Board of Directors
Sophie Jacq Lapointe
Independent Director
With over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Sophie has held numerous executive roles and has contributed to many commercial successes in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and endocrinology.
She has led or been involved in more than twenty product launches in France, across Europe, and in emerging markets, during her time at Roche, Sanofi, and Ipsen. This includes major R&D transformation projects at Sanofi and Ipsen, as well as serving as General Manager for the Belgium–Luxembourg region at Ipsen and the biotech company Perha Pharmaceuticals. For the past two years, she has been advising biotech Chief Executive Officers and executive committees on clinical and commercial development of innovative product portfolios, with successful business development outcomes. Sophie holds a degree from ESSEC Business School.
Nicolas Trouche
Chief Executive Officer
Nicolas started with D&I in 2021, a firm specialized in restructuring companies in special situations. Nicolas started in R&D and development of hardware components for robotics. He joined Valeo group where he developed a complete career in technical, project and division management positions in France, Germany and Spain. Moving to Faurecia, he managed the reorganization of one important plant within Seating Business Group. He started at Kuka in 2008 as CEO of Kuka Systems France to conduct the full restructuring of this company during subprime crisis, then managed participations of French and foreign investment funds in operational restructuring contexts, construction of green fields in Slovakia, Mexico and China, equity and build-up negotiations. In particular as CEO of a Tier 2 equipment group that he led from €70M to €150M in turnover. Senior advisor for a German fund, he also bought, managed and then sold companies in the BtoB service: industrial equipment, engineering services, electrical, PLC and Robotics. As a D&I partner, he has worked in several technology start-ups and has developed and restructured B2B industrial and commercial and service companies. Nicolas is an engineer in electrical engineering with a PhD in robotics.
Amit Kohli
Independent Director
Amit Kohli has over 3 decades of leadership experience operating at intersection of science, finance and commercialization. Amit has extensive experience in the diabetes therapy area, having held senior roles at Sanofi (1997-2010) and Becton Dickinson (2011-2016) where he launched diabetes-related products across developed and emerging markets growing them to multi-billion euros in revenue.
Lately, as Chief Executive Officer of privately held biotech, Antev (2020 onwards), he led the company’s $75M sale to Medicus (NASDAQ: MDCX).
Mr. Kohli has held Global and regional leadership roles at Pharnext, Eurofins, Becton Dickinson and Sanofi, encompassing sales, marketing, finance, supply chain and manufacturing.
Mr. Kohli earned an M.B.A. in Finance from the Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon, in India and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune in India.
Alexandre Bragadir
Alexandre Bragadir has been a Senior Investment Director at IPF Partners, a fund specializing in non-dilutive financing for innovative healthcare companies across Europe. He structures and oversees debt investments, having been involved with a dozen companies in the biotech, biopharma, medtech, and digital health sectors over the past six years. He began his career in 2003 in audit at Salustro Reydel before joining BNP Paribas, in strategic client coverage in Portugal, in structured finance in Paris, and in commodity trade finance team in Geneva. Alexandre holds a degree from ESCP Europe.