Board and Management
Board of Directors
Julian Aleksov
Chairman of the Board since 2023
Julian has more than 25 years of experience in finance and international business development within the pharmaceutical and technology industries including Oasmia Pharmaceutical AB. Julian is an entrepreneur who ran his own companies for many years in several different business areas, primarily pharmaceutical development. Is an active investor and through companies also a major owner in a number of listed companies.
Number of shares: –
Education: Economist
Other assignments: Board member of Maida Vale Capital AB and Hunterhex AB.
Independent in relation to the company and its management but not to major shareholders.
Anders Blom
Board member since 2021
Anders has more than 25 years of experience within international finance and business development in the pharmaceutical– and medical device industries. His experience includes Business- and Corporate Development from Pharmacia & Upjohn, Q-Med AB (publ), partner and CEO at venture capital firm Nexttobe AB and Executive VP and CFO at Oasmia Pharmaceutical AB (publ). In addition, Anders has extensive board experience from pharma- and tech sectors including, but not limited to, Hansa Biopharma AB (publ), Biolamina AB, Delta Projects AB, Selego AB.
Number of shares *): 14,632,418 shares through Maida Vale Capital AB
Education: BSc in Business Administration and Economics at Uppsala University
Ongoing assignments: Chairman of the board of Maida Vale Capital AB, Terranet AB, Rosland Nordic AB, Black T Quant AB and board member of Hunterhex International Inc, Hunterhex AB, Evolutience Pharmaceutical AB, Wonderboo AB, Emotra AB and Challengehop Inc.
Independent in relation to the company and its management but not to major shareholders.
Per-Göran Gillberg
Board member since 2020
Per-Göran has 35 years of experience from the pharmaceutical industry. He has extensive experience in pharmacology and neuro-pharmacology from Kabi, Kabi Pharmacia, Pharmacia & Upjohn and Pharmacia, AstraZeneca and Albireo. Per-Göran is the founder of Albireo AB and was VP Development for Albireo Pharma Inc and its subsidiary Albireo AB and is affiliated with the Division of Translational Alzheimer Neurobiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
Number of shares *): 36,210 shares and 111,111 shares through company
Education: MSc in Chemistry, PhD in Medical Science, Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience at Uppsala University
Ongoing assignments: Board member of Dicot AB, Co-opted to the Center for Alzheimer Research at Karolinska Institute
Independent in relation to both the company and its management as well as to major shareholders.
Clas Malmeström
Board member since 2015
Clas is a physician at the Neurology clinic and at the laboratory for clinical immunology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. Since 2001 he has conducted research within Multiple Sclerosis (MS) at the hospital’s Multiple sclerosis centre and the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Gothenburg. In addition to academic research, he has participated in several clinical drug trials in MS led by Biogen-Idec, Merck, Novartis, Roche and Sanofi, several of which resulted in today’s standard treatments for MS.
Number of shares *): 20,000 shares
Education: MD and PhD in Medicine, Senior consultant in Neurology and Clinical Immunology
Other assignments: –
Independent in relation to both the company and its management as well as to major shareholders.
Carol Routledge
Board member since 2018
Carol is an R&D and pharmaceutical development expert with more than 30 years of experience in UK and US-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies focusing on drug acquisition and profiling of NCE biology. She has played a key role in GSK Biopharmaceuticals, including management in pharmaceutical research and development activities in several therapeutic areas, especially in the areas of immuno-inflammatory diseases and neuroscience with an emphasis on translational medicine. She recently managed a semi-philanthropic dementia fund with a central focus on identifying and developing new disease-modified mechanisms for the treatment of all different types of dementia. She has over 90 articles published in scientific journals. Until recently Carol was the Director of Research and Managing Director of EDoN, a global early detection initiative at Alzheimer’s Research UK. She worked as Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at Small Pharma and is currently an independent biomedical consultant.
Number of shares: –
Education: BSc, PhD in Neuro Pharmacology
Ongoing assignments: –
Independent in relation to both the company and its management as well as to major shareholders.
Anders Waas
Board member since 2018
Anders has held several senior roles in Astra, AstraZeneca, CV Therapeutics, Actogenics and Tikomed AB. He has previous experience in management, business development, financing and pharmaceutical development.
Number of shares: –
Education: Trained dentist (DDS)
Ongoing assignments: Chairman of the of Sobrera Pharma AB and SiMSen Diagnostics AB. Board member of Nexo Therapeutics, Transmed Gothenburg AB, Xandrax AB, CerInvent AB, Nexo Therapeutics AB and Anders Waas AB.
Independent in relation to both the company and its management and dependent of major shareholders.
*) Includes own holdings, holdings by closely associated persons and controlled companies or holdings in capital insurance accounts.
Management
Tord Labuda
Chief Executive Officer since 2024
Tord brings over 15 years of extensive experience in senior leadership roles within the pharmaceutical industry. His expertise encompasses the entire pharmaceutical value chain, from initial discovery to regulatory approval and product launch.
Through his career Tord held various high-level positions at LEO Pharma, including Vice President & Head of Global Clinical Development, President and Japan Representative Director and Vice President of R&D Asia-Pacific.
Most recently,Tord worked as a senior consultant in the biotechnology, medical technology, and pharmaceutical sectors.
Tord’s diverse background in international pharmaceutical leadership, coupled with his experience across multiple therapeutic areas and global markets, positions him as a seasoned executive in the industry.
Shareholdings: –
Education: M.Sci in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Immunology from Lund University
Other assignments: –
Anders Sandberg
Chief Scientific Officer since 2015
Anders is one of Alzinova’s co-founders and was also CEO of the Company during a transitional period. He has extensive experience in protein research with an emphasis on neurotoxic peptide devices.
Anders has since 2007 worked with the ALZ-101 and ALZ-201 projects as its main occupation, and as chief operating officer has run much of the Company’s operations since it was founded in 2011. He is also a co-inventor of Alzinova’s AβCC technology and has been a deputy board member since 2011.
Shareholdings *): 157,644 shares
Education: PhD in Chemistry
Other assignments: –
Erik Kullgren
Interim Chief Financial Officer since 2024
Erik has more than 25 years of experience within international finance and business administration in different sectors. His experience includes financial positions within Swedbank Robur, CFO and CEO at Dunross & Co AB, a privately owned investment company, and CEO at Reguity Group AB. Erik has also experience as interim Chief Financial Officer from several companies.
Shareholdings: –
Education: MSc in Business Administration from Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg
Other assignments: Interim CFO at Medfield Diagnostics AB, Interim CFO at Shortcut Media AB
Kirsten Harting
Chief Medical Officer since 2023
Kirsten has more than 30 years of experience in medicine, clinical studies and drug development as well as business development and bringing products to market from Lundbeck, Pfizer, ALK and Novo Nordisk, among others. She is currently CMO at SynAct Pharma and Tetra Pharm Technologies and is Medical & Compliance Manager at Sandoz.
Shareholdings: –
Education: MD and an executive MBA.
Other assignments: –
Sebastian Hansson
Business Development Director since 2023
Sebastian has 15 years of experience from pharmaceutical R&D and clinical development, CRO:s and GMP production of APIs (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients). He has extensive experience in startups and business development. Before joining Alzinova he has been Chief Operating Officer at SWIPP AB, project manager and Key Account Manager at Polypeptide Group and Business development manager at Solve R&C.
Shareholdings *): 57,950
shares through companies
Education: MSc in Chemistry, PhD in Molecular Biophysics, MBA, Certified Board Member.
Other assignments: Board member of Bulb Intelligence AB, Tyto Competitive Intelligence Solutions AB and Scientific Intelligence Consulting Öresund AB.
Stefan Pierrou
Development Project Director since 2021
Stefan has 25 years experience of drug discovery and development. He has worked as a pre-clinical research manager and early clinical project leader to bring compounds for clinical testing and beyond. Stefan worked at AstraZeneca in different project leading and managerial roles in research and development. He also works as a senior consultant supporting smaller biotech and drug development companies
Shareholdings *): 24,717 shares and 50,043 shares through company
Education: MSc Chemical Engineering, PhD Molecular Biology
Other assignments: CEO, ESP Life Science Consulting AB