Realizing Your Vision – Our Passion

Services

• Corporate Finance
• Project based management functions and mentoring
• M & A
• IPO
• Industries

Hilmar and his team have been involved in a large number of successful financing rounds, M&A, IPOs in the core sectors mentioned as well as an advisor for industrial players and professional investors. After more than 25 years of business experience, he has a robust and proven track record in the chemical sector, Medtech, Red & White Biotech, Photonics/Sensorics and Greentech.

Services

• Market assessment & competitive intelligence
• Access to experts & KOLs
• Business planing & due diligence
• Business & marketing strategy
• Strategic alliances & partnering
• Interim management in S&M

Background

• 20 years of experience in strategic and operational business consulting, interim management, business development & management roles on the executive level (LION bioscience AG; Axaron Bioscience AG)
• Substantial deal experience
• Deep international network throughout Life Sciences industries, especially in R&D, medtech, diagnostics, white biotech

As a Marie-Curie-Fellow Alrik Koppenhöfer earned his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Oxford and holds a degree in chemistry from Freiburg University, Germany. His working languages are German and English.

Services

• Scientific due diligence: chemistry,
  medtech, pharmacology, white biotech
• Business plan evaluation and sparring partner
• Operational support for chemical engineering
• Reframing of operational knowledge management

Background

• 11 years biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing: PM, QA, QC
• 7 years experience in equity stock advisory
• PhD in molecular biology; scientific reviewer for various journals
• MBA with Anglo-Saxon curriculum, elective subject: knowledge management
• MSc in technical chemistry

Business and Sales Development Expert

Services

• Business & Sales strategic planning in Diagnostics
• Market Access and Reimbursement in Diagnostics
• Market Assessment and Market Research
• Strategic Alliances & Partnering
• Project and Interim Management in Diagnostics

Background

• 20 years of experience in General Management, Business and Commercial Development
• Founder and Managing Director of Microbionix GmbH and Diagnostics & Life Science Consulting
• Interim Management at companies such as Luminex and Omega Diagnostics
• Strong international network in Medical Diagnostics

Examples out of a broad range of sectors of industry

• obtaining a sizeable EU grant under the Laura Bassi Scheme for Ocuvac, a research project emanating from Vienna Medical University.
• turn-around of oekostrom AG, now Austria’s largest independent distributor of alternative energy (still active Supervisory Board Membership).
• Executive Board Member of a Private Austrian Trust since its inception that owns the Cineplexx chain which has developed into the largest independent cinema operator in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe.

Having worked for Lloyds Bank, Morgan Grenfell, Creditanstalt and Fischer Francis Trees &Watts in Europe, Japan and the US he can draw on a broad range of cross-cultural business experiences and a wide network of business contacts. Further to native German operative languages are English, French, Spanish, somewhat rusty Portuguese and conversational Japanese.

Charity activities include the Presidency of the non-profit Franz Klammer Foundation since its inception that supports sports activities for the handicapped or sportspeople that suffer from injuries.

Academic degrees in business administration and economics from University of Vienna.

Johan Grant is partner of Aeneas GmbH, Munich/Stockholm. As cooperation partner of Concepts4Value GmbH he brings in more than 25 years of industrial expertise in the areas strategic processes, commercial and technical evaluations, intellectual property, distribution, marketing and sales. His special focus is in cleantech-technologies. He held several management positions in companies like IKEA, Wärtsilä, United Waters Europe AG, as well as partner in different consulting service companies. Johan is M&A experienced.

Languages: Swedish, English, German

Gertrud K. Deffner is the founder and managing director of Metropol Audit GmbH, Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, based in Mannheim and Lahr, Germany.
Her company’s core business is the auditing of financial and non-financial statements, with a focus on mid-sized companies and large corporations.
Gertrud has in-depth expertise knowledge of German Accounting (HGB) and International Accounting (IFRS) as well as national tax law. She serves a wide range of customers from different industries and has a long track record in auditing also stock listed corporations in the D-A-CH region, the UK and the USA.

Other services

• Assements and Valuation in different situations (due dilligence, merger and acquisition)
• Share valuations under S 8 (IDW Standards) “Fairness Opinions”
• Internal control systems assessment
• Risk management audits
• Compliance audits

Gertrud is the author of a book on business assessment - fundamentals enterprise valutions

Services

• Overall strategic positioning and business development support
• Strategic alliances and partnering, geographic expansion plans
• Market research and competitor analysis, medical need and patient potential
• Optimization of financing and exit strategies

Background

Over 35 years of academic, industrial and healthcare finance experience in biotech, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical devices, member of two advisory Boards and one supervisory Board

• 19 years healthcare finance experience at Deutsche Bank AG. Deal team member – often as Originating Director - in +200 transactions including debt and equity financing, M&A and IPOs for clients in all sizes from start up to mid cap companies including + € 1 billion sales corporations
• Previous positions as Director and Head of the Expert Team Life Sciences at Deutsche Bank AG, at the German Cancer Research Center at the team of the 2008 Nobel laureate Harald zur Hausen, the BioSidus foundation team (Buenos Aires), and Behringwerke
• PhD in microbiology and molecular biology
• Working languages: bilingual in German and Spanish, English

ACCNITE Partners advises companies on capital market transactions such as IPOs, capital increases, share placements, carve outs & spin-offs as well as share buy backs. In addition, ACCNITE Partners advises clients on IR strategies, investor targeting and equity story presentation. Our clients are typically entrepreneurs and managers with entrepreneurial minds. During the entire life of a project ACCNITE Partners manages and presents an unbiased view on all relevant workstreams and becomes an integral part of a client’s teams

ACCNITE Partners advises companies on capital market transactions such as IPOs, capital increases, share placements, carve outs & spin-offs as well as share buy backs. In addition, ACCNITE Partners advises clients on IR strategies, investor targeting and equity story presentation. Our clients are typically entrepreneurs and managers with entrepreneurial minds. During the entire life of a project ACCNITE Partners manages and presents an unbiased view on all relevant workstreams and becomes an integral part of a client’s teams.

Services

• Translations from German to English
• Editing and, on occasion, copywriting
• Language training, including total immersion (i.e. teaching on site in UK, with customized training possible upon request)

Selection of industries served: financial industry, pharmaceutical and biotech, steel, real estate and agriculture, IT and law firms

Cooperation within a network of tried-and-tested translators ensures strong back-up and gives customers access to other language pairs.

Services

• Public R&D funding for German tech companies
• Comprehensive service package: grant selection, preparation of proposal documents, project administration, accounting and reporting
• Strong track record in (but not restricted to) Life Science
• Largely success-based fee model

Experience

• 19 years of experience with R&D projects
• Supported >100 funded R&D projects across sectors & industries during last 3 years
• Advised several hundred Life Science clients with corporate finance & strategy at Deutsche Bank

History

• Founder & Owner, ifectis Innovationsförderung
• Senior Consultant specialized in public R&D funding
• Life Science Industry Expert at Deutsche Bank
• Team Leader in Drug Discovery at deCODE genetics (Reykjavík, Iceland)
• Ph.D. in biochemistry (Frankfurt/Marburg)

Services

• Goal- and resource-oriented team coaching/team formation/team development
• Clarification of tensions/conflicts/constructive conflict management
• goal-oriented support during change processes
• Communication
• Working on values and cultivating positive corporate communication
• Mental Training
• Development of potential
• Cross-thematic moderation
• Identification and formulation of visions, consistent and successful implementation of goals

Background

20 years of experience in text coaching
15 years of experience in coaching, seminars, workshops for organizations, teams and individuals
M.A. in Philosophy, Psychology, Modern German Literature, University Augsburg
B.A. in Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg