Board Of Directors

Dr. Vladimir Cmiljanovic is a renowned serial biotech entrepreneur, cancer scientist, and medicinal chemist with over 15 years of experience in oncology drug development.

Dr. Natasa Cmiljanovic is the Chief Scientific Officer and Founder of Swiss Rockets, with over a decade of experience in oncology drug development as a medicinal chemist and clinical scientist.

André Debrunner, Vice-Chairman, is Chief Operating Officer of Northern Trust Switzerland with responsibility for fund accounting, fund reporting, custody services and IT. He is a member of the Northern Trust Switzerland Management Committee.

Dr. Thomas Ladner, Board Member and Secretary of the Board, became in 2002 the youngest partner at Meyerlustenberger Lachenal, one of Switzerland's leading law firms, where he specialized in private equity and M&A. From 2000 to 2004, Thomas lectured on corporate law and contract law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), from where he also holds a Ph.D.

Prof. Dr. Michael N. Hall is an American and Swiss molecular biologist and Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. He earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from Harvard University in 1981 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the University of California, San Francisco.

Christoph Brutschin obtained his economic degrees at the University of applied sciences of Zürich and at the University of Fribourg. He held positions with PWC and maxit AG (Switzerland) before becoming a headmaster of the Basel commercial vocational training college.