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WELCOME PHARMA LICENSING GROUPS 12th Annual BIOTECH IN EUROPE SPEAKERS INVESTOR FORUM 1st-2nd October 2012 PRESENTING COMPANIES Hilton Zurich Airport Hotel, Switzerland Conference Guide SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTING ORGANISERS www.sachsforum.com BIOTECH IN EUROPE INVESTOR FORUM WELCOME next u Welcome PHARMA LICENSING Sachs Associates are delighted to welcome you to the: 12th Annual Biotech in Europe GROUPS Investor Forum 1st-2nd October 2012 Hilton Zurich Airport Hotel, Switzerland Sachs Associates are delighted to welcome you to the 12th Annual Biotech in Europe Investor SPEAKERS Forum. Following the success of previous years, the forum once again provides access to an exciting cross-section of venture-funded and small-cap companies with leading investors and pharmas. This Forum is highly transactional and is comprised of a series of panels and presentations from leading investment, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, each one providing an expert outlook on growth and investment activity in Europe’s Biotech industry. The programme highlights the current issues surrounding the evolving M&A market, the Private PRESENTING COMPANIES Equity & Venture Capital environment and a special session on major trends in Partnering. Plus, this year’s programme features more than 70 company presentations from a range of publicly listed and private life science companies looking to raise finance and/or find partners. General Information The registration desk will be open from 8am on October 1st and from 8.15am on October 2nd although you are welcome to join the event at any time. Please collect a copy of the agenda for information on timing and room allocation for each session. Networking at the Forum is facilitated by our online 1-2-1 meeting system, which is available to all participants. ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTING A Networking Lunch will be set up in the Zurich A & B rooms. Coffee stations will be set up in the Zurich A & B rooms and the presentation rooms throughout the event. Request for Presentations Please use the agenda to mark off presentations that you are interested in and email your request to [email protected] after the conference. We will endeavour to send you the requested presentations as soon as we have been granted permission to do so by that specific presenter. Please note that we DO NOT have copies of the slides that are shown during the conference. ORGANISERS t WELCOME back Events Diary PHARMA LICENSING For regular updates, sponsorship, presenting and attending opportunities and further information regarding any of our future events please contact Zoe Harris on [email protected] 6th Annual GROUPS European Life Science CEO Forum For Partnering & Investing 5th – 6th March 2013 • Zurich • Switzerland Back for its sixth year, this exclusive and highly transactional partnering event is a must for companies wishing to meet with their peers, engage with leading investors and forge new SPEAKERS partnerships. Building on the success of this year’s event, the forum will provide an excellent platform to gain insight into partnering and investment trends in the Biotech and Pharma industry. Networking at the Forum is facilitated by our online 1-2-1 meeting system, which is available to all participants. The conference will feature up to 8 presentations by large to mid size pharmaceutical companies looking for strategic alliances/partners. PRESENTING COMPANIES Do not miss out on this great opportunity to meet emerging companies, leading global investors and Big Pharma representatives! Annual Cancer Bio Partnering Forum Promoting Public & Private Sector, Collaboration & Investment in Drug Development 21st – 22nd May 2013 • Boston • USA SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTING 13th Annual Biotech in Europe Investor Forum 30th September – 1st October 2013 • Zurich • Switzerland ORGANISERS WELCOME Pharma Licensing Groups PHARMA LICENSING Pharma www.amgen.co.uk Licensing Groups www.astellas.eu represented at the GROUPS www.biogenidec.co.uk Forum www.helsinn.com www.ipsen.com SPEAKERS www.jnj.com www.menarini-biotech.com PRESENTING COMPANIES www.merck.com www.merckserono.co.uk/en/index.html www.norgine.com www.novartisoncology.com SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTING www.novartisvaccines.com www.pierre-fabre.com www.roche.com www.sanofi.com ORGANISERS www.nycomed.com WELCOME Speakers PHARMA LICENSING Alexey Eliseev, Managing Director, Maxwell Biotech Alexey received his PhD in Chemistry from Moscow State University and MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His career includes over 17 years of experience in academia, biotechnology industry and venture capital. Dr. Eliseev has been working in the United States and Europe since 1992. Following three years of postdoctoral research in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and in the US, he joined faculty at the department of Medicinal Chemistry, GROUPS University at Buffalo in 1995 where he was awarded tenure in 2000. In 1999 he co-founded the company Therascope (later Alantos Pharmaceuticals) with a number of prominent founders including French Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Lehn. The company used a novel drug discovery technology developed in several academic labs, including Eliseev’s group in Buffalo. He joined the company in 2000 and later became Chief Technology Officer of Alantos and President of its US division. Alantos was acquired by Amgen in 2007 for $300 million. Over the recent years Alexey was involved in starting several biotech companies as a scientist and entrepreneur, including AC Immune (Switzerland) and Boston BioCom (US). Alexey has been working with the Russian-based Maxwell Biotech Venture Fund as its Managing Director since 2009. He is responsible for international activity of the Fund and has managed numerous t back :: deals with portfolio companies in the US and Europe. SPEAKERS next Allan Marchington, Partner, Apposite Capital u Allan is a founder and Partner at Apposite Capital a London based healthcare investor. Allan was formerly at Abingworth management and prior to this was a member of Millennium Pharmaceuticals management team as an Senior Vice President with responsibility for technology Investments. He also served as Chairman of Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Europe. Allan joined Millennium following their acquisition in July 2000 of Cambridge Discovery Chemistry, where he was CEO and founder. Allan began his career as a medicinal chemist at Pfizer Central Research. PRESENTING COMPANIES Allan is a Board member of the BioIndustry Association, Ambit Biosciences Inc., Ambrx Inc., Anaphore Inc., and Convergence Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Dr Andreas Caduff, CEO, BioVoition AG Andreas was born in 1971 and is a Swiss citizen. He held various positions in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. In his previous position he was serving as CTO of Solianis Monitoring AG, a company focusing on noninvasive glucose monitoring. At Solianis, he orchestrated the overall technology and product development, experimental/clinical study strategies, regulatory considerations, external technical communication and interaction with the industrial/scientific community, regulatory bodies as well as the investor’s community. He is an expert in physiological monitoring techniques and involved physiological/metabolic processes, combining the expertise in various fields relevant to the development, industrialisation and commercialisation of such technologies. Dr. Caduff is a frequent invited speaker at industrial and scientific conferences and meetings on physiological monitoring, mobile Health and related subjects. He has innovated numerous patents and co-authored several dozen scientific publications in peer reviewed journals. He holds a BSc degree ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTING in Chemistry from the University of Applied Science, Winterthur, Switzerland, an MSc degree in Biotechnology and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Teesside, UK and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Anne Altmeyer, Executive Director Business Development & Licensing, Novartis Oncology Anne is a Vice President in Business Development and Licensing in the Oncology Business Unit at Novartis, USA. Her responsibilities are to in-license or acquire Oncology assets that can further strengthen the Novartis Oncology portfolio. In this role, she identifies, evaluates, and negotiates transactions for oncology opportunities. She also manages several ongoing alliances. Anne has over 15 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry working in positions of increasing responsibilities in Research, Development, and Business Development and Licensing. Anne joined the Oncology Project Management group of Novartis in 2004 as a Project Leader. There she led numerous multidisciplinary Project Teams through the generation and implementation of strategies for various compounds in development and on the market. Before joining Novartis, Anne worked as a Project Manager at Merck & Co. for close to 4 years and as a Visiting Research Scientist for 2 years. Anne received her Ph.D. in Molecular Immunology from Strasbourg University, France. She then performed a postdoctoral ORGANISERS fellowship at New York University School of Medicine, USA, and subsequently became a Research Associate at Cornell University Medical College, New York, USA. In addition to her scientific training, Anne also received a Master in Business Administration and a Master in Public Health from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/Rutgers, USA. WELCOME Speakers PHARMA LICENSING Arthur