Dr Weikert is Chairman, CEO and Founder of Inventages Venture Capital. Before founding Inventages, he had more than 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including serving as a senior vice president and global head for life science deals at Bayer AG. While at Bayer, Gunnar oversaw venture investments in technology companies and collaborations representing some of the biggest deals between big pharma and biotechnology in the late 1990s. Gunnar holds an MD, a PhD in the field of metabolism from University of Düsseldorf, and an MBA.