J. H. Egberts

Biography

Dr. Egberts has over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and medical devices sector. Currently, Dr Egberts serves as the Managing Partner of Veritas Investments, a private investment company focused on minority and controlling investments in healthcare companies. Dr Egberts gained his medical degree from Erasmus University Medical School in the Netherlands and pursued the clinical part of his medical training at Harvard Medical School. Dr Egberts also obtained an MBA from Stanford University. After Stanford, he joined McKinsey & Co. as a strategic consultant in New York. Dr Egberts subsequently held various business development and general management positions of increasing responsibility in the USA at Merck & Co. and Johnson & Johnson. Thereafter, he served as Senior Advisor, Healthcare Investments for 3i, the private equity firm. Dr Egberts then became CEO of OctoPlus, a publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company in the Netherlands. OctoPlus was subsequently acquired by Dr Reddy Laboratories. After this, Dr Egberts joined Agendia, a molecular diagnostics company, initially as board member and subsequently full time as interim CEO. Dr Egberts also has held over 15 executive and non-executive supervisory board positions in the U.S.A. and various European countries.

Research Interest

Medicine