Colzyx is led by a highly qualified, interdisciplinary team with broad experience in life science and research successes published in peer-reviewed journals. Along with the proven track record in bioscience research, our team is highly skilled in business development and project management.
Jens Hansson,
EXECUTIVE Chairman of the Board
Jens has more than two decades of experience from private equity and venture capital investments, not the least within the medtech area. He is an engineer by trade and has prior to his career within the finance industry acted in industrial top-management positions in the electronics and aerospace industries, incl serving as CEO for a publicly traded company. Jens has a M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Chalmers, Gothenburg and a B.Sc. in economics from the Gothenburg School of Economics.
Jens works out of Colzyx's office in Lund (Sweden).
Dr. Matthias Mörgelin,
CSO, co-founder
Matthias is the key inventor to Colzyx’ patent applications and has discovered the unique properties of human collagen VI. Matthias holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from Basel University and has some 40 years of academic and industrial experience within the life science field. Matthias is a co-founder of Colzyx and the CSO of Colzyx.
Matthias works out of Colzyx's office in Lund (Sweden).
JOHNNA HAFNER,
HEAD OF COMMERCIAL
Johnna has 25 years’ experience in the medical device industry in the EU and US. She spent a decade at Johnson & Johnson at Ethicon, focused in surgical technologies, led global marketing for a PE-owned wound care company, and recently led the market launch for a US wound care start-up. As a consultant she has advised various medical device companies across EU & US specifically on go-to-market strategy and product launch
Johnna works out of Barcelona (Spain).
Sofia Braag-Ankeny,
Head of Business Development
Sofia is a seasoned Business Development leader with a background as a cell- and gene therapy scientist.
She has over 15 years of experience closing multi-million-dollar, global life science business deals for both academic, private and public companies in the EU & US.
Sofia works out of Colzyx's office in Boston, MA (USA).
Teresa Gorecki,
HEAD OF QA/RA
Teresa has more than 35 years of experience in all areas of Quality Assurance in the Biopharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries.
In addition, she has extensive experience with FDA applications.
Teresa works out of New York City, NY (USA).