Alexander Willemse, PhD, MSc

Alexander Willemse, PhD, MSc

Chief Executive Officer

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Joined BioConnection in 2008

Before joining BioConnection, Alexander worked for several (pharmaceutical) companies. He started his career at Organon NV in 1998 and moved to OctoPlus in 2003 as managing director of Octoplus Development BV (OPD). Since 2008, he is the CEO of BioConnection BV.

Alexander studied chemical engineering at the Delft University of Technology, where he also obtained his PhD. He gave a lot of courses such as “Particle size measurement for aerosol systems” at the University of California (UCLA) and “Measuring techniques for biophysical systems” at the University of Leuven, Belgium. For the Top Institute Pharma in the Netherlands, he contributed to the course “Drug Development Simulation” as CMC expert in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In the last years he contributed to this course via Learning by Simulation. He is the (co-)author of more than 20 scientific publications. When having some hours to spent he loves, besides being with his family, to be on his mountainbike and in the winter you can find him on the skislopes anywhere in the world.

“It’s amazing to see how the company has grown the last couple of years. Especially the acquisition of our own manufacturing plant in 2016 was a major step forward. I find this work very diverse and challenging. But mainly it is our people that make the difference. It is a real team with a great spirit that go the extra mile. Combine this with a good sense of humor and a common sense attitude and you have a winning team. Our main aim is to give our costumers the best products and services possible. BioConnection is your excellent choice for the Fill & Finish of clinical, small and large-scale batches, because of our state-of-the-art cGMP facilities, our team and our experience in developing and manufacturing bio-pharmaceutical products.

We offer a broad range of support services for all stages and aspects of biopharmaceutical (CMC) development. This ranges from formulation development, process development, analytical development, stability studies to scale-up and packaging of final products to support clinical trials and commercial activities. So, with BioConnection you will be in good hands, saving a great deal of time and money”.