Dr. Bernhard Klemen spent more than 10 years at UBS, Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan in London and Frankfurt as well as Vienna, where he established the Austrian J.P. Morgan business. Since 2011 he has been a business angel and first investor as well as co-founder of more than 25 companies with scalable business models in tech and biotech. Between 2017-18 he became co-founder and raised, as international partner, the first international venture capital fund with a Pakistan focus - Sarmayacar. In 2018 he became an investor and board advisor supporting fundraising efforts for bit.bio before joining the company's executive team as CFO in 2021.