Board of Directors

Dieter Weinand is an experienced executive with over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceuticals and biotech industries. Mr. Weinand presently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Replimune Group Inc. (NASDAQ: REPL), Mnemo, Umoja, Insprina, and Ziel.
Previously, Mr. Weinand was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer Pharma AG and member of the Management Board at Bayer AG.
Prior to his work at Bayer, Mr. Weinand held various positions in commercial, operational, and strategic areas of the pharmaceutical industry. These included responsibilities spanning various therapeutic areas and geographies for companies such as Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Otsuka.
Mr. Weinand is a former board member of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries & Associations (EFPIA), and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (IFPMA), and served as a member of the Board of Directors of HealthPrize Technologies.

Filip is a member of the Board of Directors of Confo Therapeutics, Virovet, and Remynd.

Filip is a Senior Investment Manager at Participatie Maatschappij Vlaanderen (PMV), with investment interests related to therapeutics and medical devices. Filip joined PMV from Vives, where he was an investment manager responsible for the life science franchise, and a member of the Board in Syndesi, Virovet and Aphea. He was further involved in – among others – Novadip, and the road towards IPO of iTeos Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ITOS). Prior to Vives, Filip held corporate positions in both small biotech as well as larger pharmaceutical companies.

Filip obtained a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Antwerp University (Belgium), a degree in Clinical Biology (Type A), Business Administration (IPO, Antwerp), and CEIPI certificate in Patent Law (U. Strassbourg, France).

Karl joined Wellington Partners as a Managing Partner in January 2020. Since then, he has led the investments into ImCheck, MinervaX and Creative Balloons and has taken over responsibility for Confo Therapeutics, Uromems and SIRS Therapeutics.

Previously, he was a Partner at Gimv, where he had been responsible for life science investments within Gimv’s Health & Care team. He began his professional career at Atlas Venture in London and Munich, and later joined Ventech, a Paris-based venture capital firm. Notable past investments include Breath Therapeutics (acquired by Zambon), Prosonix (acquired by Circassia), Covagen (acquired by Johnson&Johnson), Themis (acquired by MSD), Nitec Pharma (merged with Horizon Pharma) and U3 Pharma (acquired by Daiichi Sankyo).

Karl earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Neurobiology from Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin and has a Diploma in Biology from Free University of Berlin.

Rob Scott, MD, a trained physician, has held leadership positions in global pharmaceutical companies for thirty years. He has managed drug development teams responsible for highly successful pharmaceutical brands such as Norvasc, Lipitor, Repatha, Humira, Skyrizi and Rinvoq. His most recent position was Chief Medical Officer and Head of Development at AbbVie. Before that, he was Vice President, Global Development TA Head and Head of Development Design Center at Amgen. From 2012 - 2016 he was a member of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drug Advisory Committee where he built strong relationships with senior FDA staff. Before Amgen, he held several leadership positions with emerging pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Dr. Scott is a graduate from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and started his career at Janssen as a Medical Advisor. He has been a board member of TransCelerate and a member of the PhRMA R&D Leadership Forum.

Caroline joined Fund+ in 2021 and serves as a board member in TargED Biopharmaceuticals, Astrivax and Confo Therapeutics. Previously she was principal at Gimv, focusing on biotech and medtech investment opportunities. Caroline started her career at UCB taking on various roles ranging from marketing and sales, business development to portfolio management and as a commercial lead for their immunology portfolio.

Caroline holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at KU Leuven followed by an MBA and an executive master in corporate finance, both from Vlerick Business School.

Edward currently serves on the supervisory boards of Azafaros, Escalier BioSciences, Genase Therapeutics, Scenic Biotech, Staten Biotechnology, Synaffix and TigaTx. He served on the supervisory boards of Progentix Orthobiology (acquired by Nuvasive ), Noviogendix (acquired by MDxHealth) and was founding investor and supervisory board member of Acerta Pharma (acquired by Astra Zeneca). Edward is also on the board of Mibiton.

Edward started his career as process engineer for Chiron Inc.. He subsequently worked in product development and corporate licensing at Johnson & Johnson. Since 2000 he expanded his experience as CEO of several life sciences companies in the Netherlands.

Edward holds a M.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Utrecht and a M.Sc in Biochemical Engineering from the Delft University of Technology.

Cedric joined Confo Therapeutics as CEO and Director in 2016.

He previously served as Vice President of Business Development at Ablynx and played a key role in landmark deals. Prior to moving to business development, Cedric worked through various R&D functions at Ablynx, first as a scientist in the pharmacology group and later as project manager, leading cross-functional project teams from discovery up to Phase II clinical studies.

Cedric has a PhD in bioscience engineering from KU Leuven (Belgium).

Christina Takke is co-founder and Managing Director of V-Bio Ventures.

Christina has more than 15 years of investment experience in European Venture Capital. Before launching V-Bio Ventures, Christina was a partner at Forbion Capital Partners (previously ABN AMRO Capital), where she led and managed a series of successful investments in biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical companies.

Christina has a scientific background, holding a PhD in Developmental Biology from the University of Cologne (Germany) and an MSc in Biology from the University of Darmstadt (Germany).

Dr Jos B. Peeters is Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Capricorn Partners, an independent European manager of venture capital and equity funds, investing in innovative European companies with technology as competitive advantage.

Jos has a PhD in Solid State Physics from the University of Leuven. He worked at Bell Telephone Manufacturing Cy, PA Technology and BeneVent Management, before starting Capricorn Partners. Jos was the first Chairman of the Belgian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, he served as Chairman of EVCA (now Invest Europe) and chaired their capital markets working group which led to the creation of Easdaq.

As one of the veterans of the European Venture Capital and Private Equity industry Jos was involved in over three decades of early stage investing in a broad range of technology-based companies and supported these in IPO’s on Nasdaq, Easdaq and Euronext as well as in M&A transactions.