Dr. Magistretti was on the board of fellows of the Harvard Medical School for ten years. He was a Member of the Executive Committee and Head of Wealth Management at Renaissance Investment Management, Moscow from August 2006 to January 2008. Prior to joining Renaissance Investment Management, Dr. Magistretti was with UBP for two years where he was a Member of the Executive Committee and Head of Private Banking. Dr. Magistretti was with Lazard Group for more than ten years, where he was General Partner at Lazard Frères & Co., New York (from January 1994 to January 2002) and Managing Director at Lazard Brothers, London (from January 2002 to February 2004) and CEO of Crédit Agricole Lazard Financial Products Bank, London (derivatives subsidiary of Lazard Group) from April 1995 to June 2003. Prior to that, Dr. Magistretti held executive positions at AIG and Solomon brothers. He holds an MBA from IMD (Lausanne), a Doctorate from the University of Geneva (1982-1984) (Nuclear Medicine), is a Fellow of Harvard Medical School (1980-1982) and received his MD degree from the University of Geneva in 1980. He also holds a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Geneva.

Pierre J. Magistretti, MD, PhD is Honorary Professor of Neuroscience at the Brain Mind Institute of EPFL, Professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Professor of Psychiatry at the Centre for Psychiatric Neuroscience at the University of Lausanne Medical School and Hospital (CHUV). Professor Magistretti’s laboratory has discovered some of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the coupling between neuronal activity and energy consumption by the brain. These findings are particularly relevant for understanding the origin of the signals detected by functional brain imaging, the role of nutrients in brain function and the mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases.  He was elected at International Chair 2007-2008 at the Collège de France, Paris. He is a member of Academia European and of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. He is the former President of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS, 2002 – 2004) and President of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO, 2013 – 2020). He has been on the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT, 2010 – 2014) and of the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO). Professor Magistretti has been member of the Scientific Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2004 – 2012) and its on Scientific Advisory Boards of several academic research laboratories. He is the author of close to 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He is a co-founder of Lyncée Tech, a company producing microscopes based on cutting-edge technology such as digital holographic microscopy. He is strongly engaged for the public understanding of neuroscience.

Prof. Richard Frackowiak was Professor and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Université de Lausanne (UNIL) and its Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV). Formerly he was Professor of Cognitive Neurology at University College London (UCL), Director of the Department of Cognitive Studies (DEC) at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, Vice-Provost of UCL and Dean-Director of its Institute of Neurology. He founded the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience in 1994. Prof. Frackowiak has an MA and MD from Cambridge (Peterhouse), a DSc from London University, an honorary medical doctorate from Liege University and an honorary professorship from UCL. He is a former president of the British Neuroscience Association and of the European Brain and Behaviour Society and was a scientific advisor to the Director-General of Inserm (France). He is a former Wellcome Trust Principal Clinical Research Fellow. He has served on academic and industrial scientific advisory boards worldwide including the French presidential commission on the future of the CHU (University Hospitals), the Swiss inter-cantonal commission on highly specialised medicine and the GSK neuroscience advisory board. His interest is in human brain structure and function relationships in health and disease. His scientific output of 503 papers and “Human Brain Function” are highly cited with an h-index of 163 and over 165 citations per paper. He has won the Ipsen, Wilhelm Feldberg and Klaus Joachim Zulch prizes.

Mr. Tetard is the Founder and CEO of the Stragen Group (100 million CHF in revenues), active in pharma (R&D, registration, distribution) and chemical business. He was also a board member of Chemgenex Pharmaceuticals Ltd, an Australian/American public biotech company, before it was acquired by Cephalon Pharmaceuticals. He previously was head of chemical division of the Sanofi Group for 15 years in charge of 5 chemical manufacturing plants in the world. He graduated in economical sciences from the University of Paris.

Mr. Pettigrew joined Ferring in May 2001. He was formerly the President of the Executive Board for Ferring Group, and in addition, manages all Commercial, Global Marketing, Business Development, Product Supply, Research, Development and Regulatory activities of the Company. He is currently Chairman of Ferring Holding, Ferring’s largest subsidiary. Prior to his arrival at Ferring, Mr. Pettigrew held several senior management positions throughout the world during a 21-year career with Bristol-Myers Squibb. Michel L. Pettigrew has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in Montreal and an MBA from York University in Toronto, Canada.

Mr. Magistretti is partner and managing director of Seveneast Healthcare, he is responsible for undertaking the analysis, research and on-going monitoring of healthcare investment opportunities. He has over ten years of experience in asset management and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). He is co-founder of GliaPharm SA, a biopharma company focused on developing therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. He completed a CAS in Biotech and Medtech Ventures Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Mr. Magistretti holds a Bachelors in Biochemistry with Honours from University College of London (UCL) and a Masters in Genomics and Experimental Biology from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.