Joshua Brumm
Chairman
Josh is a General Partner at Forbion. He has extensive experience in building and leading companies in biotech and healthcare. Previously, Josh was the president and CEO of Dyne Therapeutics. He led Dyne through its initial public offering on Nasdaq in 2020, and advanced two rare muscle disease programs into clinical trials. Prior to Dyne, he held leadership roles at several other biotechs, including Proteolix, Pharmacyclics and ZELTIQ Aesthetics, all of which were acquired by large pharmaceutical companies.
Earlier, he served as chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Kaleido Biosciences, where he led the company’s financings including its IPO and helped bring the lead program into Phase 2 development. Prior to joining Kaleido, Josh was COO and CFO at Versartis, where he spearheaded the company’s financial strategy including the successful completion of its IPO, played an integral role in product strategy, and helped negotiate the company’s first product partnership. His previous roles include serving as executive vice president of finance and principal financial officer at Pharmacyclics; CFO at ZELTIQ Aesthetics, where he led the company through its IPO, led the international product launch for CoolSculpting and also served in corporate development; and director of finance at Proteolix, Inc., assisting in the sale of the company to Onyx Pharmaceuticals. He also held investment banking positions at Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Morgan Stanley.
Over the course of his career, Josh has raised ~$2.5 billion in capital. Josh holds a B.A. in business administration from the University of Notre Dame.
Christian Jung PhD
Non-Executive Director
Christian is a Partner at SV Health Investors, investing out of the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF). He currently represents the fund on the Boards of Amphista Therapeutics Ltd., Harness Therapeutics Ltd. and LoQus23 Therapeutics Ltd. Prior to joining SV, Christian held roles with Wellington Partners Life Sciences and High-Tech Gründerfonds, Europe’s leading seed fund with € 1.3bn under management. There, Christian structured and completed the seed- and early-stage investments in nine life sciences companies, including Amal Therapeutics SA (acquired by Boehringer Ingelheim in 2019 for up to € 325m), Cunesoft GmbH (acquired by Phlexglobal in 2020 for an undisclosed amount) and Rigontec GmbH (acquired by MSD in 2017 for up to €464m).
Christian was awarded a PhD with distinction in Medical Science and Technology for his work on patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells and obtained his MSc degree in Molecular Biotechnology, both from the Technical University of Munich. The key articles generated in the context of his PhD were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, EMBO Molecular Medicine and FASEB Journal and have so far been cited more than 1,000 times.
Stefan Luzi PhD
Non-Executive Director
Stefan Luzi joined Gilde Healthcare in 2015. He is focusing on venture and growth capital investments in the biopharmaceutical sector. He led several investments and currently represents Gilde on the boards of Amphista Therapeutics Ltd., Lava Therapeutics B.V. and Lumicks B.V.
Prior to joining Gilde, Stefan worked at Merck KGaA where he completed international assignments in the Global Business Intelligence and M Ventures divisions. Additionally, he was involved in various consulting projects spanning the pharmaceutical and chemical departments at Merck and co-moderated Merck Serono’s innovation competitions.
Stefan received a B.Sc. in Biology and M.Sc. in Biotechnology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and his MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge. He completed his Ph.D. with Nobel Laureate Sir Gregory Winter at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where he developed a bicyclic peptide-based drug discovery platform.
Bart Dzikowski
Non-Executive Director
Bart is a Managing Director at the Novartis Venture Fund and its Head of Transactions & Legal based in Basel, Switzerland. He currently serves on the board of Enterprise Therapeutics Holdings and UZH Life Sciences Fund and was previously on the board of Oculis (until its NASDAQ IPO), Inflazome (until it was acquired by Roche) and Enterprise Therapeutics (until its TMEM16A program was acquired by Roche).
Prior to joining NVF, Bart held various senior roles in Novartis’ Corporate Legal M&A and BD&L groups. Before joining Novartis in 2009, he was with the Investment Banking Division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York and, before that, he was an attorney with the Corporate/M&A Group at the law firm of Allen & Overy LLP in New York. Bart holds Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees from McGill Law School in Canada and is a member of the New York State Bar.
Rogier Rooswinkel PhD
Non-Executive Director
Rogier is Partner at Forbion where he is responsible for evaluation and structuring of new investment opportunities across all disease areas with an emphasis on oncology. He currently serves as a board member for Amphista, Catalym and Achilles and as a board observer for Enterprise, Prilenia and Escalier
Prior to joining Forbion, Rogier worked as a post-doc at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), division of immunology. In 2013 he received his PhD degree Cum Laude from the University of Amsterdam for the work he performed at the NKI. Before that, he received a Master’s degree in Oncology at the VU university in Amsterdam, NL.
Dominic Schmidt PhD
Non-Executive Director
Dominic joined Advent Life Sciences in April 2022 with a background in biochemistry, genomics, molecular oncology, strategy consulting and life science venture capital.
Prior to joining Advent, he spent eight years as a Partner in the investment team of Syncona, a publicly listed healthcare investment company. During his time there he was involved in the founding, funding and building of several life science businesses and served on the Boards of Anaveon, Orbit Biomedical (merged with Gyroscope), Gyroscope Therapeutics (acquired by Novartis for up to $1.5 billion), Purespring Therapeutics and Forcefield Therapeutics.
After gaining a German Diplom Degree in Biochemistry from the Free University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics he received a PhD from the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge. Dominic was a Cancer Research UK scholar and his research has been published in Cell, Nature and Science. His PhD thesis was recognized with the Pontecorvo and Science & SciLife Lab Prizes.