Frank was previously the VP, Head of R&D Alliance Management and later VP, Alliance Management, General Medicines, Emerging Markets and Consumer Health Care at Sanofi. During his many years at Sanofi he also served as the Risk Management leader of the Strategy & Business Development group and was a permanent member of the Sanofi Corporate Risk Committee. He also served as an Advisory Board member of ASAP(Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals).

Prior to Sanofi, he was with Roche in a number of senior Business Development roles. As Executive Director, Pharma Partnering, he helped to build Roche’s business development function in the Asia Pacific region and was based out of Shanghai. Before moving to China, he led Roche’s Lifecycle Management Partnering Group in Basel.

Frank also served in various Research positions for Roche in Switzerland and for Boehringer Mannheim in Germany. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from TU Munich (MPI Biochemistry, Martinsried, lab of Nobel laureate Robert Huber). He also holds a Non-Executive Director Diploma of Financial Times/Pearson.

Frank is currently serving as the SVP Global Head of Alliance Management and European Head Business Development at Everest Medicines

Frank is a consultant and senior advisor to Novitious, LLC.