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Helping research and development leaders navigate complexity, make choices, and drive progress

Transforming Research & Development

R&D teams are at the heart of life science innovation, delivering breakthroughs grounded in deep biological understanding and technological advancement. Today’s R&D leaders face transformation pressure: Expectations for productivity are rising, timelines are accelerating, and technology must be integrated across every part of the value chain. Scaling impact now means not only making the right portfolio choices, but also building new capabilities, integrating technologies, and adapting culture and ways of working to accelerate progress – all while maintaining efficient execution.

At Biobridge Partners, we help R&D leaders through strategy execution to build actionable strategies, prioritise value drivers, and build a robust foundation and path to value realisation. Our life science consultants work shoulder-to-shoulder with R&D organisations to help navigate complexity, make choices, and drive progress. Explore how we can help you progress with confidence.

Navigate complexity

Opportunities emerging from the accelerating pace of science and technology inevitably adds complexity and new choices facing R&D leaders. Complexity derived from more interfaces across internal and external environments. We help make sense of this complexity by leveraging proven methodologies to identify and structure value drivers, and develop options tailored to your strategic and operational reality.

Examples of projects where we successfully helped R&D leaders navigate complexity:

  • Roles and responsibilities assessment in global clinical organisation

  • Ecosystem assessment of scientific strongholds in Greater Copenhagen

  • Therapeutic landscape assessment in female health

Make choices

R&D leaders make decisions that set the course for innovation and long-term impact – from portfolio prioritisation to technology adoption and organisational design. We help you make confident, high-stakes choices by structuring options, clarifying trade-offs, and aligning key stakeholders. Our approach is pragmatic and action-oriented, ensuring that choices are grounded in your strategic and operational reality.

Examples of projects where we successfully helped R&D leaders make choices:

  • Therapy area strategy to set direction for global development
  • Streamlining global clinical organisation
  • Identifying partnership opportunities to accelerate the portfolio

Drive progress

Sustained progress in R&D is built on more than strategy. It is anchored by solutions that are embedded in your organisation, owned by your teams, and supported at every level. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with R&D leaders to secure buy-in, mobilise teams, and turn intent into measurable results. Our approach ensures new ways of working are implemented effectively and that your people have the skills and support needed for lasting impact.

Examples of projects where we successfully helped R&D leaders drive progress:

  • Facilitating design of new R&D workflows anchored across teams
  • Building internal change narrative and supporting change to new global operating model
  • Managing PMO for global roll-out of new structures across 56 countries

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Meet the experts

Our team of life science strategists blends international experience and backgrounds from MDs, PhDs, and top-tier strategy consulting. We engage with a structured and collaborative approach to develop practical solutions to complex problems. Meet our team of experienced life science consultants.

Daniel Schmidt
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Daniel Schmidt PartnerDaniel works with life science executives to design strategies, operating models, and transformation programs. He brings both functional depth and board-level perspectives, helping senior leaders navigate complexity and make clear choices. He formerly led the life science practice at Deloitte Denmark.
Daniel Schmidt Partner
Jonas Karlsen
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Jonas Karlsen PartnerJonas is a life science strategist supporting executives drive progress across the value chain. He is an expert in bridging strategy and execution via global operating model design and transformation rooted in strategic objectives. He engages with structured top-down thinking and a pragmatic and collaborative approach to mobilise organizations and make things happen.
Jonas Karlsen Partner
Jens Rommer
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Jens Rommer PartnerJens is a seasoned strategy advisor with 30 years of experience in management consulting. Former Head of Monitor Deloitte Denmark, he brings deep expertise in shaping corporate agendas, TA strategies, operating model design, digital and AI value creation, and M&A for leading global corporations.
Jens Rommer Partner
Florian Preis
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Florian Preis PrincipalFlorian is a life science strategist supporting pharma and biotech leaders shape therapeutic area and launch performance. He is an expert in translating global strategic direction into market-level execution, and in the operating models that make it hold. He works hypothesis-led and close to the client, bringing a point of view early and sharpening it through rigorous analysis.
Florian Preis Principal
Johannes Bæk Christensen
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Johannes Bæk Christensen Project LeaderJohannes is a life science strategist supporting clients translate strategic choices into operating models that hold up in execution. He is an expert in structuring complex problems into distinct options and pressure-testing them against the organisations that must run them. He has a particular focus on how AI reshapes business models and ways of working across the value chain.
Johannes Bæk Christensen Project Leader
Mette Brøgger-Mikkelsen, MD
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Mette Brøgger-Mikkelsen, MD Project LeaderMette blends medical expertise with strategic experience as a medical doctor and former strategy consultant. Before joining Biobridge Partners, she worked at Bain & Company and LEO Innovation Lab. She focuses on cross-functional engagement in medical and commercial functions in pharma.
Mette Brøgger-Mikkelsen, MD Project Leader
Alfred Bukh Johannesen
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Alfred Bukh Johannesen Senior ConsultantAlfred is a seasoned life science strategy consultant with a background from Monitor Deloitte and 3+ years’ experience helping clients articulate and assess strategies, develop strategic options, and translate strategic intent into actionable plans.
Alfred Bukh Johannesen Senior Consultant
Amadou Benavent
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Amadou Benavent Senior ConsultantAmadou brings a cross-disciplinary background in Biotechnology and Business Administration. He has experience in strategic projects spanning the full pharmaceutical value chain, from early research to development and commercial strategy.
Amadou Benavent Senior Consultant
Daniell I. F. Skourup
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Daniell I. F. Skourup Marketing LeadDaniell leads marketing at Biobridge Partners, helping shape the firm’s positioning, narrative, and go-to-market execution across brand and thought leadership. He brings a background in design and concept development, including experience as a product designer on the health app SELF and 3 years leading marketing at BASE life science.
Daniell I. F. Skourup Marketing Lead
Caroline Clausen
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Caroline Clausen AnalystCaroline brings a strong international background and a passion for life science and its potential for impact. She is pursuing a B.Sc. in International Business at CBS, with a growing focus on strategy, market access, and business development in the life sciences sector.
Caroline Clausen Analyst
Anton Oliver Klapp
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Anton Oliver Klapp AnalystAnton is a life science strategy analyst with a cross-disciplinary background in molecular medicine and business administration. He has hands-on experience in gene and cell therapy research and focuses on translating scientific innovation into real-world impact through strategic insight.
Anton Oliver Klapp Analyst
Bertram Toft Kristiansen
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Bertram Toft Kristiansen AnalystBertram brings prior experience in life science and a strong interest in strategy and business development. He is pursuing a B.Sc. in International Business at CBS, with a focus on market entry and growth topics within the life sciences sector.
Bertram Toft Kristiansen Analyst
Nicolai Hesdorf
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Nicolai Hesdorf Chair of the Board of DirectorsNicolai is a seasoned management consultant with over 20 years of experience working with C-suite executives at Danish C25 companies. He has held several leadership roles, including Senior Partner and Nordic Lead for Monitor Deloitte and Managing Director of Accenture Denmark.
Nicolai Hesdorf Chair of the Board of Directors
Camilla Harder Hartvig
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Camilla Harder Hartvig Board MemberCamilla brings nearly 30 years of global pharmaceutical leadership, holding senior roles at AstraZeneca, Novartis, Allergan, Alexion, Theramex, and most recently EVP, President, International at Ascendis. Her career spans global commercial and executive leadership roles.
Camilla Harder Hartvig Board Member
Alexander Peitersen
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Alexander Peitersen Board MemberAlexander has 25 years of experience as an international strategy and communications advisor, supporting C-suite leaders at global biopharmaceutical companies on life science branding, digital strategy, and commercialisation. He is founder of the strategic advisory firm &Now, and co-founder of the communications firm REPUTATION.
Alexander Peitersen Board Member
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