Board of directors
Thomas Meyer
Thomas Meyer founded Auris Medical (renamed Altamira Therapeutics) in April 2003 and was the Company's sole shareholder until the end of 2007. Prior to founding Auris Medical, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Disetronic Group, a leading Swiss supplier of precision infusion and injection systems. He worked for Disetronic in various functions starting in 1988, becoming member of the Board of Directors in 1996, Deputy Chief Executive Officer in 1999 and Chief Executive Officer in early 2000. Prior to joining Disetronic, he advised several Swiss companies in strategy, marketing and corporate finance. Thomas Meyer served on the Board of Directors of several small and medium sized Swiss industrial companies; in some of them he was also a key investor. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration (Dr.rer.pol.) from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Mats Blom
Mr. Blom has been a member of our Board of Directors since April 2017. Mr. Blom is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of NorthSea Therapeutics B.V., a biotechnology company focused on oral, structurally-engineered lipid therapeutics. Prior to joining NorthSea, he served as CFO of Modus Therapeutics A/B, a biotechnology company developing therapeutics to restore healthy blood flow for patients with debilitating diseases, Zealand Pharma A/B, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery, design and development of innovative peptide-based medicines, and Swedish Orphan International, an orphan drug company acquired by BioVitrum in 2009. In addition, Mr. Blom has extensive managerial experience and has held CFO positions at Active Biotech AB and Anoto Group AB. Previously, he served as a management consultant at Gemini Consulting and Ernst & Young. He is currently a Chairman of the Board of Directors of Egetis Therapeutics AB (STO: EGTX) and a member of the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma AB (HNSA) and Pephexia Therapeutics ApS. Mats Blom holds a BA in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Lund and an MBA from IESE University of Navarra, Barcelona.
Alain Munoz
Mr. Munoz, MD, has been a member of our Board of Directors since March 2018 and previously served on our Board of Directors between 2007 and 2015. Mr. Munoz is an entrepreneur and independent management consultant in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. From 1990 to 2000, Dr. Munoz worked with the Fournier Group, as Research and Development Director and then Senior Vice President of the Pharmaceutical Division. He joined Fournier from Sanofi Research, where he started as Director in the cardiovascular and anti-thrombotic products department and then as Vice President international development. Dr. Munoz is qualified in cardiology and anesthesiology from the University Hospital of Montpellier, France where he was head of the clinical cardiology department. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the French Drug Agency. He serves as an independent Board Member of Zealand Pharma A/S (ZEAL.CO) and is a Chairman of the Board of Directors of Acticor Biotech SAS.
Dominik Lysek
Mr. Lysek is an entrepreneur and member of the Board of Directors of various start-up companies. He currently serves as the CEO of PharmaTrail Ltd., a provider of blockchain-based clinical trial software. In 2010 he founded credentis ag, a Swiss company dedicated to the development of a self-assembling peptide for dental enamel regeneration. Supported by venture capital and private investors, he led and grew the company up to its profitable sale to vVardis AG in 2020. Prior to founding credentis, Mr. Lysek worked as clinical project manager in the biotech and medtech industry. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of ActivCell Group AG, Enzian Health AG, PharmaTrail AG, and Stiftung Futuri (non-profit). He obtained a Master of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and holds a PhD in Biophysics from ETH Zurich, where he worked in the research group of Nobel laureate Kurt Wüthrich.