eversyn appoints Dr. Ing. Volker Landschütze as new interim CEO
eversyn today announced the appointment of Dr. Ing. Volker Landschütze as its Chief Executive Officer, following an intensive talent search supported by Max-Planck-Innovation. For the first time since founded, eversyn has its first CEO. In the upcoming year, Volker together with the founding team will prepare the spin-off process for eversyn from Max Planck Society. This will mainly involve follow-on fundraising, creating a vision and growth strategy, foundation and product positioning.
Biography
Volker is currently the Principal of Your Biotech Experts - ybe Berlin, where he is a creative and innovative consultant with proven record of bringing new nutrition and food ingredients to the marketplace.
Volker started his career in food technology at the Institute for Genbiological Research in Berlin (IGF). After obtaining his PhD, he founded PlantTec Biotechnologie GmbH in Potsdam in 1996. The successful company finally became part of Bayer CropScience BioScience with around 100 employees at the site. During over 25 years of his professional career to date, he has successfully founded and managed start-ups and spent many years in a global corporation in management positions, including Product Research Manager, with responsibility for operations and strategy development in the area of new business ventures. In the last years, he managed the production of enzymes and carbohydrates with aevotis GmbH and later evoxx technologies GmbH.
"We are delighted to finally welcome Volker on board as our new CEO. In the past, he already showed his dedicated support for eversyn in the consulting role for our initial business ideas, concepts as well as technical aspects. Based on the previous cooperation, our founding team looks forward to Volker in his new role as not only the guiding light as he used to be but actually the captain of our ship namely eversyn"
- Dr. Thomas Rexer, CTO eversyn