Building a leading microbiome company in oncology

Jean-Marie has been President and CEO of Biocodex. He steered the creation of the “Biocodex Microbiota Institute” supporting innovative projects from Microbiota researchers. Jean-Marie has a long-track record of CEO positions amongst international firms such as LVMH or Bongrain.

Engineering degree Ecole Centrale Paris, MBA from Insead

Jean Volatier is a graduate of the Magistère en Sciences de Gestion de l'Universtité Paris IX Dauphine (PSL), of the D.E.S.C.F. and of the Master en Executive Mangement Globale RSE de Mines Paris Tech (PSL) and is an independent director on the Board of Directors. Jean Volatier is currently CFO at Inventiva. Prior to that, he started his career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Paris and Philadelphia. He then moved to different positions in the Finance Department, first at Laboratoires URGO Soins & Santé and then internationally at Laboratoires Fournier, before holding different positions as CFO at the Soufflet and NAOS groups.

CFO

Claude joined MaaT Pharma as an independent board member in July 2020. Since 2017, Claude has held the position of Executive Vice President of R&D and Chief Scientific Officer at Servier. He brings decades of high-level leadership in pharmaceutical R&D, having previously served as Executive Vice-President of R&D at Ipsen Pharma and as Global Senior Vice President for Respiratory & Inflammation Research Area at AstraZeneca. His career also includes senior positions at Novartis, Roche and Pfizer.

PharmD, PhD

Dorothée Burkel holds a Master's degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and is an independent director on the board of Directors. She is also Director of Human Resources, Information Systems and Communication and a member of the Executive Committee of PartnerRe. She brings decades of high-level experience in human resources and communication, having participated in the transformation of companies at an international level in the new technology and financial sectors.
She was formerly HR Director EMEA at Google and HR Director France at AOL.

Chief Corporate and People Operations Officer

Isabelle de Crémoux is CEO and Managing Partner of Seventure Partners and leads the Life Sciences team. She joined Seventure in 2001 to establish the Life Sciences division. Isabelle supervises the Life Sciences business and personally invests in French and Scandinavian and north American biotech, nutrition, healthcare, personalized medicine. Isabelle has a particular interest in the microbiome field and frequently gives lectures at conferences in this domain. As a visionary, she launched Health for Life Capital™, the first European investment vehicle to support the microbiome revolution. Prior to joining Seventure Partners, she worked at Arthur Andersen/ EY, Pfizer and Laboratoires Fournier.

Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris

Muriel Prudent is an Investor at Bpifrance, French public investment bank, managing a portfolio of health- and other deeptech startups within the PSIM Fund, which focuses on major tech disruptions.
Graduated from HEC Paris and Bocconi University in Milan

Hervé Affagard is the CEO and founder of MaaT Pharma. For the past 15 years, Hervé has been an intra/entrepreneur in the healthcare industry, after starting his career in IT in the steel industry. He founded MaaT Pharma in late 2014 together with onco-hematologist Prof. Mohammad Mohty and microbiologist Dr. Joël Doré, after a professional career that spanned multiple industries. Hervé has led MaaT Pharma’s development from its early concept in 2013 and has been at the forefront of the development of the microbiome healthcare ecosystem in France and Europe. Hervé is also a board member for the French biotech industry association, France Biotech and an active contributor to Allliance Promotion Microbiote, an organization recently founded to support the microbiome sector development in France.

Engineer, MBA,