Owkin appoints biotech leader Andreas Emmenegger as Chief Financial Officer
Andreas will manage investor relations, fundraising and financial strategy at Owkin, supporting its mission of using AI to find the right treatment for every patient.
Andreas has more than 20 years of experience as the CFO of public and private multinational companies, including 15 years in the biotech industry. Andreas was CFO of Swiss biopharma company Molecular Partners from 2007 to 2022, where he led the capital raising in private and public equity and IPOs on the SIX Swiss Exchange in 2014 and on the Nasdaq in 2021. Prior to this, he was CFO of Glycart Biotechnology AG, Head of Strategic Alliance Finance (Genentech) for Roche. Since 2016, Andreas has been a member of the board of directors of the Luzerner Kantonalbank, a publicly listed Swiss bank.
Thomas Clozel, Co-founder and CEO of Owkin, said:
I am excited to work with Andreas to further unleash the power of Owkin’s world-leading AI and data expertise to benefit patients and doctors. His decades of experience at the top of biotech and finance will help us to achieve our mission of finding the right treatment for every patient.
Andreas Emmenegger, Chief Financial Officer at Owkin, said:
I am thrilled to join Owkin's leadership team and to contribute to building the world's premier AI biotech. I am impressed by their unrivalled power of collective intelligence with its innovative de-centralized data infrastructure that has the potential to revolutionize drug development in terms of speed, costs and, most importantly, patient benefit.
Together with the Owkin team, I look forward to helping the company create long term value for investors, healthcare providers and patients, always true to its culture and mission.
About Owkin
Owkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models, multimodal patient data, and agentic software. At the heart of this system is Owkin K, an AI copilot and its new LLM finetuned on biology called Owkin Zero, used by researchers, clinicians, and drug developers to better understand biology, validate scientific hypotheses, and deliver better diagnostics and therapies faster.