NLS Profiles in Business

Iris Öhrn considers herself a cosmopolitan person, and with good reason. The investment advisor for life science at Business Region Göteborg left her native Cuba to study and work abroad before settling in Sweden. While up until recently, most of Iris Öhrn’s goals were professional, now she is seeking to have more of an impact […]

An adventurous spirit rooted in a Viking heritage and her parents’ as an example helped spur Gitte Pedersen to move from her native Denmark to the U.S. 20 years ago, where she helped create a company and made a home. CEO and co-founder of Genomic Expression in Massachusetts, USA, Gitte Pedersen also credits her mother […]

Business woman Barbro Ehnbom has become renowned for her valuable networks and her successful business-generating activities and within life sciences she is perhaps best known as the founder of SALSS, the Swedish-American Life Science Summit.

Business has been on Nikolaj Sørensen’s mind from an early age. Today, his leadership skills ranks high in employee surveys and he has been on a journey not many Nordic life science CEOs have experienced, taking a small company from Sweden to the big U.S. market and tackling the big problem of opioid addiction. During […]

She joined LEO Pharma by chance, more than 27 years ago, but she remained there, for the true focus on helping patients and her love of the job. For more than a century Denmark’s LEO Pharma has had a solid niche, creating and selling drugs for dermatological and thrombotic conditions, penetrating markets across the world. […]

Ironically, there is less serendipity in the success Saeid Esmaeilzadeh and Ashkan Pouya have achieved as business-makers than there is traditional hard work. The two long-time friends, who came to Sweden with their families as children after fleeing Iran, co-founded Serendipity Innovations, a company that develops businesses with innovative technologies that provide practical solutions.  After […]