Management
Anthony Rees (Chief Executive Officer)
Anthony Rees took over as CEO in March 2004. He was previously Scientific Director at the French Biotech company Synt:em and before that Head of the School of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Bath, UK. He was on the Faculty of Oxford University from 1980-1990 from where he obtained his doctorate, and in 1989 was scientific co-founder of the software company, Oxford Molecular plc, which went public in 1994 and was later the subject of a trade sale. He is a non-Executive Board member of the biotechnology company, f-star (Vienna).
Ecevit Yilmaz (Chief Technology Officer)
After a Master´s degree in Biotechnology from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) including a period at the University of Colorado, he conducted his PhD studies at the Lund Institute of Technology (Sweden) in the area of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers. He has over 15 years experience in the fields of imprinted polymers and separation materials and joined MIP Technologies in 2003. He is currently Chief Technology Officer.
Ola Karlsson (Vice President for Production)
Ola Karlsson joined January 2006 and is responsible for production, process development and environmental issues. He came from Celanese Emulsions, Frankfurt where he was a R&D Manager with global responsibilities for binder development in the area of coatings. Prior to that he was a R&D manager at Celanese Emulsions Norden AB where he worked with polymer dispersions development and scaling up to process scale. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Technology at Lund University 1997 and has maintained his academic interests in polymers. In 2003 he became Associate Professor in Polymer Science and Engineering at Lund University's Physical Chemistry department.
Olof Svensson (Financial controller)
Olof Svensson was employed March 2006 as head of Finance, Human Resources and Administration. He previously worked at Swedish Meats for 13 years in different positions and has a total of 21 years of experience in economics and administrative positions. Olof is a Graduate Business Administrator from the University of Lund.
