as main board director, 12 years as CEO and is currently Chairman of the South West Academic Health Science Network and non-executive director of AzurRx (NASDAQ:AZRX) and Nemesis Biosciences Ltd.

He has taken a number of products through the clinical trials process for companies including Lederle (now Pfizer) and Centocor (now J&J). He has led significant fund raising efforts including an IPO on UK’s main list and trade sales to Takeda in Japan and Stem Cells Inc. in the USA. He has also had several roles in UK government initiatives related to promoting cooperation between pharmaceutical companies and the NHS and assessing projects for funding with Innovate UK.