Our Team
Chairwoman and founder
Myriam de Grijs
Myriam de Grijs holds an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge, a course for those with the ambition to found companies in the life sciences sector.
Myriam previously worked at Sanofi as a Portfolio Manager for the General Medicines Unit of the Benelux. Myriam also served as global Company Engagement Officer at the Access to Medicine Foundation.
Here Myriam managed relationships with big pharma’s executive leadership and global access and CSR teams.
Board member
Dr. Sarah E. Hill
Dr Sarah E. Hill is a professor of psychology and the author of the bestselling book ‘Your Brain on Birth Control’.
Dr. Hill has published over 50 scientific articles on women, their health, and their mating and sexual psychology and is regularly sought after for comment in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Economist. Dr. Hill studies health, relationships, and other forms of social behavior at her research lab, located in the Department of Psychology at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.
Board member
Dr. Hans Vemer
Hans Vemer, MD PhD, is a women’s health expert, who has worked in academia and business, in Europe, Asia and the US. Lately he was CEO of the Concept Foundation based in Geneva and Bangkok. The mission of the Concept Foundation is to ensure that low income women worldwide have access to sexual and reproductive health products of assured quality at the lowest possible cost. Prior to that Hans worked for Jhpiego/Johns Hopkins, Schering-Plough/Merck, Organon Intl. and the University of Nijmegen. Presently he is also involved as a volunteer in a few non-profits in Holland and Ethiopia.