Gerhard Ries

Dr. Gerhard Ries is Managing Partner of LifeCare Partners, a dedicated venture capital and private equity firm in the European healthcare sector. Gerhard has more than 20 years of global pharma industry and venture capital experience as both entrepreneur and investor. He supervised more than 50 investments in life science companies and served on the board of more than 20 companies. Gerhard has a strong scientific and operational background and held various corporate positions at McKinsey, Novartis, Ciba Geigy and Boehringer Mannheim and was co-founder and Managing Partner of BioMedPartners. Gerhard holds a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Basel as well as a M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from the Fachhochschule Weihenstephan.