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Executive 6316

Lucio's Profile

iCEO #6316

Position: COO/Managing Director

Nationality: Netherlands (The)

Experience

Senior executive in general management and business development in life science industries. Hands-on, fact-, result-, and deadline driven, no-nonsense, visionary and pragmatic leader. Quickly identify weak-spots and commercial potential, scrutinize details and define the top-line. Building, enabling and guiding high-performance teams to success.

Major Achievements

Unique combination of international experience in general management, business development, operations, project management, research, development, consulting, fund raising and investments. In start-up, mid-size and large-corporate. EXEMPLIFIED ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Drove one of a big-pharma top selling products to various new international market launches and progressed its corporate largest clinical development program to clear answers. • More than tripled the sales of a mid-size pharmaceutical contract sales force company. • Turned around a biotech company from numerous scientific projects to streamlined product development. • Effectively wound down a biotech company and sold the assets to big pharma companies. • Established innovation/technology licensing / brokerage company in liaison with a university. • Relocated a VC portfolio biotech company to a restart in Europe with new management. • In-licensed a clinical stage Alzheimer therapeutic into big pharma with block-buster sales potential. • Out-licensed clinical stage dermatology product from Indian to US biotech with $200m deal value. • Out-ventured and co-founded ground-breaking biotech company, raised multi-million VC funding, negotiated € multi-million governmental R&D grant and big-pharma company and university collaborations.

Industry Sector Competencies

BioTech
Pharma
Pharma
Private Equity
Life Sciences consultancy

Professional Objectives

Function: CEO, CBO, Business Develpment, NED, Partner
Sector: Pharma, Biotech, Life Science, Venture Capital, Consultancy
Interim Manager: Yes
Permanent Position: Yes
Operational: Yes
Availability: Full time
Prefered Locations: Europe

Additional Professional Interests

Operational coaching on demand
Non executive director assignments

Countries Covered

Austria
Germany
Netherlands (The)
Switzerland
UK

Operational Competencies

Technologies to market (Expert)
Business development (Expert)
Acquisition and shadow management (Expert)
New product or service launch (Expert)
Geographical expansion (Expert)
Company rescue or turnaround (Expert)
Close down or sell off (Expert)
Pre or post investment audit (Expert)

Nationality

Netherlands (The)

Home Country

Germany

Availability

Full time

Education

PhD

Languages

Dutch, English, German

Management Experience

More than 15 years

Company Size

Start-up, SMB, Multinational

Interim Manager

Yes

Founder or Co-Founder

Yes

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Professional Matching

a timely professional matching process to identify and present the right international executives with relevant local expertise amongst our interim managers, executives, and executive investors.

Fast Selection

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Contractual Flexibility

for any executive recruitment, the clients have the flexibility either to sign a few months interim management agreement or to hire directly our vetted executives for a permanent position.

Competitive Fees

100% success fees based on executive recruitment closing. A fixed recruitment fee specific by region and unique for any salary. No retained fees. No exclusivity.