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Katleen Vandersmissen
Heran Partners
Katleen joined the BVA board in 2022.
Katleen is managing partner at Heran Partners.
She holds a PhD in Chemistry and started her career heading one of the R&D and QA labs of Umicore. She later joined McKinsey, focussing on strategy and M&A. As investment manager and head of the Health&Care department at institutional investor LRM, for 7 years, she knows the world of startups and scale ups in the life science sector inside out.