Lukas Schüpbach

CEO of Biotech LBP CDMO Joint-Venture between Lonza & Chr. Hansen. Set-up of company with GMP Drug-Substance & Drug-Product Development and Manufacturing facilities in Switzerland and Denmark. Creation of dedicated Microbiome Center of Excellence for production of first ever commercial LBP product, located on Lonza’s Ibex campus in Visp, Switzerland. Development of company strategy, set-up of strategic partnerships, and implementation of target operating model.

Global Head of Strategy & Operations of Emavant Solutions, the digital health care solutions start-up under Roivant Sciences. Strategy and Business Model development, M&A scouting, set-up of Partnerships. Leading digital platform solution design and implementation. Design and implementation of Target Operating Model.

Co-Founder of Innojection, a start-up company developing trunk-injection solutions leveraging 3D metal and bio degradable printing technologies to enable precision delivery of substances in the field, incl. digital epidemiological solutions. Strategy, BD, Financing, M&A. The company has filed several patents and was successfully sold to a Flagship Pioneering company.

Leading global R&D Operations function with more than 500 employees. Strategy, Portfolio & Performance Management/KPI’s, Process & Change Management, Infrastructure and Sourcing. Driving global R&D Transformation: design and implementation of R&D Operating Model and Management System from Innovation to Commercialization. Rollout of Operational Excellence in the science and non-science area, freeing-up of resources to focus on innovation resulting in improved pipeline delivery and increased productivity.

Head of Merger Integration

Non executive member of the Board of Directors. Focusing on securing and maximizing the future value of Devgen for Syngenta.

Management of cross-functional strategic planning process and execution of commercial and functional strategy projects. Successful introduction of scenario based planning enabling the organization to be prepared for changing market conditions. Contribution to the development of the Integrated Crop Strategy, set-up of transformation organization.

Management of headquarters finance processes, systems, and project portfolio. Consolidation of legacy systems. Linking strategy and transactional performance management processes and systems. Implementation of planning and performance management covering Market, Finance and HR data.

Management of headquarters finance processes, systems, and project portfolio. Consolidation of legacy systems. Linking strategy and transactional performance management processes and systems. Successful implementation of planning and performance management covering Market, Finance and HR data.

Management of project delivery for Risk Management solutions with a strong focus on Financial Industry. Business Development activities in the area of Fraud & Abuse Management for Money Laundering Detection and Health Care Fraud and Abuse Identification.

Specialization in Business Analytics solutions in the Financial Industry. Successful delivery of a multitude of Customer Analytics, Pricing, e-Banking and Insurance Management solutions, including technical implementation of data-mining and date-warehouse solutions. Customer Analytics Champion for the Swiss practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, responsible for the practice development of standard customer solutions.

FAME Certificate, International Centre for Asset Management and Engineering, Geneva 1998. Finance Excellence Program, Harvard Business School-Novartis 2006. IT Excellence Program-Novartis 2006-2007. OWP IMD Lausanne 2007.