Walter V. Klemp

Wally Klemp is an experienced and successful entrepreneur with 30 years of company-building history. He has founded multiple Houston-based biotech companies collaborating with MD Anderson Cancer Center, including Moleculin Biotech, Inc, which he took public in 2016 . He has focused the last 15 years on developing and marketing therapeutic devices and drugs from concept through FDA approval. Prior to that, Mr. Klemp was founder, CEO and Chairman of Drypers Corporation, a publicly traded multinational consumer products company, growing Drypers from start-up to nearly $500 million in annualized sales and #1 on the INC 500 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies, and earning the American Marketing Association’s Gold Edison Award. He developed growth strategies, orchestrated mergers and acquisitions, and had direct responsibility for nearly $.75 billion in public and private financings.