NLS Profiles in Business

Successful businessman and former chairman of AstraZeneca, Leif Johansson, has accumulated vast experience and knowledge about international competition, leadership, business development, and entrepreneurship, not least when it comes to science-driven industries like the life science industry.

Anders Tuv’s varied background as an investor, founder, and company builder has taken him to the very center of the multidisciplinary nature of creating a life science company. As Managing Director at Radforsk Invest he truly enjoys shaping strategies and helping startups implement and realize innovations.

When Sam Sihvonen, co-founder and CEO of Solu, sees a problem, he wants to fix it.

Life science entrepreneur, investor, and baritone tenor Kristofer Klerfalk is a man with many hats and a vision for a pan-Nordic life science ecosystem.

Imagine your job involves meeting with entrepreneurs and researchers who are passionate about developing drugs that could transform or save lives, and realizing you could be part of that future. That is just another “day at the office” for Ester Sklarsky, who has been a principal for the Swedish venture capital firm Sound Bioventures for the past three and a half years.

Despite international turbulence and news of life sciences and research funding disruptions in the U.S., investment in innovative life sciences projects continues, according to Mala Valroy, an investment manager with Industrifonden, one of Sweden’s largest evergreen venture capital (VC) funds.