Ulrich Köstlin

Chairman of the Board since 2013. He was a member of the Board of Management of Bayer Schering Pharma AG until 2011 and was responsible for multiple regions globally – Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Japan, and North America. He began his pharmaceutical career with Schering AG as a management trainee in 1982. Over the years, he served as General Manager for several subsidiaries of Schering AG across the globe, including from 1990 to 1993 as Vice President Sales and Marketing and General Manager Diagnostic Imaging of the U.S. subsidiary. In 1994, Ulrich was appointed to the former Schering AG’s Executive Board. He currently serves as Curator of the AREPO Foundation, Liechtenstein, and is Deputy Chairman on the Boards of Constantia Flexibles AG, Vienna, and Director on the Board of Universitätklinikum Würzburg, Germany. Ulrich studied law at the Universities of Erlangen and Tübingen in Germany, and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. He holds a Dr. iur. Doctorate from Tübingen University and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Ulrich is the Chairman of Newron’s Compensation and Nomination Committee.