Management, board and key persons

Göran Brandt has been chairman of the board since 2015 and has extensive experience of board work in over 20 companies, in many cases as chairman. Educated engineer and market economist with a past as an entrepreneur. Göran was involved in founding Triolab, a company in the diagnostics industry. During his career, Göran has held various management positions, including as business area manager for Bergman & Beving MediTech and Addtech Life Science.

Neven Zoric has been a board member since 2020 and is one of the co-founders and former CEO of TATAA Biocenter, from which Life Genomics is a spin-off. Neven has a background in several commercial positions within Thermo Fisher Scientific, including sales and marketing of tests for prenatal screening. Neven is currently Vice President, Commercial Excellence at Vitrolife Group, a world-leading company in products for assisted fertilization (IVF).

Bengt Belfrage has more than 30 years of experience as CEO and business manager as well as a board member in knowledge-intensive companies, mainly in various parts of life science, both start-ups and commercial international companies, including as CEO of Pharmacia Biotech (currently Cytiva) and CEO of Nova Medical (now Unilabs) and chairman of the board of LightUp Technologies and CanAg Diagnostics. He also has assignments as a representative of major owners in election committees in listed companies.

Artur Aira is alternate and private investor and one of the founders of Life Genomics. Artur contributes with his large network, industry experience and competence. Artur has held senior positions CEO / GM > 20 years in large companies (Organon, bioMerieux, Addtech Life Science, Addlife) and also on the board of over 35 companies. He is currently involved in a number of start-ups and a board member of commercial companies in the MedTech, Research, Genetics and Diagnostics industry.

Dr. Mikael Kubista (PhD) is a professor at the Department of Biotechnology at the Czech Academy of Sciences and a part-time visiting researcher at the University of Gothenburg. He was the founder and former CEO of TATAA Biocenter, from which Life Genomics was spun off, before it was acquired by US investors. Mikael has a history as an entrepreneur and previously founded the companies LightUp Technologies, which was the first diagnostic company in Europe based on real-time PCR, and MultiD Analysis. He has developed several techniques for the analysis of nucleic acids and was awarded the SKAPA prize in 2002. Mikael is also an advisor to several smaller biotech companies and several diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies.

Mathias Karlsson is medical doctor in clinical chemistry with a PhD from Karolinska Institutet. Long experience from Swedish healthcare and laboratory medicine. Has, among other things, been chief physician at Clinical Chemistry in Karlstad, sat in the health care management in Region Värmland as head of outpatient care and was also CEO of Equalis AB in Uppsala. Is currently an affiliated researcher at Uppsala University, Chief Medical Officer at the company Capitainer and sits on Labquality's board. Passionate about person-centered care and quality issues.

Docent and specialist in clinical genetics. Former chief physician and operations manager of the Genetic Clinic, University Hospital in Lund.