AMT Appoints New Chief Executive Officer

25-Sep-2009 - Netherlands

Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics announced the appointment of Jörn Aldag as its new Chief Executive Officer, starting October 5. Mr. Aldag has a strong record of accomplishments in the life sciences sector and more than twenty five years of experience in corporate management and finance. As former President and CEO of Evotec AG, he was instrumental in transforming the company from a technology provider to one of the leading drug discovery and development companies in Europe.

Prof. Sander van Deventer will step down as interim-CEO of AMT. He will continue to contribute to AMT as Scientific Advisor.

From 2001 to 2008, Mr. Aldag was President and CEO of Evotec AG, a German company that he transformed from a technology provider into a leading drug discovery and development company with a promising pipeline targeting the central nervous system. He accomplished this through a strategic approach and by achieving the corporate and financial milestones required, including a number of acquisitions and funding rounds. Mr. Aldag started at Evotec as CFO in 1997. Since 2007, Mr. Aldag has also been Chairman of the Board of Molecular Partners in Switzerland. Before joining the life sciences industry Mr. Aldag held senior management positions at MAN, the German Privatization Agency Treuhandanstalt, and at Daimler Benz. From 2002 to 2008 Mr. Aldag also served as a Member of the German Monopoly Commission.

Mr. Aldag holds business degrees from the European Business School and from the Harvard Business School.

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