Magdalena Kempa
Magdalena Kempa

Magdalena Kempa

Co-founder & Managing Director, smartbax

Day2, July 6: Morning-Panel

Magdalena Kempa is the commercial Managing Director of smartbax, a company pioneering the fight against AMR with novel multi-targeted, antibacterial compounds with extraordinary potency against multi-drug resistant bacteria and difficult-to-treat biofilms. As Managing Director with focus on business, Magdalena is responsible for overall project management, finance, business development, legal and investor relations.

As Partner at Blue Ribbon Partners GmbH, Magdalena has further deep understanding of biotech venture co-founding and building. She has international working experience, 10+ years of experience as advisor for life science venture building and incubation and is an active advisor for venture teams in various programs: i.e. Federal Government of Germany #wirvsvirus Covid-19 Hackathon and AHEAD Life Science venture track sponsored by Sartorius AG.

Magdalena holds an M.A. in Communication Science from the University of Vienna and is Fellow of the Venture Finance Programme from the University of Oxford.