Sven has been working in the Life Science industry for the last 15 years. He is currently General Manager for Asian Growth Markets for GE Healthcare, Life Sciences. He joined GE in 2005 as Head of Marketing for Protein Separations in Uppsala, Sweden and later became the CMO for the Life Science business. In that role, Sven was responsible for marketing, strategy and business development. Sven came to GE from the Monitor Group, the strategy consulting firm, where he was a senior member of the Pharma / Biotech practice based in San Francisco and Paris. Prior to that he was a San Francisco based product and account manager for Incyte Genomics and research scientist for Bayer Corporation. Sven received a B.S. (1989) and M.S. (1993) in molecular biology from the University of Duesseldorf, Germany and spent 1993 to 1996 as a PhD student in HIV research with Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.