Board of Directors

As a corporately driven organization, the Business Cooperative Board of Directors is comprised of top management of our member companies. 

As of January 1, 2024, the board consists of:

• Ton Vries: Head of Innovation and Technology Symeres
• Johannes Wolters: director of LODE Holding 
• Linda Dijkshoorn, CEO, and founder of EV Biotech
• Robert Hof, CEO InnoCore
• Melloney Dröge, Managing Director Symeres

"Our goal is to make the Northern Life Sciences sector sustainable; through the business cooperative we expect to achieve in the coming years between twenty and thirty percent growth in the sector. That is a significant percentage, but it indicates our ambitions. We believe that it can we are already unique in the Netherlands and are active worldwide."