• Co-founder and President & Chief Executive Officer of Genmab A/S.
  • Professor of Immunology at Utrecht University.

  • President, Research & Development and Chief Scientific Officer of Genmab A/S, 2008-2010.
  • Chief Scientific Officer of Genmab A/S, 1999-2008.
  • Vice President and Scientific Director of Medarex Europe B.V., 1997-2000.

  • Considered independent under the Danish Corporate Governance Recommendations.
  • Chair of the Research & Development Committee since 2026.

  • Global corporate leadership.
  • Healthcare & pharma industry.
  • Business development, M&A and external innovation sourcing.
  • Medicine & science.
  • Human capital management.

  • 1988 PhD in Immunology from Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • 1985 MSc in Biology from Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Dutch. Born in 1961. Male.