HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES · EXECUTIVE & CO-FOUNDER
I am seeking personal executive and co-founder mandates in Health & Life Sciences: building companies, taking responsibility for commercial growth and developing organisations.
General Management · Commercial & Revenue · Business Development · Operating Models · Governance & Legal
Explore co-founder opportunitiesEntrepreneur and founder · former Managing Partner Austria, gunnercooke · legal background
Fractional · Interim · Part-time
Co-Founder · Venture Building
Tyrol · DACH / Europe · Remote
MY SECTOR FOCUS
THE RIGHT RESPONSIBILITY
These roles describe the responsibility I am looking to take on for suitable businesses. We agree the task, decision rights, time commitment and intended outcomes together.
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Fractional / Interim CEO · Managing Director
SITUATION
When a Health or Life Sciences business needs leadership during a build, growth phase or transition.
Sharpen the business model and priorities, lead teams and stakeholders, and connect strategy, commercial accountability and execution.
MANDATE OBJECTIVE
A clear leadership agenda, sound decisions and a reliable operating cadence.
02
CCO · CSO (Chief Sales Officer) · CRO · CGO · Commercial Lead; task-specific Fractional CMO
SITUATION
When a strong product needs a scalable commercial organisation or growth requires new leadership.
Connect go-to-market, sales, marketing and revenue: positioning, distribution channels, strategic accounts, pipeline, team building and management.
MANDATE OBJECTIVE
A focused growth agenda with clear commercial ownership and measurable progress.
03
Healthcare Business Development · DACH Market Development · Strategic Partnerships
SITUATION
When new markets, collaborations or distribution partners are central to the next stage.
Develop access to customers and partners, structure DACH market entry, negotiate partnerships, and build distribution, channels and strategic accounts.
MANDATE OBJECTIVE
A prioritised market and partnership plan with named stakeholders, next steps and clear ownership.
04
Operating Partner · Transformation Lead · Organisation & Execution
SITUATION
When growth, new business units or change require clearer responsibilities and operating processes.
Define roles, decision rights, processes and collaboration; align management, teams and specialists around a shared execution agenda.
MANDATE OBJECTIVE
A workable operating model with accountability, management routines and less key-person dependency.
05
Executive Advisory · Governance & Compliance · Company-side Transaction Lead
SITUATION
When financing, acquisitions, succession or integration need additional company-side coordination.
Structure decision materials and governance, align shareholder interests, coordinate due diligence and specialists, and prepare integration.
MANDATE OBJECTIVE
An agreed decision and delivery structure that connects the transaction with the operating business.
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Fractional / Interim General Counsel · CLO · Head of Legal · Legal Director
SITUATION
When a legal function needs leadership, a key person is absent, or legal and commercial decisions need to come together.
Structure priorities and risk, organise contract processes, develop governance, coordinate external counsel and lead collaboration with management and business teams.
MANDATE OBJECTIVE
A clear legal operating framework with responsibilities, priorities, decision routes and handover.
PERSONAL CO-FOUNDER ENGAGEMENT
I am open to joining a suitable Health or Life Sciences venture as a Commercial Co-Founder or Co-Founder / CEO. The strongest fit is a scientific, medical or technical founding team looking to add company building, sales and entrepreneurial leadership.
01
Develop a new venture together or join an existing startup, taking personal responsibility for the business model, market development and execution.
02
Validate a venture with a venture studio, venture builder or entrepreneurial partner and lead it into company building.
03
Develop individual ventures or selected portfolio companies through hands-on involvement. Founder advisory is an option where a supporting role fits the task.
Test and refine the customer problem, value proposition, positioning, pricing and go-to-market together.
Develop first customers, strategic accounts, channels and partnerships; build them into a scalable commercial organisation.
Structure the team, operating model and governance; prepare funding materials and investor conversations and coordinate relevant specialists.
The fit depends on a compelling problem, complementary founders and a credible path to market and financing. We agree the role, time contribution, compensation, equity or carry, vesting, decision rights and milestones before working together. A co-founder engagement is agreed separately; its scope reflects the venture and my available capacity.
WHERE I FIT
EXPERIENCE AS A FOUNDATION
Selected experience and results from my earlier legal practice and entrepreneurial work.
2014–2025
Business law, transactions, governance and regulated markets.
15
Built the Austrian presence as Managing Partner Austria.
~12
Supported through their first institutional financing round.
7
DACH market entry and commercial structures for Consumer Health and MedTech.
WORKING TOGETHER
01
Agree the task, starting position, role, decision rights, conflicts and required specialists.
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Establish priorities, stakeholders, contract and decision processes within a reliable operating cadence.
03
Build structures and knowledge that the next leader or internal team can carry forward.
My focus is on paid fractional, interim and part-time mandates, preferably around 20–30 hours per week. Remote collaboration and focused on-site work are agreed to suit the task. Actual capacity and start date are discussed individually.
This page describes my personal executive and co-founder capacity. Projects with N7X4 or N7X4 KØDE and potential investments are agreed separately where there is a strategic fit.
Describe the business, stage, responsibility you need and intended start. For co-founder conversations, I am particularly interested in the existing team, the product and the entrepreneurial role still to be filled.
Discuss a personal mandate