Management Team

Henrik Otendal,
Chief Executive
Henrik Otendal has a financial background and extensive experience in senior positions across various industries. He is active as a board member and advisor in several companies within different sectors such as the automotive industry, Medtech, and shipping. Henrik has been involved with TikoMed since 2021, previously as CFO.

Lars Bruce,
Chief Scientific Officer
Lars Bruce is the inventor of ILB and co-founder of TikoMed. Lars leads the research and development programme for ILB and is also a member of TikoMed’s Board of Directors. He is together with his family also one of TikoMed’s principal shareholders.

Johan Olsson,
Chief Financial Officer
Johan Olsson holds an MBA from Lund University and specializes in accounting and auditing. Johan has previously worked at Nyström & Partners Revision AB, BJT Consulting AB and Personal Accounting Sweden AB.

Florence Lange,
Executive Coordinator
Florence Lange has more than 30 years’ experience as a Management and Executive assistant and the expertise of working in a growing company from early stage to major international presence. Before joining TikoMed, Florence was involved in establishing the organization and administrative structure of an international startup project.

Sten Kornfält,
Project Leader
Sten Kornfält holds a degree in pharmacy from Uppsala University and is a certified project manager. Sten has extensive experience in research, pharmaceutical development and the pharmaceutical industry and has most recently worked as project manager in different small biotech companies and clinical CROs.

Björn Pilström
Acting Chief Medical Officer
Björn Pilström holds an MD from the Karolinska Institute and a PhD in Immunology from Stockholm University. He has more than 25 years’ global experience from the life science industry in both medical, commercial and managerial roles for larger and smaller pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Marie Trad,
Expert Medical Advisor
Marie Trad is a board-certified Neurologist and qualified Neuroradiologist from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France. After over a decade of clinical practice, Marie joined the pharmaceutical industry in 2000 where she has occupied different senior and strategic roles both in pharma and CRO settings.