About the IPB: View of the Hamburg harbor at sunset

Supervisory Board

Dr. Andreas Muth, Attorney, Chairman of the Supervisory Board

  • Cofounder, shareholder, and director of IPB Holding AG
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board of IP Bewertungs AG (IPB)
  • 25 years’ expertise in banking:
    • managing director and head of JP Morgan Private Bank Germany and Austria, and management board member of JP Morgan Private Bank Europe until 2008
    • CEO of UBS Private Banking AG in Germany until 2002
    • partner at SMH Bank, Germany, from 1994 to 1998

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bessler, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board

  • Professor of finance and banking at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen
  • IP Bewertungs AG (IPB) Supervisory Board member since 2001
  • Research and teaching at a number of universities in Germany and the US:
    • published works on innovation financing and financial innovations, venture capital, IPOs, asset management, hedge funds, and exchanges
    • co publisher of international journals including the European Journal of Finance, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Multinational Financial Management
  • Organizer of international industry conferences and the International Summer University program: Intellectual Property Law and Business in Biotechnology – European Opportunities

Dr. Andreas Madaus, Supervisory Board

  • IPB Holding AG Supervisory Board chairman since 2008
  • Member of the Kölner Bank eG central advisory board since 2006
  • TMS AG supervisory board member since 2006
  • IP Bewertungs AG Supervisory Board member since 2004
  • K1B Knowledge One Beteiligungs AG supervisory board member since 2003
  • 20 years’ expertise in pharmaceuticals:
    • director and shareholder of Waldhof Madaus Capital Network GmbH since 2000
    • pharmaplace AG supervisory board chairman since 2000
    • Member of the board of directors of BPI, Germany’s national pharmaceutical industry association, 1997 - 2004
    • Managing board member of Madaus AG, 1992 - 1999