Katleen Vandersmissen

Katleen holds a PhD in Chemistry and started her career heading one of the R&D and QA labs of Umicore. She later joined McKinsey, focusing on strategy and M&A. As investment manager and head of the Health&Care department at institutional investor LRM, for 7 years, she got to know the world of startups and scale ups in the life science sector inside out. Katleen is part of HERAN since the start in 2020 and is responsible for the general management and the long-term strategy of HERAN, fundraising activities, the final investment decisions, and several portfolio companies.