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Board of directors

Thomas Meyer

Thomas Meyer

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer

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

Mats Blom

Director

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 member of the Board of Directors of Egetis Therapeutics AB (STO: EGTX), Hansa Biopharma AB (HNSA), Egetis Therapeutics AB (EGTX) 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

Alain Munoz

Director

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.

Margrit Schwarz

Margrit Schwarz

Director

Ms. Schwarz has been a member of our Board of Directors since July 2021. Prior executive positions include Chief Operating Officer of Draupnir Bio, Chief Business Officer at HepaRegeniX, and Chief Scientific Officer and Head of R&D at Genevant Sciences, where she was responsible for developing a portfolio of RNAi and mRNA drug candidates in the liver and rare disease space. Dr. Schwarz has also served as VP & Global Head External Innovation at Roche, VP & Therapeutic Area Head Cardiorenal at Boehringer Ingelheim, and Director Research at Amgen. She has led preclinical R&D and IND-enabling phases for multiple development candidates, including the anti-PCSK9 therapeutic antibody Repatha, launched in 2015. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of Immunethep and EvlaBio, and a contractual Expert with Innosuisse and the European Innovation Council.  She holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Cologne, Germany, and an MBA from Columbia University, NY.