TEAM . EXECUTIVE TEAM
President: Santiago Gimeno de Priede
Santiago has a solid experience as an entrepreneur and has successfully launch over 5 different companies in the Communication and Biotech sectors. He is Founder of the Bionostra Group as well as Founder and currently President of Bioalma and Microbionta. He is an active member of the ASEBIO's board of directors (Spanish Biotech Entrepreneurs Association). Santiago holds a degree on Biological Science and Journalism by the Complutense University in Madrid.
CEO: Juan Carlos del Castillo
Juan Carlos has more than 10 years experience in the biotechnology sector. He worked as a member of the sideboard of the General Manager of the Homeland Security Department as an expert in management and economy. At the Homeland Security Department he was also the Media and Internet director. After he worked as General Manager of the National Center of Biotechnology a research center of the National Research Council (CSIC). As an entrepreneur he founded and is in the board of directors of Bioalma, Bionostra and Chimera Pharma. Juan Carlos is also involved in many industry forums such as BioMadrid where he is the vicepresident. Juan Carlos holds a degree on Economics by the Autonoma University in Madrid.
General Manager: Luis Cornide, MBA
Luis has over 6 years experience in the bio-IT sector. After doing IT research in encryption algorithms he joined Bioalma as a technical chief officer. He worked under the two main product lines at Bioalma leading different developments groups. Luis holds a degree of Computational Engineering from the Complutense University in Madrid and MBA from Instituto de Empresa, Madrid.
Director of Marketing and Business Development: Ramón Alonso-Allende, MBA
Ramón has 10 years of experience in the Biomedical IT sector. He started as a CRA developing new electronic data collection system. He then moved to the Protein Design Group at the National Center of Biotechnology (CNB) to coordinate the bioinformatic development of a European molecular biology project, during which he developed molecular data integration systems. He participated in other European projects developing data integration interfaces. He joined Bioalma in the scientific research unit. After being awarded his MBA at the Instituto de Empresa, he joined the Marketing and business development team which he now leading. Ramon holds a degree on Pharmacy from the Universidad San Pablo in Madrid and an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid.
Scientific Director: Christian Blashke, PhD
Christians has more than 10 years of experience in text mining research. He started at the Protein Design Group developing data mining and information extraction systems. After being awarded his PhD in Molecular Bioalogy at the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid he joined Bioalma to lead the text mining research group. Christian is the Principal Investigator in several Bioalma´s awarded European research projects. He was also coordinator of the first edition of the BioCreAtivE contest for text mining algorithms before joining Bioalma. Christian holds a degree in Biology, Plant phisiology from Salzburg University, and a PhD in Molecular Biology from the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid.