Published 30 May, 2018

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Hans Möller appointed new CEO of Karolinska Institutet Holding AB

Karolinska Institutet Holding AB (KI Holding) has recruited Hans Möller as the new CEO for the KI Holding Group. Hans Möller will assume his new position as of July 16. He is presently holding the position as responsible for the Edinburgh BioQuarter at the University of Edinburgh. Hans has extensive experience of working in the interface between academy and industry, including as CEO for Ideon Science Park in Lund and as a founder of Ideonfonden and the incubator Ideon Innovation. Hans acted, until April 2018 as chairman of the board for KI Science Park AB.

We are very happy having recruited Hans as the new CEO of KI Holding. Hans´ experience and knowledge of how to creategood conditions and platforms to explore outcomes of research and education, are extremely valuable, says Karin Dahlman-Wright, Chairman of the Board for KI Holding.

 

KI Holding Group includes the subsidiaries KI Innovations AB, KI Science Park AB and KI Housing AB. The Innovation Office at KI is from January 2018 managed by KI Innovations, which means that counseling, education, guidance, financing, professional networks, expert knowledge in entrepreneurship and business development, and possibilities for incubation within Life Science, are all offered by KI Innovations.

– I very much look forward to leading KI Holding into the future. The possibilities and challenges to create the right conditions, to support innovations within Life Science are many. Sweden in general and KI in particular, has a special position when it comes to world leading research in Life Science. KI Holding must secure an infrastructure that enables this research to beneficial the society, says Hans Möller, elect CEO for the KI Holding group.

 

Prior to  his current position in Edinburgh, Hans worked as Head of Innovations at the North East LEP, based in Newcastle upon Thyme. Hans has also held positions in different start-up companies as well as chairman for the Swedish organization SISP, Swedish Incubators and Science Parks.

 

About KI Holding:

KI Holding has led and managed large parts of Karolinska Institutet’s innovation system since 1995. KI Holding creates the conditions needed for Karolinska Institutet (KI) to act commercially. The operations are largely driven by the wholly-owned subsidiaries KI Innovations AB, KI Housing AB and KI Science Park AB. KI Holding’s most important tasks are to manage shares in research and development companies, to establish joint ownership in promising companies, to provide good infrastructure for start-ups, and to provide administrative services primarily in accounting.  kiholding.se

Contact:

Karin Dahlman- Wright, Chairman of the board  KI Holding, phone number +46 70 726 65 41

Hans Möller, Elect Chief Executive Officer KI Holding, phone number +46 70 916 85 00