Rainer Christine (Chair)

• Co-founder and CEO of amaxa, a German-based life science company with 160 employees
• Active in the field of venture capital, as private investor and advisory board memeber of several life science companies
• Advisor to the Charité Biomedical Fund an advisory board member of the Cluster Industrial Biotechnology
• Co-founder and managing partner of Science to Market Venture Capital

Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Tass

• Founder of ANM
• Director of the Institute for Neurosciences ans Medical Neuromodulatio (INM-7) at Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Professor of neuromodulation and director of the research focus on neuromodulation at Cologne University
• Study of medicine, mathematics and physics in Germany

Balthasar Gretener

• Owner and managing director of numerous industrial enterprises
• Study of business administration in Switzerland

• Founder and former Chairman of Wavelight Laser Technology AG based in the „Medical Valley“ in Erlangen / Germany with more than 250 employees
• Awarded with the „Europe’s 500 Award“ as one of the fastest growing companies 2001 / 2002 and the German Business Founder Award
• Chairman and Co-Founder of Vision for the World e.V.

Dr. Klaus Zimmermann

• Co-founder of ANM
• Solicitor: involved in numerous start-ups in the fields of medical technology and bio-technology
• Member of the advisory board in numerous large international corporations
• Study of law in Germany, Switzerland, France and the USA

Gerhard Rühl

• Held various General Management positions in the area of biotech research, diagnostics and medical instruments at globally acting companies
• Consultant in the area portfolio management, strategic marketing and distribution strategies
• Study of Industrial Engineering and Business Administration in Germany

Scientific committee:

• Co-founder of ANM
• Director of the Clinic of Stereotaxis and Functional Neurosurgery
  at Cologne University Clinic
  
• Study of medicine in Germany

• Co-founder of ANM
• Neurologist, professor emeritus of neurology at Düsseldorf University
• Continues to supervise one the largest groups of patients to be treated with brain pacemakers
• Study of medicine in Germany and England