Leonard Kruimer
Vice-chairman of the board of directors
Nationality: Dutch | Year of Birth: 1958
Leonard Kruimer has been a member of the board since 2022 and vice-chairman of the board since 2026. He is also the chairman of the audit committee and a member of the compensation committee. He is independent in accordance with the Swiss Code of Best Practice for Corporate Governance.
He was member of the investment advisory council of Karmijn Kapitaal from 2013 to 2023 and served in executive and board positions in several biotechnology companies in Europe and the US. He was CFO
and member of the executive team of Crucell N.V. from 1997 to 2011. Prior to Crucell, he held various other senior executive roles in industrial companies like GE Capital. He was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. and an auditor at Price Waterhouse & Company, New York.
Mr. Kruimer is chairman of the board of BioInvent International AB, member of the board of Pharming Group NV, member of the board of Zealand Pharma A/S, and director of AI Global Investments (Netherlands) PCC Ltd.
Mr. Kruimer holds an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, a bachelor degree in accounting and finance, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is a certified public accountant, State University of New York.