Board of Directors

Jón Sigurdsson
Chairman of the board

Born 1956. B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA). Board member since 2015. Member of the Remuneration Committee.

Independent of the company and corporate management.

Other assignments
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Previous assignments
President and CEO at Össur. Chairman of the Icelandic American Chamber of Commerce. Commercial Counselor for the Icelandic Trade Council in New York, CFO at Álafoss, Head of the International Division of Eimskip and Engineer for Bang and Olufsen Denmark.

Shareholding in Vitrolife*: 30,400 shares.

Henrik Blomquist

Born 1971. University studies in Business Administration. Board member since 2019. Member of the Remuneration Committee.

Independent of the company and corporate management.

Other assignments
CEO of Bure Equity AB and CEO ACQ Bure AB. Chairman of the board of Mercuri International Group AB, Bure Growth AB and Atle Investment Management AB.

Previous assignments
Experience of investment operations and corporate development. Investment manager at Skanditek Industriförvaltning, analyst in ACR Venture Management.

Shareholding in Vitrolife*: 0 shares.

 

Lars Holmqvist

Born 1959. MSc in Business Administration. Board member since 2018. Member of the Audit Committee.

Independent of the company, corporate management and Vitrolife's major shareholders.

Other assignments
Chairman of the board in Biovica International AB. Board member in the Lundbeck Foundation, H Lundbeck A/S, ALK-Abelló A/S and Naga Top.-Co UK.

Previous assignments
Senior Advisor within healthcare at Bain Capital. Senior management positions in pharma and medtech companies including Agilent, Dako, Applied Biosystems Inc., Medtronic Europe Sarl, Boston Scientific Europe and Pharmacia.

Shareholding in Vitrolife*: 0 shares.

Vesa Koskinen

Born 1979. M.Sc. (Econ.) degree with a major in Finance. Board member since 2021. Member of the Audit Committee.  

Independent of the company, corporate management and Vitrolife's major shareholders.

Other assignments
Partner and member of the global healthcare sector team at EQT. Board member of kfzteile24, Desotec and ELEVATE.

Previous assignments
Board member of Touhula, Igenomix, Musti Group, Karo Pharma, Terveystalo, Vertu, Roeser Group, Swiss Smile, VTI Technologies and Lundhags.

Shareholding in Vitrolife*: 0 shares

Pia Marions

Born 1963. M.Sc. in Business and Economics. Board member since 2013. Chairman of the Audit Committee.

Independent of the company, corporate management and Vitrolife's major shareholders.

Other assignments
CFO of Skandia. Board member in Duni, Skandiabanken, Skandia Fastighet and Svenska Revisionsakademin.

Previous assignments
CFO of Folksam, CFO of Carnegie Group, senior positions at RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland), Skandia Liv, Länsförsäkringar Liv, Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) and has worked as certified public auditor.

Shareholding in Vitrolife*: 5,000 shares.

Karen Lykke Sørensen

Born 1962. Master of Science, Danish Technical University and MBA, INSEAD. Board member since 2020. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

Independent of the company, corporate management and Vitrolife's major shareholders.

Other assignments
CEO of Philips Capital.

Previous assignments
Senior management positions in Philips, Sanofi and Biogen. Board member of MEDA, Orifarm, Danish Technical University/SCION, EKF: Danish Export Credit Fund (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Shareholding in Vitrolife*: 0 shares.

* including holdings of spouse, children and closely related companies