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Meet the team

We bring together a successful team of entrepreneurs and life-science investors that help us achieve outstanding returns and enhance scientific breakthroughs.

Investment team

Nils Regge
Nils Regge
Co-Founder & General Partner
Nils is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for biomedicine. As co-founder of TruVenturo, he has helped over 30 early-stage startups raise funding, with three achieving valuations over $100M.
Dr. Ole Mensching
Dr. Ole Mensching
Co-Founder & General Partner
Ole is a serial entrepreneur, HR expert and former board member of hyper-growth companies with more than 10 years of investment and operational experience who previously co-founded and sold CareerTeam.
Dr. Marianne Mertens
Dr. Marianne Mertens
Partner
Marianne has more than ten years of experience in the life science industry spanning venture investing, strategy consulting and research and was previously with Wellinton Partners as well as High-Tech Gründerfonds.
Jan Adams, Ph.D., MBA
Jan Adams, Ph.D., MBA
Partner
Jan is a Kauffman Fellow, who previously headed commercial activities at the Merck KGaA Innovation Center and was Managing Director of early stage VC EMBL Ventures.
Dr. Alexandra Bause
Dr. Alexandra Bause
Co-Founder & Venture Partner
Alexandra is dedicated to longevity research since her studies at Harvard and is responsible for identifying company building opportunities with global leading research institutes and researchers.
Dr. Anela Vukoja
Dr. Anela Vukoja
COO
Anela specializes on R&D strategy and on developing and implementing data-driven processes after previously consulting Top Tier VCs and hedge funds at boutique consultancy Cantenion.
Frederick Beddingfield MD, Ph.D.
Frederick Beddingfield MD, Ph.D.
Executive Partner
Laurent Audoly, Ph.D.
Laurent Audoly, Ph.D.
Executive Partner
Chris Shepard, Ph.D.
Chris Shepard, Ph.D.
Venture Partner
Chris has supported over $1.5bn in investments and transactions in biotechnology/pharma spanning research, development, clinical trial design, and personalized medicine and biomarkers.
Dr. Gerd Hummel
Dr. Gerd Hummel
Executive Vice President R&D
Gerd has more than 20 years of experience in pharma R&D and previously led research and R&D, among others in the field at Jerini and Oryzon Genomics (leading drug development in epigenetic-based therapeutics).
Dr. Stefan Hoenow
Dr. Stefan Hoenow
Principal Scientist & Venture Developer
Stefan uses his scientific background to develop projects and design experiments to understand various aspects of aging, specializing in the aging immune system and identifying models to test molecular interventions.
Pascale Eede, Ph.D.
Pascale Eede, Ph.D.
Venture Developer
Pascale works on internal venture creation and external investments using her background in early-stage drug discovery. Her works has been published in high-ranking scientific journals.

Strategic & operations team

Dr. Steven Leunert
Dr. Steven Leunert
Partner & CFO
Steven is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany and New York and is involved with many operational tasks as well as deal structuring based his previous experience as a corporate lawyer.
Marcel Behringer
Marcel Behringer
Head of Legal & Tax
Michelle Hohmann
Michelle Hohmann
Senior HR Manager & Recruiter
Michelle recruits best-in-class talent for Apollo and its portfolio companies and holds degrees in biotechnology and biomedical sciences.
Lia Goedecke
Lia Goedecke
Senior Recruiter
Lia hires excellent teams for Apollo’s portfolio companies after previously working as a principal recruiter for one of the best in class agencies specialized in the life sciences industry.
Kevin C. Gabel
Kevin C. Gabel
Operations Manager
Kevin supports Apollo’s operations team through his experience as a commercial lawyer.

Advisory board

Dr. Jens Eckstein
Dr. Jens Eckstein
Advisor
Dr. Jeanne Bolger
Dr. Jeanne Bolger
Advisor
Rob Scott MD
Rob Scott MD
Advisor

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Apollo Health Ventures is always looking for highly motivated candidates who share our passion for transformative healthcare companies.

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