Management Team
PROF. DR. CHRISTIAN PLANK
Chief Technology Officer
Prof. Dr. Christian Plank, PhD is a co-founder of Ethris and brings a broad expertise in targeted drug delivery. He is the author of more than 170 publications and co-inventor of numerous patents in the field of nucleic acid delivery. Christian is a Professor at the Technical University of Munich and obtained his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria.
DR. CHRISTIAN WAWRZINEK
Chief Corporate Strategy Officer
Dr. Christian Wawrzinek, PhD is a hands-on serial entrepreneur and investor, focusing on companies with world-changing potential in Biotech, Tech and AI. He has founded and built-up several successful companies that have together generated a total turnover of over 1 billion US dollars. For his entrepreneurial achievements he has won several prizes, including the renowned “Entrepreneur of The Year” Award by EY and the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award for the fastest-growing German Tech company with over 28.000% 5-year revenue growth. In 2018, he took one of his companies public indirectly, via a EUR 270M reverse-IPO to Nasdaq Nordic. Christian obtained his dental medicine degree in 2005 and in 2008 his PhD with “magna cum laude” from Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel.