Management Board

Andreas Nechansky, PhD

Managing Director, Qualified Person
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Dr. Andreas Nechansky received his PhD in the field of Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna. He started his academic career with two PostDoc positions at Novartis Vienna (1998-2000) and the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, US, (2001-2002) working in the field of antibody generation/characterization. In 2003, he joined the Austrian Biotech company Igeneon as Project Leader for three pre-clinical assets.
In 2005 he was promoted to Head Analytical Development. In 2006 he Co-founded VelaLabs and from then on served as COO and for 3 years as Head of Quality control.
In 2015 he joined the Biosimilar company Eden as VP Analytical Operations and moved to Taiwan. He was responsible for setting up all analytical assays required for biologics comparability studies. In 2019 he re-located back to Austria where he became Site Manager and subsequently Managing Director of ABF Pharmaceutical Services. He is a certified EU Qualified Person and has published 20+ analytical papers in peer reviewed journals.

With this background and knowledge of analytical services, he is a perfect fit checking a lot of boxes. He can rely on a very competent team and broad collaboration within VelaLabs.

Human Resources & Marketing

Ramona Eibl-Fritz

Human Resources Officer
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Kurt Muhr

Marketing Officer
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Business Development

Konstantin Tomanov

Head of Business Development
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Marion Prior

Deputy Head of Business Development
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Stefan Astleitner

Senior Business Development Officer
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Helga Weisse

Business Development Officer & Qualified Person
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Lena Leifert

Business Development Officer
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Project Management

Sabrina Rottal

Head of Project Management
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Rula Mawas

Deputy Head of Project Management
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Cihan Ay

Project Manager
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Maximilian Kratschke

Project Manager
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Tanja Dobovicnik

Project Manager
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Luis Guachalla Gutierrez

Project Manager
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Pauline Fehring

Project Manager
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Quality

Ramanan Bhashyam

Chief Quality Operations Officer
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Christina Jann-Gröllert

Head of Quality Assurance
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Andreas Weiss

Head of Quality Control & Qualified Person
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Lab Management

Julia Abadir

Head of Supply Chain Management
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Andreas Zacherl

Head of Department - Ligand Binding Assay
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Tamara Völkerer

Head of Department - Cellbased Assay
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Ljubica Stokic

Head of Department - Microbiology
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Business Services

Rainer Fedra

Head of Finance
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Tentamus DACH

Markus Roucka

Head of Business Development - DACH
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