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Dr. Gunnar Weikert is Chairman, CEO and Founder of Inventages Venture Capital Investments Inc., an international investment group with a focus on cutting-edge life science and health science research and technologies. Inventages manages several funds with $1.3 billion under management in the areas of prevention, food, nutrition, nutraceuticals, lifestyle drugs, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic and green biotech, including the Life Ventures by Nestle fund. Before founding Inventages, Dr. Weikert had more than 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. In his last position, he was a senior vice president and global head for life science deals at Bayer AG. While at Bayer, Dr. Weikert oversaw venture investments in technology companies and collaborations representing some of the biggest deals between big-pharma and biotechnology in the late 1990's. Dr. Weikert holds an M.D., a Ph.D. in the field of metabolism, and an MBA. | 