Jørgen Thorball

MD, Serial International Entrepreneur & Corporate Advisor

Founder and Managing Partner XOventure

 

Jørgen started his first companies in the early 80s before he was headhunted twice to corporate management positions in the pharmaceutical industry (Pharmacia and Aventis) from 1990 to 1997, being responsible for billion dollar product brands and the establishment and merger of companies. In this period he gained hands on experience in hospital, specialist, GP, OTC and consumer product development, sales & marketing as well as corporate branding. The vision for building own products and businesses drove him to become founder and director of BioGaia HealthCare Sweden in 1997. A range of products based on his inventions was developed and several corporate deals were signed (representing a turnover of EUR 15 million today). In 2001 Jørgen was headhunted to Novozymes as Vice President Business Development to repeat what he did for BioGaia and create new business as a second leg to the enzymes business. Through a series of M&A transactions and innovations, this was accomplished in 2007 with a business approaching 150 million Euro.

 

Jørgen Thorball has a track record as co-founder and chariman of a range of Biotech, Medtech and IT companies, amongst them Pergamum, ViroGates, YourGlobalEye, Vivostat, Alsensa, Lina-Medical, iMotions and MYC4.com. He himself is inventor of several medical applications, including the first internet-SMS based patient alert system (1996), various clinical delivery systems (1995, 1999, 2001, 2003) and biomaterial patents (2005, 2006). He is on the board of BioGaia and GazelleGrowth, the latter assisting Danish SMEs entering the US market. In 2003 he co-founded www.BiotechBuilders.com. In 2006 he co-authored two books on innovation and is today frequent speaker at seminars as well as Executive MBA courses.