Frank Grams

Chief Commercial Officer at Partex

Speaker

Frank is currently the Chief Commercial Officer of the Partex group and is based in Cham, Switzerland. Before joining Partex he served as the Global Head of Alliance Management and European Head Business Development at Everest Medicines. Prior to Everest, he worked for Sanofi in Paris as VP, Head of R&D Alliance Management & Head of Research Transactions, and later VP, Alliance Management, General Medicines, Emerging Markets and Consumer Health Care.

During his time at Sanofi, he has also been the Risk Management leader of the Strategy & Business Development group and a permanent member of the Corporate Risk Committee.

Prior to joining Sanofi, he built up Roche Pharma Partnering in Asia together with a colleague and based out of Shanghai. Before moving to China he worked in Partnering functions in Basel, Switzerland. He is the inventor and co-organizer of the 1^st greater China Business Plan competition in Healthcare, SEED.

He started his career in Research and served in various Research positions for Roche in Switzerland and for Boehringer Mannheim in Germany. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from TU Munich (MPI Biochemistry, Martinsried, lab of Nobel laureate Robert Huber).