Meet Our Team
We are passionate about enabling more convenient solutions for patient centric sampling, ensuring more reliable test results for healthcare and other providers of tests based on blood or plasma.
Management Team
Christopher has more than 20 years’ experience in strategic sales and management positions in medtech and ICT companies. He was previously Commercial Director and General Manager at Abbott Toxicology Nordics. Christopher was the CEO at EDTS (drug testing at workplaces) that went from an entrepreneurial company to a fast-growing profitable company. The company was acquired by Alere Inc. in 2016 (acquired by Abbott in 2017).
Christopher Aulin
CEO
Kerstin has a Bachelor of Economics from Linköping University and over 30 years’ experience in different positions in finance and management. Interim Chief Accountant at Roche Diagnostics for a couple of years and CFO at NordicInfu Care AB are among her positions. The latter, a fast-growing company, that Kerstin joined from start that had reached 100 employees and a revenue of 1,5 billion 15 years later under her time as CFO.
Kerstin Widman
CFO
Mikael, PhD from the Karolinska Institute, has 4 years sales & distribution experience from the life science industry representing international producers on the Nordic market at Nordic BioSite. He has worked 5 years within clinical diagnostics at the Karolinska university hospital laboratory as molecular biologist and was the unit manager for molecular diagnostics at Clinical Microbiology Karolinska where he built up the Covid-19 PCR capacity.
Mikael Ström
Business Development Manager
Erica has several years’ experience of managing and developing people and processes in sales service departments from one of the global leaders within laboratory supplies. She has a double master’s degree in chemistry from KTH Institute of Technology, Sweden and Stockholm University, Sweden.
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Erica Birgersson
Sales Operation & Quality Manager
Anna has 10 years’ experience of applied research within Fraunhofer Institut, Germany’s largest application-oriented research organization and a PhD from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Her research expertise is in the fields of lab-on-chips, microfluidics, integrated sensor systems and roll-to-roll manufacturing.
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Anna Ohlander
R&D Manager
Pär has more than 20 years’ operational and strategic experience within the medical device industry. He was CTO and CEO at the medical Device company Biolight AB publ, listed at NGM Equity, for several years. He has a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers Tekniska Högskola and a DIHM business at IHM Business School.
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Pär Lidö
Production & Regulatory Manager
Mathias, MD PhD from the Karolinska Institute, has been working in Swedish healthcare in different positions > 25 years. As nurse, physician, head of outpatient care in the county of Värmland and as a senior consultant in Clinical Chemistry. Mathias has a research background and is also co-founder of two diagnostic start-ups. He has been Chief Medical Officer in the Nordics for IBM and CEO of Equalis AB.
Mathias Karlsson
CMO
Team Members
With over 30 years of experience in life science and diagnostics, Yvonne has been working within sales and marketing for BD, Amersham and as the founder of Nordic BioSite for 25 years ago she has a long experience within sales and strategic business. As the CEO of BioSite, she established legal entities in 7 countries and distributors all over the world. Nordic Biosite was acquired by Adelis in 2021.
Yvonne Zar
Sales & Distribution Manager
Gabriel has a background in Microsystems Technologies from the University of Freiburg and conducted his PhD in Microfluidics with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He is co-inventor of the Capitainer Technology and is contributing with his hands on experience and expertise in microfluidics/microfluidic product design to the development of Capitainer´s Product Portfolio.
Gabriek Lenk
Development Engineer & Co-founder
Peng Zhang has several years of hands-on experiences in research and development of microfluidic products in academia and the industry. He has a master’s degree in medical biotechnology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and a background in biological sciences from Nanjing University, one of the top ranked universities in China. Peng is part of the research and development team.
Peng Zhang
Development Engineer
John has >25 years’ experience in remote sampling, representing Whatman in ’95, co-founding S&S UK in ‘97. Representing both ID Biological Systems and BSD Robotics in 2008, quickly securing Europe’s screening card business. Becoming PerkinElmer UK/Ireland Team Leader in 2011. John is delighted to deploy his extensive sales & marketing experiences in remote patient sampling joining Capitainer in ‘19.
John Dinan
Senior Product Specialist
UK & Ireland
Fred has >30 years’ experience in DBS sampling, representing PerkinElmer Health Sciences since ’92, and nearly 30 years of sales experience in Newborn Screening. Representing both ID Biological Systems now Revvity for DBS cards, managing North and South America’s screening card business. Fred is delighted to be part of an innovative company to revolutionize “at home” blood collection.
Frederick Meindl
Senior Product Specialist
North America
Donald Chace, MSFS, PhD, FAACC has worked in the dried blood spot (DBS) and mass spectrometry spaces for >30 years. He developed the tandem MS analysis of amino acids and acylcarnitines from DBS that is used worldwide to screen newborns for dozens of rare genetic diseases. He is an expert in metabolic screening in newborns and guest researcher at the CDC.
Donald Chace
Principal Scientist
Mass Spectrometry Applications
Fabio has several years of experience in operations and product development within the medical device industry. He has a double master’s degree in biochemistry and Immunology from the University of Montreal and the University of Sao Paulo. His research expertise is within molecular biology, lateral flow cassettes and microfluidics, bringing valuable knowledge to the Capitainer R&D team.
Fabio Castillo Martinez
Development Engineer
Peter Bräutigam has over 40 years’ experience in diagnostics and blood sampling businesses with executive positions at Roche Diagnostics, Sarstedt, Syva-Behring-Dade and Becton Dickinson. He is the founder of several companies active in the field of laboratory medicine and has served as chairman for the Swedish laboratory technology association. He was the CEO of Capitainer between 2016-2018.
Peter Bräutigam
Senior Advisor & Co-founder
Gang holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from Stockholm University and postdoc experience from Karolinska Institute. With 20+ years in Life Sciences, Gang spent 11 years in pre-clinical drug discovery at AstraZeneca and a decade in customer focussed Tech Support at Nordic Biosite, most recently as Team Leader for 4 years.
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Gang Liu
Senior Product Specialist

Board Of Directors
Ernst Westman is a civil engineer with a specialization in medical molecular biology. He was the President and CEO of Boule Diagnostics AB, a market leading listed company in decentralized blood cell counting, between 1994 and 2017. He developed the company into a market capitalization of SEK 1,5 billion in 2017. Prior to that, he has held leading positions in several companies in medical diagnostics and life science.
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Ernst Westman
Chairman of the Board
Dr. Roxhed is an associate professor in medical micro and nanosystems at KTH, Sweden and a research fellow of the Langer lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. He is the initiator and co-inventor of the Capitainer device and has worked with several start-up companies and licensed IP to several medtech companies including Fortune 100-companies. He has co-authored more than 100 scientific papers and is a named inventor of 30 patents.
Niclas Roxhed
Board Member, Advisor R&D and Co-founder
Peter Bräutigam has over 40 years’ experience in diagnostics and blood sampling businesses with executive positions at Roche Diagnostics, Sarstedt, Syva-Behring-Dade and Becton Dickinson. He is the founder of several companies active in the field of laboratory medicine and has served as chairman for the Swedish laboratory technology association. He was the CEO of Capitainer between 2016-2018.
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Peter Bräutigam
Board Member, Senior Advisor & Co-founder
Mats Bergryd is a serial entrepreneur in medtech with more than 40 years’ experience from the healthcare industry. He has worked with sales, marketing and medical affairs as well as general management.
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Mats Bergryd
Board Member, Business Advisor
Magnus has been active in pharmaceutical and medical device business for over 30 years. He brings commercial experience from his positions as country manager for several countries at Baxter International.
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Magnus Lindholm
Board Member
Scientific Advisors
Dr. Beck was adjunct pofessor at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and the head of the Pharmacology lab, Karolinska University Hospital before his retirement in 2019. Dr. Beck is a renown scientist in the bioanalysis field and a pioneer of alternative sampling technologies. Dr. Beck has published over 300 scientific articles in the pharmacology and toxicology fields. He is the initiator and co-inventor of the Capitainer.
Olof Beck
CSO and Co-founderCEO
Dr Rydén is an associate professor in clinical chemistry at Linköping University. He has worked 8 years as the head of a clinical chemistry lab network in South-East of Sweden, and nearly 7 years as senior medical advisor at Roche Diagnostics.
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Ingvar Ryden
Scientific Advisor
Professor Uhlén, biotechnologist, entrepreneur, and Professor of Microbiology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), is widely known for his work in large-scale quantitative analysis of proteins and leadership of the Human Protein Atlas project. Founding Director of the Science for SciLifeLab, 2010–2015. Mathias Uhlén’s research interests cover antibody engineering, proteomics, and precision medicine.
Mathias Uhlén
Scientific Advisor
Martin Carlsson, entrepreneur, docent, Specialist in Endocrinology/Diabetes, Internal Medicine, and Clinical Chemistry, as well as the founder of the healthcare provider Blodtrycksdoktorn. He is currently working as Chief Physician at Yazen Health, a digital healthcare provider of which he is also the co-founder.
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Martin Carlsson
Scientific Advisor
Dr Lars Gustafsson is a trained anesthesiologist professor in clinical pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and has previously worked as senior consultant in clinical pharmacology with a broad network in Sweden and globally.
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Lars L Gustafsson
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Stemme is a professor and Head of the Micro and Nanosystem department of KTH, Sweden. He has successfully commercialized several research results. Dr. Stemme is co-inventor of the Capitainer technology, inventor of more than 35 patents and has co-authored more than 350 papers.
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Göran Stemme
Scientific Advisor & Co-founder