Gerhard Ries

Dr Gerhard Ries is co-founder of BioMedInvest/BioMedCredit and has a strong background in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and consulting industries.

Previously, Dr Ries was a Partner at InterPharmaLink, a management consulting company, specialising in product portfolio and supply chain optimisation for large Pharma organisations. He also has several years of experience working as a project manager at McKinsey & Co, focusing on Pharma and Life Science companies.

Dr Ries was business development manager at Novartis responsible for licensing opportunities in the Biotech sector. He holds a MS and PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Basel and a diploma in Biotechnology from the Fachhochschule Weihenstephan. Dr Ries has several years of research experience in the Pharma/Biotech sector gained at Ciba Geigy, Boehringer Mannheim, Harvard Medical School and the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry.