Management Team
CEO Fritiof Pontén, PhD
Fritiof Pontén got his doctoral degree in synthetic organic chemistry at Lund University in 1997. He joined AstraZeneca in Gothenburg as a medicinal chemist and during 11 years he established and held leadership of the Scale-up and Process development. After leaving AstraZeneca in 2014, he was CEO of QureTech Bio AB, a biopharma start-up company in Umeå active within the field of antibiotic resistance. He joined Biotech Fluidics as R&D Manager in 2018 and has been CEO of the Biotech Fluidics group since November 2020. Fritiof is also a board member of SpinChem AB since 2018 and Ventri Labs AB since 2023.
COO Eije Bodén
Eije Bodén has a degree from LTG within Industrial Automation and Computer Science 1994. Thereafter, he started as a Service Technician and advanced to Service Manager within cutting, welding machines, and automation at Svetsteknik AB. In 2003, Eije joined Life Science at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg as a Scientific Instrument Service Engineer. His focus was mainly NMR, (U)HPLC, MS, SFC, automation, and large scale processes including preparative chromatography. From 2012 he was Technical Services Manager at AstraZeneca Gothenburg and was responsible of ensuring support to both scientists and instruments with two teams of engineers and laboratory support technicians. Eije joined Biotech Fluidics as Operations Manager in 2020.
COB Anders Grahn
Anders Grahn has a B.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry from Uppsala University 1991. He started working at ChromTech AB with development and synthesis of chiral stationary phases, as well as sorbents enabling direct injection of plasma and serum into chromatographic systems. Development of separation methods in the field of liquid chromatography was a major part of his work. For many years he gave lectures and advanced courses in chromatography for people within the life science field. During 2007 he moved to the Swedish west coast and together with Ralf Jutvik he founded Biotech Fluidics AB, where he had the CEO position until he handed it over to Fritiof Pontén in November 2020. Since 2007 the company has become a global player in the field of fluidic components. Anders is currently working with business- and product development beside his position as Chairman of the Board.