Management Board

Andreas Nechansky, PhD

Managing Director, Qualified Person
VelaLabs - Managing Director

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.

Business Development

Stefan Astleitner

Business Development Officer
Stefan Astleitner - Business Development Officer -VelaLabs

Marion Prior

Business Development Officer
Marion Prior - Business Development Officer - VelaLabs

Konstantin Tomanov

Senior Business Development Officer
Konstantin Tomanov - Business Development Officer -VelaLabs

Helga Weisse

Business Development Officer & Qualified Person
Helga Weisse - Business Development Officer - VelaLabs

Lab Management

Andreas Zacherl

Head of Ligand Binding Assay Group
Andreas Zacherl Head of Ligand Binding Analysis

Thomas Schwarz

Head of Microbiology Group
Thomas Schwarz Head of Microbiology VelaLabs

Thomas Ludwig

Head of Cellbased Assay Group
Thomas Ludwig - Head of Cell Based Assay Group - VelaLabs

Andreas Weiß

Head of Physico-Chemical Methods & Qualified Person
Andreas Weiss - Head of PCM lab - VelaLabs

Quality

Christina Jann-Gröllert

Head of Quality Assurance
Christina Jann-Gröllert - Quality Assurance - VelaLabs

Julia Abadir

Head of QC Support
Julia Abadir - Quality Control - VelaLabs

Project Management

Sabrina Rottal

Head of Project Management
Sabrina Rottal - VelaLabs

Business Services

Rainer Fedra

Business Analytics Manager
Rainer Fedra - Business Analytics Manager -VelaLabs

Birgit Schmalz-Kammerer

Head of Finance
Birgi Schmalz-Kammerer Finance specialist VelaLabs
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