Dr. Florent Gros
Board of Directors
okairos
Italy
Biography
Florent leads the private equity investments into European-based healthcare start-ups for Novartis Venture Fund. He also serves on the boards of Neovacs, Nanopowers, Opsona, Immune Targeting Systems,Cellerix and Merus. Previously, Florent has held various positions in intellectual property (IP) and venture areas starting his career at Nestlé and then at Merieux Connaught in France (now Sanofi-Pasteur) as the European head of the IP Department. More recently, Florent joined the Novartis Corporate IP Department in Switzerland and was a member of Novartis Pharma and Research Executive Licensing Committees and established the Novartis patent department in Cambridge, USA. Florent is a Kaufmann Fellow (class 12), holds a biotechnology engineering degree in France, and wrote his diploma thesis on vaccines at Glaxo-Vaccine in Belgium. He also holds European and French patent lawyer degrees, and a masters in private law.
Research Interest
business
