Hege Hellstrom

Hege Hellstrom is currently Chief Commercial Officer in Advicenne, a French pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative treatments in Nephrology. She is a non-executive board member of Vivesto AB since 2019 and Camurus AB since 2020, both public Swedish companies and she is also a member of the Audit Committee in both companies. She is the founder and managing director of Belnor BV, an investment and consulting company.

Mrs. Hellstrom has more than 30 years’ experience in sales, marketing, strategy development, commercialization, partner alliances and executive management. From 2013 to 2018, she worked as President Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Russia in Sobi, a Swedish biopharmaceutical company where she led several launches in rare diseases such as hemophilia and metabolic diseases. Before Sobi, she worked in Genzyme for 11 years in roles ranging from General manager in Benelux to head of Renal and Endocrine business in Europe, LATAM and JAPAC. When Genzyme was acquired by Sanofi she continued as Global Vice-president of Cardiovascular products in Sanofi. Before Genzyme she worked in Baxter Healthcare for 13 years.

Hege holds a B.Sc. as Biomedical Laboratory Scientist from Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.