Holger Reithinger

Biography

Holger Reithinger has been a General Partner and Head of the Munich office of Forbion Capital Partners since April 2010. Previously, he was Principal and subsequently Partner at Global Life Science Ventures, a well-established life sciences-focused partnership with offices in Switzerland and Germany. He started his career in venture capital in 1997 as an Investment Manager at Technologieholding VC GmbH, which at that time was one of the leading German venture capital firms. Technologieholding was acquired by 3i Group in early 2000, when Dr. Reithinger became a Director at its Germany's healthcare practice. Prior to this, Dr. Reithinger gained operational experience as a Product Development Manager at Biometra/Whatman Plc (now part of GE Healthcare). Dr. Reithinger has served on the boards of numerous life sciences companies including Epigenomics (IPO 2004), MBT (assets sold to Medigene AG), 4SC (IPO 2005), Fibrex Medical (assets licensed to Ikaria Inc.), Agendia BV, Santaris A/S (sold to Roche 2014) and Cellnovo Limited (2014-2015). Dr. Reithinger currently holds board seats at Curetis (since 2011), Cellnovo Group S.A. (since 2015,  IPO 2015), Allecra Therapeutics GmbH (since 2013), Rigontec GmbH (since 2015) and catalYm GmbH (since 2016). Dr. Reithinger studied Molecular Biology/Microbial Biology and Biochemistry at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich. He holds a PhD in Biochemistry, which he obtained under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra (founder of Forbion's portfolio company Pieris AG) in the department of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Michel (Nobel Laureate 1988) at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics.

Research Interest

Biochemistry