Keijo Väkiparta

Bio

Mr Väkiparta has been with BioFund since June 2001. Prior to this, he worked for over 20 years with Tamro Group, a leading health care company in Northern Europe. He has served as president of Tamda and Tamro MedLab Groups and vice president of New Ventures. Mr Väkiparta also served as chairman of the board for subsidiaries of Tamda and Tamro MedLab in the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries and Russia. In the beginning of 1990s Mr Väkiparta was marketing director of Kolmi-Set (now Mölnlycke Health Care). During the 1980s, he served as managing director of Medi-Tex, a joint venture with Finnfund and LAFICO, and Tam-Cross, a joint venture with the Finnish Red Cross. Mr Väkiparta has a strong background in internationalization and acquisitions, and spent several years working abroad in France, Tunisia and Saudi-Arabia. Even though his primary field of experience is found in the pharmaceutical and medical businesses, he has also experience in the laboratory and diagnostics sector. Mr Väkiparta is the chairman of the board of UniCrop Oy (Finland) and serves as board member in LAB Pharma Oy (Finland), LAB International Inc. (Canada), Genizon Biosciences Inc. (Canada) and in Oy Juvantia Pharma Ltd (Finland).