Daniel Cohen, Chief Executive Officer
Ilya Chumakov, Chief Scientific Officer
Loïc Heidsieck, Chief Financial Officer
Lyse Santoro, Chief Commercial Officer
Daniel Cohen, MD, PhD – Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
| Professor of Medical Genetics, founder of CEPH, Genethon and Millenium, former CSO at Genset and Global VP for Genetics at Serono. A founder of modern genetics, genomics and pharmacogenomics. Over 100 peer-reviewed papers (including 28 in high impact journals), more than 20 granted patents and many national and international awards and honors. |
Ilya Chumakov, PhD, D-Sc – Board Member & Chief Scientific Officer
| PhD in Chemistry, D-Sc in Molecular Biology, very broad scientific culture and experience in genetics, genomics, molecular pharmacology and drug development, former director at CEPH, Genset and Serono Genetics Institute. Author of 87 peer- reviewed papers, including 14 in high-impact journals. Cited as an Inventor on 28 patents. |
Loic Heidsieck – Chief Financial Officer
| Senior manager with strong experience in multinational companies; High experience in financial management, organization of procedures, resource planning, project organization. 1976-1990: Auditor at Arthur Young, Financial Director at Autologic France and Franklin Mint France; 1991-1998: Serono, Administrative and Financial Director European operations. 1999-2002: Serono Geneva, Worldwide Corporate Controller; 2003-2006: General Manager of the Serono Genetics Institute (ex-Genset). |
Lyse Santoro, PhD – Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer
| Graduated in Biology from Ecole Normale Supérieure, "Agrégation" in Biology, PhD in Immunology. Over the last 15 years, she held variety of strategic and operational management positions in industries (Transgene, bioMerieux, Pierre Fabre and IPSEN). She served as the advisor on Innovation to the French Minister of Research. She headed G5-R&D and was an Executive Board Member of the MEDICEN Paris Région cluster. She serves as an expert for AERES, for French research assessment. |