Esteban Pombo-Villar

Dr. Esteban Pombo-Villar has over 30 years of experience in biopharmaceutical R&D and business development leadership. Prior to joining TargImmune, he was Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Oxford BioTherapeutics. Prior to that,

Dr. Pombo-Villar spent over 23 years at Novartis and Sandoz, the last 12 years in Business Development and Alliance Management and as Head of Alliance Management at the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research (NIBR).

Dr. Pombo-Villar earned a PhD, MSc and BSc in organic chemistry from the University of Warwick (UK) and was a visiting researcher at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). He then completed postdoctoral studies at the ETH in Zurich. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of several scientific societies, and has completed executive business studies at IMD (MTE, Lausanne), Harvard Business School (US), and the Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth, US).