Gillies O’Bryan-Tear

Chairperson

Gilles has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in clinical development, medical management and commercial roles. He has held senior leadership positions at a range of pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the US and Europe including Sanofi Aventis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GSK, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and Algeta ASA, and has been involved in multiple product approvals.

Dr. O’Bryan-Tear has been an adviser to several US and European biotech companies and has held board positions at Fusion Pharmaceuticals and Clarity Pharmaceuticals. He holds a B.A. and M.B.B.S. from the University of Cambridge and an M.B.A from the Cranfield School of Management.

Ingrid Teigland Akay, MD

Board member

Ingrid Teigland Akay is a founder and managing partner at Hadean Ventures. She also currently serves as a board member for Alex Therapeutics, Neuro Events Labs and Attgeno AB.

Dr. Akay has supported start-up companies globally in multiple phases of development, from R&D to commercialization and has had previous medical experience in general medicine, surgery and psychiatry, with exposure to both the public and private sector. She holds a medical degree from Medizinische Hochschule Hannover and an M.B.A. in Finance from London Business School.

Kari Grønås

Board Member

Kari Grønås is a managing director at K&K AS and holds board positions at Arxx Therapeutics, Ultimovacs and Spago Nanomedical AB.

She has extensive experience in drug development and commercialization in the pharmaceuticals industry and has been involved in product regulatory approvals, including Xofigo and Hexvix. Ms. Grønås has also held previous leadership and management roles at Algeta ASA, PhotoCure and Nycomed Imaging/Amersham Health (Now GE Healthcare). She holds a M. Pharm. degree from the University of Oslo.

Hilde Steineger, Ph.D.

Board Member

Hilde Steineger  is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of NorthSea Therapeutics B.V. and Chief Executive Officer at Staten Biotechnology. She has held former board positions at Strongbridge BioPharma, Nordic Nanovector, PCI Biotech, Weifa AS, Inven2, Algeta ASA and Clavis Pharmas ASA.

She has extensive experience in strategy and innovation, business development and investor relations, having held leadership positions at BASF and Pronova BioPharma. Dr. Steineger holds a Ph.D. in Medical Biochemistry and an M.Sc. in Biotechnology from the University of Oslo.

Orlando Oliveira

Board Member

Orlando Oliveira is Senior Vice President, Head of International at Mirati Therapeutics (acquired by BMS). He has nearly 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry and has held previous leadership positions at Agios Pharmaceuticals (oncology business acquired by Servier in 2021), TESARO (acquired by GSK in 2019) and Cubist Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Merck/MSD in 2015).

He has also held positions in medical, commercial, and general management during his 13 years at Amgen. Oliveira holds an M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a post-graduate degree in Drug and Pharmacy Law from Universidade de Coimbra.

Anne Cecilie Alvik

Board member / Employee Representative

Worked at Oncoinvent AS since 2019 as Senior Quality Assurance Officer and Qualified Person (QP).

Have a cand. pharm. degree (M.Sc.) from the University of Tromsø, a certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry/Radiopharmacy from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich.

Has worked in pharma industry for 16 years and with radiopharmaceuticals for 10 years.

Has worked in Pharmacies for 7 years in various functions including leading positions.

Øystein Soug

Chief Executive Officer

soug@oncoinvent.com

Oystein Soug has over 15 years of experience in biotechnology, holding several management positions. Most recently, Mr. Soug was CEO of Arxx Therapeutics, where he led the company to initiate the clinical programme and was responsible for the merger with Dutch pharma company Oxitope Pharma to create Calluna Pharma. Prior to Arxx, he served as CFO and then CEO of Targovax, an Oslo listed biotechnology company, which went public during Mr. Soug’s tenure. Mr. Soug started his career in biotech as CFO of Oslo-listed radiopharmaceutical company Algeta. During this period, the company conducted a successful phase 3 trial, launched its radium-223 based prostate cancer drug Xofigo® and out-licensed the drug. Mr. Soug co-led the sale of the company to Bayer in 2014.  

Mr. Soug holds an MSc in Economics and Financial Markets from Universität St. Gallen in Switzerland in 1997

Anders Månsson

Chief Executive Officer

mansson@oncoinvent.com

Anders Månsson is a business executive with over 25 years of experience from management roles in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on commercialisation and M&A + licensing. Mr. Månsson has held leading roles in the industry both in his native Sweden and in other European countries, and he has worked extensively with the USA and Asia as focus markets in global roles.

Mr. Månsson holds a B.Sc. degree in Business & Economics from Lund’s University in Sweden as well as an MBA from Business School Lausanne in Switzerland. He has a broad-based industrial experience, featuring both large multinational companies such as Meda, Ferring & LEO Pharma, and including leading roles in start-ups and smaller biotech companies. On top of his executive role in Oncoinvent, Mr. Månsson holds two non-executive director positions serving on the board of EQL Pharma AB as well Immetric AB, the latter being an investment company focusing on life science.