Gerd Zettlmeissl

Dr. Zettlmeissl has more than 30 years of scientific and leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. He currently serves as representative of the Board of Directors of several non-profit organizations and biotech companies.

Until early 2015 he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of GlycoVaxyn (Switzerland), an innovative vaccine company acquired by GlaxoSmithKline and until 2020 Chairman of Themis Bioscience (Austria), a vaccine/immunotherapy company acquired by Merck Shark Dhome. He is the former CEO of the Austrian-based biotechnology company Intercell (now Valneva). While at Intercell from 2001 to 2011, he built the company from a private start-up venture to a publicly listed international organization with more than 400 employees. As CEO, he secured global regulatory approval for and led the launch of an improved Japanese Encephalitis vaccine and oversaw efforts to build and advance a broad-based development portfolio of vaccines. Prior to joining Intercell, Dr. Zettlmeissl was Managing Director of Chiron Behring and held senior management roles in biopharmaceutical R&D and Technical Operations at Chiron Corp. and Behringwerke. In 2010, he was named Vaccine Biotech CEO of the Year at the World Vaccine Congress. Dr. Zettlmeissl holds a doctoral degree in biochemistry of the University of Regensburg and did a post- doctoral fellowship at the Institut Pasteur Paris in virology.