Steve is Chairman of the Board of Prokarium and brings more than 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, developing vaccines in small and large businesses, most recently as Executive Vice President, Strategic Investments at Emergent BioSolutions. Steve has also served as Executive Director of the UK Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England) and has held posts at Medeva and the Wellcome Foundation. In his career he has focused on the development of products to prevent and treat infectious disease and is internationally recognized as an opinion leader in the vaccines field with more than 100 scientific papers.

Carl-Johan represents Flerie Invest on the board of Prokarium and was its first CEO until Ted Fjällman took over in 2014. He graduated with a doctorate in dental surgery in 1980 and a PhD in pharmacology from the Karolinska institute in 1984. He has since held a number of positions in medical and pharma companies and currently serves as director of several technology development companies. Carl-Johan is Executive VP Development & Technology at Recipharm AB and Executive Director of Cobra Biologics Ltd.

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Allan brings more than 40 years of experience in vaccines and biotechnology, most recently as VP Corp Dev at Sanofi Pasteur and VP BD and Strategy at Wyeth. Allan has built several smaller biotech companies as well: In 1980, Allan co-founded Damon Biotech, where he held diverse positions of increasing responsibility from Manager, Molecular Biology to VP Research and VP BD. From 1990 to 1992 he worked at Abbott Labs, as Director of Bus Dev. In 1992 he joined Repligen Corp. in the dual role of VP Business Planning for the parent company and SVP Commercial Development for its wholly owned subsidiary, Amira, Inc. Allan holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics from UC Davis.

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Khalid is the CEO of Riyadh Valley Company (RVC) and joined the Prokarium board after investment in Prokarium in January 2018. He is also an Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering at King Saud University (KSU), has conducted consultancy work for the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education, on e.g. IP regulations, and continues to serve as the Director of the IP and Technology Licensing Programme at KSU. He has published numerous papers in the field of Industrial Engineering, is a founding-member of the Saudi Inventors Society and is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) amongst others. Khalid holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from King Saud University and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Birmingham University.

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Sangwoo is a Managing Director and Head of Korea Investment Partners’ (KIP’s) US office based in Silicon Valley and joined the Prokarium board after investment in Prokarium in February 2018. He is responsible for the global expansion of Korea Investment Partners and actively explores cross-border investments. Sangwoo currently manages over 10 companies in his investment portfolio and participates on more than 5 boards. His portfolio companies range from biotech/healthcare companies such as Elastagen, Auris Surgical Robotics and KAHR to IT/Fintech companies such as SoFi and Le Tote. Sangwoo has started and grown two startups; Neomtel and Polidigm. Neomtel’s technology became a de-facto standard in Korea in the early 2000s and the company went IPO in 2007. Sangwoo received his B.S. and M.S. in Control and Instrumentation Engineering from Seoul National University.

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Ted took over as Prokarium’s CEO in March 2014 after serving as Development Director since the start in December 2011. Prior to joining Prokarium, he has held positions in clinical research at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and in strategy consulting at Sweden’s Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, where he coordinated the country’s national innovation strategy. Ted holds a PhD from the University of Guelph, Canada, and has been recognised as a leader in biotechnology under the Sloan Foundation funded Synthetic Biology Leadership Accelerator Program (LEAP). He is a member of the international Bacterial Vaccines Network (BactiVac) management board, as well as an active member of the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA).

Hyam joined Prokarium in 2019 as advisor in immunology, immunotherapy of cancer and research strategy. Currently, he is President of Research and Development at Century Therapeutics. He was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Juno Therapeutics in Seattle, and before that, Head of Cancer Immunotherapy Experimental Medicine at Roche Pharma Research and Early Development in Switzerland. He received an MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1984, followed by training in internal medicine and medical oncology. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1991, rising to Professor of Oncology, Medicine and Urology in 2001 while working at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center where he served as Scientific Director of the George Santos Bone Marrow Transplant Program. Upon joining industry, he has held an adjunct professorship since 2011. His research has focused on tumour immunology, cancer vaccines, and adoptive T cell therapy. He is a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Stohlman Scholar, a Member of theAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation, and is a founding member of the Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium of the Cancer Research Institute.

David joined Prokarium in 2019 as advisor in Salmonella biology and engineering strategy. He is Professor of Molecular Microbiology in the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College London since 1995. David was Director of the Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection (MRC CMBI),between 2012 and 2019. In 2016, he was appointed as the first Regius Professor of Infectious Disease in the UK and he is a fellow of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Microbiology, the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK), and an EMBO Member. David was co-founder of the biotech company Microscience that developed the Salmonella strain ZH9. He is best known for inventing a technique called signature-tagged mutagenesis (also termed barcoding) for identification of mutants with altered growth in mixed populations. Using STM his group has identified numerous genes of Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and Salmonella that are required for virulence.

Nigel has been working with Prokarium since September 2019 supporting their CMC activities. He has over thirty years’ experience in the process development, scale-up and manufacture of human therapeutics, including live microbial products/vaccines. Nigel has been working as an independent CMC consultant supporting small and medium sized companies with their CMC activities for the last 14 years. Prior to that he worked in a number of roles both within biopharma companies (British Biotech and Oxxon Therapeutics) and for contract manufacturing organisations (Accentus Biologics and Cobra Biologics). Nigel has a BSc in microbiology from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in industrial microbiology from the University of Warwick.